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RE: UAB Brings Back Football In 2017 / Will Face Coastal Carolina
(01-27-2017 10:33 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Nostradamus with a stereotyped view. Or is it just the outcome you hope to occur?05-nono

I have lived in the Birmingham area for 15 years. Been to UAb games, keep up with the local news and listen to people. For years the "reason" people didn't go to the games was because of the location of Legion Field. Currently, that situation has not changed. It's still a UA town, only 45 minutes down the road. Still a UA satellite school, and I've said it many many times, doctors don't make good football players.
01-28-2017 09:17 AM
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I'm looking forward to hosting Coastal in September.
01-28-2017 12:55 PM
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(01-28-2017 12:55 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I'm looking forward to hosting Coastal in September.

Please don't take my comments as a, "I hate UAb, and want them to implode" mentality. For the players that were effected and the fans, supporters of that program through everything, I feel for you. But you guys are fighting a huge uphill battle, and time will tell if the dragon has slayed the evil wizards that currently rule the land. The players that put in the work and the fans that have supported that program, I wish you luck, and I'm looking forward to my team coming to Birmingham. I just hope like hell we win!!!04-cheers
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RE: UAB Brings Back Football In 2017 / Will Face Coastal Carolina
(01-28-2017 09:17 AM)Usajags Wrote:  
(01-27-2017 10:33 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Nostradamus with a stereotyped view. Or is it just the outcome you hope to occur?05-nono

I have lived in the Birmingham area for 15 years. Been to UAb games, keep up with the local news and listen to people. For years the "reason" people didn't go to the games was because of the location of Legion Field. Currently, that situation has not changed. It's still a UA town, only 45 minutes down the road. Still a UA satellite school, and I've said it many many times, doctors don't make good football players.

Wait, what kind of town is Mobile?
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(01-28-2017 09:29 PM)Shrack Wrote:  
(01-28-2017 09:17 AM)Usajags Wrote:  
(01-27-2017 10:33 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Nostradamus with a stereotyped view. Or is it just the outcome you hope to occur?05-nono

I have lived in the Birmingham area for 15 years. Been to UAb games, keep up with the local news and listen to people. For years the "reason" people didn't go to the games was because of the location of Legion Field. Currently, that situation has not changed. It's still a UA town, only 45 minutes down the road. Still a UA satellite school, and I've said it many many times, doctors don't make good football players.

Wait, what kind of town is Mobile?

Right now we are fighting the same fight that UAb has fought their whole football existence. The only difference is we are in charge of our destiny. Hopefully it won't take us 20 years to get an OCS. UAb's current hope is another municipal stadium, just happens to be a new one that will better fit with size. But still not on campus, and still won't have control of their own destiny.

UAb, you guys are in a tough spot, as I fan I feel for you.
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(01-28-2017 09:46 PM)Usajags Wrote:  
(01-28-2017 09:29 PM)Shrack Wrote:  
(01-28-2017 09:17 AM)Usajags Wrote:  
(01-27-2017 10:33 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Nostradamus with a stereotyped view. Or is it just the outcome you hope to occur?05-nono

I have lived in the Birmingham area for 15 years. Been to UAb games, keep up with the local news and listen to people. For years the "reason" people didn't go to the games was because of the location of Legion Field. Currently, that situation has not changed. It's still a UA town, only 45 minutes down the road. Still a UA satellite school, and I've said it many many times, doctors don't make good football players.

Wait, what kind of town is Mobile?

Right now we are fighting the same fight that UAb has fought their whole football existence. The only difference is we are in charge of our destiny. Hopefully it won't take us 20 years to get an OCS. UAb's current hope is another municipal stadium, just happens to be a new one that will better fit with size. But still not on campus, and still won't have control of their own destiny.

UAb, you guys are in a tough spot, as I fan I feel for you.

