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Didn't want to start a new thread but heard something on the Split Zone Duo Podcast about this as well paraphrasing but it's something like "UAB doesn't want to pay the buyout and let Ingram make another hire." So we might just be in limbo.

Heard someone at one of the basketball games this week say Ingram should pay Dilfer’s buyout with his own salary. I agree.

If Ingram had any sense to him, he probably could try to find a loophole and have him fired for cause for the inflammatory comments about UAB during his presser and especially about promoting the Louisville volleyball team that they had to delete from the UAB Athletics sponsored podcast.

Never have I heard a basketball coach promote and tell people to go to another school instead of their own school. He is the highest paid employee of UAB. That should be a fireable offense.

(11-10-2024 10:17 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Oh he was at the games. I saw him this afternoon. He just didn’t go mingle with folks.

He was talking to someone in the section 119 thursday night. The guy he was talking to is pretty vocal...

Interesting to rewatch his Introductory Press Conference.


-You will get the very best of him
-Already have a great foundation, just going to be adding fancy upgrades to make it elite. It's not a rebuild or remodel, its a beautification (which he kept saying its a rebuild this year like we cant remember what he said less than 2 years ago).
-He will hire people with "figureitoutness"
-he's not going to have 10 onfield coaches that have never recruited. But he will also hire people that are like him and learning on the fly.
-He commented he's watched coaches introductory press conferences and said 'oh they'll be there 2 years max' Anyone can win the press conference...

Joe Goodman was the only one that brought up how crazy it was that he was being hired. And Dilfer says he knows the history but not all the history. Still dont think he knows all the history.

He ends it it with every place they have been, they left it better than it was.

I don't know that it's that UAB isn't willing to let Ingram make another hire. Where would such a dictum come from? Certainly not Ingram, and I can't see Punkinhead saying it. That basically only leaves the BoT, and that strains credulity.

I find it more believable that the Athletic Department does not have the money for a buyout or is not willing to pay for one. It's probably like so much else to do with UAB Athletics - we can do anything we want to as long as the fans/boosters pay for it.

When I first read that, I read "UAB" as being the boosters that would have to fund the buyout.

(11-11-2024 12:47 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  I don't know that it's that UAB isn't willing to let Ingram make another hire. Where would such a dictum come from? Certainly not Ingram, and I can't see Punkinhead saying it. That basically only leaves the BoT, and that strains credulity.

I find it more believable that the Athletic Department does not have the money for a buyout or is not willing to pay for one. It's probably like so much else to do with UAB Athletics - we can do anything we want to as long as the fans/boosters pay for it.

I was tempted to say that we should be the ones to pick out the coach then, but the one time Ingram (stupidly) listened to the fans was when he hired Ehsan. While that wasn’t as dark as the cloud over football currently, that was inarguably the worst stretch in UAB Basketball history. Though it did lead us to eventually hiring AK. Silver lining I guess.

In short, I’m not sure what the solution is. Other than Ingram suddenly being good at his job. But I’ve got a better chance of waking up tomorrow and being 6 foot tall than that does of happening.

Let’s stop with the idea that Ingram “listened to the fans” on Ehsan.
He didn’t. He listened to the money. Which leads back to “if we want it, we pay for it.”

UAB has a handful of boosters who write almost all the big checks. They had just finished getting football back with millions of their own dollars. They were going to have to do an extension and raise for Clark soon if he was successful. They were still going to be asked to help get the stadium to the finish line and other facilities too.

In that context, Ehsan was a no brainer pick especially because Mark was busy Dilfering the search for the basketball coach with guys like Chuck Person and Jason Terry, who would have been disasters. Those big check writers wanted Ehsan. Ehsan was the ONLY guy for the boosters there on the list Mark put together, and he was cheap and easy to move out if it didn’t work but you would be dealing with that 3-4 years down the road after you had finished the other priorities. Holding a good roster together, you take that chance 100 times out of 100 in that situation because it is a heck of a lot safer than handing Gene Bartow’s program to a guy who had never coached a game at any level or a guy under investigation by the FBI.
It didn’t work out but it was never an embarrassment and stretched the dollars to end up with AK. So it DID work out in the end.

Sometimes you have to make the “safe” hire knowing it is a stopgap. We are in the current situation with football because MI didn’t listen to anybody.

Louder for the ones in the back of the room.

Why is mark ingram so stupid to continuously fall for "flashy" names with no experience?

and "flashy" with dilfer is relative. he was the worst qb to ever win a super bowl, one of the least liked espn personalities, and was already in trouble for almost fighting a student at Lipscomb. to call that flashy is stretching reality a bit.

MI seems to fall for used car salesmen a lot.

(11-12-2024 09:59 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Why is mark ingram so stupid to continuously fall for "flashy" names with no experience?

and "flashy" with dilfer is relative. he was the worst qb to ever win a super bowl, one of the least liked espn personalities, and was already in trouble for almost fighting a student at Lipscomb. to call that flashy is stretching reality a bit.

MI seems to fall for used car salesmen a lot.

Maybe he's just easily amused. Or easy to fool. Or both.

(11-12-2024 10:04 PM)Frank Grimes Wrote:  

(11-12-2024 09:59 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Why is mark ingram so stupid to continuously fall for "flashy" names with no experience?

and "flashy" with dilfer is relative. he was the worst qb to ever win a super bowl, one of the least liked espn personalities, and was already in trouble for almost fighting a student at Lipscomb. to call that flashy is stretching reality a bit.

