In a report posted by Heartland Sports, Paul Finebaum decided to take a shot at Iowa State while comparing the Big 12 Conference to the southeastern league he drools over year-round.
Finebaum took exception to the fact that so many have suggested Ames, Iowa as a college football destination:
“You can’t limp into this league. You’ll get run over,” Finebaum told said, according to On3’s George Stoia. “Nobody needs to take the Big 12 and compare it to the SEC. There’s simply no comparison. OU’s done so well, but everyone talks about going to Iowa State. Well, I can give you 12 places in the SEC that make Iowa State look like a kindergarten class.”
There are kindergarten classes that can tell you of the half of the SEC that doesn’t have a shot at playing for the national title, too. Finebaum won’t listen.
That’s not even the whole of it, either.
Finebaum, who still appears live on the SEC Network routinely viewed by many in the region during their annual trip to the dentist, mentioned the difficulty of playing at home venues in the league during a separate interview from earlier in the week:
“I’ve had people tell me, ‘you don’t understand what it’s like to go to Ames, Iowa.’ Well, first of all, I don’t want to go to Ames, Iowa,” Finebaum told TexAgs. “I can assure you, Saturday night in Ames, Iowa, does not compare to Saturday night in Auburn, Baton Rouge, The Swamp, Knoxville. I mean, you can go 11 deep in the SEC. You think it’s easy to play in South Carolina?
“I mean, the Big 12 is a good league. It’s good for TCU, but this is a different world. Everyone listening and watching already knows that.”
‘It’s just different,’ he’ll say of the league he blindly loves while refusing to visit a destination that ‘many’ have told him is something he’s missing out on.
There’s a reason college football’s desired playoff isn’t a 14-team, SEC tournament bracket, but for now, something like that lives deep inside the brain of Finebaum. As long as it stays there.
