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What else can we do to help change this decision? Every day that passes is another nail in the coffin. Ideas??

(12-08-2014 11:05 AM)HellBlazer Wrote:  What else can we do to help change this decision? Every day that passes is another nail in the coffin. Ideas??

Other than getting a no confidence vote in Watts and convincing him to change his decision nothing can be done short term.

This is a long term fight. And, I hate to type this sentence but...

Chances are great that there will be no UAB Blazer football next year.

This is the Start the WAR..in which UAB Will WIN and BE FREE!

UAB will not field a football team as long as Ray L. Watts, MD is president.

He must go. He must go now.

The Faculty Senate effort is now in the hands of our friends inside. And we have a lot of them. Joining the students at Cudworth Hall tomorrow will help a great deal: remember that we're there to support our friends.

We have ongoing media-contact efforts. Those help.

It would really, really help if the Foundation stepped up with something positive to channel energy into (a donation drive or something). There's a lot of will and energy that's starting to get diverted to arguments with each other. That would be a hint, Foundation guys.

Like Nick says, we're fighting for long-term goals. There are still a few days for a miracle to happen, but I've found that miracles don't happen if you sit back and expect them. So we fight.

(12-08-2014 11:15 AM)Smaug Wrote:  UAB will not field a football team as long as Ray L. Watts, MD is president.

He must go. He must go now.

This will not be won with one decisive blow, but a succession of jabs, the removal of Watts is imperative to the overall objective. Ergo, the bastage has got to go!

I feel so powerless. I may do something rash.....

First, the Faculty Senate tomorrow morning. Then keep the pressure up in every way we can. If nothing else, the first day of next semester, raise hell in front of Admin again, and keep doing it daily. He thinks it will die off, that the students will forget.

I think he is very wrong.

Graduation ceremonies next weekend are big also.

(12-08-2014 04:01 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  First, the Faculty Senate tomorrow morning. Then keep the pressure up in every way we can. If nothing else, the first day of next semester, raise hell in front of Admin again, and keep doing it daily. He thinks it will die off, that the students will forget.

I think he is very wrong.

We can't afford to let him be right about us this time.

(12-08-2014 04:01 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Graduation ceremonies next weekend are big also.

This could be an explosive moment in time if that scoundrel shows his face at the ceremony.

If he has the guts. He's a coward.

If the Head Coach and coaching staff break up along with the majority of the players leaving UAB before the decision is reversed we are facing a worse situation than SMU did in 1988 when they received the death penalty from the NCAA. They had a well formed, rich - but corrupt - booster club and supportive administration. They had facilities, money and a history of a few national championships. They had 1 winning season during the 20 years it took to get their program back on course in 2007. They were without a program for one year! We have a BOT that will not let us improve facilities, hire decent coaches and don't want UAB to have football in any form at all. Until the UA BOT is out of the picture, regardless of Watts, we can't even start the climb back to what we tasted this season.

I think we may have three weeks at the most.

We were gone for two years and honestly what is going on with you is far worse

(12-09-2014 11:41 PM)blzrclub80 Wrote:  If the Head Coach and coaching staff break up along with the majority of the players leaving UAB before the decision is reversed we are facing a worse situation than SMU did in 1988 when they received the death penalty from the NCAA. They had a well formed, rich - but corrupt - booster club and supportive administration. They had facilities, money and a history of a few national championships. They had 1 winning season during the 20 years it took to get their program back on course in 2007. They were without a program for one year! We have a BOT that will not let us improve facilities, hire decent coaches and don't want UAB to have football in any form at all. Until the UA BOT is out of the picture, regardless of Watts, we can't even start the climb back to what we tasted this season.

I think we may have three weeks at the most.

You are absolutely right, and the only entity who can put effective pressure on the BOT in that time frame is our local legislative delegation. I cannot believe we are not putting substantial effort in persuading the state senators and legislators who represent us to join our fight. I spoke to my senator and representative and they were very receptive. We know that the folks in Huntsville are not happy with the BOT. If the Birmingham and Huntsville area delegation were to make a public statement that they are going to go into the January legislative secession with a firm resolve to reorganize the BOT if this injustice is not reversed immediately, the BOT would react favorable in my opinion.

(12-09-2014 11:57 PM)CajunBlazer Wrote:  

(12-09-2014 11:41 PM)blzrclub80 Wrote:  If the Head Coach and coaching staff break up along with the majority of the players leaving UAB before the decision is reversed we are facing a worse situation than SMU did in 1988 when they received the death penalty from the NCAA. They had a well formed, rich - but corrupt - booster club and supportive administration. They had facilities, money and a history of a few national championships. They had 1 winning season during the 20 years it took to get their program back on course in 2007. They were without a program for one year! We have a BOT that will not let us improve facilities, hire decent coaches and don't want UAB to have football in any form at all. Until the UA BOT is out of the picture, regardless of Watts, we can't even start the climb back to what we tasted this season.

I think we may have three weeks at the most.

You are absolutely right, and the only entity who can put effective pressure on the BOT in that time frame is our local legislative delegation. I cannot believe we are not putting substantial effort in persuading the state senators and legislators who represent us to join our fight. I spoke to my senator and representative and they were very receptive. We know that the folks in Huntsville are not happy with the BOT. If the Birmingham and Huntsville area delegation were to make a public statement that they are going to go into the January legislative secession with a firm resolve to reorganize the BOT if this injustice is not reversed immediately, the BOT would react favorable in my opinion.

This isn't out of the question. Fifteen years ago I would have called you delusional to think the state legislature would ever consider reconfiguring the BOT. I'm not too sure now. Huntsville and Birmingham areas would at least be willing to listen to the idea. Auburn-Opelika area doesn't give a rip about Tuscaloosa. Mobile is Bama through and through, though, and so too are all the little rural seats all over the state. To change something like this in this state, though, would take a combination of things, including a united front between UAB and UAH, a lot of serious lobbying money in Montgomery, plenty of negative publicity and some sort of major freaking scandal. (And I mean a scandal that would make the elimination of UAB football read like a footnote.)