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SERIES HISTORY Season Opener Overall ................................................. Alabama State leads 2-1 NR/NR ALABAMA STATE (0-0, 0-0 SWAC) at NR/NR UAB (0-0, 0-0 CUSA) Division I era (UAB) ............................................ UAB leads 1-0 Thursday, August 29, 2019 // 7:00 p.m. // Birmingham, Ala. // Legion Field Last Meeting .........................................UAB won 45-10 (2008) HORNETS BLAZERS TELEVISION: ESPN+ Head Coach: Donald Hill-Eley Head Coach: Bill Clark Play-by-Play ...............................................................Curt Bloom Record at ASU: 9-8 (3rd) Record at UAB: 25-14 Analyst .....................................................................Chad Pilcher Career Record: 68-84 (14th) Career Record: 36-18 Last: def. Mississippi Valley State, 31-24 Last: def. Northern Illinois, 37-13 RADIO: HORNET SPORTS NETWORK FLAGSHIP STATION: WVAS 90.7 FM OPENING KICK AFFILIATES: WKXN 95.7 FM, WKXK 96.7 FM, WKXN 102.7 FM, s Alabama State looks to rebound from a late season slide that saw them Big KD 94.1 FM, WZKD-AM 950 fall down to fourth place in the SWAC East Division. That is exactly FREE ONLINE: BamaStateSports.com where they picked to finish in the Preseason Poll, voted on by the Play-by-Play ..........................................................Travis Jarome head coaches and sports information directors this season. They were Analyst ..................................................................Derik Williams picked to finish behind defending Alcorn State, Alabama A&M and Analyst .................................................................Jay C. Coleman Jackson State; while they were picked to finish ahead of Mississippi Sideline ........................................................................Rob Taylor Valley State in the East Division. Engineer .......................................................................Jay Holcey s The Hornets will open the season on the ESPN family of networks, the Producer .................................................................Mel Marshall first time they will have done so in the modern era under head coach Donald Hill-Eley in his second full season, third overall. PREGAME: HSN s A win Thursday night would be the second consecutive season that the Hornet Nation Gameday ..........................................6:30 p.m. CT Hornets will have started the season off with win, both under Eley. Last season, they defeated Tuskegee in overtime at the Labor Day Classic to SOCIAL MEDIA: #STATEofMIND kick off the season. Alabama State has not won back-to-back season Twitter/Instagram .......................................... @BamaStateFB openers since the 2010-2011 seasons in which they combined for 15 Twitter ........................................................@BamaStateSports wins, including finishing the 2011 season 8-3. Facebook ........................................................BamaStateSports s Alabama State and UAB have met just three times in school history, Snapchat ........................................................BamaStateSports with the Hornets winning two games against UAB in the early stages of Ezra Gray was named First Team Return Specialist in the ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS the Blazers’ program. UAB won the last meeting 45-10 back in 2008. In SWAC, before earning the same honors from Phil Steele the seasons that the Hornets defeated UAB (27-24 in 1994 and 13-3 in the summer - one of nine players to earn honor. Director / Primary Contact ...............................Travis Jarome 1995), Alabama State finished with a combined 14 wins. The Hornets Phone (cell).........................................................(334) 294-1475 finished 6-5 in 1994 after a season-opening win over UAB, and finished SEASON OPENERS (since 2005) Phone (office) ................................................... (334) 229-2601 8-3 in 1995 with a season-opening win over the Blazers. Email ............................................................tjarome@alasu.edu 2005 South Carolina State L, 14-27 Twitter ..............................................................@Travis_Jarome s Alabama State’s all-time winningest coach, Houston Markham (Jr.), won 2006 Troy L, 0-38 Twitter (football) ............................................ @BamaStateFB both of his games against UAB during his career. The 11-year head 2007 Jacksonville State W, 24-19 coach passed away earlier this summer, but not before he finished 2008 Florida A&M L, 20-30 Asst. Director / Secondary Contact .................Eric Evans II with a 65-50-4 record (before forfeits handed a few more wins) from 2009 Concordia W, 38-33 Phone (cell)........................................................(919) 358-0356 1987 through 1997. 