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A win tomorrow would tie the program record for consecutive home wins.

(09-13-2018 04:24 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  Also Willie fritz is a good ball coach and I think he’s got the assistants who should be coaching college ball. I feel like our staff is too buddy buddy and there’s no accountability. There’s many guys on our staff that likely wouldn’t get picked up if we let them go, the experience is not there. Just a staff of Clark’s BFFs at the moment. There’s a lot to prove, and we probably play in the 2nd or 3rd weakest conference in the FBS. Got the oldest team in FBS, better get some results out of em or you’re gong to lose the fans and recruits.

Sorry, just being straight forward in how I feel at the moment. Whether it’s right or wrong.

I happen to agree with everyone you said.

The Tulane game was a prime example of Watson being Watson, but even had we gone 11-1 that year, we were still heading for a cliff because the 2001 BoT imposed "Recruiting Death Penalty" had left a team with a really good upper class of players that committed before Black Friday and a hollow shell of a team behind them.

So far FBHC Clark has an overall 15-12 record at UAB (9-6 since The Return). Considering what he inherited in 2014 and then the two season hiatus, I am optimistically supportive of what I see right now. UAB will be in a rebuilding mode for at least the next couple of seasons. Getting to play in the new BJCC stadium will be a big boost for the program too.

I expect ticket prices to rise then at least 50% and at least the same premium program for the best seats as UAB now charges for equivalent location seats at Bartow Arena. When you want to play on even terms with our best competitors, we have to pay the going prices to get that quality of results.

(09-14-2018 07:54 AM)legalblazer Wrote:  

(09-13-2018 08:31 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  That game will stay haunting me until we win an G5 FBS title like UCF.

I will haunt me in perpetuity. THAT was the year and that was the game that put us on the downslope to mediocrity.

UAB was ranked #25 in the BCS going into that game. Win it and we stay there - climb maybe. UAB never sniffed that sort of attention before - and did not afterwards until it was attention for the December 2014 travesty.

man, what an awful trip. went with one of my good HS friends that worked for one of the bowl games and was sent there to evaluate. watched us play zero defense in a below average high school stadium. got in a big fight with my (at the time) girlfriend...the beginning of the end for the program and that relationship (Disclaimer: one of those things ending was a great thing)

(09-14-2018 02:18 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 07:54 AM)legalblazer Wrote:  

(09-13-2018 08:31 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  That game will stay haunting me until we win an G5 FBS title like UCF.

I will haunt me in perpetuity. THAT was the year and that was the game that put us on the downslope to mediocrity.

UAB was ranked #25 in the BCS going into that game. Win it and we stay there - climb maybe. UAB never sniffed that sort of attention before - and did not afterwards until it was attention for the December 2014 travesty.

man, what an awful trip. went with one of my good HS friends that worked for one of the bowl games and was sent there to evaluate. watched us play zero defense in a below average high school stadium. got in a big fight with my (at the time) girlfriend...the beginning of the end for the program and that relationship (Disclaimer: one of those things ending was a great thing)

It was a day for fighting. That was the game where our band director got in a shouting match with our fans.

(09-14-2018 03:13 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 02:18 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 07:54 AM)legalblazer Wrote:  

(09-13-2018 08:31 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  That game will stay haunting me until we win an G5 FBS title like UCF.

I will haunt me in perpetuity. THAT was the year and that was the game that put us on the downslope to mediocrity.

UAB was ranked #25 in the BCS going into that game. Win it and we stay there - climb maybe. UAB never sniffed that sort of attention before - and did not afterwards until it was attention for the December 2014 travesty.

man, what an awful trip. went with one of my good HS friends that worked for one of the bowl games and was sent there to evaluate. watched us play zero defense in a below average high school stadium. got in a big fight with my (at the time) girlfriend...the beginning of the end for the program and that relationship (Disclaimer: one of those things ending was a great thing)

It was a day for fighting. That was the game where our band director got in a shouting match with our fans.

