Football Entry 1 - Thundered by the Herd of Fans...

I wasn't looking forward to it. I didn't even buy my usual Sunday morning paper trying to avoid it. But as fate would have it, I sat down right next to the dreaded 'Snews. And wouldn't you know Section 13c stared my straight in the face, bearing the dreaded news from last night.

Somedays fate is a creul fellow.

I must commend SI (Steve Irvine) on the great job he's been doing covering the Blazers. I'm sure it's hard having to say the same things over and over about a program that's seems to lose it excitement at exactly the same time every year. But the first number on the page does set the tone of the game from Saturday.

O = Zero = Zip = Nada = Nothing

There was no excitement at Legion. There was no feeling. There were no casual fans.

There was the exact opposite of what so many Blazers have been working for for so long. And there's no one person to blame. Just like in the loss to Marshall. Coach Brown can't take all the responsibility, no matter how much he wants to protect his coaches and players from the tounge-lashings of upset fans. You win as a team, and you lose as a team.

Several fans would do good to remember that.

It's like those signs I see going to work saying it's "your team". Well, there are a lot of fans who seem to forget that it's their team too. Or at least they claim it to be their team. Maybe that's why 10 minutes into the game every week hundreds of fans seem to appear from nowhere. Suspiciously, it usualy just around the time that the Bama game ends. Makes you wonder how a program as young as our has survived.

And let's not forget the ones that harp on the fact that they want Coach Brown gone to the point it makes you sick. I, too, am not the biggest fan of Coach Brown at the moment. I'm just as tired of the mid-season collapses as the next person. But, on the other hand, I'm just as sick of all the Watson bashing that's been going on on-line. We all know that he's going to be here till at least the end of the season. Why not give it a rest? Is that just too much to ask? The man has busted his ass for a decade to get UAB Football to where it is today. He deserves better than fans trying to hang him out to dry. And he's earned his chance to be know as just coach and not coach and AD. And, at the end of this season, he deserves a shot at being UAB's next AD, dispite what others may think.