OK fair enough. Perhaps I overstated the point, but I still would argue that he's required to cover 14 teams, not just one, so his research is necessarily spread out. And, like everyone else at ESPN/SEC Network, he's required to have an opinion on pretty much every subject even if he doesn't have all the information. So I'm not going to get worked up about what he says.I'm sure he knows more than the average guy, at least about Bama. He was in the program for 4 years and was around some of the players that are still there now..
Now, if someone asked a person who follows Alabama nearly exclusively (say, Cecil Hurt) who would be the starting QB and Hurt responded, "Oh, I think it's going to be Jake Coker and here's why," then I'd definitely sit up and listen.