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Of course the slimey jack@$$ is going to say that. I could written his script for him just as well as his PR firm and charged a lot less.

The problem is those costs of participation were already fully covered in the Carr report, this is not something new - funny how Watts didn't mention that. They were major factors factors which Carr used to shoot down football. Those future increases in costs are what they are and have to be included in any study.

However, another thing that Watts "forgot" to mention is that the [/align]sports economic experts who have discredited the Carr report have gone on record as saying that even with those future cost increases included, UAB can still afford football Those "new" costs are not going to torpedo the new study because they have been well known for quite some time and are already accounted for.

FBS football is very expensive - for all programs. How prevalent is it that FBS programs around the nation struggle to make money? Is UAB the only one that doesn't? To be measured against the Bama and AU programs is like measuring most of us against Bill Gates, Warren Buffett or Donald Trump. Most of us can't "be like Mike" in income.

Yes, UAB needs many expensive facility improvements that we have known about for years (decades even) but have been blocked from building new while their costs spiraled to present day levels. "Cost of attendance" is just another of these. We have the same problem as an auto owner who has procrastinated about maintenance until something major breaks and the car is immobile. Then he blames the costs of repair being too high.

We have bigger fish to fried then cusa
#freeuab and the first employers of the state will be running the state
Sky is the limit
A big conference will be calling
They want to take a piece of the sec landscape
Uab will be the target
I don't give a **** about cusa
#FREEUAB and we will take care of everything. ..very fast

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(01-30-2015 05:46 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  #FREEUAB and we will take care of everything. ..very fast

I genuinely believe that if UAB had achieved its own Board of Trustees ca. 1980, we would be in the ACC athletically and AAU academically right now.

When Werner von Braun in a 1960s appearance before the state legislature threatened to move the NASA space program out of Alabama if a first class engineering school was not set up in Huntsville, the legislature panicked and asked UA to set up what became UAH.

As an after thought, they also set up UAB, like UAH was to be centered around its engineering school, centered around the UA Medical school which had been moved to B'ham in the 1940s. How much thought was given to building a vibrant undergraduate UAB is questionable. Like "Topsy", It sort of "just growed" there. B'ham had been the state's largest city for about 70 years by the time in 1969 that it finally got its first state university, but only as a branch campus.

Alabama politicians are not famous for their ability to anticipate the future needs of anything in this state. They have always responded to events with knee-jerk type responses that too often the state later regrets (see Edmund Pettus Bridge).

would somebody please take this man to Diego Garcia, drop him off and leave him there?! Let the Giant Crabs have him!

(01-30-2015 11:49 AM)the_blazerman Wrote:  As long as he feels comfortable around here he is going to continue.
He needs to feel the pain.

This! And so far, UAB student media has lambasted him in its' last 3 issues of K-Scope!

(01-30-2015 05:53 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(01-30-2015 05:46 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  #FREEUAB and we will take care of everything. ..very fast

I genuinely believe that if UAB had achieved its own Board of Trustees ca. 1980, we would be in the ACC athletically and AAU academically right now.

Sad but true.

(01-30-2015 08:53 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  

(01-30-2015 05:53 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(01-30-2015 05:46 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  #FREEUAB and we will take care of everything. ..very fast

I genuinely believe that if UAB had achieved its own Board of Trustees ca. 1980, we would be in the ACC athletically and AAU academically right now.

Sad but true.

I have stated before that I believe other conferences have avoided dealing with UAB - especially now that we don't have Gene Bartow as our "point man" - because of their doubt that UAB can give its word on anything important without getting permission from 60 miles west. Just as Alabama cities and counties can't do anything important without getting permission from the state legislature (there is NO "home rule" on nearly all important matters), UAB can't decide most agreements without the BOT's consent. Adding us with that "baggage" just has not been worth the trouble since Gene got us into C-USA.

(01-30-2015 05:53 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(01-30-2015 05:46 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  #FREEUAB and we will take care of everything. ..very fast

I genuinely believe that if UAB had achieved its own Board of Trustees ca. 1980, we would be in the ACC athletically and AAU academically right now.

yep
IT is never too late to do the right thing
Please dr watt keep talking ,,,,i love it

(01-30-2015 05:46 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  We have bigger fish to fried then cusa
#freeuab and the first employers of the state will be running the state
Sky is the limit
A big conference will be calling
They want to take a piece of the sec landscape
Uab will be the target
I don't give a **** about cusa
#FREEUAB and we will take care of everything. ..very fast

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I love the vision this man has! I still love Conference USA, but if after all this, not only do we get them all back but wind up in a conference that will raise UAB's athletic stock? Damn, that's good to think about.

