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Our women won by a similar score over Alabama A&M this evening: 85-58.

(12-17-2017 07:26 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  [quote='Memphis Blazer' pid='14905669' dateline='1513554331']
It's too bad UAB Basketball can't relocate to a area that cares more about basketball. The players and coaches deserve better.

well damn, if nothing matters but 4 days in March because we blew it in nonconference play.....

The team goes on vacation and gets swept by 3 average teams. That puts a stake in the season immediately.

Haven’t had a good win at home in noncon play since UNC. Haven’t had a good nonconference win on the road since Arizona in 08.
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When you jump off its hard to get back on because the wagon is moving fast...I am staying on...

(12-17-2017 07:26 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 06:45 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  It's too bad UAB Basketball can't relocate to a area that cares more about basketball. The players and coaches deserve better.

well damn, if nothing matters but 4 days in March because we blew it in nonconference play.....

The team goes on vacation and gets swept by 3 average teams. That puts a stake in the season immediately.

Haven’t had a good win at home in noncon play since UNC. Haven’t had a good nonconference win on the road since Arizona in 08.

None of what you mention is a reason to stop supporting them and going to their games.

Won't get a walk up crowd when you play a schedule of D2's and swac teams at home, and lose road games against top competition that's on UAB.

Gotta start some in season home and home games
Play better competition in Birmingham even if it means 3-4 games in legacy arena.

Haase, anderson, kennedy and one or two teams that travel well in basketball at legacy.

Partner up with AU and UA in a classic type setting, three games one night for recruits.

Schedule the high major G5 schools : Gonzaga, Butler, Creighton, and Wichita State on the road.

(12-17-2017 09:45 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  Won't get a walk up crowd when you play a schedule of D2's and swac teams at home, and lose road games against top competition that's on UAB.

Gotta start some in season home and home games
Play better competition in Birmingham even if it means 3-4 games in legacy arena.

Haase, anderson, kennedy and one or two teams that travel well in basketball at legacy.

Partner up with AU and UA in a classic type setting, three games one night for recruits.

Schedule the high major G5 schools : Gonzaga, Butler, Creighton, and Wichita State on the road.

One thing is certain, People don’t want to pay 15-20 dollars to watch us play d2/swac teams. Would I spend 30 to 40 dollars to watch us play Cincy, Louisville, UConn Wichita State, high quality mid major, or High major programs on a weekly basis? You’re dang right. Given the soft league we are in and the fact we can’t win it does not help.

(12-17-2017 10:03 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 09:45 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  Won't get a walk up crowd when you play a schedule of D2's and swac teams at home, and lose road games against top competition that's on UAB.

Gotta start some in season home and home games
Play better competition in Birmingham even if it means 3-4 games in legacy arena.

Haase, anderson, kennedy and one or two teams that travel well in basketball at legacy.

Partner up with AU and UA in a classic type setting, three games one night for recruits.

Schedule the high major G5 schools : Gonzaga, Butler, Creighton, and Wichita State on the road.

One thing is certain, People don’t want to pay 15-20 dollars to watch us play d2/swac teams. Would I spend 30 to 40 dollars to watch us play Cincy, Louisville, UConn Wichita State, high quality mid major, or High major programs on a weekly basis? You’re dang right. Given the soft league we are in and the fact we can’t win it does not help.

Go get those teams to agree to play us then.

(12-17-2017 10:26 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 10:03 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 09:45 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  Won't get a walk up crowd when you play a schedule of D2's and swac teams at home, and lose road games against top competition that's on UAB.

Gotta start some in season home and home games
Play better competition in Birmingham even if it means 3-4 games in legacy arena.

Haase, anderson, kennedy and one or two teams that travel well in basketball at legacy.

Partner up with AU and UA in a classic type setting, three games one night for recruits.

Schedule the high major G5 schools : Gonzaga, Butler, Creighton, and Wichita State on the road.

One thing is certain, People don’t want to pay 15-20 dollars to watch us play d2/swac teams. Would I spend 30 to 40 dollars to watch us play Cincy, Louisville, UConn Wichita State, high quality mid major, or High major programs on a weekly basis? You’re dang right. Given the soft league we are in and the fact we can’t win it does not help.

Go get those teams to agree to play us then.

All I'm saying fella is agree to their terms, even if it's a game at legacy for a return. I think some on this board said it's want broke the deal with Gonzaga a few years back. They should hold the cards until we are back to playing UAB basketball. I would ask Kentucky to play us at legacy so they could recruit the mtbrook star away from uat.

