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The strategic plan is of more vital importance to the ongoing success of UAB athletics that an football stadium would ever be.
The sequester and other budget cutting measure on the federal level means that the total amount of research dollars is declining. The SP will devote little money to facilities at all but focus on monies to directly attract new researchers and grant funding. UAB's strategic plan hopefully will increase UABs share of the decreasing pie and UAB can at least break even in research dollars.

On this board we tend to forget that UAB invests 20 million a year in supporting our current ongoing athletic budget. Almost all of this funding for athletics comes from the indirect (overhead) funds generated by research dollars. The threat from diminished research dollars is a direct danger to UAB athletics more than the @#&& BOT has ever been.

I want a OCS and hope we do not give up on it. But our administration rightly has other priorities to solve other UAB problems first. We can think about the BOT opposition to an OCS later