“Nine years ago (when the AAC formed), a lot of people doubted us,” AAC commissioner Mike Aresco said. When the AAC's new schools will begin play in their new league has not yet been determined. The AAC will compete as a 14-team league in football and men’s and women’s basketball, among other sports. All six schools are leaving Conference USA and will join the nine continuing members – East Carolina, Memphis, Navy (football only), South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa and Wichita State (basketball and Olympic sports only) – to bring the AAC's membership to 15 schools. UTSA, North Texas, Rice, Charlotte, FAU and UAB have each been approved for membership by the AAC.
UAB CONFERENCE REALIGNMENT SERIES
His first UAB team was 31-25 overall and 13-17 in 2022 with a season-opening sweep of Northwestern, a series win against Rice and a midweek victory over Alabama.The American Athletic Conference has officially expanded to 14 teams, the league announced Thursday morning. He is 61-20 in two-plus seasons at his present post.Ĭasey Dunn became coach of the Blazers in June 2021 after 17 seasons at nearby Samford. He was 21-13 at Cincinnati in 2005-06 and went 245-156 in 12 seasons at Ole Miss. Senior guard Jordan Walker is averaging 23.8 points and 4.3 assists.īlazers coach Andy Kennedy started his college playing career at N.C. The Blazers are currently 12-5 overall and 3-3 in C-USA after an 80-78 home loss to Western Kentucky on Wednesday night. In games between the 2001-14 seasons, the Pirates were 6-12 against UAB. Vintavious Cooper ran for 126 yards and three scores. 16, 2013, Shane Carden passed for 347 yards and five TDs in a 63-14 ECU win at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The last time the Pirates played the Blazers on Nov.
He donned an old UAB jersey that his mother was wearing and helped put the game away with a 91-yard interception return for a TD and a punt return to the ECU 3-yard line that set up a score. His jersey was cut off as medical personnel checked out a possible neck injury.īrooks was cleared in an on-site X-ray. Pirate radio analyst Kevin Monroe had a 25-yard fumble return for a touchdown.īlazers defensive back Rodregis Brooks was taken off the field on a stretcher in the second quarter. UAB was coached by Watson Brown, brother of North Carolina coach Mack Brown. The Blazers trailed a 7-1 ECU team that was ranked at the half, 17-6, at Legion Field. The Blazers play two-time national champion Georgia on the road on Sept. Protective Stadium, where ECU won the Birmingham Bowl, 53-29, over Coastal Carolina on Dec. The Blazers used to play their home games at Legion Field. Trent Dilfer, who quarterbacked Baltimore to the Super Bowl XXXV championship, is the new coach of the Blazers.ĮCU has a 9-4 record against the Blazers, including 5-1 in Greenville. Junior quarterback Dylan Hopkins threw for 1,716 yards and nine touchdowns in 2022.
The Blazers were 7-6 overall in 2022 with a 4-4 record in C-USA, UAB had a 24-20 win over Miami of Ohio in the Bahamas Bowl. Open in 2010.įigures for 2020 showed UAB with roughly 22,000 students, including about 13,500 undergraduates. Bartow’s teams had a string of seven straight NCAA Tournament berths.įootball was halted at UAB after the 2014 season due to projections regarding expenses but was reinstated and the Blazers returned to the gridiron in 2017 and won the C-USA championship that year. Basketball started in 1978 under coach and athletic director Gene Bartow, who was John Wooden’s successor at UCLA. The institution became a four-year campus in 1966 and a fully autonomous university in the University of Alabama system in 1969. The University of Alabama at Birmingham, now known as UAB, developed from an academic extension center established in 1936. That time frame for the Pirates began in 1997 and lasted through the 2013-14 school year. Know the foe: UABĮast Carolina battled the Blazers on a regular basis when both belonged to C-USA. In preparation for the AAC’s new era, View from the East will examine the incoming programs and what they bring. Those fees should help offset the increase in the number of programs sharing league revenue.
Some will be brand new opponents for the Pirates.ĮCU paid $2.5 million over five years to join the AAC, so presumably, the first thing Alabama-Birmingham, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice and Texas-San Antonio will bring is money. The American Athletic Conference will have a vastly different membership in the 2023-24 scholastic year.ĪAC pillars Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston are scheduled to join the Big 12 and the American will bring in a half dozen institutions from Conference USA in its realignment.Įast Carolina has competed against some of the new members in the past.
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