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Davis was canned for stuff off the court. Only way HCRE does no get his four years is if it is a losing season and boosters buy his contact out.

Just think if some had their way we would have been in the middle of an FBI probe.

Jason "Jet' Terry didn't end up in a probe.

(11-21-2018 08:17 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 07:17 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 06:46 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  We fired Mike Davis for getting much better results and one bad season following the death of his cousins in the summertime and the death of his mother at the beginning of preseason camp.

Pretty sure neither of those led him to text people he shouldn't have been texting.

Got it :) and on top of that he was lazy on the job
He was thinking that he was 2 good for UAB and he was not

And ever since he's lazily made more NCAA tournaments than UAB , since his firing. Might make the tourney at his new school before UAB dances again.

Davis took too many chances on high risk players trying to get a better job. Instead of building a program he was trying to pull of one good season to move up. He failed.

(11-22-2018 01:02 PM)UAB Schnauzer Wrote:  Davis took too many chances on high risk players trying to get a better job. Instead of building a program he was trying to pull of one good season to move up. He failed.

Still UAB has the same number of bids as Davis did during his tenure since his departure. Funny how few still talk about his tenure, how's he doing now?

He has done well there. No one said he has not. We won’t even get into his competition or relaxed standards he enjoys. I have always liked at least one of his bi polar sides.

(11-22-2018 12:38 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 08:17 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 07:17 PM)58-56 Wrote:  [quote='BlazinBham' pid='15690389' dateline='1542844006']
We fired Mike Davis for getting much better results and one bad season following the death of his cousins in the summertime and the death of his mother at the beginning of preseason camp.

Pretty sure neither of those led him to text people he shouldn't have been texting.

Got it :) and on top of that he was lazy on the job
He was thinking that he was 2 good for UAB and he was not

Big Dee wrote And ever since he's lazily made more NCAA tournaments than UAB , since his firing. Might make the tourney at his new school before UAB dances again.



I agree XCMD would coach circles around Coach Eshan, that's a fact, he was a good XO coach. He was not much for kissing the babies, or the rings of big donors...that's was his biggest sin..everything else is assumptions not based on any facts on record.
Now having said that, my Coach is Coach Eshan, and I believe he is headed in the right direction, he only need to coach the team up...that is lacking with the coach and his staff, I have not noticed improvement with the pass three teams, last years being the worst as far as not improving.

And the answer is yes football still drives the expansion train.

If y'all will quit feeding Big Dee's mancrush on XCMD, maybe he will quit bringing him up 28 times a season. That dude almost caused more trouble than FRW. Let the bromance end Dee, XCMD isn't coming back to UaB.

(11-22-2018 05:01 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  If y'all will quit feeding Big Dee's mancrush on XCMD, maybe he will quit bringing him up 28 times a season. That dude almost caused more trouble than FRW. Let the bromance end Dee, XCMD isn't coming back to UaB.

Mancrush lol, wow. What trouble almost happened?

You figure it out Dee. You are the all knowing.

(11-22-2018 06:02 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  You figure it out Dee. You are the all knowing.

Never said that, I obviously don't know what trouble he caused. I just remember things being reported differently.

Kinda like how I wished McGee best wishes, until he left I thought the BOT conspiracy talk was just crazy talk. I look at him as the spark to where football is now.

With regard to Wichita State, you are overlooking the obvious. They have a damn good, winning basketball team. The AAC includes a number of schools that value their MBB programs. Including WS as a basketball member improves the TV schedule and the strength of schedule across the league as a whole at little cost to the conference. They bring value in a way other than football that few other schools could have, including consistently bringing home money in NCAA credits. If they ever do return to football they'll be an easy W for conference teams for some years as well.

From 2010 forward:

2010-11 29-8, 2nd in MVC, won the NIT.

11-12 27-6, won the MVC, 5 seed in the NCAA.

12-13 30-9, lost in MVC semis, NCAA Final Four.

13-14 31-0, won the MVC, lost to Kentucky in rd 2 of the NCAA, final record 35-1.

14-15 30-5, lost in MVC final, lost in NCAA Elite Eight.

15-16 26-9, MVC reg season champ, lost in NCAA 2nd round.

16-17 31-5, MVC champ, lost in NCAA 2nd round.

17-18 25-8, lost in NCAA 1st round.


Wichita St. was AP nationally ranked in all these seasons, and ranked in the AP final rankings in all but two of them. They won 25 games or more in all of these seasons. Seven consecutive years that they brought home NCAA credits, creating value for the school and the conference both.

That's how you get an invite without football. UAB had no chance to move up based on MBB (compare the season stats, if you are feeling masochistic), and football was a boat anchor on those hopes until Clark was hired.

We don't have a major donor worth over 50 billion dollars

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That too.

(11-22-2018 03:23 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  I have always liked at least one of his bi polar sides.

(11-23-2018 02:40 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  With regard to Wichita State, you are overlooking the obvious. They have a damn good, winning basketball team. The AAC includes a number of schools that value their MBB programs. Including WS as a basketball member improves the TV schedule and the strength of schedule across the league as a whole at little cost to the conference. They bring value in a way other than football that few other schools could have, including consistently bringing home money in NCAA credits. If they ever do return to football they'll be an easy W for conference teams for some years as well.

From 2010 forward:

2010-11 29-8, 2nd in MVC, won the NIT.

11-12 27-6, won the MVC, 5 seed in the NCAA.

12-13 30-9, lost in MVC semis, NCAA Final Four.

13-14 31-0, won the MVC, lost to Kentucky in rd 2 of the NCAA, final record 35-1.

14-15 30-5, lost in MVC final, lost in NCAA Elite Eight.

15-16 26-9, MVC reg season champ, lost in NCAA 2nd round.

16-17 31-5, MVC champ, lost in NCAA 2nd round.

17-18 25-8, lost in NCAA 1st round.


Wichita St. was AP nationally ranked in all these seasons, and ranked in the AP final rankings in all but two of them. They won 25 games or more in all of these seasons. Seven consecutive years that they brought home NCAA credits, creating value for the school and the conference both.

That's how you get an invite without football. UAB had no chance to move up based on MBB (compare the season stats, if you are feeling masochistic), and football was a boat anchor on those hopes until Clark was hired.

I think the other key in there is that their coach hasn't left yet. Marshall has interviewed, but WSU has at least 3-5 more years until somebody big gets desperate enough to pony up his asking price.

I do genuinely like Ehsan, but at this point we're basically just keeping him around and hoping that he'll eventually find his way and turn into Wes Miller at UNCG.

(11-21-2018 12:41 AM)BlazinBham Wrote:  If we don’t keep Football, the whole athletic department would’ve crumbled. The declining status of our basketball program began long before the shutdown and there’s never been much outrage. Unless Ehsan goes on a tear this year and makes the NCAA tournament, I don’t see us getting much better without a coaching change.

We just counted a win vs a d2 team as our 800th win. We can’t even compete in CUSA right now and it’s gotten so bad that we’ve had to schedule those type of games to float above .500

Gene Bartow counted several wins against D2 teams. We have played D2 teams all thru our history. It didn’t just start recently

Yep. Even lost to one. Not even HCRE has done that lol

(11-22-2018 01:30 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  

(11-22-2018 01:02 PM)UAB Schnauzer Wrote:  Davis took too many chances on high risk players trying to get a better job. Instead of building a program he was trying to pull of one good season to move up. He failed.

Still UAB has the same number of bids as Davis did during his tenure since his departure. Funny how few still talk about his tenure, how's he doing now?

Lower the bar enough and anyone can succeed.

From God’s lips to your keyboard.