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Bham Business Journal - Clark: Recent issues affecting recruiting at UAB

Thank you Coach for showing some Cajones and telling it like it is.

Question is will he even stick around now? The guy showed some initiative in reaching out to members of the business community to support the program and got push back from his administration. He hasn't been given a definite answer as to whether we can improve facilities or if they'll even extend his contract. That's a situation a lot of people will face in their own careers. If those above you aren't enthusiastic/supportive of you trying to better the organization that's when a lot of people starting looking for somewhere else to take their skills. I hope I'm wrong.

(11-11-2014 09:31 AM)blazertke Wrote:  Question is will he even stick around now? The guy showed some initiative in reaching out to members of the business community to support the program and got push back from his administration. He hasn't been given a definite answer as to whether we can improve facilities or if they'll even extend his contract. That's a situation a lot of people will face in their own careers. If those above you aren't enthusiastic/supportive of you trying to better the organization that's when a lot of people starting looking for somewhere else to take their skills. I hope I'm wrong.

IF the decisions made "based on" the study are positive in regards to football and are made by a sensible date (the end of the regular season), Clark will stay. His oft-repeated assertion that UAB could be a future Boise St-type story is based on investment and location, location, location. He essentially needs just 2 more years to be vested in Alabama's retirement system. If it is remotely possible and feasible, he will spend them at UAB...because the alternative is Pike County. Clark can't, and wouldn't, say the same thing about Troy State that he has said and believes about UAB (re: a future Boise St). This is not speculation.

PBjr, Finis, and those pos to chicken chit to say anything are slowly killing us. Someone has got to say and do something.

If the study comes out and there is a public commitment made to Clark and the football program, there is every reason to believe he'll stay. He wants to be here, he sees what he could grow here.

If they drag their feet and don't get the report out, an extension in front of him, and start taking serious action regarding scheduling, I doubt he's still here a month after the season ends.

They can end all the speculation with a very short brief statement. But they refuse. Why? If you ask any other FBS school in the country that question what answer would you get?

If Football is safe and they allow IPF and he gets a contract extension he will stay. If not, they might as well kill it now rather than let it die for two years in front of 150 parents and friends after every good player we have leaves to wherever Clark goes and we are the biggest laughing stock in the country and the board sits back and say we didn't do anything. Your own President and AD killed it.

I hope we are all wrong and they make us look foolish. That means we win and I will gladly accept that banner.

Oh hell yeah. I've worn the "crazy paranoid UAB Fan" label for years, I don't give a damn about that. If flailing around in public fighting for a program they say was never in danger makes me look silly, I'm good with that.

I damn well know better anyhow, and if they do kill it at least I'll be able to look myself in the mirror and think that I did what I could to stop it.

Who can put heat on the board members who will still be around? Is it someone who can make life hell for PBjr's businesses? Focus on that. All these posters on here know other people who can do something.
Write or call local businesses that do business and ask them to support not only the team but UAB.
Write not just legislators but those people that have a past grudge publicly with PBjr and his dealings.
LAY ON THE HEAT! It's already out there and if we are to lose I'd rather go down fighting then hoping to land in the A-10, but falling short of that.

(11-11-2014 09:19 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  Bham Business Journal - Clark: Recent issues affecting recruiting at UAB

Very good article but why didn't al.com do this article? Scarbinsky and Archibald have done an excellent job on the story. The beat writer has done nothing but rewrite press releases. I loved Coach Clark's honesty in the article. Others might be equally as honest if the beat writer decides to quit being lazy and do his job. Rewriting press releases will not move this story forward.

Agree busch

(11-11-2014 10:46 AM)busch Wrote:  

(11-11-2014 09:19 AM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  Bham Business Journal - Clark: Recent issues affecting recruiting at UAB

Very good article but why didn't al.com do this article? Scarbinsky and Archibald have done an excellent job on the story. The beat writer has done nothing but rewrite press releases. I loved Coach Clark's honesty in the article. Others might be equally as honest if the beat writer decides to quit being lazy and do his job. Rewriting press releases will not move this story forward.

Because outside the two you mentioned, Al.com doesn't have journalists. Just bloggers who think what they do is journalism. Heck, calling them bloggers is an insult to bloggers.

Keep the pressure up and keep bringing in national attention.