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(01-25-2013 12:10 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  C-USA wants nothing to do with T-Roy.

Just like the nBE wants nothing to do with UAB. Just say'in.

(01-25-2013 12:44 PM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  

(01-25-2013 12:10 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  C-USA wants nothing to do with T-Roy.

Just like the nBE wants nothing to do with UAB.

So, we're clear, UAB isn't wanted in the Big East, and Troy isn't wanted in CUSA?

How you get we'd be in the same conference from that remains a mystery to me.

(01-25-2013 12:08 PM)HSV_BLAZER Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 10:12 AM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  When UAB is in the same conference as Troy, we won't have a choice.

4 Sun Belt schools, 2 WAC schools, and 2 FCS callups have all been added to C-USA without Troy even getting a mention. I don't think Troy is leaving the Belt unless it disbands.

If it was about facilities, they would get an invite. Their football stadium and basketball arena are very nice.

(01-25-2013 12:48 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(01-25-2013 12:44 PM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  

(01-25-2013 12:10 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  C-USA wants nothing to do with T-Roy.

Just like the nBE wants nothing to do with UAB.

So, we're clear, UAB isn't wanted in the Big East, and Troy isn't wanted in CUSA?

How you get we'd be in the same conference from that remains a mystery to me.

I never said C-USA wanted nothing to do with Troy.

So, UAB's going to end up in the Belt? Not a bunch of teams from the Belt, but the actual Belt?

For the record, since I helped with this derail, I think we should play Troy every year in football.

The sky is falling again.

(01-23-2013 07:41 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 12:55 AM)rook360 Wrote:  Some of you really need to get over yourselves. You are really sounding like the bammers.

Troys a bunch of sheep lovers
They are classless
We gain nothing playing them

Actually, its a good rivalry game, they bring a good crowd, and its a fun game to watch in general. I hope we can keep an everyother year game if not every year.

Ever made the trip to Pike County?

I come by my opinions of Troy honestly.

+1

(01-25-2013 01:50 PM)HSV_BLAZER Wrote:  For the record, since I helped with this derail, I think we should play Troy every year in football.

We need to play Troy every year. We need Troy more than Troy needs us. Diluting this series would be stupid.

We draw more for UAB vs. Troy than Troy draws for UAB at Troy. Troy's athletic department is doing very well, and they are moving up. They've stalled out a little lately, but I'm more confident in the stability of their situation than I am of ours. They get big home games. They are successful at their level. They have great school spirit in the student body and the alumni base, and they take over that town on gameday. And they have an excellent sports business/ management program that feeds interns and entry-level employees into their athletic department, most of whom are Troy fans. If they want to spend $40 million on a basketball arena for 200 fans in Middle of Nowhere, Alabama, they just do it. They don't need the UAB game on their schedule. We need 30,000 people at Legion Field. If Troy is every other year, and Southern Miss turns into an every-other-year series too, we have very few big-draw games on the home schedule ever. Not good. People aren't going to like all that Troy ball-washing, but whatever.

This problem gets solved immediately if they move to C-USA and get put in our division.

(01-28-2013 02:12 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  We need Troy more than Troy needs us.

The year we played ASU, they brought as many fans as Troy ever has.

In the rain.

True.

Not to mention JSU.

(01-28-2013 02:12 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  [quote='HSV_BLAZER' pid='8884285' dateline='1359139834']
For the record, since I helped with this derail, I think we should play Troy every year in football.

We need to play Troy every year. We need Troy more than Troy needs us.

I think I need my eyes examined....

I've got no beef with playing Troy, but let's not act like they're doing us a favor by playing us.

We need teams to put buts in the seats. That can be Troy, ASU, Ala A&M, or even Samford. My big beef is with basketball. We should not be playing t-roy H&H. If USA can prove to bring as many I have no problem dropping Troy for USA. At least we won't have to lock up our animals.

(01-28-2013 05:08 PM)mobileblazer Wrote:  

(01-28-2013 02:12 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  [quote='HSV_BLAZER' pid='8884285' dateline='1359139834']
For the record, since I helped with this derail, I think we should play Troy every year in football.

We need to play Troy every year. We need Troy more than Troy needs us.

I think I need my eyes examined....

Whoa whoa whoa! You need to learn how to quote. I don't want it to look like that was attributed to me.

(01-28-2013 05:55 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  We need teams to put buts in the seats. That can be Troy, ASU, Ala A&M, or even Samford. My big beef is with basketball. We should not be playing t-roy H&H. If USA can prove to bring as many I have no problem dropping Troy for USA. At least we won't have to lock up our animals.

I would love to see the UAB/Samford match up in both basketball and football. I think having two local teams play each other would get a lot of local interest and there are a lot of people in Birminghan that have ties to both schools.

(01-29-2013 08:19 AM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(01-28-2013 05:55 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  We need teams to put buts in the seats. That can be Troy, ASU, Ala A&M, or even Samford. My big beef is with basketball. We should not be playing t-roy H&H. If USA can prove to bring as many I have no problem dropping Troy for USA. At least we won't have to lock up our animals.

I would love to see the UAB/Samford match up in both basketball and football. I think having two local teams play each other would get a lot of local interest and there are a lot of people in Birminghan that have ties to both schools.

It didn't before in the heyday of UAB basketball.

(01-29-2013 09:09 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 08:19 AM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(01-28-2013 05:55 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  We need teams to put buts in the seats. That can be Troy, ASU, Ala A&M, or even Samford. My big beef is with basketball. We should not be playing t-roy H&H. If USA can prove to bring as many I have no problem dropping Troy for USA. At least we won't have to lock up our animals.

I would love to see the UAB/Samford match up in both basketball and football. I think having two local teams play each other would get a lot of local interest and there are a lot of people in Birminghan that have ties to both schools.

It didn't before in the heyday of UAB basketball.

Those were some tough games as I remember. Craig Beard and Rob Drum took us to the wire one year.

Samford didn't bring that many fans in basketball when they have played UAB at UAB.

That was several years ago though, so maybe it might be different now.

Tillette had some good years attendance wise, not sure how Benny is doing on attendance.

In football, it would draw more than a lot of the teams we play, however USM & Troy games would draw more, IMO.

JSU had a good crowd whenever we played them in football.