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(12-18-2017 03:45 PM)Pavy78 Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 01:18 PM)ICB Wrote:  First of all, I am speaking as a fan who actually showed up for the game Saturday.

1. It was boring as heck. Lame timeout theatrics, etc.

2. If it was not part of my season ticket package, I would not have purchased a $15-$35 ticket to watch an exhibition.

3. I am sick and tired of the fans being on the hook for everything. UAB is competing for entertainment dollars, this entitlement "show up anyhow because you are a fan" crap needs to stop. Bring quality games, or go on the road. Tickets prices have remained the same, and the justification is that the number of home games have also remained the same. I rather pay the same for fewer yet better quality games than more of the crap we have on our schedule. Call every AAC School... Heck call every A10, Missouri Valley... Tell me we've tried this? Just stop it with the Mississippi College, MVSU, Alabama A&M, LeMonyne-Owen College... (This is ok if we were still in the league with Louisville, Memphis, Cincy... etc, but not today) just stop it.

4. I REFUSE to believe that MTSU and other C-USA and Sunbelt schools can out schedule UAB. Or maybe somebody is just trying to pad a few wins and cash in using the Haase model.

5. If he needs help scheduling... he needs to call Kermit Davis... not the fans. What does MT have that we don't? A confident coach that knows what it takes to have a shot at an at large. Not one that is just looking to pile up wins.

6. We ONLY have 2 true road games on the non-conference schedule. Who do we think we are? Heck, Auburn is a P5 school, and they have 2. I believe if you go to VCU they might come back... or Missouri State or UNI... or ______ Our schedule is perfect for job security not filling the stands.

100% agree.

Why in the heck wasn't our band there? Or every team's band there? If they cant be there, get a local high school to play. Gardendale did great in Bartow this year.
The atmosphere was terrible Saturday, and it had nothing to do with the number of tickets sold or butts in the seats.
This event had the opportunity to emulate a tournament game, with locale and venue, but it sucked.
I'm sure Pearl called the shots for the most part, but having UAB play the 2nd game I think would have helped with attendance, as more AU fans may have stayed over to watch. We should have had at least the number we average in Bartow, but we were way off.
I was a bit surprised to see that MTSU barely brought any. But, they did have a bowl game 90 mins south.


They need to fix the season ticket holders seat location, too. If next year when we play Auburn at the BJCC the seats are in the same area behind the goals and Auburn fans get center court seats I'm gonna be mighty pissed!!!!
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(12-18-2017 03:54 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 03:45 PM)Pavy78 Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 01:18 PM)ICB Wrote:  First of all, I am speaking as a fan who actually showed up for the game Saturday.

1. It was boring as heck. Lame timeout theatrics, etc.

2. If it was not part of my season ticket package, I would not have purchased a $15-$35 ticket to watch an exhibition.

3. I am sick and tired of the fans being on the hook for everything. UAB is competing for entertainment dollars, this entitlement "show up anyhow because you are a fan" crap needs to stop. Bring quality games, or go on the road. Tickets prices have remained the same, and the justification is that the number of home games have also remained the same. I rather pay the same for fewer yet better quality games than more of the crap we have on our schedule. Call every AAC School... Heck call every A10, Missouri Valley... Tell me we've tried this? Just stop it with the Mississippi College, MVSU, Alabama A&M, LeMonyne-Owen College... (This is ok if we were still in the league with Louisville, Memphis, Cincy... etc, but not today) just stop it.

4. I REFUSE to believe that MTSU and other C-USA and Sunbelt schools can out schedule UAB. Or maybe somebody is just trying to pad a few wins and cash in using the Haase model.

5. If he needs help scheduling... he needs to call Kermit Davis... not the fans. What does MT have that we don't? A confident coach that knows what it takes to have a shot at an at large. Not one that is just looking to pile up wins.

6. We ONLY have 2 true road games on the non-conference schedule. Who do we think we are? Heck, Auburn is a P5 school, and they have 2. I believe if you go to VCU they might come back... or Missouri State or UNI... or ______ Our schedule is perfect for job security not filling the stands.

100% agree.

