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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 07:03 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote: The biggest problem with these games is that it will prevent UAB from ever having a chance to make the playoffs, especially when you play like they did yesterday.
"Playoffs?" Even Jim Mora laughed at that one.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 07:50 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote: I didn’t expect us to beat UGA, or even play it close. However, to continually show up to these games scared out of our minds, make tons and tons of unforced errors, play timid, and give the game away within the first 2-3 minutes is incredibly frustrating and makes me wonder if we’ve reached our ceiling. It’s NOT just yesterday. We played like this against TAMU (salvaged a decent performance but still gave the game away on the first play due to a bonehead mistake), UT, UF, Miami, and now UGA. We even played like this against FAU when they were really good a couple years ago. We didn’t play very well at all after two touchdowns against app state, either. We continually get absolutely embarrassed by good teams. It’s a reflection on the coaching staff at this point. Something’s gotta change or we’ve reached our ceiling.
Glad I’m not the only one that thinks this. I was not expecting a W yesterday, but was hoping for 38-17 or something similar. But UGA is clearly a top 2-3 team this year, so fine. But the penalties and miscues kill me. And I laugh that people say we need to stop scheduling such hard buy games. This is probably the one year where I thought, “We have no shot”. The other buy games we’ve played, we should’ve put up a much better fight, or even had the chance to win. At some point, if we want this program to keep growing, we gotta start beating P5 teams. UCF, Boise, Appy, etc. do it.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 08:10 AM)Blazer4Life14 Wrote: (09-12-2021 07:50 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote: I didn’t expect us to beat UGA, or even play it close. However, to continually show up to these games scared out of our minds, make tons and tons of unforced errors, play timid, and give the game away within the first 2-3 minutes is incredibly frustrating and makes me wonder if we’ve reached our ceiling. It’s NOT just yesterday. We played like this against TAMU (salvaged a decent performance but still gave the game away on the first play due to a bonehead mistake), UT, UF, Miami, and now UGA. We even played like this against FAU when they were really good a couple years ago. We didn’t play very well at all after two touchdowns against app state, either. We continually get absolutely embarrassed by good teams. It’s a reflection on the coaching staff at this point. Something’s gotta change or we’ve reached our ceiling.
Glad I’m not the only one that thinks this. I was not expecting a W yesterday, but was hoping for 38-17 or something similar. But UGA is clearly a top 2-3 team this year, so fine. But the penalties and miscues kill me. And I laugh that people say we need to stop scheduling such hard buy games. This is probably the one year where I thought, “We have no shot”. The other buy games we’ve played, we should’ve put up a much better fight, or even had the chance to win. At some point, if we want this program to keep growing, we gotta start beating P5 teams. UCF, Boise, Appy, etc. do it.
Jax State also manages to win one once in a while. We were clearly intimidated which is disappointing for this senior laden team.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 08:36 AM)MAN4UAB Wrote: (09-12-2021 08:10 AM)Blazer4Life14 Wrote: (09-12-2021 07:50 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote: I didn’t expect us to beat UGA, or even play it close. However, to continually show up to these games scared out of our minds, make tons and tons of unforced errors, play timid, and give the game away within the first 2-3 minutes is incredibly frustrating and makes me wonder if we’ve reached our ceiling. It’s NOT just yesterday. We played like this against TAMU (salvaged a decent performance but still gave the game away on the first play due to a bonehead mistake), UT, UF, Miami, and now UGA. We even played like this against FAU when they were really good a couple years ago. We didn’t play very well at all after two touchdowns against app state, either. We continually get absolutely embarrassed by good teams. It’s a reflection on the coaching staff at this point. Something’s gotta change or we’ve reached our ceiling.
Glad I’m not the only one that thinks this. I was not expecting a W yesterday, but was hoping for 38-17 or something similar. But UGA is clearly a top 2-3 team this year, so fine. But the penalties and miscues kill me. And I laugh that people say we need to stop scheduling such hard buy games. This is probably the one year where I thought, “We have no shot”. The other buy games we’ve played, we should’ve put up a much better fight, or even had the chance to win. At some point, if we want this program to keep growing, we gotta start beating P5 teams. UCF, Boise, Appy, etc. do it.
