(07-30-2021 03:08 PM)deb025 Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 02:13 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 01:03 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 08:02 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  No USM fans have any interest in games against USA or Troy in football.

That's false..

(07-30-2021 11:57 AM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  Troy is a HARD NO.

Err.. and where was FAU mentioned in that post? I sure didn't see it. Just your weird Troy obsession again.

Not as weird as your obsession with the "lesser" conference's forum...I have never been to the sunbelt forum...LOL

No kidding. There's some App and ULL posters that post over here more than they do on the Sunbelt forum. Of course their moderator is now making his rounds. He's a real piece of work. It's really pathetic to be honest.

The neckster from Laturd.

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(07-30-2021 09:10 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 08:02 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 11:34 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  Perhaps SBC could make sense for you.
USM can jumpstart its athletic department again via local rivalries with South Alabama and Troy.
Marshall is weirdly similar culturally and institutionally with App, Coastal, and Southern. Even your fans give of similar vibes for good or worse.
I can see UAB developing "Battle of I-20" thing with GSU. easy 2hrs drive. only separated by the GA/AL border. Atlanta/Birmingham would be good travels and plenty to do during a day trip.

No USM fans have any interest in games against USA or Troy in football.

Don't look at THIS year's schedule then . . .

Wow, going to Mobile and hosting Troy. Y'all have no interest at all.

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(07-31-2021 08:14 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 09:10 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 08:02 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 11:34 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  Perhaps SBC could make sense for you.
USM can jumpstart its athletic department again via local rivalries with South Alabama and Troy.
Marshall is weirdly similar culturally and institutionally with App, Coastal, and Southern. Even your fans give of similar vibes for good or worse.
I can see UAB developing "Battle of I-20" thing with GSU. easy 2hrs drive. only separated by the GA/AL border. Atlanta/Birmingham would be good travels and plenty to do during a day trip.

No USM fans have any interest in games against USA or Troy in football.

Don't look at THIS year's schedule then . . .

Are any USM fans excited about our schedule? I don’t know one.

A lot of USM fans will be at the USA game to see Coach Hall's first game and because they want revenge on USA (who completely OWNED us in 2020, even in baseball). Troy is a team with a similar history to USM, LaTech and Marshall that most USM fans respect and that we've had good series against in the past.

(07-31-2021 08:33 AM)everyone Wrote:  

(07-31-2021 08:14 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 09:10 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 08:02 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 11:34 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  Perhaps SBC could make sense for you.
USM can jumpstart its athletic department again via local rivalries with South Alabama and Troy.
Marshall is weirdly similar culturally and institutionally with App, Coastal, and Southern. Even your fans give of similar vibes for good or worse.
I can see UAB developing "Battle of I-20" thing with GSU. easy 2hrs drive. only separated by the GA/AL border. Atlanta/Birmingham would be good travels and plenty to do during a day trip.

No USM fans have any interest in games against USA or Troy in football.

Don't look at THIS year's schedule then . . .

Are any USM fans excited about our schedule? I don’t know one.

I'm excited to play two of the Alabama teams on our schedule this year.

This is the first time it has clicked for me that we play 4 of the 5 FBS Alabama schools this year!

(07-30-2021 01:28 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 08:02 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 11:34 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  Perhaps SBC could make sense for you.
USM can jumpstart its athletic department again via local rivalries with South Alabama and Troy.
Marshall is weirdly similar culturally and institutionally with App, Coastal, and Southern. Even your fans give of similar vibes for good or worse.
I can see UAB developing "Battle of I-20" thing with GSU. easy 2hrs drive. only separated by the GA/AL border. Atlanta/Birmingham would be good travels and plenty to do during a day trip.

No USM fans have any interest in games against USA or Troy in football.

Pretty much how we feel but I don't mind playing South in basketball as we do have a nice history with them. I have zero desire to play Pike Co in anything.

not that any of this bs matters, but usm’s mantra back in the day was once, “ANYONE. ANYWHERE. ANYTIME.” … iTTT TTThen TTTurned inTTTo “TTT”… TTThat we chasTTTise TTTo TTThis #daygaydumb…

@hangsheadAtTripleT

they always come in treys, Ja?!

