I'm not sure there would be a realistic point to staying D1 in the other sportsOriginally Posted by Rama Jama
Besides, the conference would not allow us to do so as our name isn't "UAB" so it would be against the bylaws.
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I'm not sure there would be a realistic point to staying D1 in the other sports
Besides, the conference would not allow us to do so as our name isn't "UAB" so it would be against the bylaws.
This is a non-starter.
But if you're going to discuss it, you probably ought to clarify if what you want is FCS (which is D1) or actually D2 (which is a whole 'nother thing).
The trends are always up. D2 can be really fun (as DP has experienced) but lots of D2 schools have been trying to go FCS (just like FCS schools tend to want to be FBS). You can get squeezed in the middle just like you can at the top.
Man…some of us caught hell for saying the Sunbelt was where we needed to land when the AAC passed on us. Now we’re talking about the Southland?
Not even.
If they're being precise (which I'm not so sure of), we're talking about the Great American Conference.
Every team that’s moved up since we joined CUSA has either passed us, or are on par with us. Tech isn’t interested in being a real FBS team, and the results on the field show that. Our goal has always been to be better than the UL twins, and now we have even failed at that. Unless we are going to make a commitment to being at least a competitive G5 team, we should try and focus on other sports besides football.
Accepting failure will only lead to more failure. Think back to how all of Tech’s sports have been crap before and not all that long ago either. Under Simoneaux Tech baseball was purely pathetic. He was the Holtz of the diamond. And remember Lloyd of men’s basketball… Tech just recycles sucking at things without ever quite getting back to greatness.
That doesn’t seem fair. Tech’s been to 7 bowl games in the past 9 years and played in 2 conference championship games.
Goes back much further than that. Around 1990 to be precise. Tech loves doing less with less, that’s their mantra.
And a school that truly cares about those things would be finding ways to build on “success” or SUCCESS. We don’t do that because even when we hire someone who claims to pursue greatness, they fall way short or don’t appear to even try.
Bowl games require winning 5 FBS games and a home game against a FCS team. I would say making a bowl proves you have a pulse, definitely doesn’t show that you’re an elite G5.
You originally said “competitive,” not “elite.”
Don’t forget 5-7 teams sometimes make bowl games so that just goes to show that the majority of bowls are just participation recognition events.
Tyler Grubbs committed to the Green Wave today.
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Good job, Kurt Hester. LOL,
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Hester was probably the man behind the curtain most responsible for Tech’s players’ successes. It wasn’t Holtz or their position coaches.
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