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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
I am very happy that all of the discussions related to an OCS doesn't have to take place on Blazertalk.

I am certain that whatever is being done is being done in a way that gives us the best chance of getting the OCS. We are not going to fight the battle here and we certainly are not the ones that are going to make it happen or not.

That said - if you haven't contributed financially to program then I ask you to step up to the plate and give $100 at least. Consider it the BTR tax to gripe. If you are unwilling to put up a measly $8 per month for the athletic program then you are free to grip but I am not going to put much stock in anything you say.

Is a $100 donation going to fix everything? NO but it is a start.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 05:06 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  It feeds the BOT's ammunition box when UAB fans express ill will toward the Crimson Tide teams in general.

You do a good job of providing a balance.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 05:06 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  It feeds the BOT's ammunition box when UAB fans express ill will toward the Crimson Tide teams in general.

I don't work for them. They work for me.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 01:33 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Apples and oranges, and it irritates me every time the analogy is made.

Football drives the bus in Alabama. Football, football, football.

Yet when it comes to UAB Football, there are people and forces that want to put our team under that bus instead of clearing a seat for them to join the "ride"...
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 06:25 PM)Smaug Wrote:  
(07-12-2013 05:06 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  It feeds the BOT's ammunition box when UAB fans express ill will toward the Crimson Tide teams in general.

I don't work for them. They work for me.

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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 01:12 PM)ICB Wrote:  What they are doing for the Health and Academic side of campus is most important. Following UAB's athletics program makes having a good medical facility very important. Very few would argue that the Hospital and Academic should not be given priority. I am just tired of the lies, innuendos, rumors, and false hope that surrounds the stadium. Our leaders are not able to speak openly and honest about the stadium... or maybe they are.

...& yet we live in a democracy...the handwriting's on the wall...good post...
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
**** the Tide.

However, we don't have to defeat the bammers. They are a pack (a huge pack, I must agree) of drunken, meth-addicted toothless ignorant semi-literate People of Wal-Mart. They are also powerless.

The central Bourbon cabal of the UAS Board of Trustees is our enemy. They are opposed to progress, but they are not bammers. Have you never noticed how Auburn puts ex-athletes on their Board (Franklin), Texas A&M does so (Stallings), and many other football factories. But not UAT. Foooobaw is central to the bammers, but not the Bourbons. They are interested in power and its exercise.

To overthrow this rural dictatorship, we have to build UAB to the point where the gap between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa is so massive that power shifts within the system. We will not gain this power incrementally; it will come, as Hemingway put it, slowly then all at once.

Every donation to this UAB drive smites Finis St. John IV right between his crossed interbred eyes. We cannot afford to lose our top researchers - and believe this, should our funding falter, you will see Michigan and Hopkins and every other major research institution sniffing after UAB's stars like a Trojan fan at a sheep shearing. We must not only keep what we have, but expand it.

This must be the last generation of The Machine's rule over the System Board of Trustees. This fund drive is a fundamental prerequisite for revolution.

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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 07:23 PM)58-56 Wrote:  **** the Tide.

However, we don't have to defeat the bammers. They are a pack (a huge pack, I must agree) of drunken, meth-addicted toothless ignorant semi-literate People of Wal-Mart. They are also powerless.

The central Bourbon cabal of the UAS Board of Trustees is our enemy. They are opposed to progress, but they are not bammers. Have you never noticed how Auburn puts ex-athletes on their Board (Franklin), Texas A&M does so (Stallings), and many other football factories. But not UAT. Foooobaw is central to the bammers, but not the Bourbons. They are interested in power and its exercise.

To overthrow this rural dictatorship, we have to build UAB to the point where the gap between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa is so massive that power shifts within the system. We will not gain this power incrementally; it will come, as Hemingway put it, slowly then all at once.

Every donation to this UAB drive smites Finis St. John IV right between his crossed interbred eyes. We cannot afford to lose our top researchers - and believe this, should our funding falter, you will see Michigan and Hopkins and every other major research institution sniffing after UAB's stars like a Trojan fan at a sheep shearing. We must not only keep what we have, but expand it.