Jax State also manages to win one once in a while. We were clearly intimidated which is disappointing for this senior laden team.
Intimidated and scared. A recurring theme for these games, and not just against the 2nd best team in the country either..
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randy22263
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
No meltdown just truthful observations. We got our ass kicked by a superior team. We have no choice other than move on to next game and just accept our program, while having accomplished some good things, is years away from competing with the big boys. Now if we are interested in learning lessons from a game like that and not just interested in cashing a big paycheck maybe we can take that next step. Very little evidence that I've seen indicates that however.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 09:03 AM)randy22263 Wrote: No meltdown just truthful observations. We got our ass kicked by a superior team. We have no choice other than move on to next game and just accept our program, while having accomplished some good things, is years away from competing with the big boys. Now if we are interested in learning lessons from a game like that and not just interested in cashing a big paycheck maybe we can take that next step. Very little evidence that I've seen indicates that however.
Something something meltdown, something something ledge something something sky is falling, same **** different season from the same people. Nothing substantive to contribute I guess.
Nah, not a meltdown at all. Haven't seen any ranting or saying we suck etc etc. Just observations of what is obvious: we are not mentally prepared to play these games. It is a serious issue within our program. Denying or excusing it is just playing pretend and I'm too old for that. Clark should have to answer tough questions about yesterday but he won't get them.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 07:55 AM)randy22263 Wrote: (09-12-2021 07:03 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote: The biggest problem with these games is that it will prevent UAB from ever having a chance to make the playoffs, especially when you play like they did yesterday.
"Playoffs?" Even Jim Mora laughed at that one.
Damn and I am called a pessimist.....lol.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 09:10 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote: (09-12-2021 09:03 AM)randy22263 Wrote: No meltdown just truthful observations. We got our ass kicked by a superior team. We have no choice other than move on to next game and just accept our program, while having accomplished some good things, is years away from competing with the big boys. Now if we are interested in learning lessons from a game like that and not just interested in cashing a big paycheck maybe we can take that next step. Very little evidence that I've seen indicates that however.
Something something meltdown, something something ledge something something sky is falling, same **** different season from the same people. Nothing substantive to contribute I guess.
Nah, not a meltdown at all. Haven't seen any ranting or saying we suck etc etc. Just observations of what is obvious: we are not mentally prepared to play these games. It is a serious issue within our program. Denying or excusing it is just playing pretend and I'm too old for that. Clark should have to answer tough questions about yesterday but he won't get them.
It’s obvious our staff doesn’t care about these games. Some of our fans care more about these games than anything else for whatever reason. What tough questions do you want asked? Why does your team consistently suck against P5 opponents? If you could go back and change your gameplan what would you do differently?
There’s only so much that can be asked in my opinion, and you may not like the answer if it’s honest.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 09:48 AM)blazers9911 Wrote: (09-12-2021 09:10 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote: (09-12-2021 09:03 AM)randy22263 Wrote: No meltdown just truthful observations. We got our ass kicked by a superior team. We have no choice other than move on to next game and just accept our program, while having accomplished some good things, is years away from competing with the big boys. Now if we are interested in learning lessons from a game like that and not just interested in cashing a big paycheck maybe we can take that next step. Very little evidence that I've seen indicates that however.
Something something meltdown, something something ledge something something sky is falling, same **** different season from the same people. Nothing substantive to contribute I guess.
Nah, not a meltdown at all. Haven't seen any ranting or saying we suck etc etc. Just observations of what is obvious: we are not mentally prepared to play these games. It is a serious issue within our program. Denying or excusing it is just playing pretend and I'm too old for that. Clark should have to answer tough questions about yesterday but he won't get them.
It’s obvious our staff doesn’t care about these games. Some of our fans care more about these games than anything else for whatever reason. What tough questions do you want asked? Why does your team consistently suck against P5 opponents? If you could go back and change your gameplan what would you do differently?
