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We were all upset when the POS Watts vetoed Schwartz and OKSR. What's your thoughts now? I'm kind of glad... CSS was basically his hand-picked firm AND we got OKSR's report thanks to boosters. That's two reports in favor of reinstating football.
I'm very pleased with the extensive CSS Report. I'm still pissed the OSKR Report was denied, but boosters came to the rescue. The Carr Report has been proven to be worthless, just like Watts and the Bryant Bank UABOT.
I kinda feel like this report gives Watts a lot of wiggle room, which he will exploit in order not to bring back football.
I agree, Tibber. But had he let OKSR finish their work, he probably would have used their "bias" as a way to deny the return. I like their report WAY better but this way we got two reports, one positive and one somewhat positive.
In denying football's return Watts and Co would be PUBLICLY turning away millions of dollars in the short term and, potentially, tens of millions in the future...
The OKSR was report ensured that the CSS report would not be another Carr report special.
Quote:RE: Are we glad Watts vetoed OKSR now?

Nope. Although, I'm glad that Watts can't say that the report is biased as he did with Rascher & Schwarz (2015), the CSS report still has many inaccuracies that that inflate the costs of that athletic department.
CSS Didn't Do us any favors
I disagree that CSS didn't do us any favors. It put some of what we already knew into an "official", UAB-Recognized document, that makes the Carr report look like utter crap...

...oh wait, it already looked like crap before the CSS report came out. My bad.
While CSS could have been more favorable, I do think that it did us a favor. It gave a specific "doughnut hole" number that will easily be covered by outside funds. Yes, it would have been better for it to have said we make money or that we cannot function without football but at least it was HIS report and we'll meet what it says versus him letting OKSR continue then claim bias after June 1 when we're already kicked out of C-USA.
The CSS report allows THEM to save "some" face.
(05-19-2015 02:57 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]The CSS report allows THEM to save "some" face.

Good point. That's probably very important at this point.
(05-19-2015 02:57 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]The CSS report allows THEM to save "some" face.

Good point. Let's see if they use that opportunity.
I'm not at all sure that the CSS report looks as favorable as it does if the OSKR report had never been written. I believe that the CSS report is essentially the OSKR the using NCAA inspired cost accounting number (which I predicted they would use for a number of reasons).

However, I agree with the point already made that by vetoing OSKR as "biased" and essentially forcing the Task Force to use CSS, Watts essentially married himself to the CSS numbers. If the "donut hole" is filled with reliable pledges, and it certainly will be to overflowing, to reject bringing back football Watts would have to stoop to a low level not even he has thus far reached. (Not that I believe he is not capable of doing so.)

What I found truly remarkable about the CSS report is that the way that they went in a hugely positive way beyond the numbers to recommend the return of UAB football. Even Watts may have a hard time getting past that endorsement.

All of the said, I think that we owe Andy Schwarz a huge vote of thanks from the Blazer nation for joining us in our fight early on. Without him we would have had no evidence that the Carr report was the piece of 01-rivals it obviously was and the CSS report may have been a lot less favorable. Andy has promised travel to Birmingham to attend a Blazer football game when the program is reinstated, hopefully as my guest. I know he is going to hold me to the dinner I owe him. We all need to find a way to properly thank him then.
(05-19-2015 07:04 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not at all sure that the CSS report looks as favorable as it does if the OSKR report had never been written. I believe that the CSS report is essentially the OSKR the using NCAA inspired cost accounting number (which I predicted they would use for a number of reasons).

However, I agree with the point already made that by vetoing OSKR as "biased" and essentially forcing the Task Force to use CSS, Watts essentially married himself to the CSS numbers. If the "donut hole" is filled with reliable pledges, and it certainly will be to overflowing, to reject bringing back football Watts would have to stoop to a low level not even he has thus far reached. (Not that I believe he is not capable of doing so.)

What I found truly remarkable about the CSS report is that the way that they went in a hugely positive way beyond the numbers to recommend the return of UAB football. Even Watts may have a hard time getting past that endorsement.

All of the said, I think that we owe Andy Schwarz a huge vote of thanks from the Blazer nation for joining us in our fight early on. Without him we would have had no evidence that the Carr report was the piece of 01-rivals it obviously was and the CSS report may have been a lot less favorable. Andy has promised travel to Birmingham to attend a Blazer football game when the program is reinstated, hopefully as my guest. I know he is going to hold me to the dinner I owe him. We all need to find a way to properly thank him then.

I agree. We owe a lot to Andy. (UAB owes him a lot of $$. I hope he sues to get it!)
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