Watford is Duke's to lose. I understand we haven't even tried to recruit him.
I would like SEC TEAMS to come to Birmingham, but Anderson nor Kennedy will come..
UAB was scheduled to have 4 seniors this year, who wants to play a team at their home with a good chance to get beat

(12-18-2017 12:00 AM)Big Dee Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 10:26 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 10:03 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 09:45 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  Won't get a walk up crowd when you play a schedule of D2's and swac teams at home, and lose road games against top competition that's on UAB.

Gotta start some in season home and home games
Play better competition in Birmingham even if it means 3-4 games in legacy arena.

Haase, anderson, kennedy and one or two teams that travel well in basketball at legacy.

Partner up with AU and UA in a classic type setting, three games one night for recruits.

Schedule the high major G5 schools : Gonzaga, Butler, Creighton, and Wichita State on the road.

One thing is certain, People don’t want to pay 15-20 dollars to watch us play d2/swac teams. Would I spend 30 to 40 dollars to watch us play Cincy, Louisville, UConn Wichita State, high quality mid major, or High major programs on a weekly basis? You’re dang right. Given the soft league we are in and the fact we can’t win it does not help.

Go get those teams to agree to play us then.

All I'm saying fella is agree to their terms, even if it's a game at legacy for a return. I think some on this board said it's want broke the deal with Gonzaga a few years back. They should hold the cards until we are back to playing UAB basketball. I would ask Kentucky to play us at legacy so they could recruit the mtbrook star away from uat.

Info on this board should be taken with a grain of salt.

And I think we have agreed to their terms. The terms were "we're not interested" which we agreed to.

(12-18-2017 12:16 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(12-18-2017 12:00 AM)Big Dee Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 10:26 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 10:03 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 09:45 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  Won't get a walk up crowd when you play a schedule of D2's and swac teams at home, and lose road games against top competition that's on UAB.

Gotta start some in season home and home games
Play better competition in Birmingham even if it means 3-4 games in legacy arena.

Haase, anderson, kennedy and one or two teams that travel well in basketball at legacy.

Partner up with AU and UA in a classic type setting, three games one night for recruits.

Schedule the high major G5 schools : Gonzaga, Butler, Creighton, and Wichita State on the road.

One thing is certain, People don’t want to pay 15-20 dollars to watch us play d2/swac teams. Would I spend 30 to 40 dollars to watch us play Cincy, Louisville, UConn Wichita State, high quality mid major, or High major programs on a weekly basis? You’re dang right. Given the soft league we are in and the fact we can’t win it does not help.

Go get those teams to agree to play us then.

All I'm saying fella is agree to their terms, even if it's a game at legacy for a return. I think some on this board said it's want broke the deal with Gonzaga a few years back. They should hold the cards until we are back to playing UAB basketball. I would ask Kentucky to play us at legacy so they could recruit the mtbrook star away from uat.

Info on this board should be taken with a grain of salt.

And I think we have agreed to their terms. The terms were "we're not interested" which we agreed to.

And that's why we schedule D2 games now. We agree to this 2-3 games a year

I am with Dee here. I understand we can't bring in every team we'd like to, but I have a hard time believing we can't do better than a dozen SWAC and D2 teams. Tennessee has a lot of decent basketball programs in it, we can't get a couple home and homes? The Sun Belt has some decent programs, can't get any home and homes? Nobody in the A-10, CAA, MAC, MVC will play us? I just can't believe the best we can do for a schedule is a whole bunch of SWAC teams. And if we can't do any better than that, nothing is going to improve for our program. We expect people to show up at some event at Legacy Arena because we give it some fancy label? We were playing Alabama A&M, your average person doesn't want to waste their time/money on that junk.

(12-18-2017 09:28 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  I am with Dee here. I understand we can't bring in every team we'd like to, but I have a hard time believing we can't do better than a dozen SWAC and D2 teams. Tennessee has a lot of decent basketball programs in it, we can't get a couple home and homes? The Sun Belt has some decent programs, can't get any home and homes? Nobody in the A-10, CAA, MAC, MVC will play us? I just can't believe the best we can do for a schedule is a whole bunch of SWAC teams. And if we can't do any better than that, nothing is going to improve for our program. We expect people to show up at some event at Legacy Arena because we give it some fancy label? We were playing Alabama A&M, your average person doesn't want to waste their time/money on that junk.

