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re: Most Incompetent coaching ever in a single game
Posted by Old UAB Fan on 7/22/20 at 1:26 pm
Almost any Les Miles game that required clock management at the end of the game.
When Garrick McGee (haaawk, ptui) was HC at UAB he once chose to kick off in both halves of the same game. Supposedly this was to express confidence in his defense or some other BS story.
When Garrick McGee (haaawk, ptui) was HC at UAB he once chose to kick off in both halves of the same game. Supposedly this was to express confidence in his defense or some other BS story.
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re: New Birmingham Bowl Stadium Progress
Posted by Old UAB Fan on 7/22/20 at 1:14 pm
The Alabama HS Finals used to be at Legion Field. Central location, big name stadium, 'Bama played there. Then the Iron Bowl went home and home.
They moved it to rotating between UA and AU, and it's a great recruiting tool that they won't easily give up. I suspect that what will happen is that the new stadium gets added to the rotation. It would make sense to hold it in B'ham every year (still centrally located) but I don't expect that to happen.
They moved it to rotating between UA and AU, and it's a great recruiting tool that they won't easily give up. I suspect that what will happen is that the new stadium gets added to the rotation. It would make sense to hold it in B'ham every year (still centrally located) but I don't expect that to happen.
re: New Birmingham Bowl Stadium Progress
Posted by Old UAB Fan on 7/20/20 at 6:15 pm
"I have some definite problems with this stadium. The location is poor. It's not close to campus. They should have built Regions Field in the spot where that stadium is and built the stadium where Regions Park is. Would have made more logistical sense."
Regions Field was a project between the City of B'ham and the Birmingham Barons. It has nothing to do with UAB other than that part of the land was purchased from UAB.
Watch my lips. UAB is not allowed to build an on campus stadium. We are a part of the University of Alabama system. Our trustees are the UA Board of Trustees. We have to get their permission to build anything. The UAT Board refused to allow us to hire Jimbo Fisher back in the day. The BoT was behind shutting down UAB football. They have turned down a funded(to the point of having all but one of the luxury boxes presold)stadium project on campus already. We also have land already purchased for an OCS. *We are not allowed to build an on campus stadium, period.* It took a big community push to end run things and get this stadium built.
That said, Protective Field is closer than Legion Field, in a better part of town, and you can make it from campus to the stadium in ten minutes if you catch the lights.
Regions Field was a project between the City of B'ham and the Birmingham Barons. It has nothing to do with UAB other than that part of the land was purchased from UAB.
Watch my lips. UAB is not allowed to build an on campus stadium. We are a part of the University of Alabama system. Our trustees are the UA Board of Trustees. We have to get their permission to build anything. The UAT Board refused to allow us to hire Jimbo Fisher back in the day. The BoT was behind shutting down UAB football. They have turned down a funded(to the point of having all but one of the luxury boxes presold)stadium project on campus already. We also have land already purchased for an OCS. *We are not allowed to build an on campus stadium, period.* It took a big community push to end run things and get this stadium built.
That said, Protective Field is closer than Legion Field, in a better part of town, and you can make it from campus to the stadium in ten minutes if you catch the lights.
re: New Birmingham Bowl Stadium Progress
Posted by Old UAB Fan on 7/20/20 at 4:05 pm
With the expansion into what was the grassy slope in the North end seating rises to 47k or so. That will sell out and be a competitive ticket with an SEC team in the B'ham Bowl. That said, there are no bad sight lines in that stadium design.
re: New Birmingham Bowl Stadium Progress
Posted by Old UAB Fan on 7/20/20 at 3:54 pm
Irondale has been gaining for several years. Great location, 20 min from downtown/UAB, Trussville, 280/Galleria. There are a lot of cool old houses to be bought fairly cheap and refurbed.
As to prices in Crestwood, compare to Homewood, where the prices are *really* insane for what you get.
As to prices in Crestwood, compare to Homewood, where the prices are *really* insane for what you get.
re: New Birmingham Bowl Stadium Progress
Posted by Old UAB Fan on 7/20/20 at 2:08 pm
re: New Birmingham Bowl Stadium Progress
Posted by Old UAB Fan on 7/20/20 at 1:32 pm
This didn't pick up as a reply. Sorry, new bulletin board format to me.
Replying to:
"This is a small stadium in the College football capital of the world for a shitty team that will never compete for a NC. It's a waste of money for a glorified high School Stadium that will never see a "BIG" game other than a State High School Championship. UAB football is a bastard stepchild that should have been put out of its misery long ago. UAB won't be able to sell out this stadium. It should have built an on-campus a 20,000 seater - and that still would have been too big.
Alabama and Auburn are the only big-time teams in the state of Alabama that can support themselves. UAB and almost all other FCS teams are welfare programs - tax burdens on ALabama citizens. Subsidizing FCS teams is not a good thing. Charity has more urgent needs than a $170 million stadium for a shitty bottomfeeder program with a tiny fanbase in a state with two Goliath programs UAB will never play or be able to compete with. Neither Auburn or Alabama will ever play a game at this stadium. It's a vanity project for a very small group of UAB alumni businessmen who lobbied to get Alabama citizens to pay for with tax dollars. The new stadium will make more money and fill more seats with concerts and monster truck events than football games.