(07-31-2021 07:11 PM)MUther Wrote:  

(07-31-2021 06:37 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(07-31-2021 05:40 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(07-31-2021 12:29 AM)MUther Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 09:43 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  I could see a Marshall-App State rivalry being huge, probably of the Troy-South Battle for the Belt huge.

I'd say you should get out more. If we play a game once a decade it's already bigger than a Troy/USA game. If we played yearly in the same conference it would be the only game that mattered in that conference most years. More smack, more hate, more attendance. It's a crime it doesn't happen now that way and that COVID ****** up last year's opportunity to pack the stands. If we went at it while both of us were 0-11 we'd brag for 40 years on being the team that went 1-11 that year.

From 1986 to 1996 the Marshall/Appy game was basically the defacto SoCon Championship game. In that 10 year span, 9 times the winner of that game won the SoCon. Even CBS knew how well that game should be as they flexed the game from CBSSports at 6:00 to CBS at 3:30. That game didn't have to be flexed, there were 22 other games that could have got that spot.

If Marshall and Appy played every year it would crush what Troy and South Alabama does or even what Troy and UAB does.

UAB and Troy don't DO anything. We've played a few times.

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Yeah that one's more like contempt than rivalry. You guys don't even recognize their existence let alone refer to them.

You realize Troy has a winning record vs UAB in football? Troy is 7-4 in 11 total meetings. Basketball is a different story but Troy has never been a basketball school. UAB is a great university and has a really good athletics program. I get why they don’t want to share conference with Troy and that’s fine. We have different visions and nothing is wrong with either.

(07-30-2021 08:02 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 11:34 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  Perhaps SBC could make sense for you.
USM can jumpstart its athletic department again via local rivalries with South Alabama and Troy.
Marshall is weirdly similar culturally and institutionally with App, Coastal, and Southern. Even your fans give of similar vibes for good or worse.
I can see UAB developing "Battle of I-20" thing with GSU. easy 2hrs drive. only separated by the GA/AL border. Atlanta/Birmingham would be good travels and plenty to do during a day trip.

No USM fans have any interest in games against USA or Troy in football.

Every USM fan has more interest in playing USA and Troy than they do in playing any school in CUSA not named La Tech or Marshall.

(08-01-2021 08:11 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(07-31-2021 08:14 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 09:10 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 08:02 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 11:34 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  Perhaps SBC could make sense for you.
USM can jumpstart its athletic department again via local rivalries with South Alabama and Troy.
Marshall is weirdly similar culturally and institutionally with App, Coastal, and Southern. Even your fans give of similar vibes for good or worse.
I can see UAB developing "Battle of I-20" thing with GSU. easy 2hrs drive. only separated by the GA/AL border. Atlanta/Birmingham would be good travels and plenty to do during a day trip.

No USM fans have any interest in games against USA or Troy in football.

Don't look at THIS year's schedule then . . .

Are any USM fans excited about our schedule? I don’t know one.

A lot of USM fans will be at the USA game to see Coach Hall's first game and because they want revenge on USA (who completely OWNED us in 2020, even in baseball). Troy is a team with a similar history to USM, LaTech and Marshall that most USM fans respect and that we've had good series against in the past.

Agreed. Im excited about the schedule bc its one of the easiest we have had in the history of the program, at a much needed time. Coach Hall is a badass and will be able to turn this very important season into 10+ wins headed into conference realignment. Eight wins is minimum.

Troy is 7-5 vs UAB but Troy has won 3 of the last 4 meetings with UAB winning the last meeting 48-10 in 2014.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/uab/vs/troy

(08-01-2021 12:37 PM)Reggie Favre Wrote:  

(07-30-2021 08:02 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 11:34 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  Perhaps SBC could make sense for you.
USM can jumpstart its athletic department again via local rivalries with South Alabama and Troy.
Marshall is weirdly similar culturally and institutionally with App, Coastal, and Southern. Even your fans give of similar vibes for good or worse.
I can see UAB developing "Battle of I-20" thing with GSU. easy 2hrs drive. only separated by the GA/AL border. Atlanta/Birmingham would be good travels and plenty to do during a day trip.

No USM fans have any interest in games against USA or Troy in football.

Every USM fan has more interest in playing USA and Troy than they do in playing any school in CUSA not named La Tech or Marshall.

