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Yep. Like I said. Without autonomy the return of football is nothing more than window dressing.

Football is just one battle. The fight goes on!

Watts will not be at UAB in 5 years so the point about Watts nixing the program if donations slip past year five is Mute er Moo er MOOT!

Did the Confederacy win the Civil War when they won the First Battle of Bull Run?

Who says we are going to stop once football is reinstated? I won't

(05-22-2015 05:38 PM)BlazintheATL Wrote: [ -> ]Yep. Like I said. Without autonomy the return of football is nothing more than window dressing.

In the bigger picture that is correct.

Getting football back will be arguably the greatest stand UAB has ever successfully taken against the old money thugs.

It most certainly isn't window dressing. It's a shot over the bow.

**** with the bull. Get the horns.

But unless change is made with goverence of UAB, no sports or academics at UAB will be safe.

The point made loud and clear is that we must continue the fight until total victory. including board reform or freedom, because the alternative is total defeat. Defeat in football means further defeats. The important point to draw, even if it is clumsily written, is that we can't stop with football.

I think I'd worry about getting football back first.

(05-22-2015 07:04 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote: [ -> ]But unless change is made with goverence of UAB, no sports or academics at UAB will be safe.

Exactly. Footballs return is/will be great but as long as people who don't have our best interest at heart are making the decisions there will always be a cap on it. For it to reach its potential and sustain it there will have to be investments made by the administration, which will require the approval of the BOT. That's not going to happen under this regime and it's unlikely to happen under any future regime unless we are given equal and proper representation.

Change is already coming. Nobody beats father time.

Witt and Cubby will gone before Halloween, and good riddance. Watts won't be here another year.

There is a battle going on for the soul of the BoT as we speak, and little ole nobody-cares-about UAB football caused it.

(05-22-2015 07:39 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]Change is already coming. Nobody beats father time.

Witt and Cubby will gone before Halloween, and good riddance. Watts won't be here another year.

There is a battle going on for the soul of the BoT as we speak, and little ole nobody-cares-about UAB football caused it.

Hubris, plain and simple. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall...

Everyone has always underestimated us; that is our current advantage. To them, we are just a nameless rabble that will not put up or shut up. They think they are so far above us that they can not see us standing next to them. We are the nameless few; they think we are a vocal minority. Let them think it. If they can not see us, they can not fight us.

They will never be able to understand us; they will never have the experience that we are enduring right now.

For me, I am just getting started - getting our lost teams restored is only the first hurdle in what I expect to be a long race that ends with a good, decent, fair-minded, honest UAB president and UAB having some sort of control over itself. On the way, I expect there will be other fights that will need our help.

Like Captain Kirk, I do not believe in the unwinnable scenario.

The Vietnamese are the nameless few. They had little in the way of the sorts of arms and advantages we did.

They ran us out of Vietnam. They ran the French out before us. They've held off the Chinese for a thousand years.


It was a rabble who didn't fight fair and hid behind trees that ran the British out of the Thirteen Colonies.

I'm good with being part of the rabble.

Kyle's article omits one key factor: for the UAB haters on the BOT and I would say a large segment of the rest of Alabama, there is nothing more important than college football. Bryant Jr. and a sea of Bammers don't really care about Tuscaloosa's academic standing, its finances outside athletics, or really anything not related to Crimson Tide football. As long as the Tide is in the hunt for a title then everything is great, don't change a thing. The reason Bryant Jr. wants to hurt UAB isn't because he hates Birmingham. He hates Gene Bartow's legacy and UAB's sports program. His father didn't want the competition and that is the heart of the issue even today.

I'm not saying it's right but college football has an influence and importance in this state unlike anywhere else in the U.S. That's one reason it is so important to get the program re-established. Freeing UAB football from its death sentence is what will eventually lead to freeing the rest of UAB.