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Birmingham is an event town. UAB games as events will do well. We’re a long way from being good enough to draw big crowds consistently up against SEC football. Wish that were not true, but it is — like it is for every southern g5 or FCS team. Us diehards won’t like it but a meaningful UAB game on a Thursday night one or twice a year would pack that place with fans we could begin to convert over time.

I have watched the game 3 times now. Painful as it was, we didn’t play as bad as the score looked. We’d have had 7 or 8 sacks against a typical QB. 3 or 4 of liberty’s biggest game changing plays never happen without Superman Vick Jr. back there.

Agree the penalty was awful. Whether it was an illegal block or not, it was completely unnecessary and is gonna get called 99 out of 100.

The slide on fourth down was awful. Just not sliding, it is a first down and we probably go on and score to go up 10-0.

The drops were awful. We may not have been able to keep up with Liberty regardless, but we would have had a *chance* to do so, and would have kept our tired defense off the field some.

UAB was a few plays from being right there in it in the fourth.

I think we’re gonna play well Saturday. We will have to because I think FAU is a more compete and more talented team overall than Liberty in terms of athletes. They just don’t have Superman at QB or the elite coaching staff.