I can see why the fans have no interest in playing WKU since USM is 0-4 in football and 1-10 in bball against the Tops.

(08-01-2021 08:11 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  A lot of USM fans will be at the USA game to see Coach Hall's first game and because they want revenge on USA (who completely OWNED us in 2020, even in baseball). Troy is a team with a similar history to USM, LaTech and Marshall that most USM fans respect and that we've had good series against in the past.

I don’t understand the “even in baseball” qualification. USA is 67-37 all-time against USM in baseball, so it’s not like it’s unusual for us to be successful against you guys in that sport (even in your good seasons).

(08-01-2021 09:09 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  Troy is 7-5 vs UAB but Troy has won 3 of the last 4 meetings with UAB winning the last meeting 48-10 in 2014.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/uab/vs/troy

Troy also beat UAB many times while y'all were in CUSA 1.0, and Troy was still 1AA.

UAB tends to have an unwarranted elitist attitude, very much like La Tech fans have towards the Cajuns and ULM. Yet you don't have the history or tradition to go along with it, at least in football.

(08-02-2021 12:19 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(08-01-2021 08:11 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  A lot of USM fans will be at the USA game to see Coach Hall's first game and because they want revenge on USA (who completely OWNED us in 2020, even in baseball). Troy is a team with a similar history to USM, LaTech and Marshall that most USM fans respect and that we've had good series against in the past.

I don’t understand the “even in baseball” qualification. USA is 67-37 all-time against USM in baseball, so it’s not like it’s unusual for us to be successful against you guys in that sport (even in your good seasons).

"Even in baseball" was due to that being the only sport we did well in 2020/21, not as a disrespect of the USA baseball program.

(08-02-2021 07:04 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-01-2021 09:09 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  Troy is 7-5 vs UAB but Troy has won 3 of the last 4 meetings with UAB winning the last meeting 48-10 in 2014.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/uab/vs/troy

Troy also beat UAB many times while y'all were in CUSA 1.0, and Troy was still 1AA.

UAB tends to have an unwarranted elitist attitude, very much like La Tech fans have towards the Cajuns and ULM. Yet you don't have the history or tradition to go along with it, at least in football.

Beating UAB prior to Bill Clark meant absolutely nothing. I'm not knocking Troy or the program you guys have, just stating that fact. Here were the UAB teams you beat:

2-10
2-10
3-9
5-7
5-7
5-6
9-2

The last two were non D1 seasons for UAB, I'm assuming Troy as well.

Louisville left in 2005, so I believe you guys had one win against us while in CUSA 1.0 (2002)

And Troy transitioned to D-1 in 2001 unless the Internet is wrong.

(08-02-2021 10:55 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(08-02-2021 07:04 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-01-2021 09:09 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  Troy is 7-5 vs UAB but Troy has won 3 of the last 4 meetings with UAB winning the last meeting 48-10 in 2014.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/uab/vs/troy

Troy also beat UAB many times while y'all were in CUSA 1.0, and Troy was still 1AA.

UAB tends to have an unwarranted elitist attitude, very much like La Tech fans have towards the Cajuns and ULM. Yet you don't have the history or tradition to go along with it, at least in football.

Beating UAB prior to Bill Clark meant absolutely nothing. I'm not knocking Troy or the program you guys have, just stating that fact. Here were the UAB teams you beat:

2-10
2-10
3-9
5-7
5-7
5-6
9-2

The last two were non D1 seasons for UAB, I'm assuming Troy as well.

Louisville left in 2005, so I believe you guys had one win against us while in CUSA 1.0 (2002)

And Troy transitioned to D-1 in 2001 unless the Internet is wrong.

I know UAB wasn't great back then. My whole thing was more aimed at the fact that UAB doesn't even "recognize our existence" comment when Troy does hold the series lead in football. Regardless, I wish we did play as non-conference opponents more. It's just good for the state of Alabama.

(08-02-2021 11:50 AM)Troy_Fan_15 Wrote:  

(08-02-2021 10:55 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(08-02-2021 07:04 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-01-2021 09:09 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  Troy is 7-5 vs UAB but Troy has won 3 of the last 4 meetings with UAB winning the last meeting 48-10 in 2014.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/uab/vs/troy

Troy also beat UAB many times while y'all were in CUSA 1.0, and Troy was still 1AA.

