So someone is putting Finebaum up to this

It almost like his parent company is airing the game so they are directing him to drum up as much attention as possible. Crazy huh?

There is no bad actor! They are trying to drum up ratings! The amount of eyeballs on TV for LSU/Clemson will be thru the roof. You already had every college football fan but now you are getting additional eyeballs who are just curious what all the fuss is about.

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Guy grilled him about his comments on Kiffin

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There has been several former ESPN'ers who were cut / laid off who later said that their commentary was directed at various subjects, mostly woke subjects, by Corporate suits. He's always looked for click bait but this has been a lot harsher. I have no doubt that he's following a script dictated by those suits.

Kiffin left UT (Finebaum is an alum) and Bama (Finebaum was Saban's fluffer) on his own terms.

Finebaum is a lost cause.

Having watched/listened to the Finebaum show minimally over my lifetime I feel confident in saying the only hardcore viewers are total morons in the southeast, primarily, but not exclusively residing in Alabama, still hanging on to the last remnants of caller-driven sports radio. There is a reason that format has essentially been dying for ~20 years. It's basically crowdsourcing the relative handful of morons still calling into sports radio shows.

The ONLY difference between Paul Finebuaum and someone like Buddy Songy is that Paul had the good fortune of hosting a show in a state with a boatload of passionate idiots on opposite sides of the SEC's biggest rivalry (Alabama v. Auburn). That redneck in-fighting over the phone is what made Finbaum famous. Not anything he personally did other than give the dumbasses a forum in which to argue.

That's not to say Alabama has the market cornered on redneck morons. There are PLENTY in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, etc. It just those states aren't the venue of as big a rivalry among instate residents as Alabama is.

To the OP: Stop watching unless you feel the need to get dumber by association. Or, if you must watch, don't take anything the moron callers say with any degree of significance

Nobody hates Kiffin more than TN fans. Those TN sites & podcasts out of Nashville like Sport & State & Outkick pretty much run Kiffin hate a good part of their shows & articles.

Stop listening to the shriveled up log. I tuned him out quite a few years ago. I manage to stay informed.

Paul knows controversy generates interest...that being said, I haven't watched his show in a long time and his vendetta against LSU won't bring me back to watch him...

Finebaum is the CNN of the SEC. Gotta keep gettin my clicks!!!!!!!