What other message boards are saying (UAB post game edition)

#31
#31
LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
We very much tried to score, and Merk only kneed because it was a bad snap. Are you blind? Heupel absolutely runs tries to run the score up in these situations every time.
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That's what I want. That's what football is to me. Score as many points as you can every game. It doesn't matter who you're playing. That is the right way and teaches our guys to never let up. Just like in life. Don't let up.
 
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I believe you do what you can to protect players when the game is decided. Kicking a directional type school around doesn't show any form of sportsmanship. It sounds like I'm in the minority that I still believe coaches should help teach players to be men and that includes letting another man have dignity in loss. Attempting to humiliate others is a character flaw, not a trait. My values obviously are older and a bit outdated from the way a lot of you see things. If you handle business every game, you don't need style points.
 
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There is definitely a line between running up the score and getting your 3rd and 4th stringers work. Those guys practice hard week in and week out- need the game reps- and it shouldn’t just be hand offs up the middle.

We do flirt with that line sometimes… but the blazers had their starters in the whole game. We weren’t running up anything this game.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
I’m not a coach either but I think I’m right in saying that you all are not possibly as dense as you let on.
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Speaking only for myself, I'm at least as dense as I let on. Still, I know the meaning of the expression running up the score:

"Running up the score (or "piling on") is a sports strategy that occurs when a winning team continues to play in such a way as to score additional points after the outcome of the game is beyond doubt. More sportsmanlike alternatives might include pulling out most of the team's first-string players, or calling plays designed to run out the clock . . . ."

Running up the score - Wikipedia Running up the score - Wikipedia
 
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He didn't "take a knee" watch again, it was a bad snap and I believe he was hoping to have time for one more play. They were trying to score, not running out the clock. Now I'm a believer that if you don't want the other team to score, stop them so I don't have a problem when teams do it to us it's not known as a gentlemen's sport.
heupelsroutetree said:
Disrespectful trying to score on last drive?? That's why he took a knee??
Ok.
Alabama gonna Alabama, regardless of university
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
We very much tried to score, and Merk only kneed because it was a bad snap. Are you blind? Heupel absolutely runs tries to run the score up in these situations every time.
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I disagree, I think he tries to manufacture meaningful downs for the backups to be ready rather than just handing the ball off and running the clock. They need real game experience to be ready to play. By putting in backups you give the other team a better chance to stop you while still allowing your team to get the experience they need. Don't understand how this is debatable or difficult to understand.
 
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INDEFENSE said:
I disagree, I think he tries to manufacture meaningful downs for the backups to be ready rather than just handing the ball off and running the clock. They need real game experience to be ready to play. By putting in backups you give the other team a better chance to stop you while still allowing your team to get the experience they need. Don't understand how this is debatable or difficult to understand.
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Throwing the ball long to the end zone with less than 10 seconds to go in a game you are winning by 30 is trying to run up the score. Kicking onside kicks up 38 is running up the score. Calling timeout with less than 10 seconds to go when you are up by 50+ to try to get a safety is running up the score. If this were the coach of any other team, nobody here would bat an eye at an accusation of running up the score. Personally I’m not bothered by it, but that’s absolutely what he does. I’d rather he not run up the score in these games when he coaches so scared in games against Georgia, but running up the score in and of itself doesn’t bother me. Just wish he didn’t lose his balls when it matters.

It’s clear that it bothers many of you though because of the outright lies many of you are spewing.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
We very much tried to score, and Merk only kneed because it was a bad snap. Are you blind? Heupel absolutely runs tries to run the score up in these situations every time.
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You're right. How dare anyone on here love the Vols. F me.
We should be an eyelash away from death due to our misery and be just like you. You're the only smart one here and we should be on our knees that you grace us with your superior knowledge.
 
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heupelsroutetree said:
You're right. How dare anyone on here love the Vols. F me.
We should be an eyelash away from death due to our misery and be just like you. You're the only smart one here and we should be on our knees that you grace us with your superior knowledge.
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Do you have to deny reality and outright lie in order to love the Vols? No, you need your head examined. I don’t think you even love the Vols. I think what you love is being offended.

I’m not the only smart one here, but make no mistake about it, anyone denying the fact that Heupel runs up the score is either too dumb or too dishonest to ever believe a word that they say.
 
#45
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It’s clear that it bothers many of you though because of the outright lies many of you are spewing.
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Well, it's clear to me you have a limited understanding, and that's putting it mildly. You will be the same guy whining like a little girl when something happens and we are forced to put a backup in in a crucial game with zero real game experience and they play like trash. How in your infinite wisdom and I use that term loosely do you expect them to get real game experience to be ready if the time comes? Do you cry and pout when another teams beats us badly? It's our job to stop them period, each team will do what they believe necessary to prepare their team for the season. You act like you have a superior knowledge to everyone here but your thought process surely doesn't provide evidence of it.
 
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tbh said:
...says the individual pearl-clutching over 2nd and 3rd stringers getting reps running the offense late in a game. The job of UAB's defense is to stop our offense. If they failed to do that, it's on them, bud.
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I’m not pearl clutching. I don’t care that we run up the score. But when someone says we aren’t running up the score, that’s a blatant lie.
 
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INDEFENSE said:
Well, it's clear to me you have a limited understanding, and that's putting it mildly. You will be the same guy whining like a little girl when something happens and we are forced to put a backup in in a crucial game with zero real game experience and they play like trash. How in your infinite wisdom and I use that term loosely do you expect them to get real game experience to be ready if the time comes? Do you cry and pout when another teams beats us badly? It's our job to stop them period, each team will do what they believe necessary to prepare their team for the season. You act like you have a superior knowledge to everyone here but your thought process surely doesn't provide evidence of it.
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Again, I don’t care that we run up the score. It’s the lying about it that prompted me to comment. The only thing I don’t like about running up the score is that Heupel loses his balls in tight moments, so going balls to the wall when it doesn’t matter seems a little odd, but in general I’d like to see us score 100 one day.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
I’m not pearl clutching. I don’t care that we run up the score. But when someone says we aren’t running up the score, that’s a blatant lie.
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The claim that we weren't continuing to try to score is untrue as evidenced by the pass to the end zone on our penultimate play.

The claim that we were trying to run up the score is also untrue as evidenced by the fact that our starters spent the bulk of the second half on the bench.
 
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