🏈 Stupid going to stupid: "I gotta believe somewhere in the back of his mind Nick Saban is second-guessing going with Tua over Jalen."

[Max]

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

I would take #13 over #2 everyday of the week and twice on Sunday......Best of luck to Jalen.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Are u kidding me.....Tua is 10x jalen ( well maybe not 10)....
Jalen will do great things in big12....big 12 Ds are bad...Houston's was awful last night.......

 

[planomateo]

How in the world this man has ~2.9 million followers on twitter is beyond me.

That's alot of stupid he's influencing.

 

[Bamabww]

Bama hate is strong with this guy.

 

[mando]

He is making statements to create talking points so people tune into his show (its about dollars). He sure doesn't get followed because of his knowledge.

With that said, good for Jalen. Glad he had a great night. I wish him well unless he meets up with bama in a game.

 

[rick4bama]

He sure don't have any love for Coach or the UofA. But he one reason I don't watch him(even if I could!!)

 

[It Takes Eleven]

How in the world this man has ~2.9 million followers on twitter is beyond me.

That's alot of stupid he's influencing.

That's a whole bunch of faker twitter accounts. Skip's a legend in his own mind.

Twitter erupts after Skip Bayless appears to compliment himself on Facebook

Fake things like this always make the rounds on the interwebs, but this one, by all accounts, appears to be very real. Multiple reporters have confirmed it on social media, including the reporter who first spotted it. After all, it's not that big a deal. The person

ftw.usatoday.com

 

[sean]

meh...skip bayless hasn't been relevent since....like....ever.

apparently he knows what's going through Coach Saban's mind after 1 game...ONE GAME!!! and Coach Saban already knows how good Jalen is against good (i.e., SEC) defenses. he knows because he was his coach for 3 damn years. but i guess skippy longstockings forgot about that part. but it's only the internet...there's no way to actually go back and look at his stats versus any other team he played and how he fared against them.

 

[JoshB]

Skip Bayless is also the guy that said Nick Saban is the most overrated football coach ever and that Jim Harbough is a better coach.

 

[bamanc50]

If we could sell Skippy Bayless for 1/4 of what he thought he was worth, We would all be billionaires.

 

[TerryP]

meh...skip bayless hasn't been relevent since....like....ever.

Back when I was in school, Sean, I'd use LexisNexis for my news fix and his articles were some of the first ones I looked up. He did a hell of a job covering the Big 12 back then and had a solid view of football.

Until ... he was on TV.

In my opinion he's no different than your everyday Finebaum caller. Back when he was just on in Birmingham the calls weren't as obnoxious as they are today. When he went to satellite they became a little worse and I believe that was due to it being a national audience versus local. But, as soon as it was live TV? Katy bar the door ... the loons came out. TV, live TV, and we're left with what we see from Skip.

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[JoshB]

Back when I was in school, Sean, I'd use LexisNexis for my news fix and his articles were some of the first ones I looked up. He did a hell of a job covering the Big 12 back then and had a solid view of football.

Until ... he was on TV.

In my opinion he's no different than your everyday Finebaum caller. Back when he was just on in Birmingham the calls weren't as obnoxious as they are today. When he went to satellite they became a little worse and I believe that was due to it being a national audience versus local. But, as soon as it was live TV? Katy bar the door ... the loons came out. TV, live TV, and we're left with what we see from Skip.

Skip was a great sports reporter in the 80s and 90s. He has a really good book he wrote on the rise of the Cowboys, but like you said, when he got on TV he became a "character." If you go back and look at what the precursor to what First Take was (First-and-10 was a segment on Cold Pizza in the mornings), it started out with Woody Paige against random sports reporters from around the country, eventually Skip became kind of the go-to guy to debate him) and then what it morphed into, completely different. Skip doesn't actually "cover" anything anymore, so his knowledge on ANYTHING in current sports is super limited and probably just limited to the stats and notes FS1's people give him. All he bothers to do now is find a hot take and run with it, especially if its about something to do with a passionate fan base.

 

[TerryP]

(First-and-10 was a segment on Cold Pizza in the mornings), it started out with Woody Paige against random sports reporters from around the country, eventually Skip became kind of the go-to guy to debate him) and then what it morphed into, completely different.

A lot spawned off of that time period. Here you've mentioned the precursor to Around the Horn which wasn't too bad in its inception either.

 

[TideatMileHigh]

He gets paid to shitpost on national TV. He is a human sports embodiment of 4chan.

 

[TerryP]

@TideatMileHigh, 4chan has more credibility

 

[JoshB]

A lot spawned off of that time period. Here you've mentioned the precursor to Around the Horn which wasn't too bad in its inception either.

Around the Horn was already a thing when they started going First and 10.

1st and 10 (2003 TV series) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[TideatMileHigh]

@TideatMileHigh, 4chan has more credibility

Your right that is a bad comparison. He is more of a sports version of some villain wrestler on WWF circa 2001.

 

[OldPlayer]

I'm happy for Jalen. I hope he continues to do well. But, crowning him after one game against a G5 team will come back to haunt you.