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Uab?

To digress from the question of semantics (UA vs UAT), I think that Alabama is the second best I-A team in the State of Alabama right now, behind Auburn. UAB and Troy State would have to battle it out for third.

To be as honest as I can...

I think UAB is overrated based on their current record and have an inflated win currency based on name recognition.

I think Alabama would run at will on UAB. Alabama would pass pretty easily as well. UAB has the 65th best run defense in the country and is 87th best in total defense. Florida State is the only team that has a respectable rushing offense of each of UAB's prior opponents with Memphis being the only other respectable offense. TCU has fallen off the face of the competitiveness back to the nether regions of non-factor.

I don't think UAB would get more than about 200 total yards on Alabama. UAB is the 62nd best offense in the country. That's even after playing some rather suspect defenses in Baylor, Memphis, Cincinnati, and Miss State (You get a pass on the Florida State game.) Even in their win over Miss State, Mississippi State's offense (ranked 114 in the country) had more total yards than UAB, who was facing the 107th best defense in the country.

UAB would not have beaten Memphis if Memphis hadn't thrown 4 picks. It was a good win for UAB, but Memphis helped UAB as much as UAB beat Memphis. Just not convincing enough...

I don't think Alabama would have any problems containing the mobile UAB quarterback, especially when we don't have to worry about a running game outside of the quarterback.

I don't think UAB will finish the season with only 1 loss. I expect at least 3 losses. Maybe four.

I think Auburn, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Ole Miss, and South Carolina would easily beat UAB. I think that Vanderbilt would probably win in a closer matchup than the others. UAB might be able to pull off the win over Kentucky and has already beaten Mississippi State, but so has everybody else on Miss State's schedule...except the Tulane team that UAB is playing this weekend.

I think that UAB is only good about once every 3 or 4 years, when they're a very senior laden, experienced team. The rest of the time they struggle to stay close to a winning record. Once we get past this year, and all of UAB's seniors on the two deep chart move on, we won't have to hear about them coming anywhere near to competing with Alabama for the next 2 or 3 years.

By that time, the effects of the sanctions should be gone and Alabama will be back at full strength.

By then, I think Alabama would be just as "bored" with the idea of playing UAB as Florida State's Bobby Bowden was this year.
 
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I think that bama would beat uab in a game just because they are more phical and UAB could not stop the run against them but I think taht BAMA could use some of the uab staff there offense is more balanced there qb's are beter prepared and they are just not one dimentional If they get behind they can come back If bama gets behind it is going to be hard to come back
 
tidefan25 said:
I think that bama would beat uab in a game just because they are more phical and UAB could not stop the run against them but I think taht BAMA could use some of the uab staff there offense is more balanced there qb's are beter prepared and they are just not one dimentional If they get behind they can come back If bama gets behind it is going to be hard to come back
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tidefan25 said:
I think taht BAMA could use some of the uab staff there offense is more balanced there qb's are beter prepared and they are just not one dimentional
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Alabama still has the better offensive staff.

Look back to what was happening when Brodie was quarterback: balanced offense, prepared quarterback, all that.

If you watched UAB last year, you saw exactly how bad they were when Hackney got hurt. They are a one horse team. I don't think they won more than 1 game after he got hurt the rest of the year.

Also, it's not exactly apples to oranges when comparing our 3rd string quarterback's preparation (and the offense's performance as a whole) in only his 3rd game as a starter to their 1st string quarterback who has been starting for 2 or 3 years. It's actually quite a ridiculous comparison.

When it comes down to it, Alabama is currently running with our 3rd string quarterback. And we are still better than UAB. Alabama wouldn't need offensive balance to beat UAB. We could use the same gameplan that we have used against Southern Miss the past two years. Man up. Run the ball. Win by more than 2 touchdowns.

And, if Alabama thought that a UAB offensive coach was good enough to compete on this level, does anyone think Alabama would have any problems pursuading that coach to make the jump to the Crimson Tide?
 