Why in the heck wasn't our band there? Or every team's band there? If they cant be there, get a local high school to play. Gardendale did great in Bartow this year.
The atmosphere was terrible Saturday, and it had nothing to do with the number of tickets sold or butts in the seats.
This event had the opportunity to emulate a tournament game, with locale and venue, but it sucked.
I'm sure Pearl called the shots for the most part, but having UAB play the 2nd game I think would have helped with attendance, as more AU fans may have stayed over to watch. We should have had at least the number we average in Bartow, but we were way off.
I was a bit surprised to see that MTSU barely brought any. But, they did have a bowl game 90 mins south.


They need to fix the season ticket holders seat location, too. If next year when we play Auburn at the BJCC the seats are in the same area behind the goals and Auburn fans get center court seats I'm gonna be mighty pissed!!!!

I thought the same! In Bartow I sit 5 rows up close the visitor's bench. At the BJCC I sat in the 2nd row from the top (lower level) in the corner. The court looked like it was a mile away.
When the AU fans showed up, it was obvious the prime seats were allocated to them. I'm not sure who lead this idea, but too much was given to Auburn. Maybe it had to do with the SEC Network televising it, but we were definitely 2nd fiddle in our home town. It would have been the same regardless of the opponent.
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(12-18-2017 01:17 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Just last year we did a buy game at Texas. And here s some news: if the conference goes to this stupid 20 game proposal the nonconference schedule gets worst

And schools were named that u think we should play. I asked for schools at our level that you think we should emulate.

This isn't a UAB problem. It is a G5 proplem . there are about 200- 250 schools whose fanbases think they should be playing the same 6-8 high mid major schools. Those schools don't new us. They are playing p5 schools

Those schools all had better out of conference schedules in my opinion. If our options are SWAC school number 5, or buy game number 1, hit the road. The current philosophy is not working, and I don't buy it for a second that we can't get home and homes with a top 100-150ish school.
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Whether some fans buy it or not, when every UAB coach dating back to Gene Bartow have stated that they have had trouble getting good teams to play us in a home and home situation, I tend to believe that they are telling the truth. It has only gotten worse in todays college environment.

The funny thing is a lot of what is being suggested has already been done, just conveniently forgotten about. Play on the road? We went to Texas last year. We played St. Mary's last year in a neutral game on the road. Before that, we had a home and home with Illinois State, a strong midmajor program. We had a home and home with South Florida, an AAC school and Stephen F. Austin, a program showing strength, but fell off when we played them. We went and played essentially a home game at Kansas last year. We have a home and home with Memphis and Auburn. This year, we have played Chattanooga, who won their conference and Troy, who won theirs. Who knew Memphis would be down, or Chattanooga when we played them.

Everything that is being said we need to be done, we have done. A lot of scheduling depends on success.. What MTSU has done the past two years has helped them with scheduling. ODU can schedule former conference mates who have moved on to better conferences. UAB was not able to take full advantage of their success in the NCAA tournament that one year because the football catastrophe bled over into basketball scheduling when our conference affiliation was up in the air. Right now we are a middle of the road CUSA team that other programs don't want to play.
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Those are all good steps that you mentioned, and I applaud the staff for those steps. I also like the early season tournaments - those are the type of games we need, we just play like dog crap in those tourneys for whatever reason. However, it's not enough. One buy game and 3 decent tourney games aren't enough to offset 2 d2 games and multiple absolute bottom feeder games. The bottom feeder and d2 games have to be taken off the schedule (maybe 1-2 max a year in OOC) and we have to play buy games or loosen our scheduling restrictions to improve on what we have done.

It's also on our coaching staff to get our team to actually show up for these games, which they haven't for the past several years.
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Also - no one is doubting you when you say it's more difficult to schedule at a school like uab. It's just that when literally 150 other schools on your playing field do it better than you, it's hard to believe that we can't do any better. What we're doing is broken.
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(12-18-2017 03:54 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 03:45 PM)Pavy78 Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 01:18 PM)ICB Wrote:  First of all, I am speaking as a fan who actually showed up for the game Saturday.