Ehhh.... I'd probably get in a shouting match with someone also if they grabbed one of my students standing on a podium and shook his leg. Same guy almost had over 100 band members on him when he grabbed said band director.

Make sure we tell the story both ways.

(09-16-2018 07:27 AM)BigJessT Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 03:13 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 02:18 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 07:54 AM)legalblazer Wrote:  

(09-13-2018 08:31 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  That game will stay haunting me until we win an G5 FBS title like UCF.

I will haunt me in perpetuity. THAT was the year and that was the game that put us on the downslope to mediocrity.

UAB was ranked #25 in the BCS going into that game. Win it and we stay there - climb maybe. UAB never sniffed that sort of attention before - and did not afterwards until it was attention for the December 2014 travesty.

man, what an awful trip. went with one of my good HS friends that worked for one of the bowl games and was sent there to evaluate. watched us play zero defense in a below average high school stadium. got in a big fight with my (at the time) girlfriend...the beginning of the end for the program and that relationship (Disclaimer: one of those things ending was a great thing)

It was a day for fighting. That was the game where our band director got in a shouting match with our fans.

Ehhh.... I'd probably get in a shouting match with someone also if they grabbed one of my students standing on a podium and shook his leg. Same guy almost had over 100 band members on him when he grabbed said band director.

Make sure we tell the story both ways.

I remember that. The guy, an off and on poster on this board was completely in the wrong and is a complete ass most of the time.

(09-16-2018 09:18 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(09-16-2018 07:27 AM)BigJessT Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 03:13 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 02:18 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 07:54 AM)legalblazer Wrote:  I will haunt me in perpetuity. THAT was the year and that was the game that put us on the downslope to mediocrity.

UAB was ranked #25 in the BCS going into that game. Win it and we stay there - climb maybe. UAB never sniffed that sort of attention before - and did not afterwards until it was attention for the December 2014 travesty.

man, what an awful trip. went with one of my good HS friends that worked for one of the bowl games and was sent there to evaluate. watched us play zero defense in a below average high school stadium. got in a big fight with my (at the time) girlfriend...the beginning of the end for the program and that relationship (Disclaimer: one of those things ending was a great thing)

It was a day for fighting. That was the game where our band director got in a shouting match with our fans.

Ehhh.... I'd probably get in a shouting match with someone also if they grabbed one of my students standing on a podium and shook his leg. Same guy almost had over 100 band members on him when he grabbed said band director.

Make sure we tell the story both ways.

I remember that. The guy, an off and on poster on this board was completely in the wrong and is a complete ass most of the time.

It was Cajun he is a good guy and a loyal fan. His argument was correct. The Band Director had the band playing while we were on offense. His response was wrong and he apologized. I cannot believe I'm taking up for Cajun.

Yeah, I’m sure a judge would accept “band playing while on offense” as an acceptable defense to assault.

I’ve also seen him attack a fan at a basketball tournament who was trying to score some discounted tickets from fans of a team that had just lost.


“Good guys” don’t lose control like that on frequent occasions.

(09-14-2018 10:44 AM)bftb Wrote:  

(09-13-2018 04:24 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  Also Willie fritz is a good ball coach and I think he’s got the assistants who should be coaching college ball. I feel like our staff is too buddy buddy and there’s no accountability. There’s many guys on our staff that likely wouldn’t get picked up if we let them go, the experience is not there. Just a staff of Clark’s BFFs at the moment. There’s a lot to prove, and we probably play in the 2nd or 3rd weakest conference in the FBS. Got the oldest team in FBS, better get some results out of em or you’re gong to lose the fans and recruits.

Sorry, just being straight forward in how I feel at the moment. Whether it’s right or wrong.

I happen to agree with everyone you said.

