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(10-06-2013 12:12 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(10-06-2013 11:59 AM)TheGORILLA Wrote:  

(10-06-2013 10:46 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(10-06-2013 10:43 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(10-06-2013 10:38 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  UAB has the same things in place that the Losing-est Coach in History had available. Actually, the campus that McGee recruits to is vastly superior to the one Watson showed to prospects: new weight room, new academic center, new rec center, new cafeteria, new dorms and classrooms. Somehow Brown was able to eek out a few winning seasons, big wins, and draft picks. I have a freshman at UAB so I know exactly how much the campus has changed. It was a DUMP in 2000 compared to how it is now.

These things are nice, but I was talking more along the lines of what did McGee have to work with on the field? Clearly, our defense was nowhere near respectable when he took over. I don't know how you fix that overnight like you want.

You don't. And a new coach or athletic director doesn't fix it. A new OCS doesn't fix it. As I said in another thread, the infrastructure is in place for UAB to be a bad team. I don't see it changing.

You are right. A new coach or athletic director won't fix it. But I disagree and I believe that a new OCS "will" fix it. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Mackin and McGee sold every seat in a new stadium within three months after approval. That, in itself, is also exactly why the BOT is so terrified of. Can you imagine how much deeper UAB could go, as far as recruiting goes?

A stadium isn't going to change how UAB is perceived. It isn't going to change how the media covers us. It isn't going to convert 1000‘s of Bama fans to UAB fans. It isn't going to exchange the fact that the BOT is hellbent on creeping us from succeeding. It isn't going to change the fact that we are in a crappy conference and surrounded by people who think anything but the SEC is crappy. Where the games are played are way down on the list of what is important to recruits. Playing in a big time conference for a winning team with a chance at the NFL is more important to recruits.

A stadium "will" change how UAB is perceived and it "will" change how the media covers us, immensely, to a great extent, extremely.