1. It was boring as heck. Lame timeout theatrics, etc.

2. If it was not part of my season ticket package, I would not have purchased a $15-$35 ticket to watch an exhibition.

3. I am sick and tired of the fans being on the hook for everything. UAB is competing for entertainment dollars, this entitlement "show up anyhow because you are a fan" crap needs to stop. Bring quality games, or go on the road. Tickets prices have remained the same, and the justification is that the number of home games have also remained the same. I rather pay the same for fewer yet better quality games than more of the crap we have on our schedule. Call every AAC School... Heck call every A10, Missouri Valley... Tell me we've tried this? Just stop it with the Mississippi College, MVSU, Alabama A&M, LeMonyne-Owen College... (This is ok if we were still in the league with Louisville, Memphis, Cincy... etc, but not today) just stop it.

4. I REFUSE to believe that MTSU and other C-USA and Sunbelt schools can out schedule UAB. Or maybe somebody is just trying to pad a few wins and cash in using the Haase model.

5. If he needs help scheduling... he needs to call Kermit Davis... not the fans. What does MT have that we don't? A confident coach that knows what it takes to have a shot at an at large. Not one that is just looking to pile up wins.

6. We ONLY have 2 true road games on the non-conference schedule. Who do we think we are? Heck, Auburn is a P5 school, and they have 2. I believe if you go to VCU they might come back... or Missouri State or UNI... or ______ Our schedule is perfect for job security not filling the stands.

100% agree.

Why in the heck wasn't our band there? Or every team's band there? If they cant be there, get a local high school to play. Gardendale did great in Bartow this year.
The atmosphere was terrible Saturday, and it had nothing to do with the number of tickets sold or butts in the seats.
This event had the opportunity to emulate a tournament game, with locale and venue, but it sucked.
I'm sure Pearl called the shots for the most part, but having UAB play the 2nd game I think would have helped with attendance, as more AU fans may have stayed over to watch. We should have had at least the number we average in Bartow, but we were way off.
I was a bit surprised to see that MTSU barely brought any. But, they did have a bowl game 90 mins south.


They need to fix the season ticket holders seat location, too. If next year when we play Auburn at the BJCC the seats are in the same area behind the goals and Auburn fans get center court seats I'm gonna be mighty pissed!!!!

Also agree: if feels like the belief in Doughnut Central is that we're either so blindly loyal we'll come no matter how meaningless the matchup, or too stupid to know the difference between Mississippi College and Mississippi State (that we'll put up with garbage like the Bham Jam kind of proves the latter).

Since all these other non-Pee-5 programs allegedly have trouble scheduling, play them home-and-home in-season. I never thought I'd want fewer home games, but at this point I'd trade all six of the garbage home opponents plus Troy, the ultimate trash program, for one VCU game.
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Post: #108
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A lot of times scheduling is about connections. Gene Bartow had them when he came to UAB and called in favors. Who would ever believe Ray Meyer and DePaul, a perennial #1 program at the time would agree to a home and home with a startup like UAB. Gene also used his connections to help Murry. mike Anderson had connections thru Nolan. Davis had some connections. Haase had Roy's williams helping him out.

Ehsan doesn't seem to have connections. Haase isn't established enough in his own career to help a protege. Gary Williams is retired and I haven't see any thing coming from his Maryland connections. The big schools coaches aren't as willing to help out now like Roy was with Haase.
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(12-18-2017 01:03 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  I don't have time to call the coach. This is a message board, and we can discuss it here.

Yeah it's not believable that we can't do better than we are m, scheduling wise. We literally have one of the worst OOC schedules in the country, and it's been getting worse. Whatever we are doing isn't working.

Take buy games against big time schools. Keep doing the early tournaments. Lose the high and mighty attitude and take the offers that mid tier bigger conference teams give us.

If they want the program to keep slipping into the abyss then fine. Keep doing what we're doing. I'm a lifelong diehard fan (even if I say negative things sometimes disqualifies me from being a fan by many of the lemmings here LOL) and I would not want to travel to Bham to see any of these games, esp after the way we played in the Cayman tournament.


I am so sick of this take 3-1 junk. I admit we aren't what we we were, but I will be damn if we are what some of you are saying...every team in America play small schools in every sport you can imagine.
The difference between the TEAMS that are P5 and their fans is they show up to see their team play.
I have been a fan of UAB basketball since day 1. If coach Bartow had thought like some here...he would have never left UCLA...
Fair weather fans are the worst type of fans...my employer would ask for my resignation if I had the attitude of some of you guys.
You want the big TEAMS to come, well Start with you...You come to see your team....I have said it before..My team could be playing a bad middle school team and I will be there and I want them to destroy them.
You think Duke, Kansas; Mich St etc...that their fans care if they play Miiss Valley or Miss College Or Miss state....they show up to see their teams play...that's what make big time basketball...fans showingup...so everyone stop whinning and put your butts in a seat and support your TEAM.
Go Blazers, rebounder2u
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(12-18-2017 05:12 PM)Rebounder2u Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 01:03 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  I don't have time to call the coach. This is a message board, and we can discuss it here.

