South Alabama's First Football Game

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While it's not that great of a chant, I have to admit that "South in your mouth" is ten times better than the "M-S-Boooooooooo" I heard all night a couple of years ago when we played them in basketball in Mobile.
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patdog

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That program is going to hurt USM bad over the next decade and longer.
 

topdawg.sixpack

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And to a certain extent UAB, Central Florida and the emergence of South Florida. Bower use to rake guys from Alabama (Nix boys) and Florida panhandle (Lee Roberts), but now they have have other non BCS D-1 schools closer to home.
 

patdog

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Miami was just beginning to come into national prominance, Florida was just a mediocre SEC program, and Florida State was just a regional non-conference school that had to play "anyone, anywhere, anytime" just to get games.
 

Optimus Prime 4

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and while I wouldn't want him as our coach, it's a big name for a brand new program. Hardware never hurts. But they're trying to follow the UCF model. They plan on scooping up TX talent, and there's plenty of it.
 

Maroon Eagle

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Bower was named head coach at USM in time for the All-American Bowl in 1990. He coached that one bowl game and USM didn't return to a bowl until '97 which is when the Eagles began dominating C-USA.

Before Bower was named head coach, Miami had won national championships and Florida State was already dominant (I think they were a #2 playing #1 Oklahoma in the Orange, does that sound right?). Florida was a mediocre SEC program though.

By the time USM became C-USA's dominant program in the late 1990s, Florida State and Florida had won national titles.