Now this is significant. If CSS comes back with some garbage it will be easy to compare and contrast the two reports. This is what I thought should happen all along.
Now the NAS has something in hand to fight with. We the members can demand that NAS takes a hardline approach based on the data from this report.
get VIRAL!!!! Tweet ALL local media with links guys!
Quote:The University of Alabama at Birmingham's decision to end football, bowling and rifle was "ill advised from a net cash-flow perspective," according to a study released Thursday by a consulting firm fired by UAB last month to perform this task.
In another twist to the saga surrounding the first major college football program cut in two decades, anonymous UAB football boosters paid $20,000 to help California-based consultant OSKR complete its study. UAB, which has another consultant currently working on a study, now has a 156-page report from OSKR's Daniel Rascher and Andy Schwarz in the public domain that may serve as another voice in the contentious debate.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...ling-rifle
And Boom goes the dynamite. Blow it up, guys.
This is awesomr. Major props to the boosters who stepped up to fund this as well as OSKR.
Watts looking for tallest building to jump off of!
OMG Bless your souls, boosters who did this. What a major development. There is no way for Watts and his pigs to squirm out of this. FIRE THEM ALL
I'm grateful for the people that paid to get this done. It's going to take me a long time to actually review the document at length, but one thing I can say straight up is that the beefy page count is more befitting of a report that determines the fate of an entire department.
The administration and our detractors are more than likely just going to point at this and accuse it of the same bias they alleged to begin with, though.
I told you guys that good news was coming! For those of you who quizzed me privately about what I knew as going on behind the scenes, this is one big element of what I have been expecting for some time. Be Patient, more good news is coming.
About this development, one of the things that was important is that this report from nationally recognized leader in sports economics came out before the one that CSS is working on. CSS will now be aware of the content of this OSKR report so they are much less likely to try to leave out or minimize positive factors and over emphasis negative factors. This is certain member's of the Task's Force's way of keeping CSS honest.
And as a couple of you are aware, I have been in communications with Andy Schwartz since he wrote his first two articles.
I would encourage everyone to read at least the Executive Summary on the first few pages of the actual report. We need this information in our "back pocket" when talking to others who aren't as familiar with the situation.
A key statement for me is Andy's assertion that he plans on using this report in his dissertation. That means he is willing to put the report under close scrutiny by his dissertation committee and subjects the report to the honor code.
Its time for a Ray Watts Hitler video...ijs
Well I guess the agenda item for the National Alumni Society meeting anouncing the decision of the OSKR report was not a misprint.
Executive Statement Wrote:Because of the causal link between FBS membership and these key sources of revenue, the university will be worse off, on a pure dollars and cents basis, without these three sports than with them, even after accounting for offsetting (downward) cost effects. Thus, we find the decision to terminate football, bowling, and rifle was ill advised from a net cash-flow perspective.
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Great news, but I can't but notice who doesn't post on topics with positive news for football.
(04-23-2015 01:40 PM)uab278 Wrote: [ -> ]A key statement for me is Andy's assertion that he plans on using this report in his dissertation. That means he is willing to put the report under close scrutiny by his dissertation committee and subjects the report to the honor code.
I didn't see that, good for him. Andy is a great guy. His primary motivation in all of this from the first time that he read the Carr report and thought it was was a piece of trash, was to ensure that the truth came out. That's why he wrote those initial articles.
He wrote me one early on that if when he first read the Carr Report, had he found found it reasonable, he would have simply tweeted that he read it and that would have been the end of that. However, when he found so many errors in the report he couldn't let the it go unchallenged. I think that it offended him that someone would misuse the discipline of sports economics in that manner.
I can assure you that Andy and OSKR were not driven by the desire to make money on this deal. They were by far the least expensive firm which responded to the RFP. After Watts vetoed OSKR I encouraged Andy to cut their rates so that boosters could hire them to finish the report; he responded that OSKR's original price had him working on the report for only 20% to 30% of his normal rates. For him and his colleagues at OSKR this was all about setting the record straight.
Andy is person who is driven to do what's right and we are very fortunate that there are people in the world like him.
My hat is also off to the boosters who put up the money to allow OSKR to complete the report.
I have been looking forward to this day for a long time. Andy is my hero.
Cajun, you deserve saying a big "TOLD YOU SO"! Thanks for giving me something to say to my kids: " Cajunblazer says something good is coming."