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Smh.

Pump the brakes. A hiring consulting firm picked McGee.

Now maybe the BOT wised up after Fisher and let us hire who we wanted. After paying the consulting firm to suggest him. That's a conspiracy I can get behind. Lol.

(10-06-2013 06:37 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote:  Pump the brakes. A hiring consulting firm picked McGee.

The buck stops at Mackin's desk. The consulting firm came up with choices, Mackin was very clear who was making the selection.

Mackin has tried but it hasn't been enough. Time to bring in an athletic director and a head coach with some experience. Let Brian stay on as VP of Fund Raising or something.

Hell if I was him, I'd be on the hunt for a job anyway. He'll never be able to do the things here that fans want. The board won't let him. The fanbase and fundraising has got to be damn near impossible to grow. I know he loves UAB but from what I've seen, HE can't win here. That's not an indictment of him or his skills as much as the job, time and place. If I was him, I'd probably be sick of it by now and looking to take what success I did have in the sports as resume builders for the next job. Jmo

(10-06-2013 07:04 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote:  Hell if I was him, I'd be on the hunt for a job anyway. He'll never be able to do the things here that fans want. The board won't let him. The fanbase and fundraising has got to be damn near impossible to grow. I know he loves UAB but from what I've seen, HE can't win here. That's not an indictment of him or his skills as much as the job, time and place. If I was him, I'd probably be sick of it by now and looking to take what success I did have in the sports as resume builders for the next job. Jmo

Somehow Mackin is absolved for how it got to be so bad? At a lot of schools letting Callaway stay the extra year would be enough to can the AD. Now he looks to have made a bad hire and he still bears no responsibility? No wonder we suck so bad at UAB. We expect nothing from our leaders.

Maybe BG can apply for the job. Lol. He can also pony up for the buy out too. I'm tapped out.

(10-06-2013 06:04 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  you cant fix the issues we had with our football team in two years. until we have the same academic requirements in place as everyone else we are at a competitive disadvantage.

Three years should be plenty to demonstrate you can get the job done. McGee should have us in a bowl by next season or be gone.

It's not that I expect nothing from him but to a large degree his hands are tied. We all know it. I think he has been successful in other areas beside football and fundraising because those are the areas he is allowed to be successful.
I do agree with the 3 yr on McGee thing. Half way into that and we look worse than we did before he got here if you ask me.

How can you fault Mackin for McGee not working out? Most of us were happy with the selection and rightfully so. McGee was one of the top assistant coaches in America. Things just aren't working out at this point.

It's not Mackins job to micro manage the hc of a sport but it is his job to point out when things are this bad that the hc better do something to show improvement but his clock is ticking. All of us are expected to perform the job we are getting paid for.

(10-06-2013 06:04 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  you cant fix the issues we had with our football team in two years. until we have the same academic requirements in place as everyone else we are at a competitive disadvantage.

And don't forget to mention that they play at Legion Field. That one always works.

(10-06-2013 08:15 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote:  It's not Mackins job to micro manage the hc of a sport but it is his job to point out when things are this bad that the hc better do something to show improvement but his clock is ticking. All of us are expected to perform the job we are getting paid for.

Unless you work in some sort of government type position. Hey, wait a minute......

(10-06-2013 07:20 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  

(10-06-2013 06:04 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  you cant fix the issues we had with our football team in two years. until we have the same academic requirements in place as everyone else we are at a competitive disadvantage.

Three years should be plenty to demonstrate you can get the job done. McGee should have us in a bowl by next season or be gone.

Serious question, why three years? What did UAB have in place that would make you believe 3 years is enough time to turn that program around?

Fund raising leads to facility improvements which leads to better recruiting and better team records. This process is not an "overnight" process so the AD has to consider where UAB is now on that road. So far, I have not heard of the first step being completed, but some seem to want to jump to the end of the process without waiting for the first three to happen.

If UAB was the only team striving to improve by this same process, we might get better more quickly, but we are not alone in this quest. Are we perhaps in the same position relative to our competition in this process as we are in our records?

(10-06-2013 09:59 AM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  Fund raising leads to facility improvements which leads to better recruiting and better team records. This process is not an "overnight" process so the AD has to consider where UAB is now on that road. So far, I have not heard of the first step being completed, but some seem to want to jump to the end of the process without waiting for the first three to happen.

If UAB was the only team striving to improve by this same process, we might get better more quickly, but we are not alone in this quest. Are we perhaps in the same position relative to our competition in this process as we are in our records?

The problem is McGee's teams are not getting better, they are, arguably, getting worse. It first became apparent a the end of last year when the team seemed to just give up.
Last year Memphis started as bad, probably worse, than UAB, losing to an average FCS team, but they finished with three wins, including a pummeling of UAB.
The problem is McGee; a great assistant with a fantastic reputation, that seems not to be up to the job.

(10-06-2013 09:42 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(10-06-2013 07:20 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  

(10-06-2013 06:04 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  you cant fix the issues we had with our football team in two years. until we have the same academic requirements in place as everyone else we are at a competitive disadvantage.

Three years should be plenty to demonstrate you can get the job done. McGee should have us in a bowl by next season or be gone.

Serious question, why three years? What did UAB have in place that would make you believe 3 years is enough time to turn that program around?

Three years is all we can afford to lose on a him. That would be TEN straight losing seasons. UAB needs to quit treating their coaches like they have tenure. Show you can coach football or hit the road.

You didn't answer my question.

(10-06-2013 10:30 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  You didn't answer my question.

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.

Mack is not the problem.