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Post: #81
RE: Where is our AD in all of this mess?
I wrote an email to Dr Watts and I asked him politely what makes him think we will be given what is necessary to succeed in basketball? Once football is gone our Board of Trustee's is going to start doing the same things they have done to football.
11-07-2014 03:48 PM
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RE: Where is our AD in all of this mess?
(11-07-2014 03:22 PM)Matrix Wrote:  
(11-07-2014 02:52 PM)hooverblazer Wrote:  
(11-07-2014 01:39 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  
(11-07-2014 11:48 AM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  Everybody wanted Dr. G gone because she wouldn't fight. She is gone and we got Ray-Ray. Now you want Mackin gone because he won't fight. Who will that get us for an AD .... Finis the 5th ?

The difference is that Dr. G played the martyr and wasn't scared to be one once they pushed her to the edge (which is why she is now gone). We wouldn't even have a foot to stand on had Garrison not pushed through with the stadium proposal when she was asked not to. She decided to stop chasing a dangling carrot and put all of her cards out on the table. Had she not explicitly made the board REMOVE it from the agenda (rather than UAB pull it themselves), we wouldn't have some of the good will we have with the public eye now.

In my opinion, Garrison sacrificed herself at the end of Act II, to set us up for one hell of an Act III.

Very good portrayal. I wonder where she is now though? She could come forward with a lot of dirt.

She won't... I have a feeling she entered into a contractual "vow of silence" with them.

To the tune of $25,000 a month, from what I've heard. I have no idea how much longer she has, but wouldn't it be nice if it ran out before the end of football season?
11-07-2014 03:49 PM
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Post: #83
RE: Where is our AD in all of this mess?
The Frozen 100 may sit on their hands at basketball games, but there are a lot of old-time Gene Bartow deep pockets fans among them. I wish I knew how to get across to them that if we lose football, hoops will wind up dropping several levels in conference foes. They'l light up Watts and Mackin right damn quick if that ever dawns on them.
11-07-2014 03:54 PM
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RE: Where is our AD in all of this mess?
Brian Mackin is a Blazer, and a nice guy I'm sure, but he has not been a good AD.
11-07-2014 06:53 PM
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RE: Where is our AD in all of this mess?
I believe Mackin's $300,000/yr contract ends in 2016, like Coach Clark's, like the scheduled non-conference football games. I don't believe in this many coincidences! On another point, losing the football program ends the marching band which I understand adversely affects the Music Department and variety of students it can attract. Thirdly, some have mentioned the A-10 as a likely landing spot for a non-football athletic program. None of the schools are close by and why would UAB be attractive to them based our poisonous BOT? I think this may be a perfect storm to eliminate all athletic programs at UAB. Of course, the study may be the ammunition the BOT needs to finally solidify solidify the future of UAB football, extend AD and HFC contracts AND build a wonderful OCS we can all be proud of! Just saying!
11-08-2014 12:20 AM
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RE: Where is our AD in all of this mess?
(11-07-2014 02:32 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  
(11-07-2014 12:58 PM)AnimeBlazer Wrote:  If we lose the game Saturday because of this distracting BS I think honor demands that each and every co-conspirator in this half-baked plot commit ritual suicide behind the fence on the 50 yard line at the start of the Marshall game.

If we lose this game because the players are distracted, it's on Watts for not being able to say we will for sure field a football team even next year, let alone in 2016. That is not on the fans.

Keep your daggers sharp!
11-08-2014 08:43 AM
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