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Quote:As reasonable as it is for UAB fans to be angry at the school president and the board of trustees, it's not a good reason to take it out on the best basketball team in the state by ignoring it. If you love UAB, if you simply like good basketball, this UAB team is worth watching.

Amen

They act like this is something new. UAB basketball has been having the same turn out for the past few years. Using anger at football is an excuse.

(02-07-2015 04:33 PM)rook360 Wrote:  They act like this is something new. UAB basketball has been having the same turn out for the past few years. Using anger at football is an excuse.

No it is worst this year. I agree that football anger is only an excuse, not the reason. I don't know what the reason is.

I think it's as simple as the team HAD been pretty darn bad the past 2.5 years, until the conference season this year began. The football issues only confounded things a bit, but our attendance has been bad for years. It sucks to say it, but it's the truth.

Of course football is the reason.
We average 15k or so football fans. 5k or so basketball fans. By definition there were more UAB football fans and a certain percentage of those fans were supporting UAB basketball only secondly to football. Those fans are now gone.
Additionally many fans see no point in supporting something the powers that be have already mandated be dismantled. The phrase "not another dime until football returns" doesn't mean "not another dime unless we beat Louisiana Tech"

(02-07-2015 05:32 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  Of course football is the reason.
We average 15k or so football fans. 5k or so basketball fans. By definition there were more UAB football fans and a certain percentage of those fans were supporting UAB basketball only secondly to football. Those fans are now gone.
Additionally many fans see no point in supporting something the powers that be have already mandated be dismantled. The phrase "not another dime until football returns" doesn't mean "not another dime unless we beat Louisiana Tech"

that explains this years averages being well below previous years, even before the football announcement was made

The writing was on the wall for Uab sports well before the announcement was made.

Birmingham is more of a football town than basketball. You don't have 15,000 fans. You have fans who like football, but are not necessarily UAB fans. There aren't as many of those in basketball.

I must have missed the announcement that basketball was being dismantled. Could you repost it.

Watts is bad enough for athletics. The chicken littles among the fans are what is hurting basketball though.

(02-07-2015 05:49 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  There aren't as many of those in basketball.

There are more than you think. Lots of non-UAB apparel in Bartow lately.

(02-07-2015 05:41 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  The writing was on the wall for Uab sports well before the announcement was made.

people say that in hind site, but i don't recall anybody saying it when bball season started

The Davis years were not as exciting as the Anderson run. That played a lot into a downward trend in not as many fans going to the games. It carried over into the Haase era. Now a lot of fans simply do not care since the football ordeal. But you can't blame the ones that have that feeling.

I said it. I didn't renew my tickets for basketball because I was waiting to see if what I had been told was true. Of course, I've been telling people that Bryant was going to shut down football since when everyone was convinced he would let us have a stadium. It was only early this fall that I learned that it was a lot more than football that was getting axed.

(02-07-2015 06:20 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 05:41 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  The writing was on the wall for Uab sports well before the announcement was made.

people say that in hind site, but i don't recall anybody saying it when bball season started

November 5th, 2014:
Former UAB football players concerned the program may be shut down
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/...rs_co.html

November 7th, 2014:
First UAB Men's Basketball Exhibition Game
http://www.uabsports.com/sports/m-baskbl...14aab.html

(02-07-2015 05:30 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  I think it's as simple as the team HAD been pretty darn bad the past 2.5 years, until the conference season this year began. The football issues only confounded things a bit, but our attendance has been bad for years. It sucks to say it, but it's the truth.

Since 2007, this program has been average. One NCAA appearance and one conference title. And our attendance has been average since 2007. And CUSA had lost all of its marquee programs. Our attendance will only going to get worst until UAB starts to make some NCAA appearances and beating some recognizable bball programs.

(02-07-2015 07:01 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 06:20 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 05:41 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  The writing was on the wall for Uab sports well before the announcement was made.

people say that in hind site, but i don't recall anybody saying it when bball season started

November 5th, 2014:
Former UAB football players concerned the program may be shut down
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/...rs_co.html

November 7th, 2014:
First UAB Men's Basketball Exhibition Game
http://www.uabsports.com/sports/m-baskbl...14aab.html

right, there was concern. if there were people saying they weren't going to bball games bc of the concern, there weren't many

there were many people not going b/c the team was awful, and lost exhibition games

(02-07-2015 06:42 PM)Southside Blazer 82 Wrote:  The Davis years were not as exciting as the Anderson run. That played a lot into a downward trend in not as many fans going to the games. It carried over into the Haase era. Now a lot of fans simply do not care since the football ordeal. But you can't blame the ones that have that feeling.

can you tell me more about the downward trend during the Davis years?

(02-07-2015 07:33 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 06:42 PM)Southside Blazer 82 Wrote:  The Davis years were not as exciting as the Anderson run. That played a lot into a downward trend in not as many fans going to the games. It carried over into the Haase era. Now a lot of fans simply do not care since the football ordeal. But you can't blame the ones that have that feeling.

can you tell me more about the downward trend during the Davis years?

I would rather forget it. Be glad you weren't there.

(02-07-2015 07:34 PM)Southside Blazer 82 Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 07:33 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 06:42 PM)Southside Blazer 82 Wrote:  The Davis years were not as exciting as the Anderson run. That played a lot into a downward trend in not as many fans going to the games. It carried over into the Haase era. Now a lot of fans simply do not care since the football ordeal. But you can't blame the ones that have that feeling.

can you tell me more about the downward trend during the Davis years?

I would rather forget it. Be glad you weren't there.

i was there...and i realize the following (from another thread)

the peak of the Davis years (in his 4th season) was a mere 67 people behind the peak of the Anderson years.
The Davis years had a higher per season average than the Anderson years.

thats why i don't understand your post

(02-07-2015 07:42 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 07:34 PM)Southside Blazer 82 Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 07:33 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(02-07-2015 06:42 PM)Southside Blazer 82 Wrote:  The Davis years were not as exciting as the Anderson run. That played a lot into a downward trend in not as many fans going to the games. It carried over into the Haase era. Now a lot of fans simply do not care since the football ordeal. But you can't blame the ones that have that feeling.

can you tell me more about the downward trend during the Davis years?

I would rather forget it. Be glad you weren't there.

i was there...and i realize the following (from another thread)

the peak of the Davis years (in his 4th season) was a mere 67 people behind the peak of the Anderson years.
The Davis years had a higher per season average than the Anderson years.

thats why i don't understand your post

Some things are better unexplained. Carry on.