Couldn't agree more...even the Atlantic Sun and Ohio Valley Conference has a few teams better than what we have been playing

So why aren't we playing them. Can any of you scheduling experts offer an explanation. Better yet, show me a school at our level who is scheduling the way you think we should be scheduling. Do you really think that this schedule was their first choice? That they didn't try to get a better schedule.

And it should be noted that we just played the Sun Belt Champion. We have also played the team that won the Southern Conference championship two years ago.

MB doesn't get it. UAB is in a bad negotiating position. Our conference is trash and the program is way less than what it used to be. Accept whatever terms are given to us. Beggars can't be choosers. I'd rather us stop being high and mighty, when we have no reason to be whatsoever, than keeping playing these trash schedules. We absolutely need a schedule to beat us up and prepare us for conference play and post season. I didn't like our schedule 3 years ago at first, but looking back I damn sure think it made us a better team by the end of the season. Our bottom feeder OOC schedule is a big part of the reason we crap the bed when we play anyone of any significance, crap the bed at these neutral tourneys, and crap the bed in the post season. I'd rather go on the road and get murdered by Duke than play an extra home game against these jokes of opponents. 100% agree with blazers and Dee.

I talked to Rob and he said to please contact him and give him some assistance scheduling. His number is easily located in the staff directory. Y’all please report back and let me know how that works out for you.

Also be sure to give your Line up recommendations and rotations. If y’all don’t feel like calling his office why not call into the radio show and ask him there?

For the record I think out OOC schedule is pretty bad as well but I do know some realities and hope it improves next season.

Old Dominion, Middle Tennesse, Western Kentucky, Belmont, Georgia Southern, UTA, Delaware, Stephen F. Austin, Illinois State, Vermont, Hofstra, Milwaukee, North Dakota State, Colorado State, George Washington, Harvard, Kennesaw State, Richmond, Bucknell, North Florida

I can go on and on. Our schedule is absolute trash. We literally could go something in the ball park of 30-2 and not get an at large with the schedule we play. Not only that, we are not facing a team worth a damn outside of whoever is decent in conference. I don't claim to be a scheduling expert, but I don't believe of every team I listed there we can't get home and homes with 3 or 4 of them, or a similar team. All are much better year in and year out than pick your SWAC school, and the game benefits them as well. We worry too much about scheduling home games, and not enough about opponents.

So are we not willing or are the big time teams not willing to play us at their place for one year deals?

Why are we so affronted when a team like auburn wants to do a 3 for 1 or 3 for 1/1at BJCC?We have to let our pride go if we want a better schedule. We will be in a better negotiating position when we have a better program.

(12-18-2017 12:50 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  Old Dominion, Middle Tennesse, Western Kentucky, Belmont, Georgia Southern, UTA, Delaware, Stephen F. Austin, Illinois State, Vermont, Hofstra, Milwaukee, North Dakota State, Colorado State, George Washington, Harvard, Kennesaw State, Richmond, Bucknell, North Florida

I can go on and on. Our schedule is absolute trash. We literally could go something in the ball park of 30-2 and not get an at large with the schedule we play. Not only that, we are not facing a team worth a damn outside of whoever is decent in conference. I don't claim to be a scheduling expert, but I don't believe of every team I listed there we can't get home and homes with 3 or 4 of them, or a similar team. All are much better year in and year out than pick your SWAC school, and the game benefits them as well. We worry too much about scheduling home games, and not enough about opponents.

100% !!

Even diehard fans don't want to come to games like we have on our schedule.

We play four of those teams this year (three are in our league) and have played three more recently. I get the point.
And I think you are preaching to the choir. We all want a better schedule. Why doesn’t anyone simply ask the coach?

I’ll hang up and listen.

(12-18-2017 12:41 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  I talked to Rob and he said to please contact him and give him some assistance scheduling. His number is easily located in the staff directory. Y’all please report back and let me know how that works out for you.

Also be sure to give your Line up recommendations and rotations. If y’all don’t feel like calling his office why not call into the radio show and ask him there?

For the record I think out OOC schedule is pretty bad as well but I do know some realities and hope it improves next season.

So are you telling me we cannot get any better teams to play us at home than D2 and the bottom of D1? If that's the case, it is what it is, but we will never generate any buzz, and we will continue to have more and more embarrassing attendance numbers.

I find it hard to believe no AAC, SEC, Big Ten, Big Twelve, ACC, Big East, Pac 12 or A10 team will give us even a buy game though.