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Year 4 is all McGee

"Blowing Smoke".

Build a stadium.

(10-29-2013 07:09 AM)TheGORILLA Wrote: [ -> ]"Blowing Smoke".

Build a stadium.

& a Field House, and a new practice facility. I want it all...Anything else is lip service...

Geez guys.

How about being a supportive fan.

This gets old.

This crap some of you are saying about giving him 4 years is BS. Giving him 4 years means withholding judgement for 4 years, not crapping on every little sound bite he makes. I don't know if he can coach or not. I do know that when you hire someone who has not held a position before, there is a certain amount of learning on the job and patience that is needed by the fans. We didn't hire a seasoned coach, with years of experience.

I have my opinions of some of the moves that have made. I am giving him time to improve before crapping publicly on the coach and everything he says. If you haven't noticed before, no one has ever won at UAB. It's not going to happen overnight.

Maybe we should rehire Callaway. No one denigrated press statements he made, because no one could understand mumble mouth. Most everything McGee says in public is an attempt to build up the team. It is not meant for the idiot fans.

I am not too happy with coach since he start but he can talk a good game ,,,,I hope he is right about turning around and building something
Fyi he still a sophomore

I rode out Watson and Callaway. I'm prepared to give McGee 4 years.

Bringing up the stadium when McGee is talking about building a TEAM is just dumb.

Agree with MB Frenchy and Smaug.

Next thing we will build is a field house, practice field, offices, meeting rooms and locker rooms. This is needed now. We will not get a stadium until we can prove we can pay for it with butts in the seats. That is just a fact. Best thing YOU can do to help get a stadium is to show up and support the team. The stadium will come but we must all do our part. No one is saying accept losing but I am saying support the program. Bama and Auburn can get away with not showing up to games in protest. We simply cannot.

Rant over.

I sick of hearing that we aren't being supportive. I've given to Blazer boosters, bought season tickets knowing that I would only make it to a couple of the home games, gone to UF,UT,SC,UCF and other away games. I drive 6 hours one way with 2 small kids and drop probably $500 to do so for the weekend, and I watch/listen to every game I am not at.

Because people criticize the coach, call out the leadership, point to deficiencies, etc. doesn't mean they aren't supportive. Your definition might be different but the fact that many people aren't invested financially, emotionally and physically prove that we are being supportive. Being tired of completely sucking and voicing it does not.

(10-29-2013 08:31 AM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]I rode out Watson and Callaway. I'm prepared to give McGee 4 years.

Bringing up the stadium when McGee is talking about building a TEAM is just dumb.

Riding out eleven years with Watson Brown(62-74), five years with Neil Callaway(18-42), and four years with Garrack McGee(5-14), with no effort from any of them to "promote" construction of an on campus stadium is just dumb.

(10-29-2013 08:50 AM)TheGORILLA Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-29-2013 08:31 AM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]I rode out Watson and Callaway. I'm prepared to give McGee 4 years.

Bringing up the stadium when McGee is talking about building a TEAM is just dumb.

Riding out eleven years with Watson Brown(62-74), five years with Neil Callaway(18-42), and four years with Garrack McGee(5-14), with no effort from any of them to "promote" construction of an on campus stadium is just dumb.

*sigh*

He was asked a question at a press conference about THIS team. The one we're putting on the field THIS fall.

I promise you, you do do not want the football team playing home games on the south side one jot or tittle more than I do, but since Herb Harrison transferred, you have truly become a one-trick pony.

Do you really believe the people who read and post on this board are not aware of the fact that we need an OCS?

Really?

Btw, my previous post is directed more towards MB than AB, who was posting his the same time as me.

The difference in what AB is saying vs MB has to do with people withholding their support whereas anytime someone comments critically of McGee or the state of things MB throws out the standard "you guys aren't being supportive". There's a difference and it's bs to keep using that tired response. If people hadn't been and weren't supportive, they wouldn't give F enough to be critical.

My point is when McGee says something in the press, he isn't talking to the fans, he is trying to send a message to the team. He's saying to the team that he believes what he is telling them so much he is saying it in public. So they should believe they are building something as well. A player might be coming around, but when they get on Blazertalk and read nothing but ridicule for what the coach says, it does not support.

He is saying the same thing he was saying when he was hired. Everybody was eating it up then. Give him time to back it up. A year and a half is not enough time to turn this team around. Players believing in themselves is the first step. That's what he is trying to do.

(10-29-2013 08:55 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote: [ -> ]Btw, my previous post is directed more towards MB than AB, who was posting his the same time as me.

The difference in what AB is saying vs MB has to do with people withholding their support whereas anytime someone comments critically of McGee or the state of things MB throws out the standard "you guys aren't being supportive". There's a difference and it's bs to keep using that tired response. If people hadn't been and weren't supportive, they wouldn't give F enough to be critical.

Being critical is fine. Ridiculing everything that comes out of the coaches mouth is not being supportive, and I don't care if you are tired of hearing it, it is the sign of a piss poor fan.

Really??? If the players are coming on here to get their guidance instead of listening to their coach then all is truly lost. And as for him communicating to his players via public statements and pressers, my advice would be to try communicating to them in team meetings, the locker room and on the field.

No, a piss poor fan would stay home and do something else during the game. I'll be driving from savannah to Bham Friday night and driving back home on Sunday.

(10-29-2013 08:59 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote: [ -> ]Really??? If the players are coming on here to get their guidance instead of listening to their coach then all is truly lost. And as for him communicating to his players via public statements and pressers, my advice would be to try communicating to them in team meetings, the locker room and on the field.

You didn't understand a word of what I said. He is using public statements to back up what he is telling the team. Every coach I does this.

I guess it would be better for him to build his team up in private and then talk about how they suck in public.

And I didn't say the team should come here for guidance. But they do read the board and it reinforces negative feelings they may have.

And good for you, uncle Blazer. I hope you show the same dedication after your nephew leaves the program, since your such a great fan and all.

Maybe I will, maybe I won't. I never said I was great fan. But I am and have been supportive and do plan on continuing that support. Attitudes like yours and cliquish nature of you and others are just as detrimental to people's support as anything said on here. I honestly don't believe you do hope that I "show the same dedication" because that reinforces your assertion that I am a piss poor fan.

With the right coach and financial commitment, we should be competing for CUSA Titles every year. We are located in the middle of a football hotbed! It's not like we are WKU or MTSU that has much fewer instate players to recruit. Alabama only recruits about 6-7 instate kids a year now. With a financial commitment to facilities, and a good coaching staff, we should be able to keep the better leftovers instate, and do pretty much what UCF and Louisville have already done.

I wouldn't expect a relative of a player to follow a team as closely after that player has graduated. Especially travelling several hundred miles to attend a game.

I have no plans of attending my daughter's high school football games after she has graduated until the point in time when my middle daughter is in high school.

I will still keep up with them here & there though.

I believe that McGee is attempting to do some stuff to advance the program which is more than what I believe some of the previous coaches may have done.

You scratch your head on his handling of the QB's though & the way we don't seem to utilize the run like we should. We still are scoring enough points to win with a decent defense.

Problem is, our defense is not decent & needs a lot of help.

Let's see how McGee progresses the rest of the season & still realize that this isn't going to change overnight, but hopefully steps will be made in the right direction.