(07-01-2012 11:41 AM)mbelcher987 Wrote:  

(07-01-2012 01:49 AM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(06-25-2012 01:48 PM)mbelcher987 Wrote:  This was just announced:

Troy @UAB will be the 11:00 (morning) game. With the away side in the sun. Legion Field will hold two 1aa games that weekend too.

Have fun, although, you guys might be able to move with the shadow of the scoreboard.

I'll just go on ahead and include a "there is room on the other side of the stadium with the 7 UAB fans," because somewhere along the lines you guys will try and talk attendance smack.

Miles vs. UNA will be Sunday night
Tuskegee and AL A&M will be Saturday night at 6.

p.s. spread it to GTT if you'd like.

That statement right there opened yourself up to the smack...Then 3 posts later you added fuel to the fire.......blame the city... Oh and P.S. Troy is in charge of bringing handheld cameras for the goal lines this time.

If you really think that my first post was smack you really gotta get out more son. ( unintended as a personal attack don't take it as one)


That post 3 posts later was because you guys were already attacking. Joking about a call you guys think was questionable and not attacking anything Troy state related is now smack talk. Got it...

I didn't actually start talking smack about Troy until after you guys had said quite a bit of crap about my school. The first thing any person would even think is remotely smack talk was post 14 when I mentioned Scrushy building your OCS for you. In reply to all your crap about Legion Field and the crap we take from our own BOT

Its like this man....its like Alabama and Auburn they hate each other, everything about each other......No different than how TROY and UAB fans feel. It is what it is. TROY and UAB are the #3 and #4 teams in the state. (Troys always #3) We are rivals plane and simple.

In the name of all that is holy...please let this thread be banished to the smack board!

(07-01-2012 02:17 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Its like this man....its like Alabama and Auburn they hate each other, everything about each other......No different than how TROY and UAB fans feel. It is what it is. TROY and UAB are the #3 and #4 teams in the state. (Troys always #4) We are rivals plane and simple.

except UAB fans can go onto Memphis' and So Miss' forums and talk without their entire fan bases going on red alert.

and UA and AU fans can talk peaceably. I've seen it happen once or twice.

(07-01-2012 03:17 PM)mbelcher987 Wrote:  

(07-01-2012 02:17 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Its like this man....its like Alabama and Auburn they hate each other, everything about each other......No different than how TROY and UAB fans feel. It is what it is. TROY and UAB are the #3 and #4 teams in the state. (Troys always #4) We are rivals plane and simple.

except UAB fans can go onto Memphis' and So Miss' forums and talk without their entire fan bases going on red alert.

and UA and AU fans can talk peaceably. I've seen it happen once or twice.

(07-01-2012 03:17 PM)mbelcher987 Wrote:  

(07-01-2012 02:17 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Its like this man....its like Alabama and Auburn they hate each other, everything about each other......No different than how TROY and UAB fans feel. It is what it is. TROY and UAB are the #3 and #4 teams in the state. (Troys always #4) We are rivals plane and simple.

except UAB fans can go onto Memphis' and So Miss' forums and talk without their entire fan bases going on red alert.

and UA and AU fans can talk peaceably. I've seen it happen once or twice.

You can thank some of your previous fans for that, blazerunit and the likes that used to come over to gtt often and stir up trouble.

(06-26-2012 04:12 AM)mbelcher987 Wrote:  

(06-25-2012 11:49 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  The only good thing about this horrible time is that it wont be trashed and full of locals in the morning. I'll be glad to be out of there by the time the Tuskegee vs Alabama A&M crowd gets there.

where do I start?

should I laugh at your OMG black people comment or explain to you that A&M fans usually tailgate the Magic City Classic for like 3 days before and probably will for this one too.

Their fans probably will show up early and enter our game too. It'll be the only FBS game going on in the state that day. UA and AU are at away/ neutral site games that night, which might have something to do with the time slot.

We're actually discussing on Blazertalk how this exactly is going to work raising some of the same questions. We are sold season tailgate spots and are kinda hoping that our tailgating spots are different than theirs. especially how they'd hate to show up and not have the tailgate spot that they've prepaid for.

