Lollll, can you imagine Finebaum working for the Big Ten Network?

The commentator most associated with the SEC is doing some negotiating.

Paul Finebaum — host of a self-titled show on ESPN’s SEC Network and either a provocative commentator, SEC homer, Bama homer, or general troll (depending on your persuasion) — has a contract expiration coming up, and that’s sports-business news, sure, but let’s get right to the important stuff.

The Sporting News reports:

Negotiations between Paul Finebaum and ESPN have heated up, but a powerful new team is bidding for the possible free agent’s services: Fox Sports and its affiliated Big Ten Network.

[...] Fox Sports has a history of poaching ESPN talent, like Colin Cowherd, Skip Bayless, Jason Whitlock and Erin Andrews. Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany is said to be a huge Finebaum fan.

Some Big Ten executives have lamented the absence of a “Paul Finebaum-like show” on the network’s programming schedule. Fox owns 51 percent of the Big Ten Network.

ESPN very well could get a deal done, and it’s nice to have leverage, but let’s focus on the funny stuff.

If you’ll excuse me, I’m just going to giggle for 37 minutes at the idea of the Big Ten Network hiring the man recently most known for relentlessly heckling Jim Harbaugh, taking calls from deeply drunk Alabama fans during Playoff games, and being declared “the King of the South” by the New Yorker (though that’s certainly a publication the Big Ten aspires to). To be honest, I don’t listen to his program and only catch the viral moments, but since about half of those involve him trying to make Michigan’s head coach mad, I really hope this happens.

I mean:

Which extremely Midwestern media member should the SEC Network hire in retaliation?