2010 MVSU W, 34-6 Phone (office) ...................................................(334) 229-2635 2011 MVSU W, 41-9 Email ............................................................. [email protected] KEY STORYLINES 2012 Bethune-Cookman L, 28-38 Twitter ............................................................@TheSecond_SID s Thursday will mark the second Thursday game for the Hornets, as they 2013 Jacksonville State L, 22-24 closed out the 2018 season with the Turkey Day Classic; and the game 2014 Sam Houston State L, 20-51 will be one of two on Thursday this season. 2015 Tennessee State L, 14-24 s The last time that UAB and Alabama State met to open the season came 2016 UTSA L, 13-26 in 1995, when the Hornets claimed a 13-3 victory before finishing the 2017 Tuskegee L, 6-14 season 8-3 - winning their last six games of the season. The last time the two met was in 2007 - the third game of the season. 2018 Tuskegee W, 26-20 2019 Schedule / Results at UAB Tuskegee Kennesaw St Grambling St Alcorn St at Jackson St Alabama A&M at MVSU at TX Southern at Florida St PVAMU Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Montgomery, AL Montgomery, AL Montgomery, AL Jackson, MS Birmingham, AL Itta Bena, MS Houston, TX Tallahassee, FL Montgomery, AL August 29 September 7 September 14 September 21 October 5 October 12 October 26 November 2 November 9 November 16 November 28 7 pm 5 pm 5 pm 5 pm 2 pm 2 pm 2:30 pm 1 pm 2 pm TBA 2 pm MEDIA INFORMATION MEDIA INFORMATION WEEKLY SCHEDULE Interviews All interview requests for football head coach Donald SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Hill-Eley and any Alabama State assistant coaches and players MUST be coordinated through the Athletic Practice Practice Practice Availability Game #1 Availability Availability Strategic Communications Office. 7:00 am 7:00 am 7:00 am None at UAB None None 7:00 pm Players are available for interviews, either in person or on the phone, or before or after practice depending on SWAC Call Availability their class and meeting schedules. 10:00 am Post Practice Availability (Eley and players) Post Game In order to have time to arrange for player interviews, please provide 48 hours notice to the Athletic Strategic Coach’s Show Communications Office. Player interviews may be 6:00 pm conducted at the Houston Markham Football Complex or in the Athletic Strategic Communications Office. The Al- abama State training rooms, locker rooms, weight room and meeting room areas are off-limits to the media. Your SWAC TELECONFERENCE WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE cooperation is appreciated. The weekly head football coaches teleconference for the Alabama State head football coach Donald Hill-Eley will Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) will begin hold his weekly press conference each Wednesday morning For telephone interviews, the student-athlete will be Monday, August 26 and will continue through November 18. at 11 am inside ASU Stadium. The press conference will provided with the number and will make the call at a take place in the Media Room located in the tunnel directly mutually-agreed upon time. Phone numbers of Each teleconference call will start at 10:00 am until behind the East End Zone. student-athletes will NOT be made available to the me- approximately noon central time. Each coach is scheduled dia. For interviews with head football soccer coach Don- to be available for 8-10 minutes each week for questions. The press conference normally will last 30-45 minutes ald Hill-Eley and/or Alabama State assistant coaches, each Wednesday and will begin with an opening statement please contact Travis Jarome in the Athletic Strategic Media representatives who wish to participate should from the head coach. Communications Office. consult the conference weekly release or the SWAC Communications Office for details. A recording of each The weekly press conference will be open to the media Practice Coverage teleconference call will be available by the end of the only, not to the general public. A transcription of the press In general, Alabama State practices, held at the Hous- business day Mondays on SWAC.org under the Football conference will be posted on BamaStateSports.com later ton Markham Complex, are open to the local media and sports page under the subhead “Media Teleconference in the day, along with an archived stream of the press the public. Recordings.” conference. Website Media members and coaches who are not asking or For media attending the press conference, please contact Updated statistics, game recaps, game notes, player answering questions at the time should mute their phone Travis Jarome with any questions that may arise. If the and coaches’ bios, newspaper articles, as well as histor- line by pressing “4*” to avoid background noises and other date and time change, all media will