Quote Originally Posted by touchdown123 View Post
I get UNT/FIU/Rice's problems: metro school with countless other sports teams.

What's surprising about UAB to me is there isn't another sports show in town. Larger towns without professional teams tend to support college teams very well.

Birmingham is a very cool town but it's not Miami. The night life isn't sucking so much oxygen that it prevents UAB from growing it's fan base. All I can figure is Alabama and Auburn are too popular.
This.

I’ve been in Alabama for a week. There are two fan bases: Auburn and Alabama.

UAB, Troy, USA all compete for crumbs. It’s way worse than we have. At least we have a solid core group of fans and have decent name recognition and respect in the area/around the country. In Alabama between the corrupt government and the university cartel, there isn’t any room for other schools.