There’s only so much that can be asked in my opinion, and you may not like the answer if it’s honest.
I'd like to have an honest answer at this point. It's been going on too long. Even if is the answer is, "we don't care about these games," I'd like to hear it.. I want to know why we're consistently scared and unprepared for these games.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 08:34 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: Board meltdown. Check.
Beat UNT.
Pretty typical response from you. Check
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
We shrugged games like this off when we got smacked around by Kansas and Texas in hoops, too.
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Not cute when you're down 56-7 and you've been getting burned all damn day
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
Agreed.
Was the absolute worst time to kill our perception when AAC could possibly be extending invites by the end of next week.
I blame Ingram more than I do Clark. From the interviews on Jay Barker’s show earlier in the week, Ingram made it pretty clear that he’s in charge of scheduling, be it football or hoops.
Chasing paychecks rather than protecting and hoping to improve perception.
Kansas, Illinois, Duke may be pretty bad, but they still count as p5 wins. Those wins do more to help the perception of those schools than us getting blown out year after year in prime time spots on espn networks.
I agree with your point on FAU as well. Will probably treat Liberty the same way.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 11:00 AM)BlazinBham Wrote: Agreed.
Was the absolute worst time to kill our perception when AAC could possibly be extending invites by the end of next week.
I blame Ingram more than I do Clark. From the interviews on Jay Barker’s show earlier in the week, Ingram made it pretty clear that he’s in charge of scheduling, be it football or hoops.
Chasing paychecks rather than protecting and hoping to improve perception.
Kansas, Illinois, Duke may be pretty bad, but they still count as p5 wins. Those wins do more to help the perception of those schools than us getting blown out year after year in prime time spots on espn networks.
I agree with your point on FAU as well. Will probably treat Liberty the same way.
Cincinnati got blown out at Ohio State in 2019, 42-0; afterwards they finished the season 11-3. The other 2 losses were to Memphis - once in the regular season and the other in the AAC Conference Championship.
But agreed, I wish we would play middle to lower tier P5 teams, but that $1.8 million should help us - especially for exit fees. Other C-USA teams have played two P5 money games a season and get blown out by both. If we pull off a huge win against an undefeated or one-loss Liberty at the home game, our perception should bounce back from losing to a possible national championship contender.
And let's just hope Georgia blows everyone out of the water this season so our loss is just one of many they deliver this year. And who knows, they may end up #1 very soon.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
(09-12-2021 09:48 AM)blazers9911 Wrote: It’s obvious our staff doesn’t care about these games. Some of our fans care more about these games than anything else for whatever reason. What tough questions do you want asked? Why does your team consistently suck against P5 opponents? If you could go back and change your gameplan what would you do differently?
There’s only so much that can be asked in my opinion, and you may not like the answer if it’s honest.
Tough Questions for Coach Clark:
1. How do you think embarrassing losses on national television affect your ability to recruit and UAB's ability to sell tickets and raise money?
2. Why do you think UAB has been and continues to be one of the most penalized teams in the nation? What are you doing to correct it?
3. Given UAB's struggles at the QB position, did you give any thought in the off-season of taking advantage of so many QB's in the transfer portal? If not, why?
4. Can you explain UAB's lack of composure in games against P5 opponents?
5. Do you think it's unusual to start a 5-8 185 lb RB at the FBS level?
That's just off the top of the nogin. If Coach Clark was at a P5 or a well followed G5, these are the type of questions he would be getting. UAB coaches get a pass because the local media doesn't care.
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RE: ***Georgia Game thread***
Any team that is clearly more talented and has much greater speed at all positions can make any other team look bad. Looking at the scores for similar games around the nation and you see that our defeat at the hands of a national championship contender was not unusually large. No one LIKES to lose no matter the opposition, but half of all teams who played Saturday LOST and many by similar scores. When you are "in the ring" with a champion, you may very well be embarrassed by the result. IT STILL IS ONLY ONE GAME, AND WE HAVE MANY YET TO PLAY. If the worst injury was to our feelings, then we came out ok.
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