(01-31-2015 08:22 PM)Matrix Wrote:  

(01-30-2015 05:46 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  We have bigger fish to fried then cusa
#freeuab and the first employers of the state will be running the state
Sky is the limit
A big conference will be calling
They want to take a piece of the sec landscape
Uab will be the target
I don't give a **** about cusa
#FREEUAB and we will take care of everything. ..very fast

Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I love the vision this man has! I still love Conference USA, but if after all this, not only do we get them all back but wind up in a conference that will raise UAB's athletic stock? Damn, that's good to think about.

AAC>>> ACC would be awesome!
BBall, football, & academics (except for UNC)

That is why UAB needs its on-campus stadium. On-campus stadium= more attendance= Good for UAB Leigon Field=bad..off campus=bad
UAB denied on campus stadium so BOT wants UAB to fail.

A Good UAB is Good For Birmingham, Jefferson County, State of Alabama, and good for ME!

FIRE RAY NOW!

(02-01-2015 01:10 PM)TNBLAZERS Wrote:  That is why UAB needs its on-campus stadium. On-campus stadium= more attendance= Good for UAB Leigon Field=bad..off campus=bad
UAB denied on campus stadium so BOT wants UAB to fail.

A Good UAB is Good For Birmingham, Jefferson County, State of Alabama, and good for ME!

FIRE RAY NOW!

Totally agree with this. Ray cannot stay. no matter what he say...To thee, I say nay! Go far, far away, Ray! And stay away!

Step two is to kill the UA Athletics Committee. If it remains in tact we will be sporting a DIII program in ten years or less. mark my words. They have already made enquiries into it.

(02-01-2015 05:30 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Step two is to kill the UA Athletics Committee. If it remains in tact we will be sporting a DIII program in ten years or less. mark my words. They have already made enquiries into it.

I wish the board would just for once have the cajones to just admit what their intentions are. It's not like they have some industry secret that a competitor is going to steal and beat them in an industry. They're a college board for gosh sakes. They should be nearly invisible and let the presidents run their schools. Instead they're hell bent on using it as a club to beat those that they disagree with or whose leadership is the wrong pigmentation.

(02-01-2015 05:47 PM)biglizard Wrote:  

(02-01-2015 05:30 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Step two is to kill the UA Athletics Committee. If it remains in tact we will be sporting a DIII program in ten years or less. mark my words. They have already made enquiries into it.

I wish the board would just for once have the cajones to just admit what their intentions are. It's not like they have some industry secret that a competitor is going to steal and beat them in an industry. They're a college board for gosh sakes. They should be nearly invisible and let the presidents run their schools. Instead they're hell bent on using it as a club to beat those that they disagree with or whose leadership is the wrong pigmentation.

They won't admit what they have done to UAB athletics and the school in general because it could offend the SACS people and they are simply not about to explain anything to anyone. The present BOT leadership probably regrets the little autonomy the UAB and UAH campuses have had since the 1960s as it is and may well be trying to undo as much of it as possible. Two of the most important cities in the state are under their thumb through BOT control of their respective UA branches, and that is very much to their liking.

It is THEIR engineering school in Huntsville, THEIR medical school in Birmingham and THEIR football team in Tuscaloosa. Life is good and it is on THEIR terms.

Huntsville is not under the thumb of the bot. Let's clear that fact up right now. UAH is a good engineering school, but people from all over the country move to Huntsville to work.

(02-02-2015 08:59 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  Huntsville is not under the thumb of the bot. Let's clear that fact up right now. UAH is a good engineering school, but people from all over the country move to Huntsville to work.

How you see it is not what determines how THEY see it. One could just as easily say "B'ham has a good medical school with people from many places coming to work there". The Point of View of the system BOT is what we must consider because THEY determine what happens with both schools in both cities.

The federal government runs Huntsville. How do I know you ask? I live and work here. I also attended UAH for a while. The bot holds little to no power in Huntsville.