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This guy needs to find a new line of work. He sucks at math- it has been a 2 year absence, not 3. And then there's this sentence: "UAB was unloved by its fans..." What does that even mean? It is a contradiction in terms- if you are a fan, that necessarily means you love UAB. That is the definition of "fan." If you don't love UAB, then you aren't a fan.

(01-30-2017 10:17 AM)BatesUAB Wrote:  This guy needs to find a new line of work. He sucks at math- it has been a 2 year absence, not 3. And then there's this sentence: "UAB was unloved by its fans..." What does that even mean? It is a contradiction in terms- if you are a fan, that necessarily means you love UAB. That is the definition of "fan." If you don't love UAB, then you aren't a fan.

Dec 2014 to Sept 2017 is close enough to 3 years for the author to catch a break on his math. The rest is just a supposition based upon the idea that no university would shut down a FB program except for the reasons the administration offered. Now if a local writer said that, I would be more concerned since they know the UA System BOT better than a guy in VA.

(01-30-2017 12:44 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(01-30-2017 10:17 AM)BatesUAB Wrote:  This guy needs to find a new line of work. He sucks at math- it has been a 2 year absence, not 3. And then there's this sentence: "UAB was unloved by its fans..." What does that even mean? It is a contradiction in terms- if you are a fan, that necessarily means you love UAB. That is the definition of "fan." If you don't love UAB, then you aren't a fan.

Dec 2014 to Sept 2017 is close enough to 3 years for the author to catch a break on his math. The rest is just a supposition based upon the idea that no university would shut down a FB program except for the reasons the administration offered. Now if a local writer said that, I would be more concerned since they know the UA System BOT better than a guy in VA.

When talking about sports, I and you say year, it is implied you mean seasons. It has been two seasons. It has not been three years since we have had a team. We have had a team since June 2015, they just haven't played in two seasons.

Minium is a veteran sportswriter. He's been at it for 30+ years.

I think we could probably go back to some threads during the McGee/Callaway eras and justify the "unloved" position...

(01-30-2017 06:54 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  Minium is a veteran sportswriter. He's been at it for 30+ years.

Does that mean 360+ months, or 30+ seasons?

(01-30-2017 10:17 AM)BatesUAB Wrote:  And then there's this sentence: "UAB was unloved by its fans..." What does that even mean? It is a contradiction in terms- if you are a fan, that necessarily means you love UAB. That is the definition of "fan." If you don't love UAB, then you aren't a fan.

Eh, I don't know. I've been a Miami Dolphins fan for 15 years or so, and hated them for most, if not all that time, until this past season. It's possible to hate the team you root for, you've just got to be a cynical SOB to do so.

But I agree with your main point, terrible article.

(01-30-2017 06:54 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  Minium is a veteran sportswriter. He's been at it for 30+ years.

Doesn't mean he's good at it. Hell, Paul Bryant, Jr. has been a human being for 70 years and he still sucks at it.

What does it matter?

We haven't had a team play a game from November 2014 until September 2017

Call it 3 years, call it 2+ years, call it 2 seasons...who cares?

(01-30-2017 08:29 PM)Blazer4Life14 Wrote:  It's possible to hate the team you root for

Well, we know that...there are quite a few of them on this board.

(01-31-2017 11:03 AM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(01-30-2017 08:29 PM)Blazer4Life14 Wrote:  It's possible to hate the team you root for

Well, we know that...there are quite a few of them on this board.

I wouldn't go as far as saying I ever hate the team I root for, but I think what he's trying to say is it can be VERY difficult to be a fan of a team like UAB - both in football and basketball.

(01-31-2017 10:59 AM)iam4uab Wrote:  What does it matter?

We haven't had a team play a game from November 2014 until September 2017

Call it 3 years, call it 2+ years, call it 2 seasons...who cares?

+1. He's a very good, very well-respected writer whose articles have been posted on this site many times w/o all of this crap...

(01-31-2017 11:15 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(01-31-2017 11:03 AM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(01-30-2017 08:29 PM)Blazer4Life14 Wrote:  It's possible to hate the team you root for

Well, we know that...there are quite a few of them on this board.

I wouldn't go as far as saying I ever hate the team I root for

Hmm...I wonder why you'd assume I was talking about you...