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No complaints today about our High School Coach?

Last year posters were saying we didn't have the talent to compete. We come back with basically the same guys and it looks 100% different. That's coaching.

Guy turned to me at the game and said he hasn't seen us look so good in 13 years. I agreed.

(08-30-2014 04:03 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  No complaints today about our High School Coach?

Last year posters were saying we didn't have the talent to compete. We come back with basically the same guys and it looks 100% different. That's coaching.

Guy turned to me at the game and said he hasn't seen us look so good in 13 years. I agreed.

Are you saying the right coach can win at UAB?

I'm happy with the win, but experience has taught me to be cautious.

Vast improvements. I didn't see the blocking in the back, holding, or false starts and the other penalties that held us back in the past years. I am very impressed with Coach Clark. One of my UAB students dates a football player on the defense. I asked her how they liked Coach Clark she said they liked him, but he was very tough on discipline. Well it showed today.

(08-30-2014 04:19 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'm happy with the win, but experience has taught me to be cautious.

+1

I wouldn't crown him until a season or two has passed, but I can't ignore the signs a guy who knows what he's doing. We don't really have a solid foundation, so I'd expect a few rough spots ahead. I do think that, he thinks, he has inherited the perfect team at the perfect time. He's kind of hinted at that without really saying the words.

Anyway, we have talent, and we will win more than two games.

(08-30-2014 04:19 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'm happy with the win, but experience has taught me to be cautious.

Bets were in after the game on how long it would take you to put a negative spin on it.The blazer faithful will enjoy this game and many to come.Its a new day mb enjoy it with us

I spoke with someone who has a relative on the team, and she emphasized the intensity of the strength and conditioning under Clark. I've heard it is worlds apart from where McGee was.

The coaching is improved in virtually every aspect. I saw good use of timeouts. Good adjustments when Troy would start to get something going. Good time/clock management. Only 1 time did we have a delay of game penalty.

I know it is just one game, but I like what I see. The team responded well after that first score. Things really could have turned south had they let that affect them. Focused is a good word for this team. You could see that they were on a mission.

(08-30-2014 04:35 PM)Blazer85 Wrote:  I spoke with someone who has a relative on the team, and she emphasized the intensity of the strength and conditioning under Clark. I've heard it is worlds apart from where McGee was.

The coaching is improved in virtually every aspect. I saw good use of timeouts. Good adjustments when Troy would start to get something going. Good time/clock management. Only 1 time did we have a delay of game penalty.

I know it is just one game, but I like what I see. The team responded well after that first score. Things really could have turned south had they let that affect them. Focused is a good word for this team. You could see that they were on a mission.

...and I believe that delay penalty was intentional to run clock before halftime.

After the first Troy drive against our defense, I said to myself that coaching would fix that. It did, and we didn't even have to wait until halftime. LOL


MB better enjoy football season, because basketball...well...

(08-30-2014 04:32 PM)DMBLAZER Wrote:  

(08-30-2014 04:19 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'm happy with the win, but experience has taught me to be cautious.

Bets were in after the game on how long it would take you to put a negative spin on it.The blazer faithful will enjoy this game and many to come.Its a new day mb enjoy it with us

MB is right here. Whether we won the game by 3 or 103, it was simply one win. We have won games before, sometimes we even win 2 or 3. There is no negative spin, simply cautious optimism. If we lose our first 3 conference games, are we going to look back and say, well at least we beat Troy by 38?

(08-30-2014 04:50 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(08-30-2014 04:32 PM)DMBLAZER Wrote:  

(08-30-2014 04:19 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'm happy with the win, but experience has taught me to be cautious.

Bets were in after the game on how long it would take you to put a negative spin on it.The blazer faithful will enjoy this game and many to come.Its a new day mb enjoy it with us

MB is right here. Whether we won the game by 3 or 103, it was simply one win. We have won games before, sometimes we even win 2 or 3. There is no negative spin, simply cautious optimism. If we lose our first 3 conference games, are we going to look back and say, well at least we beat Troy by 38?

Just curious have you read his other 100K negative comments.

(08-30-2014 04:32 PM)DMBLAZER Wrote:  

(08-30-2014 04:19 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'm happy with the win, but experience has taught me to be cautious.

Bets were in after the game on how long it would take you to put a negative spin on it.The blazer faithful will enjoy this game and many to come.Its a new day mb enjoy it with us

How is that a negative spin. Quit looking for someone to attack.

I think that MB is simply an older version of blazers9911 LOL.. They won't let you be happy about something without saying "WELLLLLL... Buttttt..."

(08-30-2014 05:11 PM)DMBLAZER Wrote:  

(08-30-2014 04:50 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(08-30-2014 04:32 PM)DMBLAZER Wrote:  

(08-30-2014 04:19 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  I'm happy with the win, but experience has taught me to be cautious.

Bets were in after the game on how long it would take you to put a negative spin on it.The blazer faithful will enjoy this game and many to come.Its a new day mb enjoy it with us

MB is right here. Whether we won the game by 3 or 103, it was simply one win. We have won games before, sometimes we even win 2 or 3. There is no negative spin, simply cautious optimism. If we lose our first 3 conference games, are we going to look back and say, well at least we beat Troy by 38?

Just curious have you read his other 100K negative comments.

I did not make a negative comment. Get over yourself.

(08-30-2014 04:03 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  Last year posters were saying we didn't have the talent to compete. We come back with basically the same guys and it looks 100% different. That's coaching.

i agree that people did say that. i agreed that we didn't have the athletes to go undefeated, but often argued that we were getting far less from the athletes we had than what we should…
i still agree that mcgee was WAY underachieving.
at the same time, i expect some rough spots to come with what is still a new system…
but I'm ecstatic about todays game

Troy was 6-6 (3 times as many wins as us, for the mathly challenged) and returned a lot of starters on a pretty potent offense. They are at least on par with the cusa teams we will play this year. Blowing them them out like this was a great sign. Unless Troy had a horrible day or they are worse than we have been the past 3-4 years, this was a great sign. Enjoy it.

We made ADJUSTMENTS!!! I wept uncontrollably. I will remain cautious but we haven't played that well in any game I remember.

(08-30-2014 05:42 PM)stc Wrote:  We made ADJUSTMENTS!!! I wept uncontrollably. I will remain cautious but we haven't played that well in any game I remember.

Careful, you will get called out if you use the "cautious" word. If you are not making your bowl plans now, some here accuse you of being negative.

This game will be huge for instate recruiting although it looks like South Alabama is the new force to be reckoned with on the recruiting tail.

If you want to pick one play that epitomized our defense today from defenses of the past 10 years it's this one:
In the third quarter we had them in a 3rd and long and showed three deep zone, with soft coverage underneath, otherwise known as the same sort of prevent D that has caused up to give up so many 10+ yard 3rd down conversions year after year. The troy receivers were actually pointing it out to the QB pre-snap and you could visibly see their QB relax, it was almost like a cartoon thought bubble appeared above his head that said "Yeah, we can pick this **** apart easy." He got the snap and 5 receivers streaked into deep routs, only for their QB to, again, visibly from the stands, tighten up as the 2 blitzers he never saw coming streaked into the backfield. He sidestepped one guy and then threw it under heavy pressure, the ball falling incomplete out of bounds a good 15 yards from his nearest receiver.