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Actually if you want to get specific about how to refer to a school you have to look at the accepted names and or initials that particular university approves. For example it is not Ohio State University it is the Ohio State Univeristy. Further when referring to other campuses of the Ohio State Univerity you refer to them at the Ohio State University at Lima or the Ohio State University at Newark, the Barons and Titans respectively. You do not however refer to the Ohio State University as the Ohio State University at Columbus as it is the original school in the system and therefore needs no differentiation from the other campuses. The University of Alabama has always been the University of Alabama and will remain so. To argue otherwise is both asinine and infantile. Congratulations to Watson Brown and UAB for building a very respectable and still growing program at a school that is difficult to recruit athletes to as it is in an urban center and has need of facilities, not to mention being caught geographically in the hot bed of SEC and ACC recruiting. What UAB has accomplished is very commendable. As a member of the Alabama family why can't both schools stop the needless smack talk between each other and turn this negativity towards those that deserve it like the UT's of the football world.
 
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What UAB has accomplished is very commendable. As a member of the Alabama family why can't both schools stop the needless smack talk between each other and turn this negativity towards those that deserve it like the UT's of the football world.
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I agree with UAB's accomplishments being commendable. TideTiger's last name is BlazerTrojan, in support of our other I-A teams from this state.

However...

It feels like the problem arises out of the idea of UAB affiliates trying to force Alabama to play them. This polarizes an otherwise tolerant Alabama nation towards the negative approach to our brothers in the 'Ham.

If UAB would drop the idea of trying to force Alabama to play them, I think Alabama fans would return to a more positive and supportive approach to UAB football in general.

I'd go as far as saying more than half of the Alabama fans in the entire Bama Nation would adopt UAB as their secondary team if UAB weren't pulling this entitlement BS.

Also, some UAB fans are making the worst mistake you can make when talking about the University of Alabama...they are trying to suggest they are better than Alabama. The reaction to that type of remark is swift, always the same, and never pretty.

Just ask Auburn and Tennessee fans.

Every Bama fan knows that this is just not true... ;)
 
Let's see. UAB averages about 5,000 people in the stands on a good night. UAB has beaten NO ONE this year. No one in this state cares about UAB football. Why should we let UAB glam on to our program when we have spent 112 years building it. Just because you are a Div. I (and not for long) football program does not mean that you are anywhere close to the SEC schools. Just go back to your own board and discuss how much fun it will be to tear down the goal posts when you beat South Florida.
 
HitURStride said:
Hey Orange!!! Good to see you on here....how's that baby? Hope things are going well!

Roll Tide!
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He's doing well and will be decked out in his Crimson and white and dancing with his Big Al plush toy, cheering the Tide to a win over those toothless wonders from the land of the single DNA profile.

Guess what? (In my best Gomer Pyle voice) Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!!!

My new company just got bought out. Hopefully, I'll be keeping my job, however, this time. :rolleye2:

How are you and your family?
 
BAMA would run the ball down UAB's throat and make them like it. Good grief.... one out of every few years you have a good year and suddenly you're a top-tier program. Reality will once again set in next year or the next, and this ridiculous talk of UAB and UA playing each other will end.
 
I think some of the over-zealous UAB fans and the all-knowing media in this state should ask UAB's head coach, Watson Brown, how he feels about the Blazers playing the University of Alabama. I believe Coach Brown was on WJOX Thursday afternoon and when asked the question by good ole Herb Winches he responded that he didn't like the idea of UAB of playing BAMA. Reason? He said he wanted to gain fans for UAB, not make them choose between Alabama and UAB because, if that happened, 98% of them whould choose BAMA. Why UAB's fans can't just support their program like Troy does and quit whinning about playing Alabama, I don't know.

As for how a game between UAB and BAMA would go; right now, with Alabama in its current condition, the Tide would wipe the floor with UAB. It would not be close. Sometimes I wished they could play so it would shut up some of these brainless sportswriters.
 
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