Im not bothered by anything fine bum said. I am surprised he agreed to appear on a doc promoting Florida knowing it could help our program.
I have a problem with anyone who reviews sports analysts that hasn't previously been a sports analyst. See how that works? Slippery slope, my friend. As a basketball player (not a successful one) for 30+ years (and still playing) there are things I understand about the game that would be hard to gain from just observing, but that doesn't mean that other people who didn't play don't understand the game. The only problem I have is when people go too crazy with stats/analytics and discount the "eye test" or other non-stat related factors like coaching, philosophy, and systems when evaluating players and teams.
Only thing that keeps me from agreeing with you is when Finebum got on his high horse about how Meyer chose to look the other way when his players got in trouble. The hypocrisy - when his beloved Saban and Kirby Smart have been doing the same damn thing and worse with damn near zero scrutiny.
In my opinion, Finebaum is bad not because he never played football. Plenty of people who were good/great coaches never played football (Mike Leach, David cutcliff, and Joe Gibbs). Hell, Verne Lundquist never played football. Finebaum's front facing issues are that he worships at the alter of Bama and that he fires for effect many times (seeks controversy). More importantly, he is not insightful (perhaps b/c his average caller is from Bama with the expected intelligence thereof). He brings no knowledge to his commentary so I ignore him. Plenty of great announcers never played the game they call. Excusing Finebaum's lack of quality for that generically lets him off the hook for his own failings - he is just bad.
That was the best part to me, listening to all those jackasses say we didn’t belong on the field with osu. It pissed me off at the time but I loved it this time. They should had included tge postgame interview( I can’t rember tge player, think it was a dline guy), he said we had much tougher games that year in the sec.
Most of it was fine, but there was one quote to the effect of: "A head coach from Ohio and an OC from New Hampshire are going to come in and show us how to play football? No." Who is "us", Paul?
Think it was Derek Harvey that said that. If memory serves, he may have even mentioned Vanderbilt specifically, but at my age, I could be remembering that wrong.
