No matter who is advising, it is inappropriate for UAB to be speculating about where they will end up.
"Your mom goes to college." Kip Dynamite
It was inappropriate to speculate about closing football before the Carr Report came back, too.
Screw that noise.
What is shameful is that Watts clearly had no plan nor any meaningful preliminary thoughts and ideas about the future of our athletics programs without football. Any sensible person making such a huge move would have planned out what would happen next.
It's as if he didn't care what happened next! As long as football was dropped, he was satisfied.
Screw Watts................
(04-30-2015 07:56 AM)the Dragon Wrote: [ -> ]What is shameful is that Watts clearly had no plan nor any meaningful preliminary thoughts and ideas about the future of our athletics programs without football. Any sensible person making such a huge move would have planned out what would happen next.
It's as if he didn't care what happened next! As long as football was dropped, he was satisfied.
I can believe Watts didn't fully understand the conference implications of his action, but I can't say the same about his masters on the BOT - and they would be in no hurry to inform their "tool". They are experts at destruction of whatever displeases them and UAB athletics would be no exception.
While the termination of UAB football would be the dominant topic, I can believe they knew what might happen as "later shoes began to fall" and ultimate, less immediately obvious, problems would come to light. Here we are on May 1st not yet knowing the full price UAB will pay for the BOT's actions.
I am playing devil's advocate for just a moment here, but it sounds like "it's inappropriate to speculate" is code for "we have to make sure we don't look like we had the fix in on the CSS numbers one way or the other."
(04-30-2015 03:20 PM)UABslant Wrote: [ -> ]I am playing devil's advocate for just a moment here, but it sounds like "it's inappropriate to speculate" is code for "we have to make sure we don't look like we had the fix in on the CSS numbers one way or the other."
I'd have to look it up, but I'm pretty sure that Pumpkinhead was glad to "speculate" that UAB would remain in CUSA during the handful of times he faced actual press questions.
Speculation may generate questions they hope will not come up until later this summer when much of the current anger has passed.
Did Al.com edit the headline for that article? I thought it had the speculation line in it.