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Paul Finebaum trolls Pete Bevacqua comments with comparison to Shakespeare tragedy

IMG_6598by: Nick Kosko13 hours agonickkosko59

Paul Finebaum roasted Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua for continuing to claim the team was screwed over in the College Football Playoff rankings. He actually advised him to go to the library!

Bevacqua was open and honest about Notre Dame’s feelings about opting out of a bowl game and claimed the Fighting Irish went on the best 10-game run in college football. Finebaum scoffed at that notion of course and wanted Bevacqua to up his literary game.

“I mean, I don’t like to give Pete any more advice than I already have, but go down to the library and get out a book of Shakespeare and read Macbeth because it says a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, and that’s what he’s been doing all week,” Finebaum said on Get Up. “He just has been a motor mouth. And yesterday, as you have eloquently pointed out, he stepped in it. It’s to the point now where we’re just tired of hearing it. 

“It just doesn’t make any sense. You played on the field, you lost to Miami on August 31. Whatever this committee did, which never has made any sense anyway, they may have gotten it wrong for a while, but they got it right in the end. So Pete, thank you. Go back to the back of the class and find somebody else to scream and holler at.”

As far as those 10 wins referenced by Bevacqua, USC was the lone Power Four team that was ranked on Notre Dame’s schedule. Sure, they beat the Trojans, but lost to the aforementioned Texas A&M and Miami.

To further Finebaum’s point, and the ridiculousness of the situation, ESPN’ Mike Greenberg threw out stats about the 10-game winning streak. While Greenberg was speaking, a graphic showing the 10-game runs he referenced came up on the screen. 

It showed Indiana had a +324 point differential against 66-55 opponents. Ohio State was +300 against 62-58 teams. Notre Dame was +297 against 55-65 teams. Then, Texas Tech was +271 against 70-52 teams. So, it wasn’t even the best streak this season.

Notre Dame and Bevacqua will be back in action and in the news next season, barring anything unforeseen. It was an unfortunate end for the team this season, but the CFP committee made its decision, right or wrong.