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Former head coach Watson Brown knows Bill Clark, UAB will succeed with new facility, support
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2016/...brown.html

With two years to pay attention to the details, I believe in Clark. That's something none of our other coaches, maybe besides Hilyer, were good at. It has nothing to do with anything else. Even our talent level. Clark could easily make some of Callaway's teams better than they were. No doubt.

Quote:"His teams are tough and well-prepared," Brown said. "They have the right guy, there's no doubt about that. I've told Bill I am 100 percent behind him and will do all I can to help him."

It's good to see Coach Brown back around.

I agree CB...the difference with Clark is that he's a defensive coach by trade, which we've never had before. Neil was so close to having it all come together, but in the end, our defense regularly lost 2-3 games per year under him.

(08-30-2016 08:11 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  I agree CB...the difference with Clark is that he's a defensive coach by trade, which we've never had before. Neil was so close to having it all come together, but in the end, our defense regularly lost 2-3 games per year under him.

Yes, our defense was terrible and Callaway refused to make any staff changes.

(08-30-2016 08:46 PM)blazer-J Wrote:  

(08-30-2016 08:11 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  I agree CB...the difference with Clark is that he's a defensive coach by trade, which we've never had before. Neil was so close to having it all come together, but in the end, our defense regularly lost 2-3 games per year under him.

Yes, our defense was terrible and Callaway refused to make any staff changes.

Fire Schumann!

What I see is that FBHC Clark and staff have shown an ability to recruit from JUCO programs as far away as California at a level UAB has never had before and has also recruited from high schools a superior athlete that had earlier never given UAB the time of day. His first class (2014) had 9 from Cal. JUCO (included the QB) and 4 from MS JUCO as well. They have continued this strength and I hope to see even more of it in the future classes.

If we needed 1 legged midgets I bet Clark would look very hard to find us some.

(08-31-2016 06:52 AM)the_blazerman Wrote:  If we needed 1 legged midgets I bet Clark would look very hard to find us some.

Well damn. lol

Wasn't that long ago, anything that came out of Watson's mouth was instantly considered suspect. Do we like him now?

Maybe we didn't know what we didn't know.

(08-31-2016 09:41 AM)cb4029 Wrote:  

(08-31-2016 06:52 AM)the_blazerman Wrote:  If we needed 1 legged midgets I bet Clark would look very hard to find us some.

Well damn. lol

I would not mind some two legged midgets. I knew one working in another state and he was a pretty cool fella and a heck of a fisherman.

You don't know what you don't know.

(08-31-2016 10:13 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Wasn't that long ago, anything that came out of Watson's mouth was instantly considered suspect. Do we like him now?

Blazerman & Attalla may have hit the nail on the head in posts 12 &14. Many were critical of Watson believing that it was ALL about coaching. Since then we had a FBHC McGee who assured us that we could win big with present facilities and players, and many loved his promise. Then he went 5-19 before bugging out. FBHC Clark effectively said that he wanted a list of new facilities, or 6-6 might be the best he could promise without them.

Now we are finally building the facilities that Watson never had so we are today more understanding of his plight, not to mention that to date no coach has matched his record, even with his pitiful last two seasons.

Watson's record is 136-211-1. The most losses of a college football coach in history. Facilities would not have made him a better coach. He was a head coach at six schools and had a losing record at five. The one success was his first job. He took over the conference champion and had two 7 win seasons. That's it. Cincinnati 4-6-1. Rice 4-18. Vandy 10-45. UAB 62-74. Tenn Tech 42-60.

Hilyer never had a losing season (club football des not count)

(08-31-2016 12:37 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  You don't know what you don't know.

True. What I do know is bad enough.

* Starters with a 0.00 GPA
* Underage players drinking in local nightspots
* Hangin' with the boys along the fence
* Our shameful sex scandal
* Running to Junior to save his job
* Stabbing Sully in the back
Edit: * Almost forgot the crown jewel: the repeated lie that he founded the program

Note that none of that has any bearing on what Watson did better than anyone else: lose football games.

The differences between Clark and Watson, McGee et al. are so staggering it would take hours to list them properly. Even in terms of intelligence alone.