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(03-24-2013 05:33 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  The marvelous 80s ended much sooner than that. Mitchell and Mincy had the most expectations of any team, but failed woefully short

Well sure - those teams had expectations, and we should have had them. That Mincy-Mitchell team when they were seniors was Final Four caliber until Stevie went 2-27 against UNC. The expectation for a miracle run was there on the teams with Kennedy and Shannon; good teams that may have underachieved but had the players and potential to get suddenly hot.

And then came the 94-95 team, and we were just another school with a mediocre basketball program.

Football at worst contributed to that ****** 94-95 season and might have hastened Gene's retirement by a year or two. It did not ruin basketball, and basketball would not be better off without it.

(03-24-2013 09:01 PM)bartowfan Wrote:  

(03-24-2013 08:05 PM)tibber Wrote:  

(03-24-2013 07:20 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(03-24-2013 12:54 AM)tibber Wrote:  Are we seeing the makings of a civil war here? Basketball fans vs. Football fans?

No.

Oh, it's happening. and if football doesn't show an improvement this year, it's gonna get ugly, I'm afraid. It'll be like Watson's final days.

Not to mention when bball fans get a taste of what our already dreadful schedule looks like except without Memphis.... And with the new 300+ rpi replacements like UTSA and Old Dominion.

Wow. You are really clueless. UTSA I will give you. But if you know anything about basketball, which I am beginning to doubt, you know that this year was an aberration for ODU.

Take Memphis out of the equation and go compare historical RPIs for those incoming to those leaving.

Bartowfan, who were you before you change to bartowfan. You remind me of someone.
And don't call me dude.

Thank you. Thank you very much. ..

(03-24-2013 09:43 PM)rebounder2u Wrote:  Bartowfan, who were you before you change to bartowfan. You remind me of someone.
And don't call me dude.

Thank you. Thank you very much. ..

No, He has had the account for two year. Made a couple of posts then and havent posted until this weekend. He seemed smarter before this weekend.

Well I am almost afraid to tell him we have a bowling and volleyball team...

without football we would be in the a sun

Yuck yuck yuck....

(03-24-2013 10:32 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  without football we would be in the a sun

It's working for Florida Gulf Coast.

(03-24-2013 11:12 PM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  

(03-24-2013 10:32 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  without football we would be in the a sun

It's working for Florida Gulf Coast.

You're not insinuating we should drop football and join Mercer & FGCU in the A-Sun are you?

We still have fans who think, well lets play basketball and basketball only, we need to get into the NCAA, no matter what conference, we need to make the round of 32, screw every other sport we play, A-10, or Bust...

Basketball takes up approx 4 of the now wait.....12 months...we are not a basketball only school...we play foosssaallllball and other sports too.

Dang, we are in D-1, we play big time ball, foot, and basket, soccer and base, we have the chance to compete for championships as does the majority of D-1 schools...

I dont want to go back to playing basketball only, and I believe I am in the majority....

(03-25-2013 08:07 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  

(03-24-2013 11:12 PM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  

(03-24-2013 10:32 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  without football we would be in the a sun

It's working for Florida Gulf Coast.

You're not insinuating we should drop football and join Mercer & FGCU in the A-Sun are you?

Again, up to this point, football has not done any favors for UAB. We are now in the Left Behind Conference 2.0. Football is the main reason UAB finds itself in the LBC 2.0.

I'm still buying season tickets to UAB football games. I still believe McGee can turn things around, but boy the odds are stacked against him. You need great football facilities to recruit and compete at this level, and UAB doesn't have them.

It isn't the left behind conference. That would insinuate that those leaving moved to something better. Everyone thought they were, but it didn't turn out that way. If you are on board with McGee support the program and have faith, then shut up about this left behind crap.

(03-25-2013 09:22 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  It isn't the left behind conference. That would insinuate that those leaving moved to something better. Everyone thought they were, but it didn't turn out that way. If you are on board with McGee support the program and have faith, then shut up about this left behind crap.

It is the Left Behind Conference, and as you have stated before this is not the first time UAB was left standing in the Left Behind Conference. That's why I'm calling it LBC 2.0.

I love UAB athletics, but I'm not going to sugar coat things.

