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(09-09-2014 07:57 PM)Pavy78 Wrote:  

(09-09-2014 06:41 PM)Matrix Wrote:  

(09-09-2014 06:33 PM)Blazer Engineer Wrote:  Hell has frozen over

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I'd just as soon wait for "Matt & Scott"!

Matt & Scott today gave backhanded compliments to UAB. They laughed at the yardage without the big plays (almost like big plays don't count). They basically said UAB averaged 4 yards per play without the "freakish" passing plays. Well, I'm no college head coach, but I'd take 4 yards per play all the way to the end zone.

People who are not slobbing the SEC knob refer to a team who makes a lot of freakish passing plays a "big play offense". I can see how they might choke on that idea while the aforementioned knob slides right on down.

I just wonder how many "big plays" we have left in the season. If we keep pulling off these "big plays", then it will be rather challenging to call it a fluke.

Finebaum - The guy that said on the air that he cannot see why any sane person would spend one dime on UAB football. It's a waste of money. They need to shut it down. No one goes to the games and all their attendance figures are inflated. This was while Watson was there.

A friend he is not. I would not piss down his throat if his guts were on fire.

(09-09-2014 09:11 PM)blazr Wrote:  Think what you want about Callaway. What Finebaum did to him soon after he took the UAB job was unprofessional, unforgiveable, and indecent...something only a bottom-feeding troll with no sense of shame would pull on another person. That his name can be typed on this board is disgusting. **** him.

I agree except the part about "unforgivable."

I don't like him, but I don't dislike him either. I hate listening to some of his callers, but the sports commentary is usually pretty good. Bottom line: he and all media outlets can be a great service for UAB. We don't have to listen to him, but our people need to keep the line open for interviews and publicity.

You young people are ha-larry-us!!! I used to listen to Paul and he is very good at what he do which is sports entertainment. But for serious sports journalism, Paul Finebaum is not who I am listening to although if he decided to take that route, he would be very good at it.

(09-10-2014 07:48 AM)BandGrad Wrote:  I just wonder how many "big plays" we have left in the season. If we keep pulling off these "big plays", then it will be rather challenging to call it a fluke.

If we don't have another "big play" the entire season, at least future opponents will know the threat is there. That should help our running game at least.

(09-10-2014 08:31 AM)the Dragon Wrote:  

(09-09-2014 09:11 PM)blazr Wrote:  Think what you want about Callaway. What Finebaum did to him soon after he took the UAB job was unprofessional, unforgiveable, and indecent...something only a bottom-feeding troll with no sense of shame would pull on another person. That his name can be typed on this board is disgusting. **** him.

I agree except the part about "unforgivable."

I don't like him, but I don't dislike him either. I hate listening to some of his callers, but the sports commentary is usually pretty good. Bottom line: he and all media outlets can be a great service for UAB. We don't have to listen to him, but our people need to keep the line open for interviews and publicity.

I don't mean unforgivable in the moral sense. I mean it in the professional sense. In that one instance we have a man with a relatively large audience inviting someone on his program under pretenses that turned out to be false when he proceeded to unscrupulously deconstruct the man and his family rather than discuss UAB or his job. He did this because it was live radio - so he could get away with it - and it would feed the lowest common denominator in his target audience. No one who was connected to UAB at that time should give Finebaum the slightest thought regardless of his ratings because he proved, in a particularly vile way, that he cannot be trusted to hold to even the most basic of human principles...not to mention journalistic ones.

There will come a day when no one at UAB remembers that shocking revelation of how deep the slime flows in Finebaum's veins and I could see them granting interviews or even reaching out to his program in whatever way. But so long as Mackin and others who were involved are employed by UAB, Finebaum should be persona non grata. I personally wouldn't even issue the man media credentials for ANY event.

There are others like Finebaum out there that have done this to UAB, maybe not to that level though.

Raita being one of them.

This is why I don't really care to hear about their opinion of our newly found success.

If our football team continues to improve as we expect, there are going to be a lot of bandwagon jumpers. Take their money and sell them tickets and a green t-shirt. We need the butts in seats for our long term goals to be met.

