(05-21-2015 05:24 AM)ShoreBuc Wrote:  If bringing back UAB Football accomplishes nothing else other than pissing off the BOT and the Bama idiots that run it, then I am all for bringing back UAB Football

On a serious note during ECU's Bowl game with Florida I actually spent time wandering around Birmingham and for the first time the UAB campus. The UAB campus is very nice and if they could figure out a way to get an OCS that was on a Tulane type scale I think they would have an opportunity to finally grow. Better to have 20k fans in a 30k seat stadium and eventually having the problem of not having enough seats with 30k, than to play in a empty old dump like Legion Field. I can't think of too many programs that could grow in an environment like Legion.

That was the plan in 2011. The OCS was going to go almost right next to Region's Field and have 27.5k seats and expansion available.

Right now we have right around 15 million in donations pledged to return football and another large announcement coming in the 10-20 million range supposedly. It still looks like Watts is not going to reinstate the programs regardless of money raised. I can't fathom a university turning down 25+ million dollars in donations. It's ridiculous.