Fan4UAB
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Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
Comments and thoughts please. Where does UAB fit in?
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12-13-2012 02:40 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
Who knows? Everyone keeps asking similar questions. We don't know yet, can't.
It's not like the deals and contracts will go through any of us.
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12-13-2012 02:42 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
My guess is NO and UAB gets left behind in a CUSA without southern miss and tulsa
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12-13-2012 02:45 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
(12-13-2012 02:40 PM)Fan4UAB Wrote: Comments and thoughts please. Where does UAB fit in?
Memphis Blazer is going to lose it.
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12-13-2012 02:46 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
If BE football dies completely, Do y'all think UAB will then get an invite to join the non-existent BE football conference?
Please PM all responses to Memphis Blazer.
Thanks.
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12-13-2012 02:54 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
There is soon not going to be a Big East, so certainly it won't be called that. I think it benefits CUSA. We are more secure now in CUSA than a conference that doesn't exist, has no TV deal, no bowl agreements, and no NCAA waiver in hand. I think a lot of university BOT and presidents will have a great deal of reservations about leaving a relatively stable league (CUSA) for a league that has so much uncertainty.
The better question I think is ...if UAB were to get a call about joining said league which doesn't really exist and has such uncertainty, but some decent programs (like Memphis, Cincinnati), do we jump at it and put ourselves at potentially greater risk of getting left out if the attempts to form a new league fail?
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12-13-2012 02:58 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
Rarely does one taste schadenfreude quite so sweet.
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12-13-2012 03:09 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
UAB is without a president who can confirm that UAB will invest what is necessary to continue to be competitive with the other schools and bring the Birmingham market. Mackin and Marchase have no leverage. Prior results and the BoT's actions only contradict any argument to the contrary. We will not do well. Realignment occurred at the wrong time for UAB.
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12-13-2012 03:44 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
(12-13-2012 03:44 PM)GreenMississippi Wrote: UAB is without a president who can confirm that UAB will invest what is necessary to continue to be competitive with the other schools and bring the Birmingham market. Mackin and Marchase have no leverage. Prior results and the BoT's actions only contradict any argument to the contrary. We will not do well. Realignment occurred at the wrong time for UAB.
Yet UAB is in a better position than ECU is right now - who now has football membership in a conference that is falling to pieces and is looking for a place to put its terrible basketball program that is so bad that the very possibility of it being a part of the Big East caused the entire thing to implode on itself.
(This post was last modified: 12-13-2012 03:49 PM by demiveeman.)
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12-13-2012 03:48 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
(12-13-2012 03:49 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Mackin has answered where UAB fits. We are committed to CUSA
And Idaho is committed to the WAC.
ECU doesn't have a "good market", but they have good football and fan support so they will land somewhere. The teams leftover in the Big East wanted them for football, so they will land somewhere for football and basketball.
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12-13-2012 04:47 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
(12-13-2012 02:54 PM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote: If BE football dies completely, Do y'all think UAB will then get an invite to join the non-existent BE football conference?
Please PM all responses to Memphis Blazer.
Thanks.
I'd rather play "Yahtzee" in a room full of scorpions.
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12-14-2012 11:00 AM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
CUSA is more stable at the current second, however if a new league forms with teams like Memphis, ECU, UCF, Marshall, Southern Miss, South Florida, La Tech, Tulane, ODU, Charlotte or something to that affect. We may very well fit better there. I'm not concerned about the lack of a tv deal because this league would include most of the teams that helped the current CUSA deal (that will have to be reworked with teams leaving/joining). I'm open to a new league if it makes geographical sense and maintains rivalries. If a new league did form I would imagine teams such as Houston, SMU, Tulsa, UTEP, UTSA and others would join the MWC. Whatever was left in CUSA would then most likely merge with SunBelt. The tweener team to me is Rice. I could see them getting left behind, going to MWC, or going with the new league for some presence in the Houston market.
(This post was last modified: 12-14-2012 01:25 PM by stc.)
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12-14-2012 01:24 PM |
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Fan4UAB
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
Would UAB be in this so called new conference or would we be snubbed.
(12-14-2012 01:24 PM)stc Wrote: CUSA is more stable at the current second, however if a new league forms with teams like Memphis, ECU, UCF, Marshall, Southern Miss, South Florida, La Tech, Tulane, ODU, Charlotte or something to that affect. We may very well fit better there. I'm not concerned about the lack of a tv deal because this league would include most of the teams that helped the current CUSA deal (that will have to be reworked with teams leaving/joining). I'm open to a new league if it makes geographical sense and maintains rivalries. If a new league did form I would imagine teams such as Houston, SMU, Tulsa, UTEP, UTSA and others would join the MWC. Whatever was left in CUSA would then most likely merge with SunBelt. The tweener team to me is Rice. I could see them getting left behind, going to MWC, or going with the new league for some presence in the Houston market.
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12-14-2012 01:56 PM |
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RE: Will Big East split benefit C-USA?
(12-14-2012 01:54 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: (12-14-2012 11:00 AM)Matrix Wrote: (12-13-2012 02:54 PM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote: If BE football dies completely, Do y'all think UAB will then get an invite to join the non-existent BE football conference?
Please PM all responses to Memphis Blazer.
Thanks.
I'd rather play "Yahtzee" in a room full of scorpions.
I understand your desire not to be in a room full of scorpions, but I don't understand the Yahtzee element. Is it this specific game, or all parlor games? And what would increase your desire: removing the game or the scorpions from the room.
Also, how may scorpions would constitute a room full.
It wouldn't be so bad to be in a room full of scorpions but there is no way I'd want to be in a room full of Yahtzee players
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