The unofficial online home for fans of the UAB Blazers. Part of Collegiate Sports Nation (CSN).

Or are they just as bad as Bama?

Auburn played us in our first D1 football season. We also have played many times in basketball. They gave up the series when it was obvious that UAB was the better program.

AU at least plays instate teams as well as treats them fairly (meaning they have a right to exist at D1 or other level). The last time UAT played an instate team FDR was pres & it took an act of the state legislature to get them to play AU again on a regular basis. UAT treats everyone as beneath them & no one has a right to exist in their world except them.

(01-06-2014 04:55 PM)Cougar King Wrote:  Or are they just as bad as Bama?

There is only one as bad as Bama....

My personal bottom 4:

Louisville
The rest of the $EC
Al Qaeda
Our rural western sister campus.

So, yeah.

(01-06-2014 05:03 PM)Smaug Wrote:  My personal bottom 4:

Louisville
The rest of the $EC
Al Qaeda
Our rural western sister campus.

So, yeah.

What did Louisville?

Not as bad but they still have elitist fans. Who wants to hear about the state of alabama winning another championship and the superiority of the sec for another year.

Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk

UAB is very close to the vortex of evil. But I'm sure the same could be said by any program in the shadow of a major BCS program. I'm sure Eastern Michigan thinks that the University of Michigan is evil incarnate. Probably the same for any school in Texas that is remotely near Austin. Or near Ohio State, or near (sl)UTennessee, etc.

I'm sure we all have to put up with : Innundation by the local media, Recruiting horror stories, "lack of evidence and charges dropped" when super all-star player does something wrong, etc. Also the retail pandering to try and make a buck on the local fandom.

(01-06-2014 05:16 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  UAB is very close to the vortex of evil. But I'm sure the same could be said by any program in the shadow of a major BCS program. I'm sure Eastern Michigan thinks that the University of Michigan is evil incarnate. Probably the same for any school in Texas that is remotely near Austin. Or near Ohio State, or near (sl)UTennessee, etc.

I'm sure we all have to put up with : Innundation by the local media, Recruiting horror stories, "lack of evidence and charges dropped" when super all-star player does something wrong, etc. Also the retail pandering to try and make a buck on the local fandom.

Texas State is 25 minutes away from Austin. They jumped to the Sun Belt and can't break 20k for most of their games.

Louisville and UAB go way back. Their fans are obnoxious, but I guess the best story that sums up the UAB louisville relationship is this:
When CUSA was formed UAB was not a member, but a verbal agreement was made that if UAB had a D1 football program, then we would be admitted. We jumped all over that and started a football program. Well, at the time, every CUSA member had veto power over new admissions to the conference, it had to be unanimous; and after UAB announced D1 football Louisville's AD said that UAB wasn't getting in, Louisville was vetoing us. For two days during the conference meetings the other AD's tried to get Louisville to withdraw their veto, to no avail. Finally another AD pointed out that while it was true that it required unanimous consent to invite a member into CUSA, it only required a super majority to kick out a member. A motion was made to kick Louisville out, was seconded, then passed with only Louisville's AD voting against. Louisville out of the equation,the motion to admit UAB was made, seconded and passed, and before their AD could even leave the table, a motion was made to re-invite Louisville to the conference.

Just recently began to dislike Bama thanks to blazer brethren. Always hated Auburn.

(01-06-2014 05:51 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  Louisville and UAB go way back. Their fans are obnoxious, but I guess the best story that sums up the UAB louisville relationship is this:
When CUSA was formed UAB was not a member, but a verbal agreement was made that if UAB had a D1 football program, then we would be admitted. We jumped all over that and started a football program. Well, at the time, every CUSA member had veto power over new admissions to the conference, it had to be unanimous; and after UAB announced D1 football Louisville's AD said that UAB wasn't getting in, Louisville was vetoing us. For two days during the conference meetings the other AD's tried to get Louisville to withdraw their veto, to no avail. Finally another AD pointed out that while it was true that it required unanimous consent to invite a member into CUSA, it only required a super majority to kick out a member. A motion was made to kick Louisville out, was seconded, then passed with only Louisville's AD voting against. Louisville out of the equation,the motion to admit UAB was made, seconded and passed, and before their AD could even leave the table, a motion was made to re-invite Louisville to the conference.

I've never heard that story even on this board. Do you have any link or proof backing this up. I knew Louisville was against UAB being invited to CUSA, but I highly doubt that CUSA would choose UAB as a member over Louisville and take the chance of kicking them out, just so they can have UAB.

I do know that Gene Bartow tried to get UAB in the Metro in the early 80s and Crum blocked it.

Add to that the pretty 'ville coed who leaped to her feet as a then 7 year old Little Smaug and I walked past, to tell us that we sucked.

Evil is as evil does Mrs. Blue.

(01-06-2014 05:51 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  Louisville and UAB go way back. Their fans are obnoxious, but I guess the best story that sums up the UAB louisville relationship is this:
When CUSA was formed UAB was not a member, but a verbal agreement was made that if UAB had a D1 football program, then we would be admitted. We jumped all over that and started a football program. Well, at the time, every CUSA member had veto power over new admissions to the conference, it had to be unanimous; and after UAB announced D1 football Louisville's AD said that UAB wasn't getting in, Louisville was vetoing us. For two days during the conference meetings the other AD's tried to get Louisville to withdraw their veto, to no avail. Finally another AD pointed out that while it was true that it required unanimous consent to invite a member into CUSA, it only required a super majority to kick out a member. A motion was made to kick Louisville out, was seconded, then passed with only Louisville's AD voting against. Louisville out of the equation,the motion to admit UAB was made, seconded and passed, and before their AD could even leave the table, a motion was made to re-invite Louisville to the conference.

I think that was about ECU not UAB. UAB was a founding member of CUSA when most of the GMW conference merged with most of the Metro plus Houston

(01-06-2014 05:02 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(01-06-2014 04:55 PM)Cougar King Wrote:  Or are they just as bad as Bama?

There is only one as bad as Bama....

That was so wrong it was right.

I grew up selling programs at Auburn games and now live 7 miles from campus, so I root for them. My whole family went there too and we all went to the 2010 mnc game in Arizona. My parents are in Pasadena right now actually.

Then I went and married a UAT alum...

It just amazes me that so many people, including in the state of Alabama, think UAB is an abbreviation for Auburn.

I don't see them as lesser of two evils... Most Auburn fans (somewhat) support UAB. Alabama fans (for the most part) are against anything UAB tries to do. Just today at the airport, had a discussion with an AU fan while waiting for flight and he was in favor of UAB getting OCS. He also said pissed him off when Ellis discontinued the basketball series with UAB. I'll take AU over UAT any day! But tonight I am a Seminole...

UA is our friend and brother. The best team in America - Alabama - isn't even in this game, so it's hard to even watch it at all.

May the NCAA vacate this entire awful football season.