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Quote:There has been some interest in and from the Missouri Valley Conference, which would be a quality landing spot if UAB moves forward without football, but how long would any conference wait to adjust its roster for next season?

Yes!!!!

That would be better than CUSA in my opinion. Wichita State, Northern Iowa, Illinois State, Southern Illinois.

Bartow's roots!

MVC would be very nice for basketball.

& would suck for everything else including fan interest.

Agree

You're probably right because Birmingham don't know crap about basketball. The MVC would be the best conference UAB has ever been in, other than the Great Midwest.

Anyone who knows anything about basketball would rather watch southern Illinois, Wichita State, and even Bradley, than Rice, FIU and North Texas.

For some UAB fans, it would be horrible if UAB ended up in a better conference because it ruins all the doom and gloom scenarios they have created. In that sense, they are hoping for failure.

God forbid something good comes out of this.

Might be the best of our limited options. I wouldn't really see it as much of an upgrade in basketball, and it looks like it would be a pretty big hit to our other sports.

The other sports are not revenue generating. You don't make decisions based on them.

I agree with MB. If the MVC is interested then this may be a good move. Not saying drop football but watts decision set us back at least four years. Build back up in D2 then join a FBS conference with better basketball.

MVC is decent for other sports too. If I recall they are a killer FCS conference

(03-21-2015 05:58 PM)JeffUAB Wrote: [ -> ]Might be the best of our limited options. I wouldn't really see it as much of an upgrade in basketball, and it looks like it would be a pretty big hit to our other sports.

If you don't see this as an upgrade for basketball then you're not well informed about college basketball. This isn't a popular opinion I know but I've said it for years: if killing a football program that was never going to be adequately supported benefits basketball I'm 100 percent for it. To me (and probably to not many others) this would make me OK with the decision to end football (even though I will never be OK with the way it was handled and Watts' callousness.)

Apparently it is not just a few fans who are asking hard to answer questions about what comes next for all remaining UAB sports programs. Now that the basketball season is over, BBHC Haase has time to demand those answers so he can plan his team's future as well as his own.

He has slots to fill and an April BB Signing Day coming up and one would presume those prospective signees are asking him for reliable information on UAB's future conference affiliation. UAB needs to know exactly what C-USA's intentions are as soon as possible. Having so many decisions critical to UAB being made by "non UAB" people (in the state legislature, Conference C-USA decision-makers, system BOT, etc) leaves UAB's remaining sports "twisting in the wind".

(03-21-2015 06:09 PM)uab278 Wrote: [ -> ]MVC is decent for other sports too. If I recall they are a killer FCS conference

The MVC football league is technically a different conference for reasons other people might be able to explain.

The MVC is at 10 members. I assume if their interest in UAB is legit, they are interested in expanding to 12.

Does anyone else know who they might be considering with us.

(03-21-2015 06:15 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-21-2015 06:09 PM)uab278 Wrote: [ -> ]MVC is decent for other sports too. If I recall they are a killer FCS conference

The MVC football league is technically a different conference for reasons other people might be able to explain.

Now that you mention it, I remember that. My point is there is a mechanism in place in one of the top two basketball only conferences to bring football back. The FCS conference had the two finalist this year.

(03-21-2015 06:14 PM)BlazintheATL Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-21-2015 05:58 PM)JeffUAB Wrote: [ -> ]Might be the best of our limited options. I wouldn't really see it as much of an upgrade in basketball, and it looks like it would be a pretty big hit to our other sports.

If you don't see this as an upgrade for basketball then you're not well informed about college basketball. This isn't a popular opinion I know but I've said it for years: if killing a football program that was never going to be adequately supported benefits basketball I'm 100 percent for it. To me (and probably to not many others) this would make me OK with the decision to end football (even though I will never be OK with the way it was handled and Watts' callousness.)

I'm not giving up on football, yet. But, football or not, I don't trust Watts and his handpicked administrators or the BOT to do what's in the best interest of UAB athletics...no matter what the short term looks like.

If Watts bungles this whole conference affiliation thing and loses Hasse because of it I don't see how'd he'd be able to walk around the city of Birmingham or the campus of UAB without constantly being harassed. If he truly wants to repair his image he better not F this up.

Watts has got to go whatever the outcome. MVC just ensures our athletic program is not gutted.

(03-21-2015 06:27 PM)uab278 Wrote: [ -> ]Watts has got to go whatever the outcome. MVC just ensures our athletic program is not gutted.

Agree.

Maybe if we land somewhat on our feet in the MVC, the BOP will fire him.