This is an old post but no it's not an OMG black people like your assuming. Because first of all both of my parents graduated from Alabama A&M and are doing quite well for themselves I have been to the classic over seven times.

I'm black and I have been robbed, stamped, and witnessed gun shots at the classic. Regardless of what race out there if it was a trailer park full of Asians, low income housing in a metro area is usually not the most safe place to be.

(07-01-2012 03:19 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  You can thank some of your previous fans for that, blazerunit and the likes that used to come over to gtt often and stir up trouble.

do I look like Blazerunit to you?

(07-01-2012 06:02 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  This is an old post but no it's not an OMG black people like your assuming. Because first of all both of my parents graduated from Alabama A&M and are doing quite well for themselves I have been to the classic over seven times.

I'm black and I have been robbed, stamped, and witnessed gun shots at the classic. Regardless of what race out there if it was a trailer park full of Asians, low income housing in a metro area is usually not the most safe place to be.

right, but you gotta realize how that sounded.

Also we've never had an issue with anyone at our games. So we don't know what its like to deal with that. But we hear it all too often because it is the metro so We try to get ahead of the Race Card issue as much as we can. Because it isn't as much of an issue as people make it out to be.

(07-01-2012 06:02 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(06-26-2012 04:12 AM)mbelcher987 Wrote:  

(06-25-2012 11:49 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  The only good thing about this horrible time is that it wont be trashed and full of locals in the morning. I'll be glad to be out of there by the time the Tuskegee vs Alabama A&M crowd gets there.

where do I start?

should I laugh at your OMG black people comment or explain to you that A&M fans usually tailgate the Magic City Classic for like 3 days before and probably will for this one too.

Their fans probably will show up early and enter our game too. It'll be the only FBS game going on in the state that day. UA and AU are at away/ neutral site games that night, which might have something to do with the time slot.

We're actually discussing on Blazertalk how this exactly is going to work raising some of the same questions. We are sold season tailgate spots and are kinda hoping that our tailgating spots are different than theirs. especially how they'd hate to show up and not have the tailgate spot that they've prepaid for.

This is an old post but no it's not an OMG black people like your assuming. Because first of all both of my parents graduated from Alabama A&M and are doing quite well for themselves I have been to the classic over seven times.

I'm black and I have been robbed, stamped, and witnessed gun shots at the classic. Regardless of what race out there if it was a trailer park full of Asians, low income housing in a metro area is usually not the most safe place to be.

(07-01-2012 07:38 AM)Smaug Wrote:  Our last two coaches are (1) statistically the worst football coach ever and (2) a guy not qualified to be a head coach, period.

And what is the common denominator between the two?

(07-01-2012 09:07 PM)Burn the Horse Wrote:  

(07-01-2012 07:38 AM)Smaug Wrote:  Our last two coaches are (1) statistically the worst football coach ever and (2) a guy not qualified to be a head coach, period.

And what is the common denominator between the two?

You mean besides that they were both hand-picked by the Tuscaloosa Country Club?

If you're thinking it's UAB, I'd counter with the fact that Watson Brown has sucked pretty much everywhere he's ever coached, and the number of head coaching gigs Callaway has had before or since.

Our record with coaches UAB people picked (Dr. Hilyer) is pretty good.

McGee is the second such coach we've ever had.

(07-01-2012 06:02 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(06-26-2012 04:12 AM)mbelcher987 Wrote:  

(06-25-2012 11:49 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  The only good thing about this horrible time is that it wont be trashed and full of locals in the morning. I'll be glad to be out of there by the time the Tuskegee vs Alabama A&M crowd gets there.

where do I start?

should I laugh at your OMG black people comment or explain to you that A&M fans usually tailgate the Magic City Classic for like 3 days before and probably will for this one too.

Their fans probably will show up early and enter our game too. It'll be the only FBS game going on in the state that day. UA and AU are at away/ neutral site games that night, which might have something to do with the time slot.

What year did you hear these "gunshots" at the Classic. I have gone to everyone since 1987 and their has never been a any shootings at the MCC. This is how rumors get started.



