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Need some help digging up info on the longstanding problems UAB has had from the board of trustees. I'm too young to know the whole story. I need links to articles or any info related to the subject. Think we have someone willing to write the story for us.

Nice little overview.

http://www.getmoresports.com/bear-bryant...-football/

(12-11-2014 10:08 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  Need some help digging up info on the longstanding problems UAB has had from the board of trustees. I'm too young to know the whole story. I need links to articles or any info related to the subject. Think we have someone willing to write the story for us.

I have copy of Lights in the Valley if you or he/she needs to borrow. It shows how State Government from the beginning did not want Birmingham to have a traditional campus.

Bill Baxley is quoted saying " when [Dick] Hill hired Bartow at a salary slightly higher than C.M. Newton's [the UA basketball coach] and I discussed this with Coach Bryant, I saw clearly where UAB leaders were headed - a traditional campus with big-time athletics. This was wrong for the state, and that's the reason I eased through the rules change. The board as of the early 1980s was not going to block what UAB was trying to do. So I had to try by changing the makeup of the board at the first opportunity." - from Tennant S. McWilliams' "New Lights in the Valley." Page 306.

Shows how the UABOT is actually set up to limit UAB.

Interesting I had no idea this crap went that far back and this nefarious. This will be useful in hopefully swaying our Representatives to undo this especially the Bham and Jeffco Reps.

Here. Solomon was a Birmingham writer for a long time, he knows the deal.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...b-football

This guy writes for SB Nation. He's willing to blow this story up. He's looking for names, #s, email addresses. Like, now is the time to go all in.

I found this not long ago.

The FREEUAB link thread pinned at the top of this forum has lots of links for hours of reading. The writing is on the wall.

(12-11-2014 10:43 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  This guy writes for SB Nation. He's willing to blow this story up. He's looking for names, #s, email addresses. Like, now is the time to go all in.

Tell him to go knock on Brian Mackin's door in Forest Park.

Need names, numbers, email addresses.

I would recommend a collaborative effort and make the group strong enough that one grenade couldn't get all of them.

Whitmire,

Scarbinski,

Melick,

Soloman, (I shudder to add him)

Drew ....our last guy

Steve Irvine

& contact :

Pat Sullivan
Watson Brown
Mike Anderson
TJ Cleveland
EJ Brophy
Herman Frazier
Lee Moon
Scotty Macallum
Frank Messina
Murry Bartow
Roger Shuler
Jimbo Fisher
Jim Wells
Mark Gottfried
Mike Shula
Mike Dubose
Former UaH president Dr. David Williams
Tommy Battle
William Bell
Former UaB board of trustee representatives

& anybody with an NDA, or anybody that has been employed by the UaB Athletic department for a very long time, for off the record direction,

All the Intel is available and has been brought to life over the last month.

https://www.football.com/en-us/community...-Dec-2014/