There is no excuse for having a baseball program this bad. Im to the point that if it meant we could focus all our energy on basketball i would get rid of baseball and football. I figure if we cant finish in the top half of our conference in the next couple of years, football is over. We need community support and a team winning 3 or 4 games a year is not going to get it. The football team is not much better.
I noticed Cousins didnt make first team all-state. Is that because he committed to us? GO BLAZERS!
Thanks for sharing your positive attitude.
I noticed Cousins didnt make first team all-state. Is that because he committed to us? GO BLAZERS!
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Building in baseball takes longer than FB or BB. You have relatively few scholarships to divide among many players. Some get books, some get tuition, some get room and board, some get nothing at all. It's not like FB where you have 25 full-ride scholarships to give each year. All "minor (non-revenue) sports" at most schools are in the same boat. EXCEPTION:The states that have revenue from gambling can supplement "minor sports" by special scholarships which our state's coaches have griped about for years.
How about "We need to build our programs across the board." Preferably with ideas on how to scare up more support and dollars.
"We suck, defund everything and close it down, Go Blazers" seems self defeating at best.
I saw UAB here in Memphis over the weekend. Don't jump off any cliffs folks--you have some talent and had a pretty good contingent of fans at the game. They were vocal---your team will be okay. Remember, CUSA is a very good baseball conf.
There is no excuse for having a baseball program this bad. Im to the point that if it meant we could focus all our energy on basketball i would get rid of baseball and football. I figure if we cant finish in the top half of our conference in the next couple of years, football is over. We need community support and a team winning 3 or 4 games a year is not going to get it. The football team is not much better.
I noticed Cousins didnt make first team all-state. Is that because he committed to us? GO BLAZERS!
Schools are required to have a minimum number of sports to remain at Division 1. And CUSA requires a minimum number of sports for full membership. Next...
Don't bring up facts. The sky is falling, and the only way to save UAB Athletics is to shut it down.
Don't bring up facts. The sky is falling, and the only way to save UAB Athletics is to shut it down.
The last time I saw a UAB baseball game, Frank Walton got the save.
*sigh*
There are generally two reasons why a program hires a new coach:
1. Things are going so well, some other school steals the old coach away.
2. Things are going so poorly, the old coach had to go.
Which do you think applies to the programs Neil Callaway and Brian Shoop inherited?
Trainwreck is an apt description.
Rome wasn't build in a day. Come in off the ledge.
And for which reason will we obtain a new football and baseball coach down the road?
Because they retired after multiple national championship runs.
i believe coach shoop will be gone at the end of the season, to mississippi state. far superior facilities, more money, and a chance to coach at an insitution where he used to be an assistant (and coached a guy named Will Clark.) If he finishes in the top 4 of the league again, he should be coach of the year in C-USA.
given time, Shoop will have us consistently in the top 3-4 of C-USA. C-USA is a top tier baseball conference.
He is a quality coach and person.
After spending some time talking to some of the parents the other night and digging into a little of Shoop's past I don't think he will leave. He wants to make his home here and he probably could have had a better job at a bigger named baseball school had he wanted it. I think he is here for the long haul. most of the better players are Freshman and Sophomores so it looks like it will take two more years to compete for a championship.
top 2 hitters are seniors. they are the only Sr. starting position players.
Keedy will have an opportunity at the next level.
one starting pitcher is a Sr.
Shoop is a 'baseball' man. He'll get it done.
UAB is getting the baseball program is asked for.
Shoop will eventually improve things but it will take a long time.
It is harder for UAB to be good in baseball than in any other sport, IMO.
After spending some time talking to some of the parents the other night and digging into a little of Shoop's past I don't think he will leave. He wants to make his home here and he probably could have had a better job at a bigger named baseball school had he wanted it. I think he is here for the long haul. most of the better players are Freshman and Sophomores so it looks like it will take two more years to compete for a championship.
I was wondering about that. My understanding was he wanted to stay in B'ham. He could have gone to a much better school from BSC had he wanted. He also probably could have left BSC if he had wanted to do that as well.
Shoop had plenty of better opportunities than UAB.
UAB has never been committed to having a good baseball program.
In the 80s and 90s that didn't really matter because no schools put a premium on it.
It became a lot harder to be good at UAB in the mid-1990s because all the SEC schools discovered baseball and threw money at their programs. Shoop actually could recruit better players to BSC than UAB for academic reasons.
11.5 schollys don't allow for a quick fix