UAB to allow free transfers

BillySee58 · December 2, 2014

UAB players allowed free transfer as school shuts down football program http://t.co/pRCepwouc3
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December 2, 2014

BillySee58 · December 2, 2014

Also talks about UMASS, Liberty, and UMass as potential replacements.

UNTFan23 · December 2, 2014

Also talks about UMASS, Liberty, and UMass as potential replacements.

MTSU and WKU do not agree with the aforementioned schools being suggested.

Cerebus · December 2, 2014

Also talks about UMASS, Liberty, and UMass as potential replacements.

UMASS? They don't fit the footprint, CUSA needs a western replacement since Charlotte is coming in next year.

No way the CUSA presidents vote to be associated with Liberty. I know for a fact the NT academic leadership would burn down Apogee before agreeing to be in the same conference as Libery, where faculty are required to sign documentation stating they believe the earth is ~6000 years old.

And UMASS... didn't we just talk about them?

ColoradoEagle · December 2, 2014

IF another school is added to replace UAB, I hope they take their time and evaluate what they're doing before the conference takes on another FIU.

emmitt01 · December 2, 2014

We should go after several of the players. It is clear from our game against them that they'd be an upgrade. Hell, just get the QB...this way we KNOW that Mac will have a kid worthy of a D1 scholarship.

BillySee58 · December 2, 2014

Who we add aside (since we already have another thread talking about that), I wonder if we pursue their qb. He was a JUCO transfer and sure lit us up. I'd imagine he will be well sought after.

Travis · December 2, 2014

And UMASS... didn't we just talk about them?

I laughed.... out loud.

Cerebus · December 2, 2014

Who we add aside (since we already have another thread talking about that), I wonder if we pursue their qb. He was a JUCO transfer and sure lit us up. I'd imagine he will be well sought after.

Their big RB Jordan Howard (6'1" 230) has two year left and ran for 1,587 YD 13 TD. Would love to see him with us next year.

MEANGREENCOACH2 · December 2, 2014

Plz plz get some of their players!!

NorthTexan95 · December 2, 2014

They have any decent linemen? That and a quarterback would be our biggest needs.

untcampbell · December 3, 2014

Well their defensive line looked all conference the day we played them, if I recall.

GMG

Edited December 3, 2014 by untcampbell

akriesman · December 3, 2014

This is just sad

UNTexas · December 3, 2014

This is just sad

Yes but could we get the whole team? They looked awesome against us. Edited December 3, 2014 by UNTexas

Coach Andy Mac · December 3, 2014

Greer could play an important role in ushering in some transfers as he played at UAB.

UNT90 · December 3, 2014

Greer could play an important role in ushering in some transfers as he played at UAB.

Great point, but would he considering what happened this season?

NT03 · December 3, 2014

Great point, but would he considering what happened this season?

And is he even going to be here next season ??

I highly , highly doubt we land anyone from UAB

golfingomez · December 3, 2014

are scholarships honored for those players if they just decided to stick around UAB?

Army of Dad · December 3, 2014

are scholarships honored for those players if they just decided to stick around UAB?

The statement I saw said that scholarships would be honored if a student-athlete decides to stay at UAB.

oldguystudent · December 3, 2014

Libery, where faculty are required to sign documentation stating they believe the earth is ~6000 years old.

I an genuinely curious as to whether Turner Gill had to sign something like that or not.

MeanGreenWithEnvy · December 3, 2014

It would be wonderful if we could convince some or all of Cody Clements (Jr. / QB), Jordan Howard (So. / RB), Jake Ganus (Jr. / LB), Rolan Milligan (Jr. / S), Robert Mondie (Jr. / DT), and/or Darius Williams (So. / CB) to join the Mean Green family and play out their careers here. Four of those guys are one-and-done, though, and on a team that so strongly values paying dues and earning your way onto the field, I wonder what the guys already here would think of four dudes, all accomplished, coming in for one year and presumably sliding into starting positions. I would hope the players already here to embrace them, but that's never a safe assumption to make.

I don't believe we realistically have a shot at any of those guys, though. None of them have Texas ties, and given the question marks surround our recruiting, I don't see much of a shot that we could land any of them.

As long as we're dreaming, I wonder if you could pitch all these guys or some other combination of guys to join the Mean Green family as a group?

More realistically, they have a redshirt freshman #2 QB from Houston.

I feel horrible for all the Blazer players. They turned things around and they're still getting screwed because of circumstances beyond their control. There's too much of that going on these days, both inside college football and in life in general.

Edited December 3, 2014 by MeanGreenWithEnvy

Cerebus · December 3, 2014

Rumor is that Troy is going to sign several of their coaches after this season. If anyone has an inside track to land the top players it's probably them.

foutsrouts · December 3, 2014

Greer could play an important role in ushering in some transfers as he played at UAB.

Brent Osborn originally verbaled to UAB before signing with Georgia Southern, so maybe he would want to help....oh that's right, forget it.

Withers940 · December 3, 2014

Rumor is that Troy is going to sign several of their coaches after this season. If anyone has an inside track to land the top players it's probably them.

I was going to say that we could sign one of their coaches and that would help out a lot in possibly pulling in some of their players