Now we know why Days of Our Lives was cast off from its former network treatment on NBC to something called “Peacock”. Can you believe we say that. “I have to watch this game on Peacock.” You can’t make this stuff up.

What’s the best soap opera on TV now? Now more than ever. Now more than ever. Is that John Mellencamp I hear? Nope. Now more than ever in the SEC, IT JUST MEANS MORE… SOAP OPERA. If you can’t win on the field, win off the field. Tune into The Paul Finebaum Show. The SEC is kicking the Big Ten’s arse in football drama.

I wrote a feature on Paul Finebaum a couple years ago. One of the paragraphs went like this:

The 2024 College Football scene was made for Paul Finebaum.  These days one doesn’t have to dig the dirt anymore.  The dirt is everywhere.  On The Paul Finebaum Show the topic of the day is whichever dirt pile we care to talk about.  NIL?  Coaches?  Transfer Portal?  Conference Woes?  Toomer’s Corner?

What a time of SEC Football Drama we have had recently. Don’t you think there is an Emmy Award category coming down the pike soon? And the Emmy for the SEC Coach being the biggest horse’s butt courtesy of the SEC Network is…

As time goes by, the photo above “Just Means More”. Bama was playing in Knoxville on this day in 2016. I was there to enjoy the game, as I was sporting a neutral Ole Miss shirt with a Tide fan to my right and a Vol fan to my left. Call me Switzerland.

Recently, I nearly swallowed my snuff. Blake Toppmeyer, an SEC print pundit and USA Today columnist, wrote syllables no Big Ten Football fan would believe they would ever see. I was reading the Jackson Clarion Ledger online. Toppmeyer wrote about how The Big Ten has supplanted The SEC as the premiere football conference in the land. Indiana is to blame. Calling the Indiana Hoosiers, with their quaint little stadium, the National Champs is most difficult for many I am sure. Forget Paul Finebaum’s mea culpa. How genuine those words were is just more soap opera fodder. Thankfully, Toppmeyer’s cleverness actually shown through when he suggested that had Indiana would still be scoring touchdowns had they played Arkansas or Mississippi State.

No matter how you slice. Regardless of who you root for, the comments of late from Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian thrown in the direction of Ole Miss to put the place down are abhorrent.

Would somebody tell Lane and Sark they look completely stupid, scared, common, and leaderless when they are putting down Ole Miss. I’ve been to Oxford. The place is wonderful. Maybe coaches like Kiffin and Sark are jealous of the place. They don’t have The Grove where they are. I have a painting of The Grove in my office at home here in Indiana. I pause, look at it each day, and wish I was walking through the middle of it. The place helps me.

My wife said it best. “Whiny coaches like them are just ruining the game. They sound more like 8th grade girls in the hallway than they do college football coaches.” She’s right, as usual.

In the meantime, as the SEC plays a soap opera, The Big Ten goes about its business. Maybe that should be the model to aspire to. Go about your business. After all, there are the last three consecutive National Championship trophies to consider. They are in three different Big Ten Football complexes. And one of them is Indiana. That alone has turned college football coaching expectations into dumpster fires in waiting.

LSU didn’t make the CFP last year. Texas didn’t make the CFP last year. Ole Miss played Miami in a semi-final. They pooped out on D at the end. Otherwise, they would have played Indiana and I didn’t want any part of that (wink). Texas and LSU are playing catch up. Their coaches are whining. If it’s so bad, go do something else. I promise football will go on without you. You need college football more than college football needs you. Act like it.