This must be the last generation of The Machine's rule over the System Board of Trustees. This fund drive is a fundamental prerequisite for revolution.

You want to **** Bama? Write a check.

03-lmfao Some people just know how to light a fire with their words!! You, good sir, are one of them!!!
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
I agree with you ICB. I am also tired of waiting a few more years. President Watts does not have the "vision" that many of us have that the on campus stadium would be a "visible nucleus" that would have an immediate and huge positive impact for UAB campus. A "stimulation" that would pay off ten-fold, for the university, and foremost provide a rock solid home for UAB Football.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 08:29 PM)TheGORILLA Wrote:  I agree with you ICB. I am also tired of waiting a few more years. President Watts does not have the "vision" that many of us have that the on campus stadium would be a "visible nucleus" that would have an immediate and huge positive impact for UAB campus. A "stimulation" that would pay off ten-fold, for the university, and foremost provide a rock solid home for UAB Football.

You have no idea what Dr. Watts' vision for UAB is.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-11-2013 05:40 PM)BlazingGoat Wrote:  If a stadium is in the capital campaign they should say as much. I think they would which is why, directly anyway, it isn't.

Sure, more money for the school can be linked tangentially to an eventual stadium, and yes, there is something to be said about operating within the confines of the BOT prison we find ourselves in at the moe~ment...

Enough with this BS though, OMG, let's throw down the gauntlet already. Our Official leadership is going to have to man up and declare war.

Bare it and we'll all share it. Robert E. Lee didnt want to go to war against the union, but his leaders (well, the state of VA) forced his hand. An unofficial skirmish (#freeuab) here and there, while noble and gallant in every way, will never occupy any real ground.

No leader can lead from behind.

isolate and reduce the enemy. remove his ability and or willingness to fight.

id rather another example for UAB than someone who committed treason and lost.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 12:58 PM)Matrix Wrote:  
(07-12-2013 11:28 AM)rook360 Wrote:  Can't win for losing.

Oh well roll tide and move on. Legion Field will have to suffice for now...and ever. At least there is always EA NCAA for UAB to have an OCS. Nope, just found out I have to spend 1Mil Microsoft points for the DLC. 01-france

03-lmfao I swear, just the other day, I was contemplating buying a PS Game Console so I could play NCAA 14, of course, I am going to pick UAB as my team, and play their entire 2013 schedule, game by game, and see if I've lost my touch...

its also a great Blueray player and great for streaming
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
I prefer to think positively about the OCS. Parsing Dr. Watts' words, he said the OCS is 'not a top strategic priority,'. He did not say it was not a priority. At a time when soundbites define people and what they think it is sometimes how something is said that is the most telling. Intelligent people get their point across in subtle ways, especially when they've had time to think about as I'm sure Dr. Watts had. I mean, he had to know the question was coming. So, in the interest of positive thinking, I prefer to think the Dr. Watts said EXACTLY what he wanted to say when he said the OCS is not a TOP strategic priority when he could have easily have said it is not a priority.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 08:40 PM)Smaug Wrote:  
(07-12-2013 08:29 PM)TheGORILLA Wrote:  I agree with you ICB. I am also tired of waiting a few more years. President Watts does not have the "vision" that many of us have that the on campus stadium would be a "visible nucleus" that would have an immediate and huge positive impact for UAB campus. A "stimulation" that would pay off ten-fold, for the university, and foremost provide a rock solid home for UAB Football.

You have no idea what Dr. Watts' vision for UAB is.

Well, of course I do have a very good idea of what Dr. Watts' vision for UAB is:

"Ray L. Watts, M.D., UAB's seventh president, has demonstrated visionary leadership in education, research and clinical care throughout his career."

I seriously doubt UAB will have an on campus stadium by the time Dr. Watts retires as President.

Lets just wait six more years and see...
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 08:40 PM)Smaug Wrote:  
(07-12-2013 08:29 PM)TheGORILLA Wrote:  I agree with you ICB. I am also tired of waiting a few more years. President Watts does not have the "vision" that many of us have that the on campus stadium would be a "visible nucleus" that would have an immediate and huge positive impact for UAB campus. A "stimulation" that would pay off ten-fold, for the university, and foremost provide a rock solid home for UAB Football.

