Paul Finebaum calls it like he sees it when it comes to college football and things that certain fans may not want to hear.
And on Monday, following Georgia’s embarrassing performance against LSU in the SEC Championship, Finebaum harshly discussed Georgia, Kirby Smart and how his style of football is not working anymore.
“Listen Kirby Smart is trying to run Alabama 2.0 and it’s not working,” Finebaum said while WJOX 94.5 FM out of Birmingham. “I say it’s not working because they’re not winning and competing seriously for national championships… You can’t end the season like that and you know I hear Georgia fans saying, ‘Well we didn’t have Cager, we didn’t have -‘. Hey, when you recruit at the level that Alabama and Georgia recruit, you don’t have excuses, because nobody else is in that league other than maybe Ohio State or Clemson and now LSU.
And listen, I think everyone talking right now is a fan of Kirby Smart but he’s going to catch a lot of heat, and you know it started with the bowl game (the Sugar Bowl loss against Texas) which everyone wrote off as they didn’t care and this season has been a roller coaster. And the one thing this season didn’t have until Saturday was that predictable one-off Kirby Smart blowout. Got that now!”
Well, Finebaum has a point. Smart does need to adapt to the times of college football. But I would not say it isn’t working. Three 11-1 finishes in a row. That’s not easy.