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(02-18-2016 01:29 AM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  http://www.underdogdynasty.com/2016/2/17...ma-in-2018

Auburn has several openings in their 2018 non-conference schedule...the ice has been broken with the 4 game basketball series...why not UAB vs Auburn in football again?

I'm good with never playing either of them. i see enough of their alumni now on construction sites doing labor work and the drive through window at fast food places.

(02-18-2016 08:33 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  I'm good with never playing either of them. i see enough of their alumni now on construction sites doing labor work and the drive through window at fast food places.

Right

Last time I checked our athletic department has phone numbers that can be called by various other programs.

This is a standard thread. We don't want to play them, but we get upset when they schedule someone else.

I'm all about us getting opportunities against Alabama and Auburn. I know we don't need them, that we'd more often than not be a speedbump, and all that, but, if we want to be for real then we eventually have to challenge them in some capacity. The money is icing, but the opportunity is a lot of cake.

Alabama is more of a special case to me, though, since it has been an annual outflow of money from the system that could have been here biannually or something instead of going into the pockets of our peers every year. Not saying that they shouldn't schedule other teams in C-USA or anything, but damn.

http://footballscoop.com/news/alabama-is...m-alabama/

On Wednesday, the Tide announced a 2018 game with Arkansas State for $1.7 million, believed to be the largest single-game payout in college football history.

(As an aside, the market for guarantee games has ascended more rapidly than San Francisco real estate prices. Just two years ago Big Ten teams shelled out an average of $600,000 per guarantee games and Florida Atlantic took home $2 million combined for road trips to Nebraska and Alabama. Arkansas State has secured a 67 percent raise from those same two schools in just four years’ time.)

It’d be one thing if Alabama exclusively shipped in opponents from the Mountain West and MAC. But instead the Tide and Hogs ignore their neighbors while funding their neighbors’ opponents; they don’t just ignore them, they actively (albeit indirectly) work against them.

There is an old folk song about a guy climbing a tree to escape a bear. He prays that God will help him but if not, "please don't help the bear". When our state's two SEC universities "prop up" our conference opponents with millions of dollars while refusing to do the same for UAB, it is an act of indirect hostility. Does anyone believe we would not hear complaints from them and their fans if UAB could pay LSU and Ole Miss millions to help their programs compete with Bama and Auburn?

No comment necessary.

(02-18-2016 01:03 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  There is an old folk song about a guy climbing a tree to escape a bear. He prays that God will help him but if not, "please don't help the bear". When our state's two SEC universities "prop up" our conference opponents with millions of dollars while refusing to do the same for UAB, it is an act of indirect hostility. Does anyone believe we would not hear complaints from them and their fans if UAB could pay LSU and Ole Miss millions to help their programs compete with Bama and Auburn?

Always gotta get a comment about bear in there don't you?

(02-18-2016 01:03 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  There is an old folk song about a guy climbing a tree to escape a bear. He prays that God will help him but if not, "please don't help the bear". When our state's two SEC universities "prop up" our conference opponents with millions of dollars while refusing to do the same for UAB, it is an act of indirect hostility. Does anyone believe we would not hear complaints from them and their fans if UAB could pay LSU and Ole Miss millions to help their programs compete with Bama and Auburn?

It runs both ways. The reason Mississippi State agreed to play a couple of games in Birmingham was a direct result of Alabama playing Southern Miss on an almost yearly basis in the 70s and 80s.