We're actually discussing on Blazertalk how this exactly is going to work raising some of the same questions. We are sold season tailgate spots and are kinda hoping that our tailgating spots are different than theirs. especially how they'd hate to show up and not have the tailgate spot that they've prepaid for.

This is an old post but no it's not an OMG black people like your assuming. Because first of all both of my parents graduated from Alabama A&M and are doing quite well for themselves I have been to the classic over seven times.

I'm black and I have been robbed, stamped, and witnessed gun shots at the classic. Regardless of what race out there if it was a trailer park full of Asians, low income housing in a metro area is usually not the most safe place to be.

What year were these gunshots at the Classic. I have been going since I was a kid, played in 4 and there has never been any shootings at the game. So what Classic where you at. This is how rumors get started. People take a positive event and try to attach BS to it. There has also been no problems at ANY college game at Legion Feild, not UAB, Miles, Bowl game, not one of em.

(06-25-2012 02:16 PM)TrojanNation Wrote:  What a joke. It tells you what the community thinks of your football program when an FBS game is played at 11:00 while an FCS game is that night. Pathetic. If I was McGee I would go ahead and pack up my bags and head back to Arkansas.

With all due respect, Birmingham has been after the Tuskegee/AAMU game since they renewed the rivalry in 2008. The last time the teams played in Birmingham the attendance was 57,000 and some change. These two teams played in Indianapolis in 2008the and 2009 and played before 50,000 on both occasions. With the amount of fans, and money the city will make off that game why wouldn't they make it the primetime event?

(07-01-2012 03:19 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(07-01-2012 03:17 PM)mbelcher987 Wrote:  

(07-01-2012 02:17 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Its like this man....its like Alabama and Auburn they hate each other, everything about each other......No different than how TROY and UAB fans feel. It is what it is. TROY and UAB are the #3 and #4 teams in the state. (Troys always #4) We are rivals plane and simple.

except UAB fans can go onto Memphis' and So Miss' forums and talk without their entire fan bases going on red alert.

and UA and AU fans can talk peaceably. I've seen it happen once or twice.

You can thank some of your previous fans for that, blazerunit and the likes that used to come over to gtt often and stir up trouble.

It goes back to 1996 or 97 when some Troy fans would troll the UAB message board (before rivals). It got worse after you beat missou and your coach came on birmingham radio and spent his time trashing UAB instead of promoting Troy. After that the good natured UAB to Troy smack turned ugly and playful rivalry turned to hate

(06-30-2012 11:54 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  I interned at a sports radio station a couple months ago and heard the producer say "If there was ever a list of the 120 schools in terms of dead end jobs and career suicide, UAB would be near the top, if not the top, of that list."

I didn't make any of that up, I promise. Your new boy's in for a tough ride.

Well damn, that tears it. I guess if someone from the renowned intellectual halls of the amplitude modulation sports talk radio industry said it...

(07-15-2012 10:07 AM)BamaState33 Wrote:  

(06-25-2012 02:16 PM)TrojanNation Wrote:  What a joke. It tells you what the community thinks of your football program when an FBS game is played at 11:00 while an FCS game is that night. Pathetic. If I was McGee I would go ahead and pack up my bags and head back to Arkansas.

With all due respect, Birmingham has been after the Tuskegee/AAMU game since they renewed the rivalry in 2008. The last time the teams played in Birmingham the attendance was 57,000 and some change. These two teams played in Indianapolis in 2008the and 2009 and played before 50,000 on both occasions. With the amount of fans, and money the city will make off that game why wouldn't they make it the primetime event?

This.

Having UAB play the day game is less of an insult than it is simply good business sense for the city. HBCU football is a social event that gets both in-town and out-of-town people spending dollars in Birmingham--and there's nothing wrong with that. I know this reality often ignored by some, but there are a sizable number of folks that enjoy the city and its nightlife--and don't even have a serious rooting interest in a Golden Tiger or Bulldog victory.

So go ahead Troy fans, laugh at UAB not being that kind of local draw. Or perhaps you shouldn't--because Troy isn't either.