MI seems to fall for used car salesmen a lot.

Maybe he's just easily amused. Or easy to fool. Or both.

MI was like a bird that saw a shiny object when he saw Dilfer's super bowl ring that he did very little to earn.

(11-11-2024 10:50 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  If Ingram had any sense to him, he probably could try to find a loophole and have him fired for cause for the inflammatory comments about UAB during his presser and especially about promoting the Louisville volleyball team that they had to delete from the UAB Athletics sponsored podcast.

Never have I heard a basketball coach promote and tell people to go to another school instead of their own school. He is the highest paid employee of UAB. That should be a fireable offense.

I do not want UAB PR in a knife fight with Dilfer on a national stage. We'll not come out well.

(11-13-2024 12:00 AM)blazr Wrote:  

(11-11-2024 10:50 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  If Ingram had any sense to him, he probably could try to find a loophole and have him fired for cause for the inflammatory comments about UAB during his presser and especially about promoting the Louisville volleyball team that they had to delete from the UAB Athletics sponsored podcast.

Never have I heard a basketball coach promote and tell people to go to another school instead of their own school. He is the highest paid employee of UAB. That should be a fireable offense.

I do not want UAB PR in a knife fight with Dilfer on a national stage. We'll not come out well.

Well we're not exactly setting the woods on fire now. I think we'll get the benefit of the doubt given the data we've seen

(11-13-2024 09:04 AM)biglizard Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 12:00 AM)blazr Wrote:  

(11-11-2024 10:50 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  If Ingram had any sense to him, he probably could try to find a loophole and have him fired for cause for the inflammatory comments about UAB during his presser and especially about promoting the Louisville volleyball team that they had to delete from the UAB Athletics sponsored podcast.

Never have I heard a basketball coach promote and tell people to go to another school instead of their own school. He is the highest paid employee of UAB. That should be a fireable offense.

I do not want UAB PR in a knife fight with Dilfer on a national stage. We'll not come out well.

Well we're not exactly setting the woods on fire now. I think we'll get the benefit of the doubt given the data we've seen

I'm talking about Dilfer's forked, silver tongue that landed him the job in the first place. You think he won't use his platform to air all of UAB's dirty laundry?

I am pretty sure UA System knows how to write an NDA.

(11-13-2024 11:48 AM)blazr Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 09:04 AM)biglizard Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 12:00 AM)blazr Wrote:  

(11-11-2024 10:50 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  If Ingram had any sense to him, he probably could try to find a loophole and have him fired for cause for the inflammatory comments about UAB during his presser and especially about promoting the Louisville volleyball team that they had to delete from the UAB Athletics sponsored podcast.

Never have I heard a basketball coach promote and tell people to go to another school instead of their own school. He is the highest paid employee of UAB. That should be a fireable offense.

I do not want UAB PR in a knife fight with Dilfer on a national stage. We'll not come out well.

Well we're not exactly setting the woods on fire now. I think we'll get the benefit of the doubt given the data we've seen

I'm talking about Dilfer's forked, silver tongue that landed him the job in the first place. You think he won't use his platform to air all of UAB's dirty laundry?

That would be a good thing...we need it aired

(11-13-2024 11:55 AM)jaymay2525 Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 11:48 AM)blazr Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 09:04 AM)biglizard Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 12:00 AM)blazr Wrote:  

(11-11-2024 10:50 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  If Ingram had any sense to him, he probably could try to find a loophole and have him fired for cause for the inflammatory comments about UAB during his presser and especially about promoting the Louisville volleyball team that they had to delete from the UAB Athletics sponsored podcast.

Never have I heard a basketball coach promote and tell people to go to another school instead of their own school. He is the highest paid employee of UAB. That should be a fireable offense.

I do not want UAB PR in a knife fight with Dilfer on a national stage. We'll not come out well.

Well we're not exactly setting the woods on fire now. I think we'll get the benefit of the doubt given the data we've seen

I'm talking about Dilfer's forked, silver tongue that landed him the job in the first place. You think he won't use his platform to air all of UAB's dirty laundry?

That would be a good thing...we need it aired

Exactly, the best thing Dilfer could do is air our dirty laundry and get a light shined on it nationally. BUT he said he would call out coaches for poaching and that never happened. He's all talk but can't back it up - like always.

(11-13-2024 01:40 PM)blazerblazer Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 11:55 AM)jaymay2525 Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 11:48 AM)blazr Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 09:04 AM)biglizard Wrote:  

(11-13-2024 12:00 AM)blazr Wrote:  I do not want UAB PR in a knife fight with Dilfer on a national stage. We'll not come out well.

Well we're not exactly setting the woods on fire now. I think we'll get the benefit of the doubt given the data we've seen

I'm talking about Dilfer's forked, silver tongue that landed him the job in the first place. You think he won't use his platform to air all of UAB's dirty laundry?

That would be a good thing...we need it aired

Exactly, the best thing Dilfer could do is air our dirty laundry and get a light shined on it nationally. BUT he said he would call out coaches for poaching and that never happened. He's all talk but can't back it up - like always.

He is nothing but a used car salesman, selling lemons but advertising them as Porsches.