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Paul Finebaum calls out AL.com writer for ‘unsubstantiated campaign’ against Bryan Harsin

By Andrew Hughes

SEC Network host Paul Finebaum said AL.com writer Joseph Goodman had an 'unsubstantiated campaign' to get Bryan Harsin fired (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
SEC Network host Paul Finebaum said AL.com writer Joseph Goodman had an 'unsubstantiated campaign' to get Bryan Harsin fired (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images) /
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Paul Finebaum has high praise for what Bryan Harsin had to go through this offseason during the tumultuous offseason inquiry that called into question his personal value as a family man — one the Auburn Board of Trustees denies any involvement with.

He also, in the same breath, called out notorious Harsin hater Joseph Goodman of AL.com, for what he called an ‘unsubstantiated campaign against Bryan Harsin over the COVID shot’ over the course of last season.

Finebaum said that ‘Bryan Harsin has been a true profile in courage of what you should be as a head football coach,’ before talking about the medical freedom Harsin deserves without facing constant scrutiny from the media.

Here was Finebaum’s full statement from his appearance “McElroy and Cubelic In the morning” on WJOX out of Birmingham (h/t Saturday Down South):

"“I think Bryan Harsin has been a true profile in courage of what you should be as a head football coach. Yes, ultimately he has to win, we know that. But you’re right, and Greg, I’m going to take it a step further. You mentioned AL.com, I’m going to mention the writer’s name, his name is Joseph Goodman, and he carried on a vicious, unsubstantiated campaign against Bryan Harsin over the COVID shot. I am not here to make medical decisions, or political decisions, that’s not what I do. But that was his choice, and you could choose to respect it or not. But it doesn’t cause for a one-man campaign to try to get the guy fired.”"

Paul Finebaum said that Bryan Harsin won people over that were on the fence

Paul Finebaum is a fan of the man himself, saying that Bryan Harsin ultimately won the people over that were on the fence about his prospects of being the second-most publicized figure in the state of Alabama behind Nick Saban.

He had an incredible line about those that tried to take Harsin’s job away, sharing that he thinks he ‘deserves tremendous praise for taking a road less traveled in taking on those who tried to fire him, and taking on those who creeped in the middle of the night like cockroaches trying to get a man fired with no justification and not one scintilla of evidence.’

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