Yeah it's not believable that we can't do better than we are m, scheduling wise. We literally have one of the worst OOC schedules in the country, and it's been getting worse. Whatever we are doing isn't working.

Take buy games against big time schools. Keep doing the early tournaments. Lose the high and mighty attitude and take the offers that mid tier bigger conference teams give us.

If they want the program to keep slipping into the abyss then fine. Keep doing what we're doing. I'm a lifelong diehard fan (even if I say negative things sometimes disqualifies me from being a fan by many of the lemmings here LOL) and I would not want to travel to Bham to see any of these games, esp after the way we played in the Cayman tournament.


I am so sick of this take 3-1 junk. I admit we aren't what we we're, but I will be damn of we are what some of you are saying...every team in America play small schools in every sport you can imagine.
The difference between the TEAMS that are P5 and there fans is they show up to see their team play.
I have been a fan of UAB basketball since day 1. If coach Bartow had thought like some here...he would have never left UCLA...
Fair weather fans are the worst type of fans...my employer would ask for my resignation if I had the attitude of some of you guys.
You want them the big TEAMS to come well Start with you...You come to see your team....I have said it before..My team could be playing a bad middle school and I will be there and I want them to dominate...
You think Duke, Kansas; Mich St etc...that their fans care if they play Miiss Valley or Miss College Or Miss state....they show up to see their teams play...that's what make big time basketball...fans showingup...so everyone stop whinning and put your butts in a seat and support your TEAM.
Go Blazers, rebounder2u

That logic is flawed if you want anything outside of 2,000 hard core fans to come watch us play. Bad results and an even worse schedule will not get anyone to come to the games. No one is asking Kansas to come play at bartow, that's ridiculous.
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(12-18-2017 03:06 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  In a nutshell, UAB is no different than any other college basketball when it comes to scheduling. Teams play or refuse to play teams based on their situation. Alabama won't play UAB. UAB won't play Samford. Why? Because there is more to lose by losing the game than there is in winning it. Team A can always claim to be better than team B and most fans, in their heart, lean a particular team's way. Why risk it? MTSU is the darling of the moment with a series of NCAA victories and a coach whose been around long enough to have connections. There is no shame to losing the MTSU if you are a high-major basketball team. If UAB had strung a line of NCAA bids and victories together we would probably be thought of that way and have a better schedule as well. Its all about perception. Scheduling other G5 schools seems like a no brainer, but the fear of losing those games is a definite deterrent. The conference office needs to schedule a conference vs conference series with other G5/mid-major conferences over the next few years rather than this "new concept" scheduling they're talking about. But, again, the same attitude comes into play. C-USA vs SunBelt sounds good, but if the SunBelt were to dominate the conference looks weak and heads would probably roll in the conference office. Right now conference A can claim to be better than conference B but a head-to-head preseason tourney could have very negative ramifications for the losing conference.


We could use a game against Samford
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I had heard at one time it was Samford that didn't want to play UAB.
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Mediocre years of unexciting basketball has caused a generational gap in attitude and attendence as it concerns UAB basketball. Many fans who would have attended if UAB was rolling found something better to do than attend a game - it wasn't fun. We had good teams, but died off in conference tourneys. It got exciting down the stretch when UAB won the tourney at BJCC and has tailed off since then. We didn't take advantage of that momentum into the next year. The football fiasco undoubtedly had something to do with it as it kinda drained the energy from UAB. We need to reinvigorate the populace about UAB basketball. Hell, when we get practically no coverage from hometown media, there is a problem - a perception problem the local media has some role in. The only post-BHAM JAM report I saw was about Auburn beating MTSU. The newscaster had to mention the UAB game to the sportscaster after his sportscast - he obviously didn't want to talk about it. And the problem is that UAB is not perceived as big-time basketball and our schedule reinforces this. We play teams people have never heard of or teams people know are lower-level. This brings UAB down to that level. Schedule up and beat some teams at their place.
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My question to Big Dee,

