(04-20-2015 11:22 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: There are good people in that list. I think Save Football, as Cajun suggested, just wants to throw a wrench in the works just to be a disruption.
MB, are you even *in* the Save Football group? I don't find you a particularly credible voice on matters #FreeUAB as your general stance on it seems to be to stand to one side slinging poo.
First, as a matter of clarity, I am not a UAB Alum. My wife has been on staff for 27 years and my son went to school there, but I did not. We are associate members, non-voting members, so I really don't have a dog in this fight. I *am* interested though, and want to know more before throwing what little influence I have in any direction.
The FreeUAB people who were motivated enough to get involved (and to be eligible, you have to be willing to fork over for a lifetime membership) are people who felt like the NAS was too easy on Watts, that Wes Smith did not show enough backbone. I have mixed feelings about Smith, don't know him at all, and in general I think he's been a bit slow to move. Shrug.
This vote confirms the officers and then adds the people listed below them. The two Scotts, Sam Miller, Musa, sound fine. Rowe and Dr. R-T are going to be members, the vote on them is solely regarding their positions as officers. The rest of them I know nothing about.
There will be another called by the membership meeting, like the previous one that the members pushed through where the partial sorta-kinda NoCon was voted, on May 5th. I think we need to listen to what people have to say and then decide on the votes, because all that piece of paper says is "This is who the Directors chose, please vote to rubber stamp them". I don't have a clue what their position is on anything, and I'd like to hear from them.
That's why I suggest holding onto your votes and waiting to see what develops.