This Charlotte game would be the one I would expect us to lose in a different season, under a different coach. This has 2004 Tulane written all over it... but we're not the 2004 Blazers.
The 49ers are a scrappy bunch who have kept it close in several games this season. UAB is coming off a big win at home and is now going on the road. But it just feels different. This team has an edge about them, an air of determination. They are fighters.
(10-20-2017 01:06 PM)UABslant Wrote: [ -> ]This Charlotte game would be the one I would expect us to lose in a different season, under a different coach. This has 2004 Tulane written all over it... but we're not the 2004 Blazers.
The 49ers are a scrappy bunch who have kept it close in several games this season. UAB is coming off a big win at home and is now going on the road. But it just feels different. This team has an edge about them, an air of determination. They are fighters.
Coming off a 169-yard game, Spencer Brown would get two carries if Uncle Watson was coaching.
Corey White reference FTW.
Who's coaching the D-line?
Or 2013 Southern Miss, if we're talking bad teams who haven't won in a very long time.
Until the day I pass on from this earth, I will never forget that day in Tad Gormley Stadium. It was 1,472 degrees Fahrenheit, and 147% humidity. Wayne Bolt weighed 273 long tons. D Hack threw for 1,295 yards and 17 TDs. Roddy had 850 yards and 11 TDs. We put 55 points on the board...and lost. We went to the Quarter, had 14 Hand Grenades, 23 Hurricanes, and blacked out in an attempt to forget what we saw. Maybe I exaggerated those numbers. Well... all but one of them. Looking back, with it seared in my memory, it seems so bad.
Less than a year later I was watching the news in the aftermath of Katrina. I remember seeing a shot from a helicopter, looking down at a flooded Tad Gormley Stadium. I had no sympathy for that place...
I distinctly remember that Tad Gormley only had port-a-potties, no running water, one concession stand, and the field surface equal in quality of an abandoned lot on Graymont.
Our “locker room” held about 15 people, and was extended by the use of white tarps to make walls that were excessble to the outside of the stadium. People coming into the stadium could pull the tarps back and see our players dressing.
(10-20-2017 02:44 PM)UABslant Wrote: [ -> ]Corey White reference FTW.
Watson Brown's "forgotten back" was Marculius Elliott (#28 as I recall) who had come to UAB after breaking Florida high school records set by Emmitt Smith. Brown's offense seldom let him even see the ball while using him primarily as a decoy to be faked to and then ignored.
I sat with Elliott's dad during the Wednesday night "monsoon game" and he filled me in in great detail (with considerable bitterness) on the many promises Watson had made about getting the ball to his son - promises that were never fulfilled. He was furious with Watson that night, especially since his son had refused to transfer due to loyalty to UAB.
IMHO - In Elliott, Burks and White (with Williams as a running QB), UAB had the makings of the best triple option backfield it has ever had, and Watson Brown wasted it trying to make Williams into another Hackney at QB (he regularly called about 50 pass plays every game).
I'm just happy to feel this feeling again. It's been three years since I've been this disappointed.
(10-21-2017 01:46 AM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ] (10-20-2017 02:44 PM)UABslant Wrote: [ -> ]Corey White reference FTW.
Watson Brown's "forgotten back" was Marculius Elliott (#28 as I recall) who had come to UAB after breaking Florida high school records set by Emmitt Smith. Brown's offense seldom let him even see the ball while using him primarily as a decoy to be faked to and then ignored.
I sat with Elliott's dad during the Wednesday night "monsoon game" and he filled me in in great detail (with considerable bitterness) on the many promises Watson had made about getting the ball to his son - promises that were never fulfilled. He was furious with Watson that night, especially since his son had refused to transfer due to loyalty to UAB.
IMHO - In Elliott, Burks and White (with Williams as a running QB), UAB had the makings of the best triple option backfield it has ever had, and Watson Brown wasted it trying to make Williams into another Hackney at QB (he regularly called about 50 pass plays every game).
Yep we wasted his and C. White' s talents.
I believe we are currently wasting a few talents right now.
Jinxed the hell out of this game lol.
(10-22-2017 06:13 AM)thebernreuter Wrote: [ -> ]Jinxed the hell out of this game lol.
This.
When I first saw this thread, I cringed. Dont like when we bring up any old coach outside Hilyer. Attention focused on the wrong things.
I didn't want to put it in writing, but I had a bad feeling about this game. Was the perfect set-up for a let down.
(10-22-2017 10:03 AM)hooverblazer Wrote: [ -> ]I didn't want to put it in writing, but I had a bad feeling about this game. Was the perfect set-up for a let down.
And it's cool, I know expressing yourself is frowned upon here, and the truth. Can't really talk about the team without somebody pumping sunshine, but I felt the exact same way. Just from threads on this site and what people wrote on social media.
(10-22-2017 09:50 AM)Big Dee Wrote: [ -> ] (10-22-2017 06:13 AM)thebernreuter Wrote: [ -> ]Jinxed the hell out of this game lol.
This.
When I first saw this thread, I cringed. Dont like when we bring up any old coach outside Hilyer. Attention focused on the wrong things.
You nailed it. Because the fans' attention on a message board was focused on the wrong things, the team lost. It's so clear now.
(10-22-2017 11:04 AM)BatesUAB Wrote: [ -> ] (10-22-2017 09:50 AM)Big Dee Wrote: [ -> ] (10-22-2017 06:13 AM)thebernreuter Wrote: [ -> ]Jinxed the hell out of this game lol.
This.
When I first saw this thread, I cringed. Dont like when we bring up any old coach outside Hilyer. Attention focused on the wrong things.
You nailed it. Because the fans' attention on a message board was focused on the wrong things, the team lost. It's so clear now.
Thanks but take your bad vibes elsewhere lol
