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(11-09-2014 11:06 AM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(11-09-2014 08:48 AM)biglizard Wrote:  

(11-09-2014 07:03 AM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(11-09-2014 02:55 AM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  I think that most football fans want basketball to thrive too. They just want to see it thrive alongside our football team, in C-USA.

That's not what I am reading here.

Trust me, many of us predate the origins of football. If kids go out and compete with UAB on their jersey we support them and want to give them the best chance to succeed at the highest level possible. That's really what all this is about. The reality is now football drives the bus in athletics and that's just a fact of life. Competing at D1 with no football, in the south, puts UAB at an immediate disadvantage. It also puts us at a HUGE disadvantage when it comes to recruiting the non athletes. Kids want to have that fall football experience at part of campus life.

I'm so tired of the "football drives the bus" cliches. Football doesn't drive the bus at UAB. We want football to drive to bus here but it doesn't because of the BOT and some other factors. And again, there are plenty of programs that don't have football programs that does just fine thank you very much.

It's time we separate the football aspect from the basketball aspect. Fact is we don't know what the state of UAB Basketball will be without football. All we're doing is speculating. What we do know is that the BOT is keeping UAB Football from being the driving influence you and others want it to be on campus and in Brmingham.

I am basketball first when it comes to UAB; always have been and always will be. If UAB Basketball ends up in the SWAC it will still have my support because of Gene Bartow. I do not want to see the football program go away and I will do everything in my power to have save it. Students, graduates, us deserve to have it.

But UAB Basketball is going to move on regardless end of story.

We will have to agree to disagree on this one. My hope is that we keep pouring on the pressure this week and we never have to find out.