I had planned a weekend wrap-up post tonight, but instead I have to cover this topic. If you are not from Alabama, you may not know the players in this saga. Mark Gottfried, the University of Alabama men's basketball coach, has been under fire for his sub par performance this year. He has received the most criticism on the Paul Finebaum show, a syndicated talk radio show in the Southeast. Finebaum has made a living criticizing coaches on his wildly successful talk show.

I received an e-mail from a fan at the game who witnessed it first hand and then saw this post on Tider Insider, an Alabama sports message board. Apparently, Gottfried's wife confronted Paul Finebaum at halftime of Alabama's 20 point win over Auburn. So far, I haven't seen this discussed anywhere else. I have no confirmation as to what was said, although I highly doubt she was inviting him over for dinner. If it is true, we should hear much more about it tomorrow when Finebaum airs his radio show at 2:00 Central Time.

This won't be good for Gottfried. First, it adds to the speculation that he is on the hot seat. After all, if your wife is confronting a talk show host, she apparently has something to worry about. Second, this will only fuel Finebaum's fire to talk negatively about Gottfried, as Finebaum has shown in the past that he doesn't care what people, especially coaches, think about him. Third, I've never seen a situation where a wife of a player or coach confronted the media and came out looking good.

Also, isn't this one of the signs of a coach that is about to be fired? Other signs would include:

• Coach referring to the current season as a rebuilding season
• FireCoachX.com website
• Vote of confidence from AD or President
• Constant threads on the message boards about potential new coaches
• Bad loss against an extremely inferior team
• Common knowledge of the amount of the coach's buyout.

Keep an eye out on this one and we'll see what Finebaum has to say on tomorrow's show.