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Sick of this BS!!!

He is not going anywhere

We can't afford the buy out. He stays, but there really needs to be a meeting of the minds on Monday. This is pitiful. I'm one of the most die hard Blazers out there and I could not bring myself to venture out to Legion Field and leave my family at home. And I'm not fighting with my wife about going to watch really bad football.

He's here for 2 more years. (Didn't he sign 4 year contract?) Whatever he signed, he's here the entirety.

Whoever is responsible for the buyout should be fired.

Screw that. Let him go. How much is the buyout? We will get a fundraiser going

I got 5 on it. LOL

(11-30-2013 04:06 PM)jcduncan13 Wrote:  Screw that. Let him go. How much is the buyout? We will get a fundraiser going

if your fundraiser gets you within $5,000 if the buyout, i'll push you over the top…
but its not gonna happen

(11-30-2013 04:00 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  Whoever is responsible for the buyout should be fired.

CB nobody is responsible for anything at UAB. Victims of circumstance, all of them. Crappy BOT. Crappy facilities. Crappy fans. Crappy city. Every possible excuse that doesn't involve personal responsibility by UAB's leadership.

This is ridiculous.

If I'm a wise up-and-coming coach, I get facilities improvements in writing before signing the contract. I love UAB, but if I were an agent I would tell my client to wait before coaching here. I'm sure that behind-the-scenes McGee will have nothing nice to say about recruiting to UAB, and that will spread. People saw McGee as a good hire, and I'm a bit flummoxed by how poorly this has gone.

(11-30-2013 04:29 PM)GreenMississippi Wrote:  If I'm a wise up-and-coming coach, I get facilities improvements in writing before signing the contract. I love UAB, but if I were an agent I would tell my client to wait before coaching here. I'm sure that behind-the-scenes McGee will have nothing nice to say about recruiting to UAB, and that will spread. People saw McGee as a good hire, and I'm a bit flummoxed by how poorly this has gone.

i don't think most of us will understand the egos of coaches. i think there are multiple coaches that would say, "i could have won twice as many games with those same kids" (and i think they'd be right). winning more games leads to better recruiting.

its a tough job, no doubt about it. but 2-10 with this group of players is completely unreasonable

Facilities don't give up 40+ points per game and 500+ yards per game. If there aren't significant defensive changes in the offseason I will not be renewing my season tickets. Call me fair weather or whatever, but I'm done pissing my money away.

I will, God willing, be at the 2014 games and as a continuing Blazer Club donor. I am still not convinced that UAB can become a superior, or even adequate, program with its present facilities to support improvement. We were defeated today by a QB who committed to UAB but changed his mind and according to his own statements reported on this forum, switched due to the facilities deficit. How many others thought the same, went elsewhere, but didn't bother to give the reason? I do know we lost several early commitments we wanted badly.

When will the "proposed and planned" facilities become "built and in place" facilities? That may determine how long we must wait for a significantly better season record. We must do better than continue to send our teams into a "gun fight" armed only with a "knife".

(11-30-2013 04:32 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(11-30-2013 04:29 PM)GreenMississippi Wrote:  If I'm a wise up-and-coming coach, I get facilities improvements in writing before signing the contract. I love UAB, but if I were an agent I would tell my client to wait before coaching here. I'm sure that behind-the-scenes McGee will have nothing nice to say about recruiting to UAB, and that will spread. People saw McGee as a good hire, and I'm a bit flummoxed by how poorly this has gone.

i don't think most of us will understand the egos of coaches. i think there are multiple coaches that would say, "i could have won twice as many games with those same kids" (and i think they'd be right). winning more games leads to better recruiting.

its a tough job, no doubt about it. but 2-10 with this group of players is completely unreasonable

Not to mention unacceptable. It's bad enough to lose to a team that hasn't won a game in nearly 2 years, but to lose to them at "home" by 34 points and being outscored in the 2nd half 49-6?!!! Really????! One thing's for sure, Southern Miss didn't look at all like a winless team the cursed grounds of "Lesion" Field today...I applaud their effort today, and the fans that were on hand from their school to cheer them on, there was a pretty decent sized road crowd on their side of the stadium, and you'd have thought they'd just won Conference USA the way they were celebrating over there afterwards. One of their fans told me after the game how great it felt to have that winless burden off of them at last.

I cannot fathom the idea that McGee is going to retain Reggie Johnson & Jimmy Williams on his defensive staff. To a lot of season ticket holders, I can imagine that this is also unacceptable.

I think we may be in for some coaches to be replaced, BUT there is the problem of money to pay for even assistant coaches who have the better reputations. The AD and his staff have to find the right balance between who we want to hire and who UAB can afford. Just as hiring an assistant coach to be the FBHC involves risk, so does hiring "up & coming" assistants from the pool of position coaches. And NONE of them come with "money back guarantees".

Would UAB want to keep an offensive line coach whose line just gave up more "sacks" in the one game today than USM had in all games all season? How about a D-line coach whose pressure on the QB was almost nonexistent? The questions are almost as endless as our humiliation.

(11-30-2013 05:17 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  I will, God willing, be at the 2014 games and as a continuing Blazer Club donor. I am still not convinced that UAB can become a superior, or even adequate, program with its present facilities to support improvement. We were defeated today by a QB who committed to UAB but changed his mind and according to his own statements reported on this forum, switched due to the facilities deficit. How many others thought the same, went elsewhere, but didn't bother to give the reason? I do know we lost several early commitments we wanted badly.

When will the "proposed and planned" facilities become "built and in place" facilities? That may determine how long we must wait for a significantly better season record. We must do better than continue to send our teams into a "gun fight" armed only with a "knife".

Speaking of QBs - I didn't see Austin Brown today. Is he still on the team?

If I were Mackin, I would let McGee do what he wants for one more year. If that doesn't work, I would force him to hire a current head coach as a coordinator. Then promote the coordinator to HC after I fire him in year 4. That's the only way out of this bad situation.

(11-30-2013 06:07 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  

(11-30-2013 05:17 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  I will, God willing, be at the 2014 games and as a continuing Blazer Club donor. I am still not convinced that UAB can become a superior, or even adequate, program with its present facilities to support improvement. We were defeated today by a QB who committed to UAB but changed his mind and according to his own statements reported on this forum, switched due to the facilities deficit. How many others thought the same, went elsewhere, but didn't bother to give the reason? I do know we lost several early commitments we wanted badly.

When will the "proposed and planned" facilities become "built and in place" facilities? That may determine how long we must wait for a significantly better season record. We must do better than continue to send our teams into a "gun fight" armed only with a "knife".

Speaking of QBs - I didn't see Austin Brown today. Is he still on the team?

IIRC, there were 6-8 commitments last year, most of them were on the defensive side, that flipped for that very reason you mentioned...Facilities...When they saw what other schools had to offer in contrast with UAB, it made the majority of them feel like there was a commitment to excellence as opposed to that of excrement, they wanted the "full effect" of a college football experience, and for them, that is to include playing real home games on campus, not in some "rent-a-wreck" stadium like Legion Field, I repeat, the city of Birmingham ought to be thoroughly ashamed that this monstrosity is still standing and passed off as "the best you have to offer", that is disgusting.

Alabama State unveiled its' OCS last year, South Alabama's preparing plans for theirs, and Jacksonville State is spending nearly $50 million on expanding and upgrading their football facilities, & yet, UAB's are nowhere on the level with most local-based high schools, & to expect this program to flourish under the same primitive, substandard conditions is just plain asinine.

About Austin, there were a couple of fans screaming for him to be put in the game in the 2nd half, I looked for him on the sidelines, but couldn't/didn't see him.