Finebaum has the smarts and the connections to be a first class college football journalist. He got where he has by running his schtick and having his collection of freak show regular callers. It's just possible that now that he's moving on a national level he'll move away from some of that nonsense over time.

I wouldn't count on it though.

I decided to look up the word bandwagon & the definition really didn't match what I thought it would be.

I think that I am talking more about the fair weather fan or media who seem to like following you when you are doing well & don't want anything to do with you when you aren't.

I don't consider a worker at Jack's who talks about the program as a fair weather fan, but one who seems to be interested now that they realize that we seem to be on the right path. The same person however didn't talk bad about the program when we were losing though.

Paul usually says enough on each side to be able to say "I told you so" no matter which way the cookie crumbles. What he does in the media has worked for him to put him where he is today. His Tammy, I Man, Phyllis, Charles from Reeltown and Jim from Tuscaloosa are all part of what ESPN bought when he was signed on. He should not however be accorded any huge credit for being a "Nostradomis" of sports than any other expert - and there are many on various daily ESPN shows. i just accept him for what he actually is, an entertainer with a sports bent.

So, anyway. I thought it was interesting. It caught my attention and thought I'd share.

If ESPN generally, and Finebaum specifically, drives the college narrative regionally, if not nationally, then what joe fan heard was "UAB's pulling it together".

I do not know how that is a bad thing.

(09-09-2014 07:57 PM)Pavy78 Wrote:  Matt & Scott today gave backhanded compliments to UAB. They laughed at the yardage without the big plays (almost like big plays don't count). They basically said UAB averaged 4 yards per play without the "freakish" passing plays.

To be honest, I was thinking along the same lines for the first day or so after the game. But then it hit me that the so-called "freakish big play" is actually part of the offense and weren't "freakish" at all, and the reason they are part of the offense is because we have the athletes. Those were designed plays that were called because we have the athletes. Without the athletes, those plays wouldn't have happened.

It doesn't bother me. He bothers me, but if he wants to say something I agree with, that's cool.

(09-10-2014 11:17 AM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote:  

(09-09-2014 07:57 PM)Pavy78 Wrote:  Matt & Scott today gave backhanded compliments to UAB. They laughed at the yardage without the big plays (almost like big plays don't count). They basically said UAB averaged 4 yards per play without the "freakish" passing plays.

To be honest, I was thinking along the same lines for the first day or so after the game. But then it hit me that the so-called "freakish big play" is actually part of the offense and weren't "freakish" at all, and the reason they are part of the offense is because we have the athletes. Those were designed plays that were called because we have the athletes. Without the athletes, those plays wouldn't have happened.

4 yards per play equals "unstoppable" doesn't it?

That moves the sticks every third down. I think that's the point of football.

(09-10-2014 11:17 AM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote:  

(09-09-2014 07:57 PM)Pavy78 Wrote:  Matt & Scott today gave backhanded compliments to UAB. They laughed at the yardage without the big plays (almost like big plays don't count). They basically said UAB averaged 4 yards per play without the "freakish" passing plays.

To be honest, I was thinking along the same lines for the first day or so after the game. But then it hit me that the so-called "freakish big play" is actually part of the offense and weren't "freakish" at all, and the reason they are part of the offense is because we have the athletes. Those were designed plays that were called because we have the athletes. Without the athletes, those plays wouldn't have happened.

If one is to eliminate "freakish plays", does one also cut out the blocked punt that set up a MSU TD? How about the pass int that aided their scoring? UAB was not the only team to benefit from such plays.

"Freakish" plays always seem to count when done TO us.

Maybe if the QB yells out Freakish play on 1 prior to getting the snapped ball it can count.

I don't think the pick 6 was freakish. Unfortunate, but not freakish. You should expect it to be picked when you lob it out of the endzone into the middle of the field instead of taking the safety. The only freakish thing about it was the catch itself, but that decision had interception written all over it.

We earned those -6 points. Though I imagine if I were a quarterback, I wouldn't like taking safeties either.