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(06-23-2019 02:00 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 12:04 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 11:32 AM)hooverblazer Wrote:  Don't sleep on UAB.

On the facilities front UAB has a new $175M, 45k seat stadium on the way in 2021, opened a $23M football operations facility in 2017 with a covered practice field, just built new facilities for soccer & track, renovated olympic sports weight room, and will start the process on a new basketball practice facility in November.

For recent success in football (which drives the bus), UAB won CUSA and its bowl game last year with an 11-3 record and has averaged over 25k fans since football's return in 2017 (led CUSA in attendance in 2017). We signed Bill Clark to a new 5 year contract in November that pays $1.45M in 2019 and goes to $1.65M in year 5.

Throw in other factors like Birmingham's market (#1 football watching market in America for the last 15 years), basketball history, geographic location, and profile as a strong urban research university (#23 in federal research funding) and I think we make a strong case.

Hells no.

No. No. No.

UAB should have left its football program dead. That was the correct move.

With all due respect, **** you.

So you come onto the "University of Cincinnati" sports forum...to pimp YOUR team (like anyone here has any real power or authority to do anything anyway) for the upcoming conference vacancy. I didn't go over to "your" board, you came here.

I "get" that you don't like or agree with my opinion that UAB's football program should have stayed disbanded...but dude...you came here. You don't have to "like" or "agree" with me but for God's sake, you are "the guest" here. I don't speak for anyone but myself; I don't doubt some UC fans are happy about the prospects of playing UAB again. I'm not one of them.

Deal with it.