I’ve bashed my favorite college team enough to be confused for an Alabama fan…
But hey, there is one thing to look forward to:
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I’m going to go watch the Blazers take on WKU tonight. WKU is an old Sun Belt rival of UAB’s and UAB leads the series 18-8. It should be a good game as the Blazers have been picked to tie Memphis for the CUSA title and WKU has been picked to win the Sun Belt title outright.
But back to the Steal Mill…
UAB had a record setting game against South Carolina State Sunday:
The Blazers, who have led the NCAA in steals per game an unprecedented three straight years, notched a school-record 23 steals and forced another school record in 38 opponent turnovers. UAB won the game, 79-48.
Squeaky Johnson led the way, setting new UAB and Conference USA single-game records for steals with 12. He was one shy of Mookie Blaylock’s NCAA record of 13.
Hat tip to StunnerJR over at BlazerTalk for the Steal Mill name.
And he’s getting there fast…
UAB’s AD states that UAB’s HC will return for 2006 season.
5-6 on the season.
59-65 (.476) in 11 years at UAB.
91-142 (.391) in 21 years as a head coach.
Enough said.
UAB traveled to El Paso Texas this past weekend to take on Mike Price’s Miners. The Miners had broken into the top 25 for the second year in a row and were favored to win over a struggling UAB football team attempting to salvage something from it’s 10th year as a Div-1A football program.
UTEP dominated the first quarter by controlling the ball for over 11 minutes. However, all of that time on the field only resulted in one field-goal after a gutsy faked field goal attempt late in the quarter resulted in another set of downs, but a missed field-goal in the end.
The Blazers took charge in the 2nd Quarter, scoring 21 unanswered points, two of which came off of UTEP turnovers.
UTEP had an opportunity to turn the game in their favor in the 3rd Quarter, but a spectacular 82 yard punt return was called back due to a clipping penalty.
UAB was able to hold on to their lead, ending the game with a final score of 35-23.
This marks the second time that UAB has beaten a top 25 ranked team after the Blazers took on 17th ranked ECU at Legion Field in 1999 (UAB 36, East Carolina 17).
All in all, it’s par for the course for UAB football. We beat and/or play very very well against teams that we shouldn’t have a chance against (UAB 13, LSU 10 Sept. 23, 2000; #4Georgia 16, UAB 13 Oct. 25, 2003; #16 Undefeated TCU 27, UAB 24 Oct. 18, 2003) and we lose to teams that we should wax the field with (SMU 28, UAB 27 Oct. 8, 2005; Tulane 59, BCS#24 UAB 55 Oct. 23, 2004). A win this weekend against ECU will put us in bowl contention, but there is little chance that we’ll end up anywhere except for the New Orleans Bowl (being played in Shreveport this year).
Oh, and speaking of the Blazers:
Google ranks my website first for the phrase Fire Watson Brown. Despite the fact that I’ve only mentioned that phrase once in the history of my blog (well, twice now 
). The freaking website FireWatsonBrown.com doesn’t even show up in the first 4 pages!
To see other interesting search phrases that bring people to my site click here.
OH SNAP!
How did I make a post about football, living in the state I do, and not mention the IronBowl!
Ok, this should make up for it:
Brodie Croyle is so emo.
I bitched about the cancelation of Arrested Development last week, well here’s how one of its cast members feels about how well Fox handled their show….
David Cross (who plays Tobias Fünke on AD) waxes poetic about how well Fox handles brilliant shows:
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Be careful because you may get dork all over yourself…
*post title shamelessly stolen from Fark.com - you submitted this link with an un-funnier headline.