Hour 1: Blake Toppmeyer, USA Today
The Paul Finebaum Show
ESPN Radio
3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the Paul Finebaum Show, our one podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | This might be college football head. |
| 0:17.0 | And on this November 11th, Veterans Day, we say hello to all of you and certainly salute the many men and women who have given so much for this country. |
| 0:28.6 | Where I am right now, there's a Veterans Day parade literally going on, not far from here. |
| 0:33.6 | And I know that is occurring in so many cities around the country as we stop, |
| 0:39.7 | probably not for long enough, to celebrate this incredibly important day. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome in, and we appreciate you making time for us and begin with a story that will not go |
| 0:51.9 | away, Brian Kelly lawsuit, claiming it has not formally terminated the coach. |
| 0:57.2 | Well, after watching the performance Saturday night, I'm starting to think Brian Kelly couldn't have done any worse. |
| 1:03.9 | And a legal filing, this is according to Wetzel, Kelly's lawyer state that LSU is saying it never formally terminated Kelly and are now seeking to fire him for cause, which could impact his $54 million. |
| 1:16.0 | Listen, I'm not trying to sound like Judge Judy here, but being a terrible game day coach is not cause in any constitutional or contract law class in America. |
| 1:26.1 | Just a thought here as we move on from the Brian |
| 1:29.5 | Kelly debacle. Meanwhile, keep your eyes on Tony Petiti, who has done one of the worst jobs of |
| 1:39.8 | screwing up a good conference I have ever seen. University board members mount opposition campaign |
| 1:45.2 | to the Big Ten investment proposal. I was talking to some people in D.C. today who are just aghast |
| 1:50.7 | at what Tony Petiti is trying to do. He doesn't have that much support. He has a really good |
| 1:57.0 | league. I'm not sure the Big Ten made the best move getting a baseball guy in there who |
| 2:02.9 | had television experience trying to figure it all out. Meanwhile, Greg Sanky, he is doing a little |
| 2:10.5 | bit better. He's pushing for no qualifiers, no AQs, and last week's results show it might have a point. |
| 2:17.9 | Remember, Mark Keenham telling us on Friday night, a similar story. |
| 2:23.9 | I saw Keenham speaking to Sankey on the field Saturday in Starkville at the beginning of the game. |
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