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(03-25-2019 07:28 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  

(03-24-2019 08:28 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  

(03-24-2019 07:46 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  Mike davis made the nit seemingly every year, was that a step towards greatness too?

He followed it up with an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament. Then he had family die and took the off-season off from a recruiting standpoint.

Looking back on it, firing a coach one year after an NCAA bid is one of the more radical moves UAB has made in athletics. It's been a while so I'm fuzzy on the details. Did UAB have to buy out any years on Davis' contract? If so, I wonder who paid for it, boosters or the school?

Davis was let go with one year left on his contract. He agreed to a reduced buyout amount for that last year instead of being fired for cause. He was on Dr. Garrison's **** list after the Ed Berrios situation, and he was a dead man walking at UAB when the Demarcus Cousin thing happened the next year. If memory serves the Cousin's thing happened the year after he got his one and only contract extension over Dr. Garrison's objection and she told him then he would never get another contract extension at UAB nor would she pay him to go away. Dr. G didn't play, and seeing Davis gone was among her last acts at UAB before the BoT forced her out.