Thoughts on Eli Gold not getting renewed

[pinche cabrón]

It was past time. The school was more than gracious with him last year. It was a good time to make the transition after a season in a diminished capacity. The fact that he is making a stink shows you where his heart is. He will be on the radio 105.5 WERC Birmingham in the morning with JT. I am sure that he will fan the "angry" flames. People are acting stupid about this. Just like with Joe Biden, he has lost his touch and it is time to step aside. He could have done it with class and chose not to.

[My2Bits]

He was never my favorite. He has a good voice, that’s it as far as football is concerned. Never understood why he was given the Alabama job.
He is not an Alabama fan or that football is his favorite sport.
Glad he is gone. Check out his loyalty to UA now; after 35-40 years of being on its payroll with all the fame and perks he received,he is going around bad mouthing the University.
John Forney he ain’t.

[Tuscaloosa]

Personally, I've always liked the guy. Anytime, they've had some Eli Gold announcements of big games we've won on YouTube, I've been sure to watch those and listen in. Living in Georgia and then later in Colorado, I wasn't always able to just turn down the sound and turn Eli on. I would have if I could have, anything's better than Gary and Vern during a nerve-wracking Iron Bowl game.

But all in all, I never felt like he was a great Bama announcer. To me, it seemed his commentating was a little off at times. IMO, he's missed a few big calls and that was before his last illness. I don't want to blast him but I am looking forward to us having another announcer esp. since we're moving to Huntsville for a new assignment. Anyways, I do wish him well. He was a very good NASCAR and hockey announcer from back in the day. Any other thoughts on the subject?

You summed up my feelings pretty well. Eli has been somewhere between below average to awful at his job for a decade now. Alabama has tried their best to get him to realize that and gracefully step aside (he's 70 years old), but he has refused. We have an excellent guy ready to take over who the fanbase is extremely familiar with and loves (and is great at the job), but Eli absolutely decided he was going to make them fire him/not renew him.

We just had the greatest 15 year run in college football history and I can only think of 2-3 plays where when I want to watch a clip I make sure to find the clip with Eli's call. That's laughable, and doesn't even account for the fact that he is awful at the mechanics of calling a football game (down and distance, time, tone of voice matching the import nature of what just happened). I think we all thought Eli was a great dude who loved Alabama and was a professional, but it always sounded like some guy from Westwood One was calling our games while Auburn had Jim Fyffe, Tennessee had John Ward and Georgia had Larry Munson. Chris Stewart fits much more in that mold - pretty professional but absolutely willing to homer it up a bit and let you know who signs his paychecks.

Pretty disappointed in the way he's publicly bickered like this. The University stood by him his entire sickness and even tried a unique solution last year to let him work. He's currently putting Chris Stewart in a really rough spot - a guy who has waited his turn (and dealt with tons of medical hardships himself) with grace and humility for years.

Perfectly stated, SoG.

[Kashmir]

It was past time. The school was more than gracious with him last year. It was a good time to make the transition after a season in a diminished capacity. The fact that he is making a stink shows you where his heart is. He will be on the radio 105.5 WERC Birmingham in the morning with JT. I am sure that he will fan the "angry" flames. People are acting stupid about this. Just like with Joe Biden, he has lost his touch and it is time to step aside. He could have done it with class and chose not to.

No way EG is as bad as FJB!!! But it is time for him to go away. Thanks for his service!

[pinche cabrón]

No way EG is as bad as FJB!!! But it is time for him to go away.

. No, because he had more to work with than Joe did ... but his decline is very obvious and he should have used last year as a way to ride into the sunset of Alabama lore as a hero and not as a bitter old man who isn't self-aware