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To continue the rampant pessimism on the board of late, I ask?

Which will do more damage to UAB's football progam? Consider that the gods have decreed that UAB will win only one of the following two games.

1. A loss to Mississippi State and a win over Troy
2. A win over State and a loss to Troy.

While I believe that MS State is a worse team than Troy, I think a loss to Troy will do more damage from a PR standpoint. A second convincing win in a row will cement our claim that the two schools are not comparable. Mississippi State for all its faults is still the SEC, and Joe Blow will not react as negatively to a loss to an SEC team as one to a Sun Belt team.

That said, we better blow them both out.

Memphis Blazer Wrote:While I believe that MS State is a worse team than Troy, I think a loss to Troy will do more damage from a PR standpoint. A second convincing win in a row will cement our claim that the two schools are not comparable. Mississippi State for all its faults is still the SEC, and Joe Blow will not react as negatively to a loss to an SEC team as one to a Sun Belt team.

That said, we better blow them both out.

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We will not blow either out. We should have blown ECU out and they are a better team than MSU. I would rank Troy a little better than ECU. As long as I have been a Blazer football fan, no logic can be used to predict the outcome of any game we've ever played.

After the ULaLa 34-0 loss, I quit using logic when discussing the Blazer football team.

I think UAB will lose both.

MSU 30, UAB 17 -- State finally switches to the QB, Omar Conner, who should have been in the game all along, and they discover an offense to help out a very good defense.

Troy 22, UAB 13 -- Turnovers make the difference, like in 2003. At this point, UAB season goes boom.

Flying Mouse Wrote:At this point, UAB season goes boom.

What the hell is wrong with me that that would almost seem like a relief?

If we have the same game plan at UGA we will loose both by double digits.

You will still hear Watson say we can win C-USA and the champ will have two or three conference losses. The reality of it all the team and season will be lost. losing either would be devestating. I dare say these next two games are the most important games Watson has ever coached in his life.

Smaug Wrote:

Flying Mouse Wrote:At this point, UAB season goes boom.

What the hell is wrong with me that that would almost seem like a relief?

From what I have heard if the season goes Boom, we will have a BUNCH of new football coaches next season.

ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:

Smaug Wrote:

Flying Mouse Wrote:At this point, UAB season goes boom.

What the hell is wrong with me that that would almost seem like a relief?

From what I have heard if the season goes Boom, we will have a BUNCH of new football coaches next season.

We need a bunch of new coaches regardless. When I graduate next year I'm not going to drop money on tickets to support a coach that doesn't play to win. That doesn't mean I won't pull for my team but I sure as hell am not going to waste money either.

ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:If we have the same game plan at UGA we will loose both by double digits.

You will still hear Watson say we can win C-USA and the champ will have two or three conference losses.

And that will damage the entire conference.

We will win both of them. Troy will probably be the harder one to beat based on the current season performance.

Man...you guys got your heads pretty low on this season and it essentially has just begun.

I sure hope the team isn't thinking like that.

IT WAS #10 GEORGIA FOR PETE SAKE!!!!!!!!!!

BlazingGoat Wrote:Man...you guys got your heads pretty low on this season and it essentially has just begun.

I sure hope the team isn't thinking like that.

IT WAS #10 GEORGIA FOR PETE SAKE!!!!!!!!!!

Dude when are you going to realize that people are not predicting a bad outcome for this game or the season just because of a loss to Georgia?

UAB Football has set a pattern for dissapointment the last few years and when you have the same factors in place for this year you pretty much expect the same outcome.

As for the question that was asked, IMO losing to MSU would be worse than losing to Troy. Troy is obviously the better team of the two and it is quite conceivable that MSU may only win one game this year.

HiddenDragon Wrote:

BlazingGoat Wrote:Man...you guys got your heads pretty low on this season and it essentially has just begun.

I sure hope the team isn't thinking like that.

IT WAS #10 GEORGIA FOR PETE SAKE!!!!!!!!!!

Dude when are you going to realize that people are not predicting a bad outcome for this game or the season just because of a loss to Georgia?

UAB Football has set a pattern for dissapointment the last few years and when you have the same factors in place for this year you pretty much expect the same outcome.

As for the question that was asked, IMO losing to MSU would be worse than losing to Troy. Troy is obviously the better team of the two and it is quite conceivable that MSU may only win one game this year.

I have to disagree about the outlook. I was at the UGA game and I see some positive things that others apparently did not. There were no delay of game penalties that I can recall, only one fumble at the end of the game (didn't see that one), and no QB/center issues. It appeared to me that we were correcting the things we were doing wrong, which is something we haven't done in the past. We did not play well all around, but the defense played well aside from the first drive and late in the game, and the coaching was good on the first drive, the defenders just weren't making the tackles.

I thought the play calling on offense wasn't the best, especially in the 2nd half, but who is to say that we would have done better to throw every down? Lots of you guys have complained about the passing game, but that wasn't coaching, Hunt was looking at the defensive line every time he dropped back. I think Williams should have been out there in the 2nd half, but that doesn't mean that we would have done better.

The bottom line is that we have improved on the errors that we are making from week to week, we just need to improve the execution this week. I think we will and that we will win the next 2.

HiddenDragon Wrote:

BlazingGoat Wrote:Man...you guys got your heads pretty low on this season and it essentially has just begun.

I sure hope the team isn't thinking like that.

