Paul Finebaum shares his 'biggest surprise of the year' in the SEC after 3 weeks
Looking back to the summer when the revised SEC schedule was released, Paul Finebaum and others believed LSU got a major break in terms of opponents and timing of playing them.
But after a 1-2 start, the SEC Network host and ESPN college football analyst is surprised by the Tigers’ losses to Mississippi State and Missouri. Finebaum shared those thoughts on his regular appearance on “The Roundtable” on WJOX-FM in Birmingham, Alabama.
In the loss to Missouri, Finebaum said he couldn’t understand how LSU failed at the goal line four straight times. But defense is the larger issue.
“I was not really sure I understood the Bo Pelini hire, bringing back somebody who had once been good. I mean I know his resume. Pete Golding and Todd Grantham have to be thanking Bo Pelini every Saturday for doing a worse job than them,” Finebaum said. “This season looks like it’s pretty close to getting off the rails. If it’s not today, it probably will be Saturday afternoon at Florida Field. There’s no getting around, this is the biggest surprise of the year. And when you think about it, LSU, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt and Missouri, they haven’t even played an average team yet have they?”
Finebaum recalled that schedule reaction, and how LSU got a break.
“Look what they ended up with, and it hasn’t helped them, and the reality is going to start happening Saturday, and it is not going to get a lot better. This season looks like it’s lost,” he said. “And I kind of thought maybe the first week was an aberration, maybe K.J. Costello and Mike Leach being so superior, and so smart, but that was not the case. By the way, it’s systemic across the league. The SEC is looking more like the Big 12 every day.”
What an idiot.
He copies over half the stuff i say about 6 months after i say it.
He’ll be talking about The Curse of Orgeron by the end of the season, but he won’t know it’s a curse.
What a satellite-eared moron.
But you agree he is right of course?
I agree that he copies me over half the time 6 months after the fact and that I am right of course as I always am.
Finebaum never, ever, discusses actual X’s and O’s, and there’s a simple reason for it, he doesn’t understand them at all.
He got rich and famous from letting redneck callers argue on his radio show. He is an utterly talentless hack.
Football isn’t Paul Finebaum’s uneducated prejudice. The offensive and defensive four requirements: a) fitness of heart and muscles…. b) technical skills of the body and with ball, c) tactical coordination of at least 13 role players, and finally d) the mind, the brain, the psychological preparation, or moment to moment refinement. That’s it. Nowhere in the collected works of football science does it say defense is more important than offense or vica versa. Thinking that is a trap every program would eventually get caught in.
The goal is to win every game. If a program tries to do that by signing 74 defenders and 11 attackers, it might work and it might not. The opposite might work and might not. How does a coaching staff plan ahead for this when they don’t know how other league’s programs offenses and defenses are going to sign or be developed each year? The odds of success are astronomically improved if a program develops both.
This is not the big 12. It is every program in the NCAA trying how to figure out how to stop their opponents from scoring AND score at least one more point.