Paul Finebaum can't stop talking about Lincoln Riley and USC

At some point people are going to wonder if ESPN college football analyst Paul Finebaum is beginning to lampoon himself. Finebaum has been in the news lately, such as when Lane Kiffin “thanked” him for getting fired at USC when Finebaum called for his job the morning he was fired on ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast. A few years ago Finebaum was calling for Jim Harbaugh to be fired. Then Harbaugh won the national championship. Most recently Finebaum also drew attention when he absurdly attacked Lincoln Riley not once, not twice, but three times on ESPN. The most recent bad take was on First Take where Finebaum was called out by Stephen A. Smith for his SEC media days comments. Deion Sanders then entered the conversation as Finebaum unleashed his latest absurdity.

“I thought about this the other day, ‘Okay, maybe [Riley] does well, maybe he doesn’t, but the answer is really moving forward, and I believe the answer after this season is Deion Sanders.’ He’s going to be tired of Colorado because, quite frankly, it’s not prime time.”

Finebaum continued, “He’s done well, as well as he can, with his son and Travis Hunter and all the Stephen A’s and Shannon Sharpe appearances, but that’s going to dry up this year because they’re not going to be that great. But you put Prime in Tinsel Town, and I think you have one of the great combinations in history.”

With takes like this and the ones stated earlier, it is safe to say Finebaum will not run any athletic departments. If he keeps this up his competence as an analyst will certainly be challenged.

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