Well, I also follow college football and had never heard of him until he started popping up on here during the season. Of course I never watch ESPN unless they have a game I want to see. I have more to do in life than watch talking heads.
Why does Paul Finebaum hate Indiana ?
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I had heard of Finebaum from message boards long before I ever watched him on ESPN, and I watch ESPN but just for events, and a couple talking head shows I liked.
FInally I thought 'hey, here's Finebaum, he's supposed to be good' and so instead of switching channels I watched for once. Ten minutes in I thought 'this is stupid, this guy has no information' . I tried a couple more times after that, same result, haven't watched him in a long time.
Finebaum's bread is buttered by the SEC, I assume that's why he feels compelled to trash Indiana. And he doesn't have to be close to right, he's playing to his audience.
FInally I thought 'hey, here's Finebaum, he's supposed to be good' and so instead of switching channels I watched for once. Ten minutes in I thought 'this is stupid, this guy has no information' . I tried a couple more times after that, same result, haven't watched him in a long time.
Finebaum's bread is buttered by the SEC, I assume that's why he feels compelled to trash Indiana. And he doesn't have to be close to right, he's playing to his audience.
Average age of this board is clearly >80 and y’all’s VCRs flash 12:00.
So what's your point? If you're lucky you might make 80 some day.
Yes. he does favor SEC over B1G and doesn't think changing coaches at IU is still IUFB and doesn't recognize how IU played. They got screwed by putting them against ND instead of putting them in spot they should have been. No problem though, IU is getting better each year with the coaches we have now.
Who cares what finebum thinks?
Dakich takes a lot of grief for some of his comments, as does Pat McAfee. But both of those guys played their sport at a high level.
What has that bat-eared goblin ever accomplished between the lines, that his opinion has any value whatsoever?
Our age may be > 80..
But sometimes your posting IQ doesn't get there.
I mean, Paul Finebaum isn't really that big of a deal.
Same here. And the only reason I know of Finebaum is because he is so ugly that the few times I did hear about him he just stuck with me. But I know my brother and Dad have zero clue who he is.
Totally agree with you until your "the south is poor" tripe. Plenty of poor down there but Chicago and Detroit, etc are very full of poor people. I would look at the pure economic growth of some southern states and the population growth as opposed to ours up here. I lived down there for a long time (Georgia) and was happy to move back up to NW Indiana because so many 'northerners' moved down there.
Agree simply because this guy is brought up whenever ABC/ESPN/Shitney is involved.. I don't see much of him since I do not visit any of those sites but it's hard not to have never heard of this sack of ugly.
IU didn't take a playoff spot from an SEC team. 11-1 season featuring 9 B1G games, winning by an average of some 30 PPG, earns a playoff spot. Period. End of discussion.
Losing 25% of your games disqualifies your team. Period.
Bowl season solidified the CFP choices. They argued for Alabama, South Carolina and Ole Miss. Bama got rung up by one of the "bad" teams IU beat. Illinois, a B1G afterthought all season long, shook up USC (and their coach). Ole Miss? Yep, they won big in a bowl game. Against Duke. Had IU done that, we all would have heard how awful Duke was.
IU proved their mettle and earned their shot. Anyone who tries to say otherwise is wrong.
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