Finebaum rips Edsall for pulling scholarship

[King Husky]

Finebaum rips Edsall for pulling scholarship - ESPN Video

 

[FDNY99]

Who is the guy next with the glasses?

 

[Stainmaster]

Finebaum the windbag can stuff a sock in it.

 

[tcf15]

Been looking for supporting video, but just have to go with this post from Michigan's messageboard. Apparently, Randy Edsall and UConn can't do it, but when Jim Harbaugh and Michigan pulled Erik Swenson's scholarship last January, Finebaum called it a media driven non story:

Paul Finebaum defends Jim Harbaugh | mgoblog

Paul Finebaum defends Jim Harbaugh
After having Teddy Greenstein on his radio show this afternoon Paul Finebaum defended Jim Harbaugh and called this a media driven "non story." Was pretty amused it was getting all this attention.

He also said Harbaugh is going to win a national title "very soon, possibly next year."

Paul has been a big Harbaugh supporter since he was hired and it's good to see someone with the media profile he has taking this stance, especially after the tantrum Valenti threw today.

 

[BlueMAB]

I'll hold my breath while he rips Michigan and Alabama for doing the same thing, later in the process, without the added excuse of a coaching change.

Five years later, SEC not hurt by its football recruiting signing cap

Michigan had two players publicly say their offers got pulled or changed very late without much communication.

“There were mistakes made and I take full accountability for them,” Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said without elaborating, according to The Detroit Free Press. “But I won’t apologize.”

According to AL.com, Alabama made at least three grayshirt offers to committed recruits, all of whom declined them and signed elsewhere. Riley Cole, one of those players, said in a Twitter post on Jan. 31 that Alabama talked to him five days before Signing Day about grayshirting “but won’t give me a straight answer.” He decommitted and signed with South Alabama.

“We recruit them, we want them to come here,” Saban said, according to AL.com. “We just think it would help their development if they matured before they enrolled.”

 

[Dove]

Who the hell is fueling this story? The Dickens press machine is unbelievable.

We could call it...A Recruiting Carol.

 

[Skiblets]

Can someone tweet his hypocrisy at him? Finebaun that is. I'm not a twitterer

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Finebaum is now exposed as a total fraud.

I'm on record. I have no issue with Edsall pulling scholarships of players that the idiot former staff offered. Pull all of them if they see fit. There is a reason why we have sucked for 6 years and it goes a little deeper than coaching. Our recruiting has been absymal. I expected a drop with the CR crap but we aren't even close to keeping up with middle of the pack AAC programs.

This is big boy football. About damn time we started acting like it.

 

[RSTuthill]

Can someone tweet his hypocrisy at him? Finebaun that is. I'm not a twitterer

Neither am I, so you have company. I find it ... well .... Think you can catch my drift.

 

[Penfield]

whats his phone #?

 

[gwhuskyfan]

whats his phone #?

His show airs on television on SEC Network from 3-7 p.m. ET, and is also available on syndicated radio station. Fans can be a part of the show by calling 855-242-PAUL (7285).

 

[FDNY99]

I just tweeted this link to him:
Five years later, SEC not hurt by its football recruiting signing cap

@WingU-Conn thanks for posting that link.

 

[mac66]

Finebaum is an over the top SEC homer who ignores any wrongs they do. He is probably still upset and stunned a SEC coordinator would leave for UCONN.

 

[businesslawyer]

Finebaum is an over the top SEC homer who ignores any wrongs they do. He is probably still upset and stunned a SEC coordinator would leave for UCONN.

He's not alone in being stunned Lashlee left Auburn to come here.

 

[UCONNRPh]

Finebaum did not like Randy Edsall when he was at Maryland either.

 

[King Husky]

Finebaum is an over the top SEC homer who ignores any wrongs they do. He is probably still upset and stunned a SEC coordinator would leave for UCONN.

Good point, I didn't think of that. So now he's trying to denigrate the program and hoping that Lashlee has no success here.

 

[ZooCougar]

Did anyone call into Finebaum?

 

[huskyblooz]

Was it Charles Baldwin, from CT, who was there for a week, when Saban realized he wasn't good enough to play there and dismissed him?

 

[Jimdish255]

I found something: See if you can get this link to download:

http://c.espnradio.com/s:5L8r1/audio/2662216/finebaum_2016-01-21-175916.64k.mp3?ad_params=zones=Preroll,Preroll2,Midroll,Midroll2,Midroll3,Midroll4,Midroll5,Midroll6,Postroll,Postroll2|station_id=1685

 

[uconnbill]

The SEC does this all the time by gray shirting players and over recruiting them on signing day. The new coaching staff just came together on the defense side of the ball last week. So for anyone in the media to kill HCRE over this is just looking for hits and views.

Shame on ESPN and those knuckleheads on twitter who have nothing better to do.

 

[King Husky]

The SEC does this all the time by gray shirting players and over recruiting them on signing day. The new coaching staff just came together on the defense side of the ball last week. So for anyone in the media to kill HCRE over this is just looking for hits and views.

Shame on ESPN and those knuckleheads on twitter who have nothing better to do.

Well if someone has an honest problem with it, then fine. But to specifically call out the program as a whole, saying "UConn is going to pay for this" and "The average person will think much less of [UConn]" makes it seem like he is really going out of his way to defame UConn.

 

[FAIRTIDES]

I'll hold my breath while he rips Michigan and Alabama for doing the same thing, later in the process, without the added excuse of a coaching change.

Five years later, SEC not hurt by its football recruiting signing cap

Michigan had two players publicly say their offers got pulled or changed very late without much communication.

“There were mistakes made and I take full accountability for them,” Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said without elaborating, according to The Detroit Free Press. “But I won’t apologize.”

According to AL.com, Alabama made at least three grayshirt offers to committed recruits, all of whom declined them and signed elsewhere. Riley Cole, one of those players, said in a Twitter post on Jan. 31 that Alabama talked to him five days before Signing Day about grayshirting “but won’t give me a straight answer.” He decommitted and signed with South Alabama.

“We recruit them, we want them to come here,” Saban said, according to AL.com. “We just think it would help their development if they matured before they enrolled.”

One would think that the above, in the hands of a media "friend," would at least embarrass Finebaum and maybe destroy his credibility, altogether. I wonder if ADD knows about Finebaum's hypocrisy? Has anyone called out Finebaum on Twitter? Or, is UConn going to allow itself to kicked around on stuff like this while the Alabama and Michigan types get a free pass?

 

[JSM1970]

I love Finebaum, he has crazy redneck SEC fans call and rant about the B1G mostly. I think he fails to see the total embarrassment he and his callers are.

Can someone tweet his hypocrisy at him? Finebaun that is. I'm not a twitterer

 

[FastEddie]

Finebaum is an SEC shill, and nothing he says should ever be taken seriously. Embarrassing that ESPN gives him a national forum to air his nonsense. Oh yeah, and he looks like Gollum from Lord of the Rings.

 

[DAC17]

Just remember what these talking heads get paid for...ratings. If no one listened to them, would they still be trumpeting their crap?