No you are going to find the absolutely darkest cloud in the sky and point to that as our future. You have always been the most pessimistic person on the board. Even when things were going well, and you posted as Pence, you always had to find the negative side of anything positive. It's a miserable way to live.

Who cares what conference we are in. As long as we win our games. As long as we are graduating good people who stay out of trouble and win the majority of their games, it's all good. Quit coveting what other schools have done. Everyone needs to drop the Woe is Us crap and just roll with it.

(03-25-2013 09:42 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  No you are going to find the absolutely darkest cloud in the sky and point to that as our future. You have always been the most pessimistic person on the board. Even when things were going well, and you posted as Pence, you always had to find the negative side of anything positive. It's a miserable way to live.

Who cares what conference we are in. As long as we win our games. As long as we are graduating good people who stay out of trouble and win the majority of their games, it's all good. Quit coveting what other schools have done. Everyone needs to drop the Woe is Us crap and just roll with it.

Again, the conclusions you come to about people who disagree with you are amazing.

(03-25-2013 08:27 AM)rebounder2u Wrote:  We still have fans who think, well lets play basketball and basketball only, we need to get into the NCAA, no matter what conference, we need to make the round of 32, screw every other sport we play, A-10, or Bust...

Basketball takes up approx 4 of the now wait.....12 months...we are not a basketball only school...we play foosssaallllball and other sports too.

Dang, we are in D-1, we play big time ball, foot, and basket, soccer and base, we have the chance to compete for championships as does the majority of D-1 schools...

I dont want to go back to playing basketball only, and I believe I am in the majority....

I get what you're saying, and at heart I don't disagree. It's just impossible to ignore how CUSA has been a one-bid league for FAR too long.

We need to be in a conference that gets 3 each year. That's how we get the regular trips we need.

When your first love is UAB basketball, and other than Memphis, your conference is nowhere to be seen, it's natural to wonder if basketball would have been better served elsewhere and if we made a wrong turn BB wise.

Everyone says the A-10 won't be the same after the raiding, but if we'd been there like St. Louis, I bet we'd be moving on to an even bigger and better BB league too.

Our baskeball program needs a league that regularly gets multiple bids.

(03-25-2013 10:00 AM)DragonClaw Wrote:  I get what you're saying, and at heart I don't disagree. It's just impossible to ignore how CUSA has been a one-bid league for FAR too long.

CUSA had multiple bids in 2010, 2011, & 2012. We could have had 2 this year if USM had taken care of business.

The difference between 1 and more bids in the new C-USA will be how we all perform OOC and whether or not the top teams can separate themselves from the bottom.

We dont have to worry about being in a league that gets multiple bids, all we need to do is win,win then win some more... heck Memphis in most years is deserving, however, in our not so distant past, I believe we won, with a good RPI, and was left out of the dance...because just like some doomsayers here, the perception of CUSA was Memphis had a cake walk, even when Memphis walked thru CUSA and thru the other teams on its schedule, the naysayers said, CUSA was bad because Memphis was so much better.

Maybe Memphis moving on will be a good thing for UAB, I personnally hate to see them go, but UAB is constant in its growth and ability to adapt to changing environment, even when we as fans, are our worst enemy....

Now that I think of it who needs Memphis when we have________________as fans..

Once Memphis is gone, perception will change. The reason CUSA was considered weak nationally most years is because Memphis ran through the conference. In years that Memphis lost a game or two, cUSA was considered stronger and got multiple bids.

With Memphis gone, the league will be competitive and be perceived as stronger. The leaders of the conference will feed each others resume. No one will go undefeated, but we will get multiple bids.

In 2008, when Memphis went to the national championship game and lost to Kansas in OT, C-USA was a one-bid conference. Memphis was considered so much better than the rest of the league.

UAB lost at Memphis that year by 38 points. However, UAB only lost by 1 point at The Bart.

How did that turn out?

Well in the Big Dance, Memphis beat Michigan State by 18 points and UCLA by 25 points.

UAB went 12-4 in C-USA that year and only received a bid to the NIT.

I have to believe the 38-point loss at Memphis did UAB in as far as getting into the Big Dance.