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Hopefully we will be able to say this about football in a few years.

I think some people don't get that.

An OCS makes everything better. Everything.

(05-20-2011 07:05 AM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]I think some people don't get that.

An OCS makes everything better. Everything.

+1! It has certainly made a difference in the softball program at UAB, it is still hard for me to visualize them having to stomach playing "home" games at Green Springs Park all those years. God willing, I'll be there to root them on when they host the conference tournament next year in that beautiful new facility they're calling home now.

(05-20-2011 09:06 AM)Matrix Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-20-2011 07:05 AM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]I think some people don't get that.

An OCS makes everything better. Everything.

+1! It has certainly made a difference in the softball program at UAB, it is still hard for me to visualize them having to stomach playing "home" games at Green Springs Park all those years. God willing, I'll be there to root them on when they host the conference tournament next year in that beautiful new facility they're calling home now.

Have you seen their new field? How can you be sure it exists?

(05-20-2011 09:09 AM)blazr Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-20-2011 09:06 AM)Matrix Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-20-2011 07:05 AM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]I think some people don't get that.

An OCS makes everything better. Everything.

+1! It has certainly made a difference in the softball program at UAB, it is still hard for me to visualize them having to stomach playing "home" games at Green Springs Park all those years. God willing, I'll be there to root them on when they host the conference tournament next year in that beautiful new facility they're calling home now.

Have you seen their new field? How can you be sure it exists?

Hear, hear!

I want to see its long form building permit.

I saw it!

(05-20-2011 10:17 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]I saw it!

You're just showing off as an "insider" who attended a softball game. Oh, and you're an apologist for the BOT that kept our girls playing at George Ward in the hope that someone would get shot and they could shut down UAB athletics. Sheep!

I am such a bastard.

(05-20-2011 01:49 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]I am such a bastard.

But a very distinguished b@$+ard at that !

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Have you seen their new field? How can you be sure it exists?
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Of course I have!
I went to 6 of their home games this year, only got to see most of the action at one of them because I had my daughter with me, who wanted to play with the other kids in attendance, one time we went, they had one of those inflatable bouncing things there, I knew from that point, I would have to keep a closer eye on her and missed a great deal of the game itself, but going by the crowd reaction gave me some idea of what was going on, plus whenever "Blaze" is there, she has even more fun, she loves that big green dragon.

I'm buying season tickets for next season, God willing, they have become so much more competitive and successful, & that complex is a thing of beauty.

(05-20-2011 12:02 PM)blazr Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-20-2011 10:17 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]I saw it!

You're just showing off as an "insider" who attended a softball game. Oh, and you're an apologist for the BOT that kept our girls playing at George Ward in the hope that someone would get shot and they could shut down UAB athletics. Sheep!

Shot to death? More like "bored" to death, that place has no essence anymore where the softball portion of it is concerned, it's just like Legion Field & Rickwood, obsolete and deplorable, the city invested much into the surrounding park at George Ward, giving it a pretty good makeover, but next to nothing for the ball fields, where its' mystique was first established. It's a softball wasteland now. So glad that UAB doesn't have to endure that place anymore, but for the record, I've never heard any gunfire or gun-related incident erupting from that park - ever.

Are we hosting the C-USA tourney next year?

(05-20-2011 04:40 PM)Southside Blazer 82 Wrote: [ -> ]Are we hosting the C-USA tourney next year?

We are hosting the C*USA softball tourney next year. Before next season there supposed to add grand stands to the Softball field so it can accommodate more fans for the tourney. Hopefully they will add grand stands behind the homerun wall and down the 1st base line of the baseball field to.

(05-20-2011 09:09 AM)blazr Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-20-2011 09:06 AM)Matrix Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-20-2011 07:05 AM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]I think some people don't get that.

An OCS makes everything better. Everything.

+1! It has certainly made a difference in the softball program at UAB, it is still hard for me to visualize them having to stomach playing "home" games at Green Springs Park all those years. God willing, I'll be there to root them on when they host the conference tournament next year in that beautiful new facility they're calling home now.

Have you seen their new field? How can you be sure it exists?

thats funny right there...i dont care who you are...thats funny

(05-20-2011 12:02 PM)blazr Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-20-2011 10:17 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]I saw it!

You're just showing off as an "insider" who attended a softball game. Oh, and you're an apologist for the BOT that kept our girls playing at George Ward in the hope that someone would get shot and they could shut down UAB athletics. Sheep!

Give the devil(s) their due for once. UAB tried to pull/(postpone) the new softball field from the board agenda because our fundraising was running behind. The BOTs at least the property sub-committee insisted that we leave it on and the fundraising would take care of itself (per public record). The remour is that the trustees helped including the cussed son

Darn sarcasm font...

Yea beat me to it. He was joking..... ha ha

The BOT is night and day from what it was 15 years ago.

(05-22-2011 10:11 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]Yea beat me to it. He was joking..... ha ha

The BOT is night and day from what it was 15 years ago.

Out of curiousity, in your opinion what is the difference between the BOT today compared to 15 years ago (i am assuming you are referring to black Friday). i have never bought in to many of the conspiracy theories but i didn't follow UAB in the eighties or early 90s. I was around for Black Friday but didn't know all the details involved in it. The whole Jimbo fiasco in my opinion was the fact that UAT was getting turned down left and right by candidates and they thought they may need Jimbo as a head coach. My other thought on that is the perception of UAB going out and getting their coach in a couple of weeks while the UAT coaching search was becoming a joke.

(05-23-2011 09:48 AM)82blazer Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-22-2011 10:11 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]Yea beat me to it. He was joking..... ha ha

The BOT is night and day from what it was 15 years ago.

Out of curiousity, in your opinion what is the difference between the BOT today compared to 15 years ago (i am assuming you are referring to black Friday). i have never bought in to many of the conspiracy theories but i didn't follow UAB in the eighties or early 90s. I was around for Black Friday but didn't know all the details involved in it. The whole Jimbo fiasco in my opinion was the fact that UAT was getting turned down left and right by candidates and they thought they may need Jimbo as a head coach. My other thought on that is the perception of UAB going out and getting their coach in a couple of weeks while the UAT coaching search was becoming a joke.

UAT was targeting Saban. Saban mentioned he might want Jimbo. Without that, we could have pulled off the Jimbo hire.

There were some hardcore anti-UAB folks on the BOT at the time of "Black Friday." Some of them aren't there anymore. Newer members don't share the animosity. PBJr, in particular, really pissed off the majority of the "neutral" board members with his handling of the Jimbo situation. Net result is that the few BOT members left who do harbor ill will towards UAB don't have the power they used to have. The overall attitude of the BOT towards UAB is ambivalence. That's not as ideal as having diehard UAB alums, but it's not the cesspool of UAB hatred some make it out to be.

Ultimately, it's not about money and it's really not even about UAT v. UAB. It's about power. Old school, deep south, good ole boy power. People like PBJr and Bobby Lowder can't stomach the fact that the days are gone when they could rule their Boards by fiat. Now they rule by influence (vote this way or I won't support your proposal or, more often, I won't hire your company to build my next branch) and even that is fading. The only way to confront that is to outmaneuver the people pulling the strings. Let them "maneuver" themselves into a corner. Ann Reynolds did not understand that. Carol Garrison does.