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Geez--Mackin is doing such a lousy job.

(12-05-2013 10:29 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  Geez--Mackin is doing such a lousy job.

Yep. It's time to fire him. The only thing he really hasn't fixed is the train wreck our football program is.

Maybe he is busy re-laying the train tracks.

(12-06-2013 08:41 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 10:29 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  Geez--Mackin is doing such a lousy job.

Yep. It's time to fire him. The only thing he really hasn't fixed is the train wreck our football program is.

I don't think Mackin should be fired, I think he should move into a fund raising role for UAB. Football drives the college athletics bus these days so in the most critical area of his responsibility, he has failed. At most FBS schools the AD would have already been gone after seven straight losing seasons (on his watch) under two different coaches.

Non-revenue sports are called minor for a reason. We're not going to get our basketball team back to playing conference games against Memphis and Cincinnati by kicking butt at women's hoops or men's soccer. That said, most of our good minor sport coaches still weren't hired by Mackin and softball got their facility by threatening to sue.

I love what Coach Haase is doing but I loved Coach Anderson's time at UAB too. That didn't stop UAB from pushing Herman Frazier out the door and me being happy about it. Frazier deserved to be gone and Mackin deserves to be re-assigned.

Coach McGee sure could use an announcement about a new football building. Will Mackin help him out with that in time for it to do some good?

Seriously people, i don't think Mackin caused all the injuries in football this year. Mackin is not the problem. With our circumstances you have to hire unproven assistants and hope it works out. We can't pay a million+ to hire a proven head coach. Football will turn around in the next couple of years, if not we find another assistant and hope he turns into a good coach. Fisher was an assistant with no experience.

(12-06-2013 09:58 AM)rebounder2u Wrote:  The WBB team beat Arizona, Coach Norton is doing a good job, we should be proud of our WBB team...see thats how its done.

WE SHOULD HAVE A RULE, YOU CHANGE THE THREAD TOPIC BY PLACING A THREAD WITHIN THE THREAD AND B--CHING AT THE SAME TIME YOU SHOULD LOSE POINTS...LOSE ENOUGH TO THE BENCH WITH YOU...

I didn't bring up the AD's performance. If it's brought up it's open for discussion.

Coach McGee sure could use an announcement about a new football building. Will Mackin help him out with that in time for it to do some good?

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(12-06-2013 10:06 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  I didn't bring up the AD's performance. If it's brought up it's open for discussion.

No it means that a thread is being derailed and you don't have to be an active participant of it.

(12-06-2013 11:29 AM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  Coach McGee sure could use an announcement about a new football building. Will Mackin help him out with that in time for it to do some good?

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Your vantage point is usually good enough for me...Can you speculate on just how soon the announcement can be expected and what amenities are going to be featured in said building?

(12-06-2013 06:04 PM)Matrix Wrote:  

(12-06-2013 11:29 AM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  Coach McGee sure could use an announcement about a new football building. Will Mackin help him out with that in time for it to do some good?

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Your vantage point is usually good enough for me...Can you speculate on just how soon the announcement can be expected and what amenities are going to be featured in said building?

Any said improvements have not been approved by the BOT, the next scheduled meeting is feb 6-7 at UAB. Football signing day is Feb 5. So I don't see how a big announcement will be made prior to signing day.

(12-06-2013 09:13 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  

(12-06-2013 08:41 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 10:29 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  Geez--Mackin is doing such a lousy job.

Yep. It's time to fire him. The only thing he really hasn't fixed is the train wreck our football program is.

I don't think Mackin should be fired, I think he should move into a fund raising role for UAB. Football drives the college athletics bus these days so in the most critical area of his responsibility, he has failed. At most FBS schools the AD would have already been gone after seven straight losing seasons (on his watch) under two different coaches.

Non-revenue sports are called minor for a reason. We're not going to get our basketball team back to playing conference games against Memphis and Cincinnati by kicking butt at women's hoops or men's soccer. That said, most of our good minor sport coaches still weren't hired by Mackin and softball got their facility by threatening to sue.

I love what Coach Haase is doing but I loved Coach Anderson's time at UAB too. That didn't stop UAB from pushing Herman Frazier out the door and me being happy about it. Frazier deserved to be gone and Mackin deserves to be re-assigned.

Coach McGee sure could use an announcement about a new football building. Will Mackin help him out with that in time for it to do some good?

