Settle in and get used to it. A young talented coach at a mid-major is where deep pocketed schools go cherry-picking.
When Clark gets football rolling, wait til you see the places his name pops up.
(03-25-2016 06:48 PM)Blazer_pidelta517 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:42 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:41 PM)Blazer_pidelta517 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:18 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]UAB home attendance 2015-16: 4946
Stanford home attendance 2015-16: 4393
Right, but those numbers are reflective of UAB having its winningest season ever compared to a very mediocre Stanford team that was getting ready to fire its coach...
If Stanford sees any success under Haase at all, the place will be packed out.
Well, there's that, and Stanford is a PAC 12 school and UAB a mere CUSA school.
Yep :(
As a recent graduate, this is the first coaching change I've experienced as a UAB fan...and it sucks. I guess this is a wake up call to harsh reality that we are a "second-rate institution" at least when it comes to athletics.
Wake up call is be a fan of your school not the coach.
(03-25-2016 06:48 PM)Blazer_pidelta517 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:42 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:41 PM)Blazer_pidelta517 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:18 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]UAB home attendance 2015-16: 4946
Stanford home attendance 2015-16: 4393
Right, but those numbers are reflective of UAB having its winningest season ever compared to a very mediocre Stanford team that was getting ready to fire its coach...
If Stanford sees any success under Haase at all, the place will be packed out.
Well, there's that, and Stanford is a PAC 12 school and UAB a mere CUSA school.
Yep :(
As a recent graduate, this is the first coaching change I've experienced as a UAB fan...and it sucks. I guess this is a wake up call to harsh reality that we are a "second-rate institution" at least when it comes to athletics.
Wake up call is be a fan of your school not the coach.
(03-25-2016 06:05 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 02:29 PM)demiveeman Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 02:25 PM)Blazer85 Wrote: [ -> ]If we are being honest, I doubt Haase thought he would get a high profile job in this few years at UAB.
Oh, I agree.
I just feel like you should avoid saying stuff like that at all. He put that out there, nobody else did. A lesson learned for a first-time head coach.
So to be clear, you want the next coach to say he is happy to be at UAB, and he hopes he is successful so that he can be out of here as soon as possible.
To be clear, I want the next coach to avoid speaking hyperbole like saying UAB is a "destination job", that he doesn't want us to have to have a press conference announcing a new coach for a while, and that he doesn't want to leave for a "long, long" time.
I remember thinking when I was at that press conference that he went a little over-the-top with it. I mean he really made a point, more than other introductory pressers I've seen, to say he wanted to be at UAB for the long haul.
It would be one thing to say that as a response to a question...but it's another thing to make it the focal point of your press conference to the point of saying he doesn't want to do well and then leave when a better job comes along...and then he leaves four years later, after he does well.
You can say the things he said without going into so much detail or specifics.
That's all.
I understand that the people that hired him both are gone from UAB and the atmosphere has changed. I'm happy for him and I think it is a good move for him. I'm just saying that coaches, in general, should probably avoid saying specifics like Haase did in this video.
Prediction
He wont make it in the PAC 12
Reasons
1) , UAB may end up with the recruiter for the previous UAB coaching staff
2) he wont have better players at Stanford compare to other school like it was at UAB
3) It is not a very good floor coach and cannot make adjustment
4) if he stay as head coach in california ,,it wont be with at major five after he get fired from Stanford
(03-25-2016 05:57 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote: [ -> ]Tied with mike Anderson.
Technically Anderson was longer since his teams played more games.
(03-25-2016 06:59 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote: [ -> ]Prediction
He wont make it in the PAC 12
Reasons
1) , UAB may end up with the recruiter for the previous UAB coaching staff
2) he wont have better players at Stanford compare to other school like it was at UAB
3) It is not a very good floor coach and cannot make adjustment
4) if he stay as head coach in california ,,it wont be with at major five after he get fired from Stanford
I agree with most of this the pac 12 doesn't have fau fiu utsa north Texas etc to rack up easy wins against. It will be very hard for Haase to get to 20 wins in any season.
Dawkins made the sweet 16 in 2014 Won the the nit championship last year and they let him go after going. 500 this year. If they expect Haase to do better than that in 3 years he may not be there long.
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(03-25-2016 06:58 PM)Rebounder2u Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:48 PM)Blazer_pidelta517 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:42 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:41 PM)Blazer_pidelta517 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:18 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]UAB home attendance 2015-16: 4946
Stanford home attendance 2015-16: 4393
Right, but those numbers are reflective of UAB having its winningest season ever compared to a very mediocre Stanford team that was getting ready to fire its coach...
If Stanford sees any success under Haase at all, the place will be packed out.
Well, there's that, and Stanford is a PAC 12 school and UAB a mere CUSA school.
Yep :(
As a recent graduate, this is the first coaching change I've experienced as a UAB fan...and it sucks. I guess this is a wake up call to harsh reality that we are a "second-rate institution" at least when it comes to athletics.
Wake up call is be a fan of your school not the coach.
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
No, but one will always be there (unless your idiot president kills it) and the other won't.
