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There are a lot of moving parts here. One of them is personal contract discussions, "Money talk."

No place for chicken little. Chicken little just needs to go down to Hattiesburg and root for the team.

(11-23-2014 12:47 AM)Blazer Engineer Wrote:  

(11-23-2014 12:15 AM)FNblazer Wrote:  Wow. Clark didn't hold back on letting his frustrations known. And Mackin was reduced to saying "Times are tough...but we're Blazers." Don't remind me.

We are Blazers! You Brian Mackin are not a Blazer. Turn in your green and gold and get the hell out

I'm not Brian's biggest supporter, but to say he's not a Blazer because he won't fall on his sword (in public) is not fair. You have no idea what he's doing (or not doing) to save football.

Someone else eluded to the "facts" about this situation, of which there are very few. Let's hold off on building the gallows for all the "non-Blazers" until the facts come out.

(11-23-2014 01:26 AM)tibber Wrote:  Clark is gone, regardless. I think we need to start learning to accept this now.

HCBC wants to be here, but the sand in the hour glass is disappearing very fast.

(11-23-2014 09:43 AM)Taylor Blazer Wrote:  

(11-23-2014 01:26 AM)tibber Wrote:  Clark is gone, regardless. I think we need to start learning to accept this now.

HCBC wants to be here, but the sand in the hour glass is disappearing very fast.

If you read between the lines, then you can tell the rumors are correct. My coach has made his demands. The ball is now in Mackin's court. As usual, he will do what is best for UAB football. Which means he will fumble it. So in a way, tibber is right. Clark is gone. Guess I won't have to worry about renewing my season tickets.

I had cooled on Mackin when he hired Clark. Now, in a couple of days, I'm going to fire up the Fire Mackin train.

(11-23-2014 10:04 AM)cb4029 Wrote:  

(11-23-2014 09:43 AM)Taylor Blazer Wrote:  

(11-23-2014 01:26 AM)tibber Wrote:  Clark is gone, regardless. I think we need to start learning to accept this now.

HCBC wants to be here, but the sand in the hour glass is disappearing very fast.

If you read between the lines, then you can tell the rumors are correct. My coach has made his demands. The ball is now in Mackin's court. As usual, he will do what is best for UAB football. Which means he will fumble it. So in a way, tibber is right. Clark is gone. Guess I won't have to worry about renewing my season tickets.

I had cooled on Mackin when he hired Clark. Now, in a couple of days, I'm going to fire up the Fire Mackin train.

Blowin' an' Goin'! Choo Choo!

(11-23-2014 09:43 AM)Taylor Blazer Wrote:  

(11-23-2014 01:26 AM)tibber Wrote:  Clark is gone, regardless. I think we need to start learning to accept this now.

HCBC wants to be here, but the sand in the hour glass is disappearing very fast.

That's how I read it. All the b******* have to do is stall and he'll move on, and they will have killed UAB Football. No decent coach will come here in the aftermath, you might as well pull the plug then.

I'll be saving money on season tickets and donations. Maybe we'll take a nice trip next year.

(11-23-2014 11:45 AM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  

(11-23-2014 09:43 AM)Taylor Blazer Wrote:  

(11-23-2014 01:26 AM)tibber Wrote:  Clark is gone, regardless. I think we need to start learning to accept this now.

HCBC wants to be here, but the sand in the hour glass is disappearing very fast.

That's how I read it. All the b******* have to do is stall and he'll move on, and they will have killed UAB Football. No decent coach will come here in the aftermath, you might as well pull the plug then.

I'll be saving money on season tickets and donations. Maybe we'll take a nice trip next year.

Just don't go to Louisville.

We ain't lost nothin' up that way, no worries. Although actually it was just this side of Blount Springs and my wife still gets the heebee jeebees when we drive that stretch. I don't think she'll ever get over it.

(11-23-2014 11:53 AM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  We ain't lost nothin' up that way, no worries. Although actually it was just this side of Blount Springs and my wife still gets the heebee jeebees when we drive that stretch. I don't think she'll ever get over it.

You know that's in my area of the planet.

(11-23-2014 11:53 AM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  We ain't lost nothin' up that way, no worries. Although actually it was just this side of Blount Springs and my wife still gets the heebee jeebees when we drive that stretch. I don't think she'll ever get over it.

Which game were you on the way back from? Was it Memphis?

We were coming back from the UAB-Kentucky game that was played at Freedom Hall in Louisville. December 14, 2007, a date we'll remember deep in our bones.

(11-23-2014 12:15 AM)FNblazer Wrote:  Wow. Clark didn't hold back on letting his frustrations known. And Mackin was reduced to saying "Times are tough...but we're Blazers." Don't remind me.

There's no "we" in Mackin aka the cowardly lion. When you have a dynamic coach and an exciting team you maintain it by getting that extension done. I personally hope all this silence is part of a huge surprise that leaves me happily apologizing .I've never seen nonsense like this. Gene Bartow's hard work is being destroyed by scummy people and cowardly stooges

Forget the extension for a second...

I'd settle right now for just SOME sort of talk about UAB Football in the future tense. We haven't gotten ANY. Extension could have waited until the season's end had that been the case.

But they've been cowardly, little men with no backbone to speak of.

(11-23-2014 12:25 PM)anubus Wrote:  

(11-23-2014 12:15 AM)FNblazer Wrote:  Wow. Clark didn't hold back on letting his frustrations known. And Mackin was reduced to saying "Times are tough...but we're Blazers." Don't remind me.

There's no "we" in Mackin aka the cowardly lion. When you have a dynamic coach and an exciting team you maintain it by getting that extension done. I personally hope all this silence is part of a huge surprise that leaves me happily apologizing .I've never seen nonsense like this. Gene Bartow's hard work is being destroyed by scummy people and cowardly stooges

Sure is...

(11-23-2014 12:23 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  We were coming back from the UAB-Kentucky game that was played at Freedom Hall in Louisville. December 14, 2007, a date we'll remember deep in our bones.

I thought it was a vandy game and the wife thought it was Memphis.

(11-23-2014 02:08 AM)tibber Wrote:  I am admittedly predisposed to expecting the worst. A decade of following UAB Athletics does that to you.

18 hasn't done it to me.