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Uconn is considering either going independent in football or dropping football to FCS in order to move all other sports to the Big East to unite its basketball program with long-time rivals.

These are just blog writers, but no mention of UAB as a replacement candidate if an AAC spot becomes available. That needs to change quickly. Get the stadium done, keep investing in facilities, and have a strong football season this year. If an opening comes, hopefully Ingram can use his AAC connections from his time at Temple to our advantage.

UAB is probably still viewed as a very dysfunctional situation and not just by bloggers. Our incompetent president still has the full support of our governing board made up of another schools grads and boosters. According to voices on this board our AD is an incompetent tool of our incompetent president. The part of our athletic budget covered by the University is capped and controlled by dissenting voices in our Med School.

Throw in the dysfunctional city in which UAB is located and it adds up to being completely off the radar nationally. Some great people including Coach Clark have been instrumental in bringing football back to life but there is still a leadership vacuum at the top. That's where conference moves begin, at the presidential level. I think Watts will serve as long as he wishes and UAB will be a "proud founding member of CUSA" until he is gone.

Stadium puts us at least in a conversation that we are excluded from without it. That has to be the next step. Without it it doesn't matter who our administration is. Make this happen and then we look to other steps.

Our visionary leader turns 65 on December 18th this year.

Ravi the housekeeper has hot chocolate and warm oatmeal cookies waiting in the Park Slope townhouse.

Was hoping for the big 12 and bypass that conference.

(02-26-2018 07:39 PM)BirminghamJoseph2770 Wrote:  Was hoping for the big 12 and bypass that conference.

A meteor would have to take out Tuscaloosa during a trustee meeting for that to ever happen.

(02-26-2018 08:00 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  

(02-26-2018 07:39 PM)BirminghamJoseph2770 Wrote:  Was hoping for the big 12 and bypass that conference.

A meteor would have to take out Tuscaloosa during a trustee meeting for that to ever happen.

About five years before the B12 started looking at that.

The AAC is just a higher level of purgatory. They get water twice a year where CUSA gets water once a year. You're still dying of thirst.

(02-26-2018 10:37 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  The AAC is just a higher level of purgatory. They get water twice a year where CUSA gets water once a year. You're still dying of thirst.

They have three teams in the top 25 as we speak. Also three teams projected in NIT. AAC football champion is frequently in big money bowl games. I’ll gladly take that.

AAC is much better. I don’t think they would add us tho

(02-26-2018 10:55 PM)stc Wrote:  

(02-26-2018 10:37 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  The AAC is just a higher level of purgatory. They get water twice a year where CUSA gets water once a year. You're still dying of thirst.

They have three teams in the top 25 as we speak. Also three teams projected in NIT. AAC football champion is frequently in big money bowl games. I’ll gladly take that.

Better TV and exposure as well IMO. It’s not maybe a dream scenario but sure beats where we currently are.

I think the stadium and all of the facility and school upgrades in general continue to help put us in better position. Another year of success on the football field and a firm timeline for a stadium definitely gets us in the conversation at least.

(02-26-2018 10:55 PM)stc Wrote:  

(02-26-2018 10:37 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  The AAC is just a higher level of purgatory. They get water twice a year where CUSA gets water once a year. You're still dying of thirst.

They have three teams in the top 25 as we speak. Also three teams projected in NIT. AAC football champion is frequently in big money bowl games. I’ll gladly take that.

This year's AAC champion was the national champion. Definitely a more elite group than CUSA.

The AAC is much better than CUSA, Sun Belt & MAC. That is pretty much a no-brainier.

And oddly enough losing uconn basketball doesn’t look like it will cripple the basketball league anymore. This is just like the sun belt teams saying they wouldn’t come to CUSA. It’s the next logical step if offered.

The teams that went to the AAC did improve as a whole. Yea Memphis went down in basketball but flourished in football. They improved faster than thought. CUSA in football and basketball has improved but at a much slower rate than we thought and hoped. It is a nice step up and only a fool would not take it if offered. It’s more than a drink of water.

(02-26-2018 08:00 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  A meteor would have to take out Tuscaloosa during a trustee meeting

One can only dream...

(02-27-2018 09:13 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  The teams that went to the AAC did improve as a whole. Yea Memphis went down in basketball but flourished in football. They improved faster than thought. CUSA in football and basketball has improved but at a much slower rate than we thought and hoped. It is a nice step up and only a fool would not take it if offered. It’s more than a drink of water.

That has nothing to do with the conference, just Pastner and Tubby.

True but I wasn't getting into detail. One could argue a couple of the other programs were on the upswing regardless of conference affiliation as well.

(02-27-2018 09:13 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  The teams that went to the AAC did improve as a whole. Yea Memphis went down in basketball but flourished in football. They improved faster than thought. CUSA in football and basketball has improved but at a much slower rate than we thought and hoped. It is a nice step up and only a fool would not take it if offered. It’s more than a drink of water.

Except ECU. Wheels came off at that place.

True. I meant as a whole. Again I didn’t want to get into detail and go program by program anylasis for two conferences. I have things to do.