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Just curious.

(01-12-2015 08:08 AM)TheGORILLA Wrote:  Just curious.

that or is it being designated for other uses?

UAB is not a land grant college. Property is just as an important resource to UAB as money. My guess is it hasn't been sold.

They just spent millions of dollars to buy it and move Hardy Corp elsewhere. I doubt they have sold it. Regardless of what happens with football and a stadium, they'll find some use for it sometime.

I'm sure Ray Watts can find his version of the Dome of the Rock to construct there in short order.

It's still in our possession.

Until Potera becomes Czar, then he will sell it to the Alabama Department of Corrections for an inmate rehabilitation facility.

(01-12-2015 11:24 AM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  Until Potera becomes Czar, then he will sell it to the Alabama Department of Corrections for an inmate rehabilitation facility.

Do you mean Dr. Witt? Because Dr. Portera is retired, and was in favor of the stadium project (which is probably why he retired)

(01-12-2015 11:29 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 11:24 AM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  Until Potera becomes Czar, then he will sell it to the Alabama Department of Corrections for an inmate rehabilitation facility.

Do you mean Dr. Witt? Because Dr. Portera is retired, and was in favor of the stadium project (which is probably why he retired)

I typed Potera. Potera axed Hockey at UaH . Please try and keep up.

(01-12-2015 01:53 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 11:29 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 11:24 AM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  Until Potera becomes Czar, then he will sell it to the Alabama Department of Corrections for an inmate rehabilitation facility.

Do you mean Dr. Witt? Because Dr. Portera is retired, and was in favor of the stadium project (which is probably why he retired)

I typed Potera. Potera axed Hockey at UaH . Please try and keep up.

I'm trying, but Portera was supportive of UAB football, so I'm still confused.

(01-12-2015 02:25 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 01:53 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 11:29 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 11:24 AM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  Until Potera becomes Czar, then he will sell it to the Alabama Department of Corrections for an inmate rehabilitation facility.

Do you mean Dr. Witt? Because Dr. Portera is retired, and was in favor of the stadium project (which is probably why he retired)

I typed Potera. Potera axed Hockey at UaH . Please try and keep up.

I'm trying, but Portera was supportive of UAB football, so I'm still confused.

And you know football had Potera's support how ?

(01-12-2015 02:50 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 02:25 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 01:53 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 11:29 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(01-12-2015 11:24 AM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  Until Potera becomes Czar, then he will sell it to the Alabama Department of Corrections for an inmate rehabilitation facility.

Do you mean Dr. Witt? Because Dr. Portera is retired, and was in favor of the stadium project (which is probably why he retired)

I typed Potera. Potera axed Hockey at UaH . Please try and keep up.

I'm trying, but Portera was supportive of UAB football, so I'm still confused.

And you know football had Potera's support how ?

When asked why he supported uab getting a stadium and uah cutting hockey he pointed out our respective budgets. He was in favor of the OCS and was retired like garrison as a result

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/...lcolm.html

I'm not sure I'd call that glowing support. My point was and is, the BOT is going to put a stooge in charge of UaB, be it Potera or another one.

And until Potera shows up for a Save UaB rally, he is still a BOT stooge.

The land has since been changed into a parking lot on the current master plan.

(01-12-2015 04:15 PM)UABslant Wrote:  The land has since been changed into a parking lot on the current master plan.

That would make sense. UAB administration does not know for sure what effect the end of the FB program will have on so many possible facets of campus life. Can they count on upward levels of enrollment -- what effect it will have on needs for buildings (last I heard, there are no new buildings currently funded), what plans the BOT has for stifling the school even further?

What if UAB takes a major hit in enrollment so that all those high standards for admission have to be relaxed just to fill the existing classes? Maybe UAB can start lacrosse teams so we can claim to be on a par with Johns-Hopkins?

I speak "tongue in cheek" - (sort of) - but there may be "shoes left to drop" that we don't even know about yet because no public university has EVER had to go through this before. We are embarking on a wilderness journey without a compass or GPS to go by..