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If we are booted from CUSA and can't find a home for the other sports what is the contingency. There is a lot at stake and it seems no one bothered to prepare contingencies for all the possible outcomes. The report should have addressed this issue thoroughly.

That is Watts biggest mistake in this all IMO. He failed to consider the implication regarding conference affiliation and how it impacts our remaining sports. If he cared about UAB athletics overall then there would have been a more sound plan overall.

(12-08-2014 01:38 PM)Blazer85 Wrote:  That is Watts biggest mistake in this all IMO. He failed to consider the implication regarding conference affiliation and how it impacts our remaining sports. If he cared about UAB athletics overall then there would have been a more sound plan overall.

Watts strikes me as the type of guy that does not care about athletics at all so I seriously doubt he put any of this into consideration.

I think the expressions on the faces of Archibald and Scarbinsky after the press conference said it all. It was a sort of a stunned, what the hell, did that really just happen look.

Whether it be considered a legitimate "data driven" university decision or a political hatchet job it was executed in an almost laughable fashion from beginning to end, full of clinical examples of how not to handle something like this.

There seems to be a contradiction as well. when it first came out and the loss of football was just a possibility, Mackin was quoted that they were in conversations with the A10 or something like that. Watts said that staying in CUSA was the #1 priority. Why are they talking to other conferences if CUSA was #1 priority?

"Industry sources" tell AL.com we are most likely to land in the CAA. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/...cart_river

Also, the representative/mouthpiece at last week's Town Hall meeting at the RLC, Marsh, said something about UAB applying for an exception to stay in Conference USA with its' remaining sports teams. Highly unlikely, IMO.

(12-08-2014 02:01 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  "Industry sources" tell AL.com we are most likely to land in the CAA. http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/...cart_river

If true. And that's a big if. But if true that at worst is a lateral move. That doesn't change the fact that what Watts did would still be wrong. And we should never give up on getting football back.

(12-08-2014 02:00 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  There seems to be a contradiction as well. when it first came out and the loss of football was just a possibility, Mackin was quoted that they were in conversations with the A10 or something like that. Watts said that staying in CUSA was the #1 priority. Why are they talking to other conferences if CUSA was #1 priority?

Because we already know which way the CUSA wind is blowing?

Just a thought.

In my dream last night, we got booted from CUSA, Ray Watts got the boot, and then we got football back. CUSA wouldn't take us back, because they had already added South Alabama, but the Big12 added us and Memphis so they could have 12 teams and a championship game and not be left out of the 4 team playoff again.
So out of all the dreams I've ever had this would be the one I would most want to come true. Well this one or the Kelly Kapowski dreams I had in my early teen years.

Does "industry experts" mean that the writer of the article read a few Blazertalk threads. Seriously, what is an "industry expert"? This article basically said every conference except the A10 is the best fit for UAB. Drivel.

(12-08-2014 02:07 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Does "industry experts" mean that the writer of the article read a few Blazertalk threads. Seriously, what is an "industry expert"? This article basically said every conference except the A10 is the best fit for UAB. Drivel.

Well it is AL.com

CAA sucks.

(12-08-2014 02:13 PM)blazed247 Wrote:  CAA sucks.

It is the best non A10 or MVC option we have. There have been two final four teams come out of the Colonial in the past ten years. It does not suck. Probably better than CUSA for basketball.

(12-08-2014 02:13 PM)blazed247 Wrote:  CAA sucks.

Way too early, but they are currently 15th. C-USA is 18th. http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_conf_Men.html

(12-08-2014 02:14 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 02:13 PM)blazed247 Wrote:  CAA sucks.

It is the best non A10 or MVC option we have. There have been two final four teams come out of the Colonial in the past ten years. It does not suck. Probably better than CUSA for basketball.

And both of those teams have left the CAA. It's a shell of its former self, just like C-USA.

(12-08-2014 02:14 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 02:13 PM)blazed247 Wrote:  CAA sucks.

It is the best non A10 or MVC option we have. There have been two final four teams come out of the Colonial in the past ten years. It does not suck. Probably better than CUSA for basketball.

I do not think so... Charleston, Delaware, Drexel, Elon, Hofstra, James Madison, Northeatern, Towson, UNC-Wilmington, and William and Mary.

I do not see any final four teams in that conference. They are probably now in the A-10

This conference sucks and brings no good home games.

(12-08-2014 02:15 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 02:13 PM)blazed247 Wrote:  CAA sucks.

Way too early, but they are currently 15th. C-USA is 18th. http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_conf_Men.html

In 2013-14, last season, Colonial was 15th. CUSA was 13th. Not much difference in the two. And look at a map. We would actually travel less in the colonial.

6 soccer teams in the Top 100 final RPI. http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/...soccer-rpi That has to be better than most other options.

(12-08-2014 02:20 PM)HSV_BLAZER Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 02:14 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 02:13 PM)blazed247 Wrote:  CAA sucks.

It is the best non A10 or MVC option we have. There have been two final four teams come out of the Colonial in the past ten years. It does not suck. Probably better than CUSA for basketball.

And both of those teams have left the CAA. It's a shell of its former self, just like C-USA.

Compared to the SoCon or OVC, I'd say they're looking pretty good.