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RE: No, Ray Hasn't Changed His Stripes
(10-11-2017 10:34 PM)stc Wrote: This may not be a popular opinion. Please don't take this as an endorsement for Watts. If the program hadn't been shut down, I see no way we have the facilities we have now. Clark would of had a very successful 2015 & would've been scooped up by a bigger program. In a year or so we'd have been right back where we started. The shutdown changed the narrative, without it none of this is happening.
I'd agree with that. Having the program taken away just when UAB fans were seeing a glimpse of hope, of what might be, mobilized them. The people who knew a bit about what was happening behind the scenes played their cards shrewdly. The Vocal Few refused to sit down and shut up, keeping up the pressure and the visibility until the Birmingham business community had time to think "Why on earth would a school the size of UAB, in Alabama of all places, NOT have football?"
That said, it was a dirty damn deal, and it's a shame that this PR fairy tale has been allowed to take root. You could fertilize fields with the stuff they're spreading.
(This post was last modified: 10-12-2017 03:17 AM by UAB Band Dad.)
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No, Ray Hasn't Changed His Stripes
