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Important pieces, but need to do better:

4. UAB

Breakdown: Much of the conference is still annoyed with UAB over its boneheaded decision to drop football for a couple of seasons, but the school continues to be an important member in spite of poor leadership. Following the departure of Memphis, Birmingham became arguably the most important market to C-USA. Football is back this year.

Facilities: Bartow Arena is one of the better gyms in the conference. The baseball stadium is a poor facility and Legion Field is still a rusty bucket.

Fan support: Things appeared to be turning the corner when UAB shut down its football program in 2014. We’ll see if the Blazers pick up where they left off.

at least they rank the FIU football stadium BEHIND Legion Field...

Good Lord. How bad must FIU's stadium suck?

(07-03-2017 07:07 AM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  at least they rank the FIU football stadium BEHIND Legion Field...

To be fair in making comparisons, one must account for FIU having two other FBS schools in the same metro area (FAU & Miami) as well as an NFL team (Dolphins).

(07-03-2017 08:38 AM)Smaug Wrote:  Good Lord. How bad must FIU's stadium suck?

It is not a great stadium but I'm not sure it's quite as bad as advertised. The press box is - by far - the worst part of the stadium. It is extremely inadequate. And this is written from a sportswriters perspective, so the press box is an important component.

(07-03-2017 11:52 AM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(07-03-2017 07:07 AM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  at least they rank the FIU football stadium BEHIND Legion Field...

To be fair in making comparisons, one must account for FIU having two other FBS schools in the same metro area (FAU & Miami) as well as an NFL team (Dolphins).

What do those stadiums have to do with FIU's? They aren't ranking the stadiums in Miami they are ranking stadiums in CUSA.

(07-03-2017 02:10 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(07-03-2017 11:52 AM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(07-03-2017 07:07 AM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  at least they rank the FIU football stadium BEHIND Legion Field...

To be fair in making comparisons, one must account for FIU having two other FBS schools in the same metro area (FAU & Miami) as well as an NFL team (Dolphins).

What do those stadiums have to do with FIU's? They aren't ranking the stadiums in Miami they are ranking stadiums in CUSA.

Give him a break on this one. He managed to make a post that did not talk about education spending or Alabama. It's a baby step.

(07-03-2017 02:30 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(07-03-2017 02:10 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(07-03-2017 11:52 AM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(07-03-2017 07:07 AM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  at least they rank the FIU football stadium BEHIND Legion Field...

To be fair in making comparisons, one must account for FIU having two other FBS schools in the same metro area (FAU & Miami) as well as an NFL team (Dolphins).

What do those stadiums have to do with FIU's? They aren't ranking the stadiums in Miami they are ranking stadiums in CUSA.

Give him a break on this one. He managed to make a post that did not talk about education spending or Alabama. It's a baby step.

I'm quite thankful for that but still curious about the logic there.