Auburn UAB football matchup could happen

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UAB is just restarting its football program and the Blazers say there is mutual interest with Auburn to play a game in 2019 or beyond, UAB athletics director Mark Ingram said Monday.

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That'll be nice for Auburn HC Bill Clark to see the team that gave him his FBS start

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Auburn HC Bill Clark

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That makes me wet.

I'm for it but we already played them so we can already say that to bammer. we beat them 29-0 on the afternoon of 8/31/96. I was there. it was hot.

Auburn playing in Birmingham isn't big for anything.

Can't argue that

You don't think Auburn playing football in the largest city in Alabama would have a positive impact on recruiting? There's a reason the Iron Bowl was played in Birmingham for so long and Bama used a Legion afield for some regular season games.

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shite, UAB would probably beat Auburn.

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After essentially getting a self imposed death penalty? I don't think so.

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You don't think Auburn playing football in the largest city in Alabama would have a positive impact on recruiting? 

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Not even a little bit. It would have a negative impact on city of Auburn. Also it would be missing a chance for gameday visits for recruits.

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There's a reason the Iron Bowl was played in Birmingham for so long and Bama used a Legion afield for some regular season games.

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That reason was not recruiting purposes.

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shite, UAB would probably beat Auburn.

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stop being a dumb frick. Auburn is in a lot better shape than yall frickers are giving us credit for

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In 1958, when Paul "Bear" Bryant returned to his alma mater of Alabama to rebuild a proud program that had fallen into disarray, he wisely made Legion Field his main stage, and when TV came along, he positioned his players on the east sideline, opposite the press box, so the cameras would always be on him and his team.

"Birmingham is an Alabama town, no question about it," Auburn's Housel says. "And it is an Alabama town for two reasons. One is the proximity to Tuscaloosa, and two is the fact Coach Bryant did a great job cultivating Birmingham and making Birmingham an Alabama town -- which is to his credit that he did."

Although the stadium was supposedly split 50-50 when the Tide and Tigers played -- with half the fans wearing orange and blue and the other half dressed in crimson and white -- Auburn fans always felt like they were the visitors at the Iron Bowl, Housel says.

"It was rough for Auburn people to play there in the' 70s," he says. "All of the ushers were wearing Alabama caps and the parking attendants were wearing Alabama caps, the concession people. It was just totally Alabama.

"There is nothing wrong with being an Alabama town, unless you just happen to be on the other side of it."

For decades, Alabama played all of its marquee games - Tennessee, LSU, Auburn, USC, Penn State and Notre Dame among them - not in its smaller on-campus stadium in Tuscaloosa but an hour away in the much larger Legion Field.

Meanwhile, as Auburn expanded Jordan-Hare Stadium, it left Birmingham - first moving the Georgia Tech and Tennessee games to campus before finally getting to play its home game against Alabama at its real home in 1989, an achievement Auburn's Pat Dye famously likened to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. (Auburn would come back to Legion Field to play one last Iron Bowl as the home team there in 1991.)

"The whole time Coach Bryant was cultivating Birmingham, Auburn was trying to pull out," Housel says. "So you've got one tenant saying how much they love you and playing their biggest games there, and the other one is trying to get out and go home."

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So..... You're saying that creating a fan base in the largest city in your home state has nothing to do with recruiting? You're an idiot.