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The CSS report also tells us those black male students couldn’t simply be acquired from other applicants to the school. Only 289 male applicants were denied admission to UAB last year. That is a shockingly low figure. When considering how important football is as a driver of declining male college applications nationwide, UAB risks becoming a “safety school” with the elimination of its football program, essentially scraping the bottom of the barrel of male applicants to make sure it remains coeducational.
That 12 percent seems high - maybe all athletics rather than just football?
(05-19-2015 07:26 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.sportsdaynow.com/dropping-foo...-from-uab/

The CSS report also tells us those black male students couldn’t simply be acquired from other applicants to the school. Only 289 male applicants were denied admission to UAB last year. That is a shockingly low figure. When considering how important football is as a driver of declining male college applications nationwide, UAB risks becoming a “safety school” with the elimination of its football program, essentially scraping the bottom of the barrel of male applicants to make sure it remains coeducational.

12% of UAB's black male students are football players?
I'm not so sure this has been math'd right...
Oh good...it's a race issue now
I read it to mean that the effect of not having football would cost us that.

I think about football players, siblings that follow them to school, friends that come with them and just the general student who wants to go to a football school so they can go to games in the fall.

Losing football creates more than just a decline in players. And it could cost us 12% of our African American males.
(05-19-2015 07:57 AM)58-56 Wrote: [ -> ]That 12 percent seems high - maybe all athletics rather than just football?

CSS report specifically says football players.
(05-19-2015 08:15 AM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]Oh good...it's a race issue now

Not really. Black males just aren't applying to UAB. Without football this number will decrease dramatically, though...
(05-19-2015 08:23 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]
(05-19-2015 08:15 AM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]Oh good...it's a race issue now

Not really. Black males just aren't applying to UAB. Without football this number will decrease dramatically, though...

Oh...so that's not a race issue? Got it
(05-19-2015 08:24 AM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]
(05-19-2015 08:23 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]
(05-19-2015 08:15 AM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]Oh good...it's a race issue now

Not really. Black males just aren't applying to UAB. Without football this number will decrease dramatically, though...

Oh...so that's not a race issue? Got it

Its only a race issue if someone makes it so. Merely stating percentages doesn't do it. In fact, this brief article speaks as much, if not more, about the decline in overall male enrollment in colleges nationwide. Change the title a bit and its not even really a discussion.
(05-19-2015 08:23 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]
(05-19-2015 08:15 AM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]Oh good...it's a race issue now

Not really. Black males just aren't applying to UAB. Without football this number will decrease dramatically, though...

Then we need to fix that:

a. Our diverse student body is one of UAB's true strengths and,
b. We know from the sorostitute scandal, "welfare blacks" and Bryant Bank mortgage policy that our chief enemy is an out-and-out racist piece of **** and his minions aren't much better. That which brings pain to Junior, pleases me.
Considering who we are dealing with, race probably was a factor :(
Lets not stretch this too far.
(05-19-2015 08:24 AM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]
(05-19-2015 08:23 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]
(05-19-2015 08:15 AM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]Oh good...it's a race issue now

Not really. Black males just aren't applying to UAB. Without football this number will decrease dramatically, though...

Oh...so that's not a race issue? Got it

So what if it is? If something happens that drastically reduces minority enrollment, we should probably do something about it. UAB's diversity is something I'm proud of, as opposed to the continuing situation at UA...
So that poster a couple of months ago right, and we should call Jesse and Al?
Racism or not, it could just be a practical reality that football contributes massively to our diversity (which is a real on paper strength of UAB) and gives us another reason to reinstate football.

From my recollection as an undergrad, I believe the number.
(05-19-2015 08:15 AM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]Oh good...it's a race issue now

I'll just clarify that I don't think racism was behind the shutdown, obviously we know the real reasons. It's not to the level that a civil rights case needs to be made, but if you're weighing the pros and cons, increased diversity is definitely a pro.
(05-19-2015 09:50 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]So that poster a couple of months ago right, and we should call Jesse and Al?

Don't even joke like that. They are like Beetlejuice- say their name three times and those yahoos might show up.
I'd pose this question to the president of a traditional urban university:

If you heard that 10% of your black male student population was leaving next year, how much would the university invest to prevent that from happening?
(05-19-2015 07:57 AM)58-56 Wrote: [ -> ]That 12 percent seems high - maybe all athletics rather than just football?

Edit: NEVERMIND. 12% number is accurate.
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