UAB tends to have an unwarranted elitist attitude, very much like La Tech fans have towards the Cajuns and ULM. Yet you don't have the history or tradition to go along with it, at least in football.

Beating UAB prior to Bill Clark meant absolutely nothing. I'm not knocking Troy or the program you guys have, just stating that fact. Here were the UAB teams you beat:

2-10
2-10
3-9
5-7
5-7
5-6
9-2

The last two were non D1 seasons for UAB, I'm assuming Troy as well.

Louisville left in 2005, so I believe you guys had one win against us while in CUSA 1.0 (2002)

And Troy transitioned to D-1 in 2001 unless the Internet is wrong.

I know UAB wasn't great back then. My whole thing was more aimed at the fact that UAB doesn't even "recognize our existence" comment when Troy does hold the series lead in football. Regardless, I wish we did play as non-conference opponents more. It's just good for the state of Alabama.

I believe that there is a four game H&H series split by a H&H with South Alabama later this decade. I have no problem playing Troy as the games seem to draw well.

(08-02-2021 07:04 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-01-2021 09:09 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  Troy is 7-5 vs UAB but Troy has won 3 of the last 4 meetings with UAB winning the last meeting 48-10 in 2014.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/uab/vs/troy

Troy also beat UAB many times while y'all were in CUSA 1.0, and Troy was still 1AA.

UAB tends to have an unwarranted elitist attitude, very much like La Tech fans have towards the Cajuns and ULM. Yet you don't have the history or tradition to go along with it, at least in football.

Its a complex some of our fans have because UAB was either mocked or totally dismissed by football fans in this state for so long. Now that we "matter" its being projected onto you guys. Totally unwarranted.

(08-02-2021 10:55 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  Beating UAB prior to Bill Clark meant absolutely nothing. I'm not knocking Troy or the program you guys have, just stating that fact. Here were the UAB teams you beat:

2-10
2-10
3-9
5-7
5-7
5-6
9-2

The last two were non D1 seasons for UAB, I'm assuming Troy as well.

Louisville left in 2005, so I believe you guys had one win against us while in CUSA 1.0 (2002)

And Troy transitioned to D-1 in 2001 unless the Internet is wrong.

I mean, beating UAB prior to Bill Clark still had meaning. Teams in CUSA were relevant back then, even if they were losing. Overall though that's a fair assessment.

(08-02-2021 11:50 AM)Troy_Fan_15 Wrote:  I know UAB wasn't great back then. My whole thing was more aimed at the fact that UAB doesn't even "recognize our existence" comment when Troy does hold the series lead in football. Regardless, I wish we did play as non-conference opponents more. It's just good for the state of Alabama.

I like the UAB/Troy match-up for the simple fact both fanbases genuinely don't like each other, and it makes for close games with intense fan reactions. It's not a forced hatred like Troy vs. South Alabama sometimes feels.

I have no issue with the Troy football series by the way. It’s a short drive and typically well attended game.

(08-02-2021 07:04 AM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(08-01-2021 09:09 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  Troy is 7-5 vs UAB but Troy has won 3 of the last 4 meetings with UAB winning the last meeting 48-10 in 2014.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/uab/vs/troy

Troy also beat UAB many times while y'all were in CUSA 1.0, and Troy was still 1AA.

UAB tends to have an unwarranted elitist attitude, very much like La Tech fans have towards the Cajuns and ULM. Yet you don't have the history or tradition to go along with it, at least in football.

What?

Troy has never beaten UAB while Troy was IAA and UAB was in CUSA.

Your first two wins were the year after we first moved to IAA from DIII and Troy was ranked at some point #1 that season.

I have no problem playing troy a HH once in a while. I also would rather play other programs as well. I have ZERO desire playing Troy HH in basketball but we are and I'll attend the games and cheer for my program. I do like their Arena. Very nice. I just cannot stand many of their trash talking fans that ruin a game day experience. It's not friendly trash talk either it's put up your fists and fight kind of talk. I'm sure the posters here that love the CUSA forum are great people. Many of the **** heads at the games not so much.