The proper answer to my question was: "a UA town" 03-razz
01-28-2017 09:49 PM
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Advantage Mobile, we are 4 hours from Tuscaloosa, not 45 minutes. If someone wants to go to a college game, a 45 minute drive is easy. We have a more captive audience. We just need to convience them that rooting for the home team is just as much fun as rooting for the other.
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I think pretty much the whole state of Alabama outside of Auburn counts as a UA town regardless.
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(01-28-2017 09:49 PM)Shrack Wrote:  
(01-28-2017 09:46 PM)Usajags Wrote:  
(01-28-2017 09:29 PM)Shrack Wrote:  
(01-28-2017 09:17 AM)Usajags Wrote:  
(01-27-2017 10:33 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Nostradamus with a stereotyped view. Or is it just the outcome you hope to occur?05-nono

I have lived in the Birmingham area for 15 years. Been to UAb games, keep up with the local news and listen to people. For years the "reason" people didn't go to the games was because of the location of Legion Field. Currently, that situation has not changed. It's still a UA town, only 45 minutes down the road. Still a UA satellite school, and I've said it many many times, doctors don't make good football players.

Wait, what kind of town is Mobile?

Right now we are fighting the same fight that UAb has fought their whole football existence. The only difference is we are in charge of our destiny. Hopefully it won't take us 20 years to get an OCS. UAb's current hope is another municipal stadium, just happens to be a new one that will better fit with size. But still not on campus, and still won't have control of their own destiny.

UAb, you guys are in a tough spot, as I fan I feel for you.

The proper answer to my question was: "a UA town" 03-razz

Uh.hmmmm. surely you meant USA town. 03-wink Just a typo right? Those darn S's are so easy to forget.
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(01-31-2017 01:29 AM)The4thOption Wrote:  Uh.hmmmm. surely you meant USA town. 03-wink Just a typo right? Those darn S's are so easy to forget.

The forgotten letter! (The silent majority?)
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Mobile is mostly a UA and AU town. There's a number a Troy and USA fans in the area. We haven't had football long enough to build that fan base up. Ladd Stadium isn't in a great spot either, so getting an on campus stadium would solve that problem as long as they don't put it right next to Hillsdale. The other problem is just about every game for Power 5 schools are on TV, so trying to get those people to the stadium is difficult especially in the era of huge HD TVs, surround sound, Air Conditioning, etc...
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(01-31-2017 02:39 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  Mobile is mostly a UA and AU town. There's a number a Troy and USA fans in the area. We haven't had football long enough to build that fan base up. Ladd Stadium isn't in a great spot either, so getting an on campus stadium would solve that problem as long as they don't put it right next to Hillsdale. The other problem is just about every game for Power 5 schools are on TV, so trying to get those people to the stadium is difficult especially in the era of huge HD TVs, surround sound, Air Conditioning, etc...
LSU also has a larger than normal contingent in Mobile. LSU misses being the closest P5 school to Mobile by about 5 miles.
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(02-03-2017 11:11 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  
(01-31-2017 02:39 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  Mobile is mostly a UA and AU town. There's a number a Troy and USA fans in the area. We haven't had football long enough to build that fan base up. Ladd Stadium isn't in a great spot either, so getting an on campus stadium would solve that problem as long as they don't put it right next to Hillsdale. The other problem is just about every game for Power 5 schools are on TV, so trying to get those people to the stadium is difficult especially in the era of huge HD TVs, surround sound, Air Conditioning, etc...
LSU also has a larger than normal contingent in Mobile. LSU misses being the closest P5 school to Mobile by about 5 miles.

The main reason LSU is third behind Auburn for SEC schools in Mobile is because 10% of the city of New Orleans moved to Mobile during/after Katrina. Almost seems (to me anyway) there are roughly as many LSU fans here as there are Auburn fans now, give or take.
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(02-04-2017 02:48 PM)airtroop Wrote:  
(02-03-2017 11:11 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  
(01-31-2017 02:39 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  Mobile is mostly a UA and AU town. There's a number a Troy and USA fans in the area. We haven't had football long enough to build that fan base up. Ladd Stadium isn't in a great spot either, so getting an on campus stadium would solve that problem as long as they don't put it right next to Hillsdale. The other problem is just about every game for Power 5 schools are on TV, so trying to get those people to the stadium is difficult especially in the era of huge HD TVs, surround sound, Air Conditioning, etc...
LSU also has a larger than normal contingent in Mobile. LSU misses being the closest P5 school to Mobile by about 5 miles.

The main reason LSU is third behind Auburn for SEC schools in Mobile is because 10% of the city of New Orleans moved to Mobile during/after Katrina. Almost seems (to me anyway) there are roughly as many LSU fans here as there are Auburn fans now, give or take.

No not really. The LSU connection to Mobile was strong way before Katrina. There are a lot of cultural ties between Mobile and Louisiana.
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