You're the one harping on age. The rest are harping on performance.
You are an ignorant football fan.
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You're the one harping on age. The rest are harping on performance.
We have talent. That's why JG is gone. He was squandering talented kids and was about to let guys like Tylor Harris fall through the cracks.
That's why I abandoned the old staff with my mid season mea culpa
Literally your last post before the one above.
I believe it was early 1980's. Dolphins vs. 49ers? I remember the Dolphins.
It was the '84 season. Roger Craig ran wild and it was Dan Marino's only shot at a ring. I went there in '93 and the old stadium was huge and look like it wasn't touch since the Jim Plunkett years. Cal's stadium was in as bad of shapeAND it was built on a fault line. I went there in '10 and the seat I had was a 2X8with a split in it, extremely uncomfortable and it was Keenan Allens first game.
The medical school in Birmingham is the University of Alabama School of Medicine. The hospital has UAB in it's name but the school doesn't. The undergraduate buildings are directly adjacent to all of the hospital area with the medical school building directly between the two.
It may be the medical school for the University of Alabama system (UofA, UAB, UAH), but it is known as the UAB School of Medicine not the UA School of Medicine. I've got friends who got their M.D. there and I've never heard it referred to as the UA School of Medicine until this thread. http://www.uab.edu/medicine/home/
I am surprised that Grobe wants this job. Obviously, if he takes it, he still wants to coach. Hope the best for him, but UAB is a coaching graveyard. UAb has had 3 coaches since it became an FBS program (Watson Brown, Neil Callaway and Garrick McGee). All had a losing record at UAB (UAB has not had winning record since 2004). None have worked as an FBS coach after taking the UAB job. So, this is a job where coaching careers die.
I will root for Grobe to shock the world at UAB, but I fear a bad ending. The animosity toward Grobe expressed here bums me out. IMO, the good that Grobe massively outweighed the bad as the 3 NFL coaches (Mackovic, Groh and Caldwell) and 1 very well-respected college coach (Dooley) that preceded Grobe did not come close to matching Grobe's record.
I will be 100% behind current board darling Coach Clawson, but will be very interested to compare his coaching record at WF to Grobe when all is said and done. BTW, can't we all hope for both Grobe and Clawson to succeed?
I like Bill Dooley, but there are a few things to remember about his time at WF. For 5 of his 6 years at WF, FSU was not in the conference. Also, there was no FCS division (so, in 1987 WF played OOC games against Richmond, App and Army; in 1988, WF played OOC games against Villanova, Illinois State and App). So, WF's schedule was really weak.
In Dooley's first two years at WF (1987 and 1988), WF went 7-4 and 6-4-1, but those 13 wins came against:
- Duke 2
- Richmond
- App 1 win and 1 tie
- Villanova
- Illinois State
- Army
- UNC 2 (the end of the "Dick Crum" era)
- GT 2
- MD
- State
WF played only two ranked teams each year, and WF played no one ranked higher than 14. If you think the ACC sucks now, it sucked even more then. Each year, the ACC had only one ranked team: UVA in 1987; Clemson in 1988.
After the 1988 season, when Al Groh's recruits were largely gone, Dooley's next 3 seasons were awful (2-19 in the ACC; yes, 2-19, when the ACC did not have FSU, VT or Miami; OOC wins over Tulsa, App State, Vandy, Army, Western Carolina, Navy). Those were 3 very dark years (worse than any season Grobe had). Dooley's last year, 1992, was a special year (Indy Bowl win over Oregon; breaking a long losing streak to Clemson), but Dooley left WF with a bare cupboard as WF went 2-22 in the ACC over the next 3 seasons. Always liked Bill Dooley, but he managed three slightly better than mediocre seasons in 6 years as WF's coach when WF's schedule sucked, and his other three years at WF were flat-out awful.
UASOM is the name of the school. I'm 100% positive of this. The main teaching hospital is called UAB Hospital. All of the residency and fellowship programs are UAB. The medical school may be referred to and thought of as UAB, but the actual name is University of Alabama School of Medicine. I wish you were correct because as a lifelong Auburn fan it bothers me greatly to have a degree from anything that says "University of Alabama"!
Dooley doesn't get enough credit in my opinion. If they had all the bowls and bowl tie ins that we have now when he was coaching, he would've led us to 3 bowl games out of his 6 years as coach. We went 7-4 and 6-4-1 his first 2 seasons, with no bowl invites. We would've gotten one in his second year if we had not tied CrApp State the last game.
I like Bill Dooley, but there are a few things to remember about his time at WF. For 5 of his 6 years at WF, FSU was not in the conference. Also, there was no FCS division (so, in 1987 WF played OOC games against Richmond, App and Army; in 1988, WF played OOC games against Villanova, Illinois State and App). So, WF's schedule was really weak.
In Dooley's first two years at WF (1987 and 1988), WF went 7-4 and 6-4-1, but those 13 wins came against:
- Duke 2
- Richmond
- App 1 win and 1 tie
- Villanova
- Illinois State
- Army
- UNC 2 (the end of the "Dick Crum" era)
- GT 2
- MD
- State
WF played only two ranked teams each year, and WF played no one ranked higher than 14. If you think the ACC sucks now, it sucked even more then. Each year, the ACC had only one ranked team: UVA in 1987; Clemson in 1988.
After the 1988 season, when Al Groh's recruits were largely gone, Dooley's next 3 seasons were awful (2-19 in the ACC; yes, 2-19, when the ACC did not have FSU, VT or Miami; OOC wins over Tulsa, App State, Vandy, Army, Western Carolina, Navy). Those were 3 very dark years (worse than any season Grobe had). Dooley's last year, 1992, was a special year (Indy Bowl win over Oregon; breaking a long losing streak to Clemson), but Dooley left WF with a bare cupboard as WF went 2-22 in the ACC over the next 3 seasons. Always liked Bill Dooley, but he managed three slightly better than mediocre seasons in 6 years as WF's coach when WF's schedule sucked, and his other three years at WF were flat-out awful.