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These new football program facilities at UAB are great news and begins UAB's climb toward parity in infrastructure with its contemporaries who have enjoyed a great advantage over it for so many years.

The test now is whether UAB can sustain such a high level of annual financial participation over the years to come. It means our backers can't "rest on their laurels" and allow funding to slip back into the old patterns that existed prior to 2014. Desiring to have a nationally respected program means providing the consistently strong financial backing year after year the other major state FBS programs have.

For instance, Bama's Athletic Department receives about $150 million every year - $97 million goes to support football - which contributes to its ability to be a consistently strong / winning program. UAB can't match that level (yet) but must annually reach the $30 to $40 million mark with consistency to fulfill its dreams of upward mobility.

(08-01-2016 12:43 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  These new football program facilities at UAB are great news and begins UAB's climb toward parity in infrastructure with its contemporaries who have enjoyed a great advantage over it for so many years.

The test now is whether UAB can sustain such a high level of annual financial participation over the years to come. It means our backers can't "rest on their laurels" and allow funding to slip back into the old patterns that existed prior to 2014. Desiring to have a nationally respected program means providing the consistently strong financial backing year after year the other major state FBS programs have.

For instance, Bama's Athletic Department receives about $150 million every year - $97 million goes to support football - which contributes to its ability to be a consistently strong / winning program. UAB can't match that level (yet) but must annually reach the $30 to $40 million mark with consistency to fulfill its dreams of upward mobility.

We do not care about Bama's athletic department.

(08-01-2016 04:36 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(08-01-2016 12:43 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  These new football program facilities at UAB are great news and begins UAB's climb toward parity in infrastructure with its contemporaries who have enjoyed a great advantage over it for so many years.

The test now is whether UAB can sustain such a high level of annual financial participation over the years to come. It means our backers can't "rest on their laurels" and allow funding to slip back into the old patterns that existed prior to 2014. Desiring to have a nationally respected program means providing the consistently strong financial backing year after year the other major state FBS programs have.

For instance, Bama's Athletic Department receives about $150 million every year - $97 million goes to support football - which contributes to its ability to be a consistently strong / winning program. UAB can't match that level (yet) but must annually reach the $30 to $40 million mark with consistency to fulfill its dreams of upward mobility.

We do not care about Bama's athletic department.

Typical knee jerk reaction for some, but the value of financial support for a program determines its future stability and growth no matter how you may feel about any other school's program -- or ours. From 1990 to 2014 UAB had a football record that matched its financial backing for facilities. It is important that support not drop back to those earlier years if we are to grow our football program at a desirable pace into the next decade.

(08-02-2016 10:04 AM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(08-01-2016 04:36 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(08-01-2016 12:43 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  These new football program facilities at UAB are great news and begins UAB's climb toward parity in infrastructure with its contemporaries who have enjoyed a great advantage over it for so many years.

The test now is whether UAB can sustain such a high level of annual financial participation over the years to come. It means our backers can't "rest on their laurels" and allow funding to slip back into the old patterns that existed prior to 2014. Desiring to have a nationally respected program means providing the consistently strong financial backing year after year the other major state FBS programs have.

For instance, Bama's Athletic Department receives about $150 million every year - $97 million goes to support football - which contributes to its ability to be a consistently strong / winning program. UAB can't match that level (yet) but must annually reach the $30 to $40 million mark with consistency to fulfill its dreams of upward mobility.

We do not care about Bama's athletic department.

Typical knee jerk reaction for some, but the value of financial support for a program determines its future stability and growth no matter how you may feel about any other school's program -- or ours. From 1990 to 2014 UAB had a football record that matched its financial backing for facilities. It is important that support not drop back to those earlier years if we are to grow our football program at a desirable pace into the next decade.

it is nice to know how far or close UAB is compare to UAT

(08-02-2016 10:04 AM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(08-01-2016 04:36 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(08-01-2016 12:43 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  These new football program facilities at UAB are great news and begins UAB's climb toward parity in infrastructure with its contemporaries who have enjoyed a great advantage over it for so many years.

The test now is whether UAB can sustain such a high level of annual financial participation over the years to come. It means our backers can't "rest on their laurels" and allow funding to slip back into the old patterns that existed prior to 2014. Desiring to have a nationally respected program means providing the consistently strong financial backing year after year the other major state FBS programs have.

For instance, Bama's Athletic Department receives about $150 million every year - $97 million goes to support football - which contributes to its ability to be a consistently strong / winning program. UAB can't match that level (yet) but must annually reach the $30 to $40 million mark with consistency to fulfill its dreams of upward mobility.

We do not care about Bama's athletic department.

Typical knee jerk reaction for some, but the value of financial support for a program determines its future stability and growth no matter how you may feel about any other school's program -- or ours. From 1990 to 2014 UAB had a football record that matched its financial backing for facilities. It is important that support not drop back to those earlier years if we are to grow our football program at a desirable pace into the next decade.

And Alabama football has nothing to do with UAB. So quit telling us what they do over there. We do not care.