Actually, I thought the same thing when I saw six million but I admit I am use to being in a P5 conference. With UAB needing a new stadium and trying to get back to FBS by 2016 just seems like a mission impossible. It just seems like it will be a UAB repeat of having terrible seasons and lack of fan support when the losing starts.
Apparently one of UAB's more generous donors has a big announcement planned for next Friday in regards to football. Probably a much larger donation. We shall see.
Let's put this in perspective: This is 2 weeks worth of money. 0 corporate sponsors. 0 promise of an actual return for football. 0 advertising. This is completely private fundraising via word of mouth. When the University officially announced a return of football that number will go up.
You're just mad that when UAB football returns your team will be stuck in the Sun Belt forum.
(05-09-2015 12:01 AM)Dracorex Wrote: Let's put this in perspective: This is 2 weeks worth of money. 0 corporate sponsors. 0 promise of an actual return for football. 0 advertising. This is completely private fundraising via word of mouth. When the University officially announced a return of football that number will go up.
You're just mad that when UAB football returns your team will be stuck in the Sun Belt forum.
Hold on there a second, sonny. The SBC posters are being positive and defending UAB. Get it right, would you?
I think you misinterpreted my response to the MWC/UTSA poster. Read it again. He was being a jerk. I was telling him to just leave.
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UAB did not generate a particularly large amount of ticket revenue - less than $5 per person in attendance - so it's not like there's a ton of revenue to replace. The kicker will be funding an on-campus stadium to replace Legion Field, because any debt service has to be approved by the BOT.
Even in C-USA, the CFP monies would still be over $1 MM annually to UAB. Given that Cost of attendance really wasn't approved soon enough for UAB to have offered it to its football team, all the CFP monies are incremental revenue that UAB hasn't enjoyed before, and could make nice inroads towards cost of attendance.
It would require enormous work from C-USA, but it would be possible for UAB to play this fall if it could enlist the help of at least one other FBS team and one FCS team (preferably and FBS and FCS team who play each other). UAB should be able to get at least 11 games for a 2016 schedule if it were to play at UMass, then break up a FBS-FCS matchup for that year as well.
(05-09-2015 12:01 AM)Dracorex Wrote: Let's put this in perspective: This is 2 weeks worth of money. 0 corporate sponsors. 0 promise of an actual return for football. 0 advertising. This is completely private fundraising via word of mouth. When the University officially announced a return of football that number will go up.
You're just mad that when UAB football returns your team will be stuck in the Sun Belt forum.
A few more incompetent posts like this from UAB fans and I will have gone to 100% supporting UAB bringing back football to sorry you're Bama's step child.
Don't take out your anger on those that support your cause and don't look down your nose at anyone at this time especially.
6 mil is a hefty sum, however these are pledges to bring back football not actual donations. The question remains how much will actually be recieved and will donations keep coming or simply dry up next year and the years after.
(05-09-2015 12:01 AM)Dracorex Wrote: Let's put this in perspective: This is 2 weeks worth of money. 0 corporate sponsors. 0 promise of an actual return for football. 0 advertising. This is completely private fundraising via word of mouth. When the University officially announced a return of football that number will go up.
You're just mad that when UAB football returns your team will be stuck in the Sun Belt forum.
A few more incompetent posts like this from UAB fans and I will have gone to 100% supporting UAB bringing back football to sorry you're Bama's step child.
Don't take out your anger on those that support your cause and don't look down your nose at anyone at this time especially.
If you want football $6 million is damn good sum but if you don't want football its peanuts. I have an ill feeling I know where the UAB leadership falls on the spectrum.
If I quoted your post it means I am directing it at your comment. If I don't, it is a general statement.
I did indeed read the first response about it being peanuts expecting that to be from a SBC poster. He's obviously confused too as to which schools he supports.
(05-10-2015 12:05 AM)Dracorex Wrote: If I quoted your post it means I am directing it at your comment. If I don't, it is a general statement.
I did indeed read the first response about it being peanuts expecting that to be from a SBC poster. He's obviously confused too as to which schools he supports.
Your "general statement" was Busch League. UAB should be so fortunate to have a football program in the SBC, you are in no position to look down upon any G5 program currently.
This whole thing reminds me of when I was a child of about 5 years of age and my next door neighbor, Billy Daquin, lost a big toe in the rear sprocket of his brother's bicycle.
Billy tells me a few days after the accident that his dad told him not to worry, his toe would grow back. I told him I didn't believe that to be the case but I'd check with my dad to confirm.
Well, of course, dad tells me no way is Billy's toe going to grow back. It's history.
I went straight to Billy with the news and while he cried like a baby initially, he got over it rather quickly.
Someone needs to tell these UAB fans that their big toe is not going to grow back.
The cost of football will be going up dramatically in the future.UAB's timing to fight for football probably is positioned at the base
of the steepest financial hill to ascend in FBS in history.
I predict the "New" report will manifest even more financial disparity than the one from Carr.
A financial base created from emotionalism is something no President /Board can hang their hat on.
(05-10-2015 08:01 AM)CajunFanatico Wrote: This whole thing reminds me of when I was a child of about 5 years of age and my next door neighbor, Billy Daquin, lost a big toe in the rear sprocket of his brother's bicycle.
Billy tells me a few days after the accident that his dad told him not to worry, his toe would grow back. I told him I didn't believe that to be the case but I'd check with my dad to confirm.
Well, of course, dad tells me no way is Billy's toe going to grow back. It's history.
I went straight to Billy with the news and while he cried like a baby initially, he got over it rather quickly.
Someone needs to tell these UAB fans that their big toe is not going to grow back.
I don't know why, but your story reminds me of this.
