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This article has many factual errors. Bartow did not write the NCAA because Bama was beating UAB for 5 star football recruits.

The website claims it wants a return to good journalism but obviously misquotes Jack Williams. Read the article before reacting to my criticism of it.

I didn't like the article. Don't like them referring to us as we either.

I have to agree with MB here.

There are lots of things that I've worried have and may continue to dilute our movement. Poor, inaccurate journalism is one of those things. I appreciate the exposure, but factually incorrect articles floating out there are detrimental. Just for example, when have we ever competed with UA for 5* recruits? Why would Bartow have penned a letter in the early 1990s about it when we didn't even make the jump to NCAA competition, at the DIII level at that, until 1991? We didn't make D1A until 1996, and even without knowing anything at all about our situation and UA, what 5* recruits are going to consider an upstart over an established, renowned school?

A little off this topic, but some other things that dilute our movement include stuff like attacking Babalu Tacos & Tapas because they didn't include a UAB product, which they DO carry, in a picture that was composed of products for SEC teams. Just really irritated me last week on Facebook.

The article is so poorly written, that at first I couldn't tell if it was in fact poorly written, or satire making fun of UAB.

"On the gridiron, UAB was quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with. They were fighting Alabama for some of the “5 star” prospects of the day, definitely top 50 prospects, which lived in Alabama."

Um, no.

On the court Bartow was competing in recruiting. We went head to head over Buck Johnson and others.

Unfortunately, "the gridiron" refers to the football field, and I can't think of many guys we were even in a recruiting battle over there. Not one we won, anyhow.

This is a poorly written article.

(04-20-2015 10:33 AM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  "On the gridiron, UAB was quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with. They were fighting Alabama for some of the “5 star” prospects of the day, definitely top 50 prospects, which lived in Alabama."

Um, no.

On the court Bartow was competing in recruiting. We went head to head over Buck Johnson and others.

Unfortunately, "the gridiron" refers to the football field, and I can't think of many guys we were even in a recruiting battle over there. Not one we won, anyhow.

This is a poorly written article.

But the idiot writer contributes everything to Jack Williams.

(04-20-2015 09:59 AM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  I didn't like the article. Don't like them referring to us as we either.

The idiot writer is not referring to himself as "we". Those are supposed to be quotes by Jack Williams. I think he calls them "paraphrased quotes"

Not everything posted online has to be read or should be considered as accurate.

The author did give the "1980s" as the time for Bartow's letter. That was before UAB even had club FB. It is probable that the article's author doesn't know the timeline for UAB athletics either.

It seemed like a story a guy sitting next to you at a bar might tell you after 4-5 beers.

I am pretty sure that they quoted Jack incorrectly in a couple of instances which affected the validity of the story. I guess if we want this story told from beginning to end, like these guys are trying to do, one of us is going to have to write it.

(04-20-2015 01:37 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote:  I am pretty sure that they quoted Jack incorrectly in a couple of instances which affected the validity of the story. I guess if we want this story told from beginning to end, like these guys are trying to do, one of us is going to have to write it.

What are the chances that a national rep sports writer might be interested in writing a book about the "Life and Death of UAB Football" including its travails at the hands - and jackboots - of the system BOT?

I would love to see Scarbinsky take a crack at it since he has been the most outspoken local writer to date and seems to have a full grasp of the story.