(03-25-2016 06:59 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote: [ -> ]Prediction
He wont make it in the PAC 12
Reasons
1) , UAB may end up with the recruiter for the previous UAB coaching staff
2) he wont have better players at Stanford compare to other school like it was at UAB
3) It is not a very good floor coach and cannot make adjustment
4) if he stay as head coach in california ,,it wont be with at major five after he get fired from Stanford
I find it strange that he is making offers to players in Alabama.
Not sure how many scholarships he has to fill next year but I would think eventually he should hit the California area.
The offer I saw was for the Cordova player for 2018.
Interesting that Haase said in one of his interviews leaving UAB that Stanford was a "destination...a TRUE destination job."
I definitely appreciated his comments about talking with Mrs. Bartow and Murray Bartow about leaving though.
What would that make the North Carolina or Kansas job?
(03-28-2016 05:04 PM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]What would that make the North Carolina or Kansas job?
A Legendary job? A Legacy job? A Grail job?
I think Stanford was pretty good for both him and the school. Stanford has been eclipsed by the other schools in the conference, but it's widely different from what he was exposed to here. The schedule will always have big games, he'll have his chances with ranked teams, and he'll have the opportunity to get buoyed by the conference if all else fails. On the other end, a clean coach with blue blood connections is coming in with notable achievements at his last stop. That said, there are some monsters in the PAC 12 and I'm not sure how he'll fare in recruiting.
I'm kind of surprised the long term talk really got to some of you guys like that. I'm not saying anyone is curling mustaches the moment they turn away from the podium or anything. It's just standard practice, a part of being grateful for the hire and showing your commitment to the school. It's part of the game.
(03-28-2016 05:13 PM)Hopeful Wrote: [ -> ]I think Stanford was pretty good for both him and the school. Stanford has been eclipsed by the other schools in the conference, but it's widely different from what he was exposed to here. The schedule will always have big games, he'll have his chances with ranked teams, and he'll have the opportunity to get buoyed by the conference if all else fails. On the other end, a clean coach with blue blood connections is coming in with notable achievements at his last stop. That said, there are some monsters in the PAC 12 and I'm not sure how he'll fare in recruiting.
I'm kind of surprised the long term talk really got to some of you guys like that. I'm not saying anyone is curling mustaches the moment they turn away from the podium or anything. It's just standard practice, a part of being grateful for the hire and showing your commitment to the school. It's part of the game.
Of course its part of it....just like butthurt fans are a part of it. :-)
It is what it is.
There are probably more people than some realize that really aren't upset by the move.
I think the talent on the court made up for a lot of Haase's shortcomings.
The talent on the court being due to Ehsan & Riley recruiting.
The record of Haase really wasn't overly impressive prior to this year & outside of a string of 4 great wins last year we would be without any big postseason moments.
I for one believe that if Ehsan is chosen as head coach he would keep Battle, possibly promote Robert Williams, & hire a proven older coach as assistant (James Green?)
This would set us up not only for the next 3 to 4 years but perhaps set us up for one of our own former players to take over 6 or so years down the road.
Regardless of how you feel about Haase as a coach...
He started a basketball arms race in Alabama.
Makes the next hire even more critical.
He certainly put the pieces in place.
You would not have seen the moves at the other 2 schools without him doing that.
He also made the next 2 to 3 years in regards to recruiting very important.
Next year's high school seniors in state may be the best class we have seen .
(03-28-2016 05:39 PM)demiveeman Wrote: [ -> ]Regardless of how you feel about Haase as a coach...
He started a basketball arms race in Alabama.
Makes the next hire even more critical.
Affirmative. And he did it by getting recruits to UAB that before had been deemed SEC recruits.
Where would this team be if Haas had signed with UaB ?
(03-25-2016 06:59 PM)demiveeman Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 06:05 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 02:29 PM)demiveeman Wrote: [ -> ] (03-25-2016 02:25 PM)Blazer85 Wrote: [ -> ]If we are being honest, I doubt Haase thought he would get a high profile job in this few years at UAB.
Oh, I agree.
I just feel like you should avoid saying stuff like that at all. He put that out there, nobody else did. A lesson learned for a first-time head coach.
So to be clear, you want the next coach to say he is happy to be at UAB, and he hopes he is successful so that he can be out of here as soon as possible.
To be clear, I want the next coach to avoid speaking hyperbole like saying UAB is a "destination job", that he doesn't want us to have to have a press conference announcing a new coach for a while, and that he doesn't want to leave for a "long, long" time.
I remember thinking when I was at that press conference that he went a little over-the-top with it. I mean he really made a point, more than other introductory pressers I've seen, to say he wanted to be at UAB for the long haul.
It would be one thing to say that as a response to a question...but it's another thing to make it the focal point of your press conference to the point of saying he doesn't want to do well and then leave when a better job comes along...and then he leaves four years later, after he does well.
You can say the things he said without going into so much detail or specifics.
That's all.
I understand that the people that hired him both are gone from UAB and the atmosphere has changed. I'm happy for him and I think it is a good move for him. I'm just saying that coaches, in general, should probably avoid saying specifics like Haase did in this video.
I can't remember now, but wasn't the local media and this message board already playing up the angle that he was just using UAB as a stepping stone, thus the hyperbole he gave at the press conference?