IT WAS #10 GEORGIA FOR PETE SAKE!!!!!!!!!!

Dude when are you going to realize that people are not predicting a bad outcome for this game or the season just because of a loss to Georgia?

UAB Football has set a pattern for dissapointment the last few years and when you have the same factors in place for this year you pretty much expect the same outcome.

As for the question that was asked, IMO losing to MSU would be worse than losing to Troy. Troy is obviously the better team of the two and it is quite conceivable that MSU may only win one game this year.

Stop callin' me dude, dude.

The negativity didn't exist this season* before the Georgia shut out.

*Well... any more than the median negativity that always exists here.

I hope that one win isn't against us. Jacksonville State will have a good shot at beating MSU. ;-)


I hope we go undefeated the rest of the way.

We should beat MSU and Troy.

I won't be surprised if we win them both, split them, or lose both.

All I can go on is what I have seen for 12 years.

What has anyone seen that makes them believe this season will be no different from the others? We continue to make the same mistakes year after year.

BlazingGoat Wrote:

HiddenDragon Wrote:

BlazingGoat Wrote:Man...you guys got your heads pretty low on this season and it essentially has just begun.

I sure hope the team isn't thinking like that.

IT WAS #10 GEORGIA FOR PETE SAKE!!!!!!!!!!

Dude when are you going to realize that people are not predicting a bad outcome for this game or the season just because of a loss to Georgia?

UAB Football has set a pattern for dissapointment the last few years and when you have the same factors in place for this year you pretty much expect the same outcome.

As for the question that was asked, IMO losing to MSU would be worse than losing to Troy. Troy is obviously the better team of the two and it is quite conceivable that MSU may only win one game this year.

Stop callin' me dude, dude.

The negativity didn't exist this season* before the Georgia shut out.

*Well... any more than the median negativity that always exists here.

Dude you're wrong. The negativity......I mean criticism started in 2004 after we blew games against Tulane and USF. BTW, didn't you get the memo? lmfao

BTW, check after the ECU game this year to see if you don't find some criticism.

Let me ask this question; why should we beat MSU and Troy. And please take off the green-n-gold glasses when responding.

BTW, I do think we will beat MSU but it is definitely not a guarantee. Troy will be much tougher to beat and I honestly think they are better than us this year.

The best predictor of what a man will do is what a man has done in the past. It is true with this team. We play the great teams good, the good teams well and the others who knows. A moral victory is a loss and loss is a loss and unfortunately our wins haven't really meant much since LSU! Go Blazers, Watson stop killing peoples cocks and serve me up some more of the green juice.

I bet Memphis fans are happy that their game finally falls during the time frame of our annual midseason swoon.

HiddenDragon Wrote:Let me ask this question; why should we beat MSU and Troy. And please take off the green-n-gold glasses when responding.

BTW, I do think we will beat MSU but it is definitely not a guarantee. Troy will be much tougher to beat and I honestly think they are better than us this year.

Ok dude, I'll bite. We will beat MSU because they didn't score a single point this season until they played Tulane, which is arguably an inferior team to UAB. If you don't agree with the last statement, ask yourself if you think Memphis would lose to Tulane, because Memphis lost to ECU and we have already beaten ECU this year (in a game that sans a couple of ill advised snaps would not have really been close). Also, Tulane on offense posted up some 32 or so points on MSU last week...so Much for MSU's defense...

Say what you will about this season for UAB but we do have a pretty solid Defense. Sure we got shut out at UGA, but we didn't alow more than a single offensive touchdown until 9 minutes left in the game and were only down 10 at the half (We actually lead OU in the third quarter before the refs stole the game).

Why will we beat Troy? Because aside from having beaten a I-AA team they have two losses. Moral victories in Atlanta and Tallahassee count for exactly squat. Furthermore we have a ton of folks back this year from the team that manhandled them last year in the infamous Movie Gallery Stadium. lmfao Do you not remember how badly we owned Troy last year? Or did you not get the memo? We beat them so bad that a single graduating class of seniors and a new class of freshmen wont make enough of a difference to change the outcome this year. I think Troy will play us closer this year, but the only reason I say that is because UAB is apparently their whole season. They literally circle the UAB date every year, and with revenge at stake they circled it twice this time.

Can we lose them both? Obviously. We can be shut out like our ULL debacle. But should we win? Of course.

Just because we have never put an entire season together doesn't mean we NEVER well.

As a fan of the program I support it and hope that each year we can get better. Does it hurt in a given year if I am proven wrong. Sure. But each year I will START biased in support of the team, in the hopes that they can get it together. This season has effectively just STARTED.

I honestly hope our team doesn't read some of the comments on this site, with "fans" like some of you, who needs enemies. They have always felt like the world is against them, because local medial makes fun of them, they play in a cavernous stadium with a modicum of support from the large city they are based in, their facilities are for crap, etc. If they get the feeling their own fans are against them then perhaps that might explain why some of their seasons have fallen apart.

I honestly wonder whether undeserved* negativity amidst what little fan base they have (us) has contributed to their downfall in past seasons.

*undeserved is here defined as criticism before they even start.

*****, whine, cry all you like (you are entitled to your opinion, however wrong it may be), but i'm saving my criticism for when it is deserved (such as at a time we actually lose a game we are supposed to win), until then, as far as I am concerned, the glass is not half full, it is ALL FULL.

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