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(10-03-2022 06:50 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-02-2022 03:22 PM)rook360 Wrote:  

(10-02-2022 02:39 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  Wow! Didn't see the football thread turning into basketball chat. Nice diversion!

It's UAB. Some how....some way it reverts back to basketball.

which means we are a basketball school again. Thatz wat up!!!

yeaa!!

Weak questions from the media this morning for the morning press conference.

3 Man Front just said that Head Official for Saturday's game was his first official game...

,,some people can not move up in life ,,,,frankly this guy cannot be the head ref in a division 1 game on tv

(10-03-2022 11:43 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  3 Man Front just said that Head Official for Saturday's game was his first official game...

That makes me feel a little better I guess. Like I hope to God the conference wouldn't allow that kind of performance from a seasoned ref, but I'm sure they would bc its a sh!t conference.

He stumbled over his words repeatedly, messed up the downs, didn't know how to turn his mic on/off properly, and the missed call on the first "TD" was egregious.

(10-03-2022 01:02 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(10-03-2022 11:43 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  3 Man Front just said that Head Official for Saturday's game was his first official game...

That makes me feel a little better I guess. Like I hope to God the conference wouldn't allow that kind of performance from a seasoned ref, but I'm sure they would bc its a sh!t conference.

He stumbled over his words repeatedly, messed up the downs, didn't know how to turn his mic on/off properly, and the missed call on the first "TD" was egregious.

He has a future as a late-night DJ. Every time he spoke I expected him to end with and we've got looove all night long.

(10-03-2022 01:05 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(10-03-2022 01:02 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(10-03-2022 11:43 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  3 Man Front just said that Head Official for Saturday's game was his first official game...

That makes me feel a little better I guess. Like I hope to God the conference wouldn't allow that kind of performance from a seasoned ref, but I'm sure they would bc its a sh!t conference.

He stumbled over his words repeatedly, messed up the downs, didn't know how to turn his mic on/off properly, and the missed call on the first "TD" was egregious.

He has a future as a late-night DJ. Every time he spoke I expected him to end with and we've got looove all night long.

Yeah the way he spoke and announced the downs would've been comical if it wasn't so awful.

How about the game production? The down and distance was wrong the entire game. They even got the score wrong. High schools do a better job.

(10-03-2022 11:43 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  3 Man Front just said that Head Official for Saturday's game was his first official game...

Whats that have to do with the hit before halftime?
Mismanagement of the clock and time outs?
Playcalling?

I'll give you the peace sign and roughing the passer helmet hit.
We had 12 penalties for 116 yards. Rice had 10 penalties for 75 yards.

(10-03-2022 01:15 PM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  How about the game production? The down and distance was wrong the entire game. They even got the score wrong. High schools do a better job.

Yes that was totally awful too, but I think those people are at least doing it for free, right?

Somebody actually paid that ref good money for that sh!t show on Saturday.

(10-03-2022 02:02 PM)rook360 Wrote:  

(10-03-2022 11:43 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  3 Man Front just said that Head Official for Saturday's game was his first official game...

Whats that have to do with the hit before halftime?
Mismanagement of the clock and time outs?
Playcalling?

I'll give you the peace sign and roughing the passer helmet hit.
We had 12 penalties for 116 yards. Rice had 10 penalties for 75 yards.

It has nothing to do with how dumb our team and coaching staff was Saturday. He was an awful ref even if we had ZERO penalties

(10-03-2022 11:43 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  3 Man Front just said that Head Official for Saturday's game was his first official game...

And he sounded like he was Chuck Woolery ref'in' an episode of The Love Connection.

(10-03-2022 11:43 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  3 Man Front just said that Head Official for Saturday's game was his first official game...

Not true. He was a C-USA official last season and maybe the season before. He was also the white hat in last year's Rice-UAB game.

(10-03-2022 10:16 AM)blazerblazer Wrote:  Weak questions from the media this morning for the morning press conference.

The press conference questions are always weak sauce.

But this week I knew they would be soft because they'd start the whole thing off with Children's Harbor and have the CEO there like they do so who wants to be that person that turns it into a "how do you feel about your job right now".

Speaking of weak sauce - David Crane addressed penalties DIRECTLY (as much as you would expect from a paid UAB production) in this week's Blazers All Access and Vincent's response was embarrassing. He waffled around trying to find a way not to talk about the team's poor behavior. In general, I find Vincent's interviews very superficial and his answers clearly designed to make him appear in a positive light as an interim coach instead of actual answers.