Are you going to add every negative tidbit about UAB that you find on twitter to your signature. You claim not to be a troll, but that is very troll-like
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(12-18-2017 05:43 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  Mediocre years of unexciting basketball has caused a generational gap in attitude and attendence as it concerns UAB basketball. Many fans who would have attended if UAB was rolling found something better to do than attend a game - it wasn't fun. We had good teams, but died off in conference tourneys. It got exciting down the stretch when UAB won the tourney at BJCC and has tailed off since then. We didn't take advantage of that momentum into the next year. The football fiasco undoubtedly had something to do with it as it kinda drained the energy from UAB. We need to reinvigorate the populace about UAB basketball. Hell, when we get practically no coverage from hometown media, there is a problem - a perception problem the local media has some role in. The only post-BHAM JAM report I saw was about Auburn beating MTSU. The newscaster had to mention the UAB game to the sportscaster after his sportscast - he obviously didn't want to talk about it. And the problem is that UAB is not perceived as big-time basketball and our schedule reinforces this. We play teams people have never heard of or teams people know are lower-level. This brings UAB down to that level. Schedule up and beat some teams at their place.

Add to that the fact that most people inBirmingham would not miss it if the sport of basketball disappeared completely.

The last time we played a big time basketball opponent, we didn't sell out, and the casual fans who showed up did so in North Carolina gear.
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(12-18-2017 05:16 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 05:12 PM)Rebounder2u Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 01:03 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  I don't have time to call the coach. This is a message board, and we can discuss it here.

Yeah it's not believable that we can't do better than we are m, scheduling wise. We literally have one of the worst OOC schedules in the country, and it's been getting worse. Whatever we are doing isn't working.

Take buy games against big time schools. Keep doing the early tournaments. Lose the high and mighty attitude and take the offers that mid tier bigger conference teams give us.

If they want the program to keep slipping into the abyss then fine. Keep doing what we're doing. I'm a lifelong diehard fan (even if I say negative things sometimes disqualifies me from being a fan by many of the lemmings here LOL) and I would not want to travel to Bham to see any of these games, esp after the way we played in the Cayman tournament.


I am so sick of this take 3-1 junk. I admit we aren't what we we're, but I will be damn of we are what some of you are saying...every team in America play small schools in every sport you can imagine.
The difference between the TEAMS that are P5 and there fans is they show up to see their team play.
I have been a fan of UAB basketball since day 1. If coach Bartow had thought like some here...he would have never left UCLA...
Fair weather fans are the worst type of fans...my employer would ask for my resignation if I had the attitude of some of you guys.
You want them the big TEAMS to come well Start with you...You come to see your team....I have said it before..My team could be playing a bad middle school and I will be there and I want them to dominate...
You think Duke, Kansas; Mich St etc...that their fans care if they play Miiss Valley or Miss College Or Miss state....they show up to see their teams play...that's what make big time basketball...fans showingup...so everyone stop whinning and put your butts in a seat and support your TEAM.
Go Blazers, rebounder2u

That logic is flawed if you want anything outside of 2,000 hard core fans to come watch us play. Bad results and an even worse schedule will not get anyone to come to the games. No one is asking Kansas to come play at bartow, that's ridiculous.

If it's ridiculous as you say...then it's your argument to improve the scheduling that's flawed
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(12-18-2017 04:38 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Whether some fans buy it or not, when every UAB coach dating back to Gene Bartow have stated that they have had trouble getting good teams to play us in a home and home situation, I tend to believe that they are telling the truth. It has only gotten worse in todays college environment.

The funny thing is a lot of what is being suggested has already been done, just conveniently forgotten about. Play on the road? We went to Texas last year. We played St. Mary's last year in a neutral game on the road. Before that, we had a home and home with Illinois State, a strong midmajor program. We had a home and home with South Florida, an AAC school and Stephen F. Austin, a program showing strength, but fell off when we played them. We went and played essentially a home game at Kansas last year. We have a home and home with Memphis and Auburn. This year, we have played Chattanooga, who won their conference and Troy, who won theirs. Who knew Memphis would be down, or Chattanooga when we played them.

