Take the time to watch this video.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/...s_emo.html

It's tough to watch.

Feel for those kids

Looking at their numbers no wonder the math didn't add up. They project scholarships will go up 65% the next five years and coaches salaries up 33%.

Coaches salaries with football 2019 - $8.5M, without $4.8M.

I assume their football coaches all in make around $2M, so they are projecting an additional $2.8M, wow what a bunch of BS.

Oh and good luck with your projections of donations only dropping 15%, especially in the short term.

With assumptions like these any G5 program would be shut down.

Carr was paid to give the BOT what they wanted, scum bags.

(12-02-2014 10:52 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  Looking at their numbers no wonder the math didn't add up. They project scholarships will go up 65% the next five years and coaches salaries up 33%.

Coaches salaries with football 2019 - $8.5M, without $4.8M.

I assume their football coaches all in make around $2M, so they are projecting an additional $2.8M, wow what a bunch of BS.

Oh and good luck with your projections of donations only dropping 15%, especially in the short term.

With assumptions like these any G5 program would be shut down.

Carr was paid to give the BOT what they wanted, scum bags.

It's probably the truth. You know what the additional benefits the P5 are going to enact are going to be costly. Even just the stipends itself will stretch a lot of G5 budgets and with tuition increases amplifies it even more. On top of that, there is lifetime insurance, unlimited food, etc.

We might as well close up shop now then.

Why would coaches salaries more than double?

That was tough to watch.

What does it say that they had a police officer in the room?

This whole thing feels like 1985. I never wish this on any program. There are a lot of similarities too. New coach, optimism for the future. Least they didn't build an on campus stadium a few years ago.

Wow that was rough

(12-02-2014 11:23 PM)ericcumbee Wrote:  What does it say that they had a police officer in the room?

Standard human resources response when you lay a bunch of people off. I guess they were escorted to their cars with a cardboard box of their stuff?

I'm pissed after watching that. I'm so damn pissed.

what do you get when Ray Watts becomes an emote? : raywatts: =

Even more disheartening is within this same state system, down the road in Tuscaloosa you have Nick Saban living the good life with his $6.9 million salary. Man, I love college football...but what has this sport become? The money...

Wanted to close that video out so many times... really hard to watch.

That's rough I feel for all the young men and staff at UAB. Suit and ties make me sick to my stomach with the BS answers.

(12-02-2014 10:52 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  Looking at their numbers no wonder the math didn't add up. They project scholarships will go up 65% the next five years and coaches salaries up 33%.

Coaches salaries with football 2019 - $8.5M, without $4.8M.

I assume their football coaches all in make around $2M, so they are projecting an additional $2.8M, wow what a bunch of BS.

Oh and good luck with your projections of donations only dropping 15%, especially in the short term.

With assumptions like these any G5 program would be shut down.

Carr was paid to give the BOT what they wanted, scum bags.

Yes. Exactly. None of these numbers make sense. Carr Sports did a similar study for JMU (which by the way, their report was 8x longer and still vague) for them wanting to simply go from FCS to FBS football. They predicted their donations would raise by 100%. For UAB, they predict our donations will only decrease 15% for ENTIRELY DROPPING FOOTBALL??? makes no sense. We're not even going to be subsidizing less, we just simply won't have football, and that is what the BOT wanted.

props to the last guy calling it like it is and calling out the guy for living in a nice kush house while pushing all of these other people out.

(12-03-2014 08:28 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  props to the last guy calling it like it is and calling out the guy for living in a nice kush house while pushing all of these other people out.

football and sports in general are a huge drain on a university unless you are at a high enough success level to bring in revenue. some schools consider the money to be well spent and to be good for the university overall but some just see the dollars and cents of it. while ut-austin has over 100 million in sports revenue some schools have only a few. a totally disinterested bystander might say that a school that draws only a few thousand fans and cant beat any good teams should probably not even be offering the sport. maybe in the grand scheme of things only the flagship schools with a large fanbase and state pride behind them should field teams at the top level.

(12-03-2014 08:46 AM)runamuck Wrote:  

(12-03-2014 08:28 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  props to the last guy calling it like it is and calling out the guy for living in a nice kush house while pushing all of these other people out.

football and sports in general are a huge drain on a university unless you are at a high enough success level to bring in revenue. some schools consider the money to be well spent and to be good for the university overall but some just see the dollars and cents of it. while ut-austin has over 100 million in sports revenue some schools have only a few. a totally disinterested bystander might say that a school that draws only a few thousand fans and cant beat any good teams should probably not even be offering the sport. maybe in the grand scheme of things only the flagship schools with a large fanbase and state pride behind them should field teams at the top level.

Might be one of the most asinine things I've ever read.

(12-03-2014 08:48 AM)Louisiana99 Wrote:  

(12-03-2014 08:46 AM)runamuck Wrote:  

(12-03-2014 08:28 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  props to the last guy calling it like it is and calling out the guy for living in a nice kush house while pushing all of these other people out.

football and sports in general are a huge drain on a university unless you are at a high enough success level to bring in revenue. some schools consider the money to be well spent and to be good for the university overall but some just see the dollars and cents of it. while ut-austin has over 100 million in sports revenue some schools have only a few. a totally disinterested bystander might say that a school that draws only a few thousand fans and cant beat any good teams should probably not even be offering the sport. maybe in the grand scheme of things only the flagship schools with a large fanbase and state pride behind them should field teams at the top level.

Might be one of the most asinine things I've ever read.

+1