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http://www.uab.edu/usga/images/2015-2016...ballBR.pdf

Boom!

$2,750,000 over 5 years (Assuming average of 11,000 undergrads). THANK YOU students.

2.75 million more flagellations to the hubris of Ray Watts and his handlers.

Watts will still try to wrap that into the category of university subsidized

Quite a possibility & they may also use the reasoning of raising tuition rates to say no to increasing the student athletic fees

Argument has trouble holding any water when UAT has raised tuition for 19 consecutive years...even with their football success.

All Watts had to do was search for solutions, but he didn't do that. He is not a leader. He is the problem. Plus he had his marching orders from the Bryant Bank UA BOT.

Wow. And I was worried about a falloff in leadership after Anjali handed over the gavel ...

MFing Boom!

Man, is it all starting to come together!
mr. watts- you will now be placed in the untenable position of turning down cold hard cash in the face of the truth that will ultimately be your demise. You will lose, NO MATTER WHAT YOU CHOOSE!!! Exit stage left, BoT stooge...

(05-12-2015 09:09 PM)BlazerBacker Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-12-2015 08:19 PM)KevMo4UAB Wrote: [ -> ]All Watts had to do was search for solutions, but he didn't do that. He is not a leader. He is the problem. Plus he had his marching orders from the Bryant Bank UA BOT.

Watts wasn't looking for solutions. On the contrary, he was hiding the fact that he planned to cut football precisely so the boosters wouldn't have an opportunity to raise the necessary funding to keep it. Watts knew that he gave the boosters enough time to get organized they could have stopped his plan dead in its tracks before he had the opportunity to implement it and he wasn't about to let that happen.

So Watts purposely chose to expose himself to charges that he is a lying scheming scumbag with no integrity (which he is by the way) just to try to keep his intentions secret so he could cut the program before the opposition could stop him.

For the 10,000th time, this proves that "this ain't about the money". Now ask yourself, if it isn't about the money, what is it about? You only get one guess.

Oh, nobody has been guessing about the reason why.

(05-12-2015 07:36 PM)LairDweller Wrote: [ -> ]Watts will still try to wrap that into the category of university subsidized

Of course they will, because student fees are already being counted as a "subsidy" against football anyway, even though students wanted to pay them.

Great news, but only a statement of support. Will have to be implemented by the administration....

Great announcement by the SGA folks. And there was one who speculated that the momentum was possibly running out of steam???? NOT!!!! It is just building and BUILDING!!!

The only problem with this is that if the Watts administration were truly willing and wanted to save football, this would have been proposed up front before the shutdown. Again, it's not about money and never really has been. It will be interesting to see Watts turn this down (and he will) at the same time the USGA is complaining, and has been constantly since the Commons on the Green facility was built back around 07/08, about the insane rules around mandatory dining plans. Obviously the USGA isn't just out to spend all the money they can.

(05-12-2015 09:51 PM)TPBlaze84 Wrote: [ -> ]Great news, but only a statement of support. Will have to be implemented by the administration....

And I seriously doubt the VP of Finance will allow this to happen- which will be to his own detriment.

So that's 6 million in pledges, 2.5 million from the City of Birmingham, and now another 2 million from the UAB SGA Senate.

10.5 million is the current total right?

That's pretty impressive.

11,629 undergraduates in Fall 2014 (source: https://www.uab.edu/institutionaleffecti...enrollment)

Assuming the enrollment stays as is, that would be $2,907,250 in 5 years. However, enrollment is increasing (why else build a new freshman dorm). Averaging 12,000 undergraduate students over the next 5 years will equal $3 million in 5 years.