It's time to face that fact some colleges shouldn't have football teams. If a team can't support itself financially it shouldn't exist."
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UAB Football does not cost you a nickel in tax dollars. It gets some subsidy money from UAB, but UAB is the source of roughly 60% of the income of the University of Alabama system, with the other 40 coming from UAT and UAH.
Any other school who wants to build a facility or expand one, say Bryant-Denny, issues construction bonds. UAB is not allowed to. We have to pay cash for what we want. That new $20m football complex was paid for by the UAB boosters and fans, no UAB money at all in it.
This is nonsense. No one builds a big project or buys a house without financing it. A bond issue or mortgage is totally normal, but for anything we want to do we have to raise the cash for in advance before we can start.
The up side is that the UAB boosters and fans can do pretty much anything they want to - as long as they can pay for it.
That's the reason that the bonds were issued by the BJCC. UAB isn't allowed to issue bonds - or to build their own on campus stadium. Verboten.
As to "Won't compete for a NC", not won't, can't. Not allowed to. We're a G5 program. Look at UCF, three straight unbeaten seasons were not enough to be allowed into the cartel's football tournament.
What we can do is to compete for our conference championship, and we've won one after coming back from the dead. You don't value that, that's fine. We have a team we love and we got it back. It's bigger and better than it has ever been. You don't like it, lump it. Go watch your team and quit crapping on mine.
Replying to:
"This is a small stadium in the College football capital of the world for a shitty team that will never compete for a NC. It's a waste of money for a glorified high School Stadium that will never see a "BIG" game other than a State High School Championship. UAB football is a bastard stepchild that should have been put out of its misery long ago. UAB won't be able to sell out this stadium. It should have built an on-campus a 20,000 seater - and that still would have been too big.
Alabama and Auburn are the only big-time teams in the state of Alabama that can support themselves. UAB and almost all other FCS teams are welfare programs - tax burdens on ALabama citizens. Subsidizing FCS teams is not a good thing. Charity has more urgent needs than a $170 million stadium for a shitty bottomfeeder program with a tiny fanbase in a state with two Goliath programs UAB will never play or be able to compete with. Neither Auburn or Alabama will ever play a game at this stadium. It's a vanity project for a very small group of UAB alumni businessmen who lobbied to get Alabama citizens to pay for with tax dollars. The new stadium will make more money and fill more seats with concerts and monster truck events than football games.
It's time to face that fact some colleges shouldn't have football teams. If a team can't support itself financially it shouldn't exist."
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UAB Football does not cost you a nickel in tax dollars. It gets some subsidy money from UAB, but UAB is the source of roughly 60% of the income of the University of Alabama system, with the other 40 coming from UAT and UAH.
Any other school who wants to build a facility or expand one, say Bryant-Denny, issues construction bonds. UAB is not allowed to. We have to pay cash for what we want. That new $20m football complex was paid for by the UAB boosters and fans, no UAB money at all in it.
This is nonsense. No one builds a big project or buys a house without financing it. A bond issue or mortgage is totally normal, but for anything we want to do we have to raise the cash for in advance before we can start.
The up side is that the UAB boosters and fans can do pretty much anything they want to - as long as they can pay for it.
That's the reason that the bonds were issued by the BJCC. UAB isn't allowed to issue bonds - or to build their own on campus stadium. Verboten.
As to "Won't compete for a NC", not won't, can't. Not allowed to. We're a G5 program. Look at UCF, three straight unbeaten seasons were not enough to be allowed into the cartel's football tournament.
What we can do is to compete for our conference championship, and we've won one after coming back from the dead. You don't value that, that's fine. We have a team we love and we got it back. It's bigger and better than it has ever been. You don't like it, lump it. Go watch your team and quit crapping on mine.
re: New Birmingham Bowl Stadium Progress
Posted by Old UAB Fan on 7/20/20 at 12:53 pm
World Games are scheduled to be the first event there, a year from now.
A few things:
Legion Field is all the B'ham area has for a municipal stadium. It was built while Calvin Coolidge was president. Bama played their last game there in 2003. The city spends enough on it to keep the rust painted, but it's lipstick on a pig. The city *needed* a new facility. State High School tournament used to be held there as did the SEC championship. Both moved to newer, nicer venues.
Birmingham isn't paying for more than a share of it. Financing was a combination of UAB Football Foundation, local corporate donations, UAB, Jefferson County, and the BJCC (more on them in a sec). County and city both stand to gain on tax dollars from people coming to events via taxes on restaurants and stores, hotel tax, taxis, etc.
