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(12-06-2019 09:45 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(12-06-2019 06:54 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(12-05-2019 11:11 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  

(12-05-2019 09:20 PM)randy22263 Wrote:  Im not saying Watts and company didnt want to shut us down permanently. Im saying their plan backfired. I stand by my belief that the shutdown ultimately was the best thing for us. Im also saying we cant relax or we will be back where we were. We must improve schedule to make ourselves attractive for a better conference.

And I stand by my belief that your belief is wrong. UAB was on a better trajectory than it is now (a fully on campus and fully UAB controlled facility,......

No disrespect but I stop reading after that comment and started.....

Yeah, we're definitely better off not having a stadium on campus, and we're definitely better for having had Neil Calloway, who I ran into doing his laundry in Blount Hall one night. I'm not saying things are bad now, but they definitely could've been better

But, as always, just good enough is good enough for most so UAB will be stuck with its peers Troy and La Tech instead of peers like USF, Cincinnati, VCU, UCSD, etc

Just OK is not OK

I don't think people are ok with that. One thing we have now that we haven't in the past is an athletics foundation with heavy hitters around Birmingham's business community that are invested in seeing UAB go to new heights. People now better understand the link between UAB's success and Birmingham's success.