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(11-11-2014 11:46 AM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  I see what has you in a hissy fit. What KevMo said:

KevMo4UAB Wrote:I'm one of those "fools" who totally believes UAB football has hurt UAB basketball, at least once UAB got into C-USA. We have watched team after team leave C-USA as their football programs have taken them to greener pastures. UAB has been left behind because of UAB football. Instead of playing Louisville, Cincy, Memphis, Tulsa, and Houston, UAB now plays the likes of FAU, FIU, North Texas, and UTSA. Before that we played DePaul, Marquette, and St. Louis, who all chose not to start football programs.

However, little of this has been UAB's fault. UAB football has not been given the resources and the facilities to compete at this level, and that too has been out of our hands. I believe certain members of the UA BOM (Board of Mistrust) have intentionally kept UAB football from being successful. It's been their plan from day one. One is coming up for retirement, and he wants nothing more than to kill UAB football before he retires from the BOM.

Although UAB basketball is what made me a fan of all things UAB, I have fallen in love with UAB football over the years. I hurt just as much now from a UAB football loss as I do from a UAB basketball loss. It sickens me to know people are trying to shut down UAB football. It's war!

How you interpreted what KevMo said:

blazr Wrote:Why ripped? No one denies basketball built the foundation for football. But what was it that allowed Louisville, Cincy, Memphis, Tulsa, Houston, et. al. to move up together? It was football. The way I read it, KevMo gets that and realizes the problem is not that we had football - because the new landscape required it absolutely. It's that UAB athletics, most visibly football, was shackled. Now, thanks to that, we're in a dangerous "no man's land" where the only best choice is to push forward. Sitting still or going backwards is death. Or close enough to it.

Now I hope we are on the same page. I disagree with your interpretation of what KevMo said. I think you interpreted in a way to support your argument.

Kev clearly said put him in the group of people who believes football has hurt basketball. Kev also acknowledges that UAB Football hasn't been given what it needs to succeed from certain entities.

So while you acknowledge that football allowed UAB to play schools such as Memphis, Louisville, Cincy, etc, KevMo is acknowledging football has also prevented UAB from continuing to play those schools. Kinda like damn if you do and damn if you don't.

Now how you got your interpretation of what he said is completely on you.