Everything that is being said we need to be done, we have done. A lot of scheduling depends on success.. What MTSU has done the past two years has helped them with scheduling. ODU can schedule former conference mates who have moved on to better conferences. UAB was not able to take full advantage of their success in the NCAA tournament that one year because the football catastrophe bled over into basketball scheduling when our conference affiliation was up in the air. Right now we are a middle of the road CUSA team that other programs don't want to play.

I’m not asking to bring in Duke. I’m asking to work a series out with Belmont. I really feel like some people think anybody asking for an improved schedule is asking for 7 home games against p5 schools. I’m just asking for reasonable mid majors.
12-18-2017 06:22 PM
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(12-18-2017 05:12 PM)Rebounder2u Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 01:03 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  I don't have time to call the coach. This is a message board, and we can discuss it here.

Yeah it's not believable that we can't do better than we are m, scheduling wise. We literally have one of the worst OOC schedules in the country, and it's been getting worse. Whatever we are doing isn't working.

Take buy games against big time schools. Keep doing the early tournaments. Lose the high and mighty attitude and take the offers that mid tier bigger conference teams give us.

If they want the program to keep slipping into the abyss then fine. Keep doing what we're doing. I'm a lifelong diehard fan (even if I say negative things sometimes disqualifies me from being a fan by many of the lemmings here LOL) and I would not want to travel to Bham to see any of these games, esp after the way we played in the Cayman tournament.


I am so sick of this take 3-1 junk. I admit we aren't what we we were, but I will be damn if we are what some of you are saying...every team in America play small schools in every sport you can imagine.
The difference between the TEAMS that are P5 and their fans is they show up to see their team play.
I have been a fan of UAB basketball since day 1. If coach Bartow had thought like some here...he would have never left UCLA...
Fair weather fans are the worst type of fans...my employer would ask for my resignation if I had the attitude of some of you guys.
You want the big TEAMS to come, well Start with you...You come to see your team....I have said it before..My team could be playing a bad middle school team and I will be there and I want them to destroy them.
You think Duke, Kansas; Mich St etc...that their fans care if they play Miiss Valley or Miss College Or Miss state....they show up to see their teams play...that's what make big time basketball...fans showingup...so everyone stop whinning and put your butts in a seat and support your TEAM.
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(12-18-2017 06:22 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  
(12-18-2017 04:38 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Whether some fans buy it or not, when every UAB coach dating back to Gene Bartow have stated that they have had trouble getting good teams to play us in a home and home situation, I tend to believe that they are telling the truth. It has only gotten worse in todays college environment.

The funny thing is a lot of what is being suggested has already been done, just conveniently forgotten about. Play on the road? We went to Texas last year. We played St. Mary's last year in a neutral game on the road. Before that, we had a home and home with Illinois State, a strong midmajor program. We had a home and home with South Florida, an AAC school and Stephen F. Austin, a program showing strength, but fell off when we played them. We went and played essentially a home game at Kansas last year. We have a home and home with Memphis and Auburn. This year, we have played Chattanooga, who won their conference and Troy, who won theirs. Who knew Memphis would be down, or Chattanooga when we played them.

Everything that is being said we need to be done, we have done. A lot of scheduling depends on success.. What MTSU has done the past two years has helped them with scheduling. ODU can schedule former conference mates who have moved on to better conferences. UAB was not able to take full advantage of their success in the NCAA tournament that one year because the football catastrophe bled over into basketball scheduling when our conference affiliation was up in the air. Right now we are a middle of the road CUSA team that other programs don't want to play.

I’m not asking to bring in Duke. I’m asking to work a series out with Belmont. I really feel like some people think anybody asking for an improved schedule is asking for 7 home games against p5 schools. I’m just asking for reasonable mid majors.

Last time we played Belmont here, we beat them like a D2 team. If they are going to lose that bad, they might as well go to Duke.
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(12-18-2017 05:44 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  My question to Big Dee,

Are you going to add every negative tidbit about UAB that you find on twitter to your signature. You claim not to be a troll, but that is very troll-like


Nope just two so far that states how I feel bout the current situation. The Norton one doesn't matter as much to me now though seeing that we may have lost Lavender (a big and big guard/or shooter please). I feel like if we continue to let nick play big minutes with this current output then we should've played Hurtado but it's too late now. Seven man rotation that could grow to nine.
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