The B'ham-Jefferson Civic Center floated the bonds, as UAB is forbidden to. Bond issue included the stadium and a massive overhaul of the Civic Center and convention space. 1990's arena is being brought up to modern specs to include luxury suites, etc. Stadium complex is across a crosswalk from BJCC and includes BJCC meeting/convention space and food. Stadium will be used for UAB Football as anchor tenant but will also be a venue for stadium sized concerts and other events.
The new stadium is state of the art, highly digitally wired, screens everywhere. Far better food and drink choices and a modern open design plan. It will be very nice indeed. Between Lesion Field being a pit in the projects that people were scared to go to and having a brand new stadium that is right off the freeway, home attendance will improve as will season ticket sales. In 70,000 seat Legion Field you could always get a good seat, but in a smaller venue non-ST holders will get pushed to the margins.
UAB has been at or near the top in conference attendance since #TheReturn. The team has won division and conference championships since then. Team is undefeated at home since returning, three straight years. Defense has been NCAA Top Ten the last two years. Birmingham knows good college football, and tickets are cheap and access easy compared to a UA/AU game.
Regarding "why not play on Thursday or Friday night?", UAB plays according to the conference schedule and TV contract. We have played on Thursdays with some success. If we play Friday that puts us up against high school football. That causes conflicts (say a kid in the HS band as well as at UAB) and hard feelings with schools and coaches who fell it cuts into attention and attendance.
As to changing conferences, the obvious target is a move to the AAC. Most of that conference is schools who used to be in C-USA with UAB, and the conference footprint is better than C-USA's huge area. We were left behind on that move, but all of our facilities are far far better than they were then. UAB finally has a bit of autonomy and isn't being actively sabotaged by the Alabama Board of Trustees now, or not as badly anyhow.
UAB will have a tailgate area around the stadium. Uptown is kinda pricey, more aimed at the people coming to conventions, but Five Points South, Lakeview, and Avondale are close by if you're looking for food/drink/party options. I also expect multiple food trucks, as we have had at Legion Field.
With a brand new $20m practice facility and this new stadium, recruiting is going to jump as well, and that's a program's lifeblood so the program just gets better. This is a huge win for B'ham and UAB football, no matter what the naysayers say.
A few things:
Legion Field is all the B'ham area has for a municipal stadium. It was built while Calvin Coolidge was president. Bama played their last game there in 2003. The city spends enough on it to keep the rust painted, but it's lipstick on a pig. The city *needed* a new facility. State High School tournament used to be held there as did the SEC championship. Both moved to newer, nicer venues.
Birmingham isn't paying for more than a share of it. Financing was a combination of UAB Football Foundation, local corporate donations, UAB, Jefferson County, and the BJCC (more on them in a sec). County and city both stand to gain on tax dollars from people coming to events via taxes on restaurants and stores, hotel tax, taxis, etc.
The B'ham-Jefferson Civic Center floated the bonds, as UAB is forbidden to. Bond issue included the stadium and a massive overhaul of the Civic Center and convention space. 1990's arena is being brought up to modern specs to include luxury suites, etc. Stadium complex is across a crosswalk from BJCC and includes BJCC meeting/convention space and food. Stadium will be used for UAB Football as anchor tenant but will also be a venue for stadium sized concerts and other events.
The new stadium is state of the art, highly digitally wired, screens everywhere. Far better food and drink choices and a modern open design plan. It will be very nice indeed. Between Lesion Field being a pit in the projects that people were scared to go to and having a brand new stadium that is right off the freeway, home attendance will improve as will season ticket sales. In 70,000 seat Legion Field you could always get a good seat, but in a smaller venue non-ST holders will get pushed to the margins.
UAB has been at or near the top in conference attendance since #TheReturn. The team has won division and conference championships since then. Team is undefeated at home since returning, three straight years. Defense has been NCAA Top Ten the last two years. Birmingham knows good college football, and tickets are cheap and access easy compared to a UA/AU game.
Regarding "why not play on Thursday or Friday night?", UAB plays according to the conference schedule and TV contract. We have played on Thursdays with some success. If we play Friday that puts us up against high school football. That causes conflicts (say a kid in the HS band as well as at UAB) and hard feelings with schools and coaches who fell it cuts into attention and attendance.
As to changing conferences, the obvious target is a move to the AAC. Most of that conference is schools who used to be in C-USA with UAB, and the conference footprint is better than C-USA's huge area. We were left behind on that move, but all of our facilities are far far better than they were then. UAB finally has a bit of autonomy and isn't being actively sabotaged by the Alabama Board of Trustees now, or not as badly anyhow.
UAB will have a tailgate area around the stadium. Uptown is kinda pricey, more aimed at the people coming to conventions, but Five Points South, Lakeview, and Avondale are close by if you're looking for food/drink/party options. I also expect multiple food trucks, as we have had at Legion Field.
With a brand new $20m practice facility and this new stadium, recruiting is going to jump as well, and that's a program's lifeblood so the program just gets better. This is a huge win for B'ham and UAB football, no matter what the naysayers say.
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