Duke is 10-2 ranked 20th in the BCS and in the ACC championship game. In 2008 Cutcliffe took over a team that had not had a winning season since 1994. That is 13 straight years without a winning season. Cutcliffe continued the streak with an additional 4 sub 500 years going 1-7 in conference play in his first, third, and fourth season and Duke has a whole lot more in the way of resources than UAB does. It takes time to build a winning program out of a historic trash heap of a program and UAB is trying to do it with both hands tied behind our back.

(12-06-2013 08:16 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  

(12-06-2013 09:13 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  

(12-06-2013 08:41 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 10:29 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  Geez--Mackin is doing such a lousy job.

Yep. It's time to fire him. The only thing he really hasn't fixed is the train wreck our football program is.

I don't think Mackin should be fired, I think he should move into a fund raising role for UAB. Football drives the college athletics bus these days so in the most critical area of his responsibility, he has failed. At most FBS schools the AD would have already been gone after seven straight losing seasons (on his watch) under two different coaches.

Non-revenue sports are called minor for a reason. We're not going to get our basketball team back to playing conference games against Memphis and Cincinnati by kicking butt at women's hoops or men's soccer. That said, most of our good minor sport coaches still weren't hired by Mackin and softball got their facility by threatening to sue.

I love what Coach Haase is doing but I loved Coach Anderson's time at UAB too. That didn't stop UAB from pushing Herman Frazier out the door and me being happy about it. Frazier deserved to be gone and Mackin deserves to be re-assigned.

Coach McGee sure could use an announcement about a new football building. Will Mackin help him out with that in time for it to do some good?

Duke is 10-2 ranked 20th in the BCS and in the ACC championship game. In 2008 Cutcliffe took over a team that had not had a winning season since 1994. That is 13 straight years without a winning season. Cutcliffe continued the streak with an additional 4 sub 500 years going 1-7 in conference play in his first, third, and fourth season and Duke has a whole lot more in the way of resources than UAB does. It takes time to build a winning program out of a historic trash heap of a program and UAB is trying to do it with both hands tied behind our back.

The big difference is that Cutcliffe had been a successful head coach before he arrived at Duke. He coached six full seasons at Ole Miss and had winning ones in five of those. He won 3 out of 5 bowl games and took a 10 win team to the Cotton Bowl. Duke could hang in there because they knew he could do win.

I don't think McGee is the guy but at the same time I feel bad for him. Bull **** academic restrictions and an administration that moves at a sloth's pace.

Quote:I don't think McGee is the guy but at the same time I feel bad for him. Bull **** academic restrictions and an administration that moves at a sloth's pace.

I don't feel bad for McGee at all. He makes a very good living doing what he does.

(12-06-2013 09:21 PM)Montgomery Blazer Wrote:  

Quote:I don't think McGee is the guy but at the same time I feel bad for him. Bull **** academic restrictions and an administration that moves at a sloth's pace.

I don't feel bad for McGee at all. He makes a very good living doing what he does.

And he took the job knowing the situation.

Cutcliffe had Peyton Manning at UTK and then Eli Manning at Ole Miss. I'm sure that helped some. Which of UAB's present QBs would you compare to that duo?

He has brought Duke out of its wilderness and into the sunlight but not in just 2 years and not without competitive facilities. UAB can win more than 2 or 3 games per year with what it has now, but it is never going to consistently play above the middle of C-USA without major improvements in what it has to work with at this time.

Remember that any FBHC's pay is based on the prevailing market value for coaches, not how many games he wins. If you want UAB to hire a CHEAPER coach, there are plenty available out there every year. Now if you want to be certain of hiring a BETTER COACH, that is a different thing. None of them however, come with a "money back guarantee".

(12-06-2013 10:27 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  Cutcliffe had Peyton Manning at UTK and then Eli Manning at Ole Miss. I'm sure that helped some. Which of UAB's present QBs would you compare to that duo?

He has brought Duke out of its wilderness and into the sunlight but not in just 2 years and not without competitive facilities. UAB can win more than 2 or 3 games per year with what it has now, but it is never going to consistently play above the middle of C-USA without major improvements in what it has to work with at this time.

Remember that any FBHC's pay is based on the prevailing market value for coaches, not how many games he wins. If you want UAB to hire a CHEAPER coach, there are plenty available out there every year. Now if you want to be certain of hiring a BETTER COACH, that is a different thing. None of them however, come with a "money back guarantee".

Wish that it were true, we could've demanded a refund from Callaway immediately! Good post, man!