+1

(09-13-2018 09:06 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  

(09-13-2018 06:07 PM)jcduncan13 Wrote:  

(09-13-2018 04:12 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  If it’s the 8-5 bowl team they’re worried about, watch the bowl game, last weeks game, game at Charlotte and you’d never suspect we’d won 8 games last season. if there is no atmosphere, then we are going to have a rough day. Fans gotta be involved on defense from the start. Given a noon start time and the uncertainty of which way the hurricane is going to go, I’d imagine the crowd won’t be all that great. I’ve been wrong on the crowd already this season, but that performance in Conway did us no favors.

As far as Tulane goes, they got our spot in the aac. Them, ECU, and Tulsa had no business getting the invite. Had we been allowed to build our OCS, we’d been taken ahead of them.

Tulane, everybody there, should feel they’re above us. Regardless of where they stand head to head against us in terms of athletics. They’re in the better conference and they’ve taken guys out of our backyard. we’d have the same mentality if we were in their shoes. same thing just happened vs CCU.

We should have a great crowd. Weather looks great with not a cloud in sight. Tulane is bringing their band and should bring maybe 4-5k. Expecting 27-30k total. If anyone has tickets that they don’t need I can put 3 more butts in seats. Already helping bring 8-9 people. Go blazers!

I've been to Tulane games in New Orleans that didnt have 5k Tulane fans there. So I'll need to see that to believe it.

You nailed it.. Drop 2 0's and you may have a number closer to the truth about their attendance yesterday, other than the band.

(09-16-2018 09:44 AM)Steel Dragon Wrote:  

(09-16-2018 09:18 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(09-16-2018 07:27 AM)BigJessT Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 03:13 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  

(09-14-2018 02:18 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  man, what an awful trip. went with one of my good HS friends that worked for one of the bowl games and was sent there to evaluate. watched us play zero defense in a below average high school stadium. got in a big fight with my (at the time) girlfriend...the beginning of the end for the program and that relationship (Disclaimer: one of those things ending was a great thing)

It was a day for fighting. That was the game where our band director got in a shouting match with our fans.

Ehhh.... I'd probably get in a shouting match with someone also if they grabbed one of my students standing on a podium and shook his leg. Same guy almost had over 100 band members on him when he grabbed said band director.

Make sure we tell the story both ways.

I remember that. The guy, an off and on poster on this board was completely in the wrong and is a complete ass most of the time.

It was Cajun he is a good guy and a loyal fan. His argument was correct. The Band Director had the band playing while we were on offense. His response was wrong and he apologized. I cannot believe I'm taking up for Cajun.

Lay your hands on a band kid and it won't just be other band kids on your ass.

This was fun. I read all 5 pages:

http://www.yogwf.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51280

It was an interesting read. They did raise a valid point (that worked in our favor, though)...from what I've seen in the last two games, UAB seems to have a LOT of trouble stopping the option, regardless of variety (triple, spread, etc.). Coastal gashed us on that front, and Tulane seemed to have a lot of success when they used it. I hope it's something that the coaches can address before other teams use it to our disadvantage.

If I were a team on our schedule and ran any option, I'd be polishing up on it before facing us.

Triple option is difficult to defend, because no one can freelance. Everyone has to stay with their man, no freelancing. One guy out of position and they gain fifteen or twenty yards. Our guys don't see it enough to get really good at defending it.

It doesn't even have to be an option. Anything off the edge gives us trouble so far.

(09-17-2018 02:35 PM)jj1 Wrote:  It doesn't even have to be an option. Anything off the edge gives us trouble so far.

Especially the left side of our D.

(09-17-2018 01:45 AM)thebernreuter Wrote:  This was fun. I read all 5 pages:

http://www.yogwf.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51280

I read it all, didn’t find it fun. Mostly bc we’ve had the same exact thread on this board many times over.
It’s a tough way to feel

I only read page 1, and this quote was classic.

Quote:In Year 3 of one's tenure, you must be able to beat a team that didn't literally exist in Year 1 (2016).