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"Athletic director Mark Ingram’s future may be tied to Dilfer’s, sources have said. Sources tell On3 they expect UAB to open up."

Thought the note on Ingram was interesting.

Interesting but I’m not holding my breath.

Yeah. Saw this on Athlon’s. Here is the link:

https://athlonsports.com/college-footbal...ent-dilfer

these clickbait articles that don't say anything just make me sad about the death of journalism

(11-07-2024 11:02 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  these clickbait articles that don't say anything just make me sad about the death of journalism

Athlon is the absolute worst. All they do in regurgitate what some other website has said and shove it onto your homepage.

We’ll see. I’d rather see effort to win out than a mail it in. The coaching market and AD market is going to suck.

It’d be quite a refreshing story to win 5 in a row on the back half of the schedule to reach bowl eligibility.

(11-07-2024 11:02 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  these clickbait articles that don't say anything just make me sad about the death of journalism

The thing that bothers me the most is how hard it is to tell the difference anymore. I don't want to read **** like this, but I end up on it because I don't know it's some dumb ass with an iPad in a Starbucks who can't write and has no actual information but types it up anyway and hits send and gets paid when I'm dumb enough to click on it. There are still great writers and journalists out there, but they're too damn hard to find. My entire news feed is filled with nonsense like "Steelers would land Maxx Crosby if this trade happens." And you're like, what, the Steelers might get Maxx Crosby? Oh, wait, no. Some rando fan who submits nonsense for free just turned pure unfiltered speculation into an article and the site tricked me with a headline. Garbage.

And that's what this is too. Garbage. I can guarantee that guy doesn't have a single source saying this who actually knows anything. It could happen, of course, but if it does this idiot would have just guessed right.

(11-08-2024 11:27 AM)UABFAN23 Wrote:  We’ll see. I’d rather see effort to win out than a mail it in. The coaching market and AD market is going to suck.

It’d be quite a refreshing story to win 5 in a row on the back half of the schedule to reach bowl eligibility.

Unfortunate, the market especially sucks if you’re UAB.

(11-08-2024 11:41 AM)freeblazer Wrote:  

(11-07-2024 11:02 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  these clickbait articles that don't say anything just make me sad about the death of journalism

The thing that bothers me the most is how hard it is to tell the difference anymore. I don't want to read **** like this, but I end up on it because I don't know it's some dumb ass with an iPad in a Starbucks who can't write and has no actual information but types it up anyway and hits send and gets paid when I'm dumb enough to click on it. There are still great writers and journalists out there, but they're too damn hard to find. My entire news feed is filled with nonsense like "Steelers would land Maxx Crosby if this trade happens." And you're like, what, the Steelers might get Maxx Crosby? Oh, wait, no. Some rando fan who submits nonsense for free just turned pure unfiltered speculation into an article and the site tricked me with a headline. Garbage.

And that's what this is too. Garbage. I can guarantee that guy doesn't have a single source saying this who actually knows anything. It could happen, of course, but if it does this idiot would have just guessed right.

Amen!

In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the controlling Party controls the past by rewriting history. The true past no longer exists. That dumb*** with an iPad at Starbucks has no sense of the truth, and doesn’t care.

Pete Nakos is a good reporter. His sources might be wrong but he wouldn’t publish it on a whim or make it up.

Let’s win out and not have to worry about anything.

I’d take losing out if it truly meant both were gone.

(11-09-2024 09:47 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  I’d take losing out if it truly meant both were gone.

This is more likely to happen, tho both probably still come back

And y’all question my Fandom?

I’d never take a loss in hopes of a firing.

PS: that’s a good way to run off your team…. and fans, to be honest.

(11-09-2024 09:47 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  I’d take losing out if it truly meant both were gone.

If it meant both ADMI and Dilfsaster are gone, I pray that we lose every remaining game in a blowout.

We need both of them gone in the worst way, for all of our sports programs.

Winning cures all. If they demonstrate the ability to go undefeated the remainder of the schedule or reach and win a bowl game….thats improvement and worth additional time. Im reasonable.

(11-09-2024 11:34 AM)UABFAN23 Wrote:  And y’all question my Fandom?

I’d never take a loss in hopes of a firing.

PS: that’s a good way to run off your team…. and fans, to be honest.

I don’t question your fandom, you have irrational outbursts. Dilfer, and more so Ingram, have already severely damaged the football program. Two more years of this is going to put us in an even worse spot. It’s an easy sell right now to tell recruits we aren’t going to let the top fail at their jobs and continue to hang around. 2 years from now, it would be four years of a dumpster fire we would have to explain.

I can deal with a lot of things from a coach, but he is damaging relationships with high school coaches, slandering our program publicly, and competing with McGee for the most incompetent coach we’ve ever had. I was on board with giving him time to try and turn things around this year, and largely defended him last season. But I am all out now, and I hope he is soon too.

Unless something changes both will be back next season. One can only hope some major staff changes but I'm not holding my breath.

(11-09-2024 09:56 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Unless something changes both will be back next season. One can only hope some major staff changes but I'm not holding my breath.

Man, it's gonna be hard for me to renew my season tickets.

If we drew 45K a game and had Power 4 money it would be easy to not renew tickets. We draw so little every ticket not renewed just gives them more ammo to ax us. Each to their own but I am not going to be the one to give them more ammo.