You have no idea what Dr. Watts' vision for UAB is.

And therein lies the problem, we should know clearly what his vision is. I too am sick of cowardly-leadership and will not donate 1 dime towards any campaign that doesn't have monies earmarked for an on-campus stadium. I will buy tickets, attend games when I can, and support my team but I am not playing the "read between the lines" or the "behind the scenes" games. Leadership takes place out front not from behind.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
Suit yourself, but withholding donations to UAB because you aren't getting one thing you want built built fast enough, isn't going to get it built.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-12-2013 11:53 AM)rook360 Wrote:  Actually I am to the point of just "SCREW IT!!"

I could careless if 30,000 show up or 30. I'm still gonna go to the games, I'm still gonna catch flak when coworkers ask me if me and the other 3 fans showed up, and I'm still gonna enjoy watching my team.

Seems like the present thought around here has already been handed down that we are not getting a stadium, period. When you read this thread it's obvious the even the most most stout voices on here are already saying just let it go and focus on the Medical and Educational side. So, lets just focus on the educational side and enjoy what we have.

Better to rule in hell then serve in heaven. 01-france

I'm just glad that, despite your naysaying attitude, you have openly admitted that you do actually care if the crowd is 30,000 or 30. its nice to know you care
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
Read this thread. My neigh saying is only reflecting the words that others have post. If I didn't care I wouldn't have bought season tickets last year knowing I couldn't make one game. And bought again knowing I'll only make 2 or 3 home games.
"Why?" You ask. Well Ill tell you my good fellow. Because I know one of the stipulations is/was season ticket sells. Then donate to athletic schalorship.
Don't be mistaken, I'm gonna ALWAYS support my guys, my school. But this thread is showing how "the nothing" is covering the whole OCS idea. (A lil' "Never Ending Story" right there for you)
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
I've always wondered: did y'all's faces learn their lesson after you chopped off your noses?

Football is not the top strategic priority now. Keeping UAB from falling back into the status of a 13th grade diploma mill given the title "university" as a courtesy only is the priority. My degrees are valuable, and I do not want them stained by my school becoming an embarrassment to higher education like Tuscaloosa, memphis or East Carolina.

THAT is what a reduction in research funding means: we become a planetary laughingstock like memphis, where they're about to grant a degree to an illiterate football player whose goal in life is to give people rides in his car. And I can absolutely guarantee you this: if UAB becomes an urban equivalent to Troy "yeehaw we done beat Kaplan in academic quality" State, then we will never, ever see an on-campus stadium. Volker, Hill and Garrison had a vision of a world-class university that would be the pride of its alumni and of the people of Alabama. The Watts plan carries that vision forward.

UAB is in real danger of not only stalling, but falling backward. Our house is on fire with our children inside and some of y'all are whining because the firemen won't turn the hose on the goddamned catbox instead.
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RE: UAB football stadium 'not a top strategic priority,' Watts says
(07-13-2013 04:01 PM)58-56 Wrote:  I've always wondered: did y'all's faces learn their lesson after you chopped off your noses?

Football is not the top strategic priority now. Keeping UAB from falling back into the status of a 13th grade diploma mill given the title "university" as a courtesy only is the priority. My degrees are valuable, and I do not want them stained by my school becoming an embarrassment to higher education like Tuscaloosa, memphis or East Carolina.

THAT is what a reduction in research funding means: we become a planetary laughingstock like memphis, where they're about to grant a degree to an illiterate football player whose goal in life is to give people rides in his car. And I can absolutely guarantee you this: if UAB becomes an urban equivalent to Troy "yeehaw we done beat Kaplan in academic quality" State, then we will never, ever see an on-campus stadium. Volker, Hill and Garrison had a vision of a world-class university that would be the pride of its alumni and of the people of Alabama. The Watts plan carries that vision forward.

UAB is in real danger of not only stalling, but falling backward. Our house is on fire with our children inside and some of y'all are whining because the firemen won't turn the hose on the goddamned catbox instead.

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