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UAB students divided on return of football program

http://m.wvtm13.com/news/UAB-students-di...m/33318334

Excerpt:

UAB students have mixed views when it comes to the possible return of football.

"Honestly, don't care if we have a team or not because I don't feel that they deserved to play for the school," Myisha Velez says. "They didn't put enough effort into it in my opinion."

"UAB, it's more than just a medical school," DeMarcus Williams says. "It's more than just a college. It's about a community of people and these people put all their work into what they enjoy. And we should allow them to do that again, so I would love for football to come back."

(05-31-2015 06:24 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  UAB students divided on return of football program

http://m.wvtm13.com/news/UAB-students-di...m/33318334

Excerpt:

UAB students have mixed views when it comes to the possible return of football.

"Honestly, don't care if we have a team or not because I don't feel that they deserved to play for the school," Myisha Velez says. "They didn't put enough effort into it in my opinion."

"UAB, it's more than just a medical school," DeMarcus Williams says. "It's more than just a college. It's about a community of people and these people put all their work into what they enjoy. And we should allow them to do that again, so I would love for football to come back."

Myisha Velez says. "They didn't put enough effort into it in my opinion." She's not talking about the players, is she?
What the hell?

(05-31-2015 06:26 PM)BlazerFire Wrote:  Myisha Velez says. "They didn't put enough effort into it in my opinion." She's not talking about the players, is she?
What the hell?

Maybe she really is as stupid as the quote makes her appear to be. But it's also possible that she was referring to the university -- i.e., UAB didn't put enough effort into the program.

This was a really stupid article. You could go to any college campus and write the same thing.

(05-31-2015 06:39 PM)FNblazer Wrote:  This was a really stupid article. You could go to any college campus and write the same thing.

The CSS report already answered this question. Support for UAB football was/is impressive and definitely there.

It almost seems like a propaganda hit piece.

Like a lot of college kids not all though, ignorant of the true issues & politics just the way politicians love new voters. She probably wasn't a local student who doesn't understand what went on nor why it happened & just has no vested interest in football/sports & never has

clickbait

One student does not mean the student body is "divided"

You could go to Tuscaloosa and find a dozen undergraduate students willing to go on camera to say they didn't care if UA had a football team.

So much for Channel 13's "accuracy matters."

(05-31-2015 07:38 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  One student does not mean the student body is "divided"

Of course it does.

Being split 99% to 1% is still divided.

(05-31-2015 07:12 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  It almost seems like a propaganda hit piece.

Bingo

You guys seriously should accuse everyone of plaigarism. The negative stuff coming out is almost word for word the stuff that was said towards ETSU. No joke, guys. It's the EXACT. SAME. TALKING. POINTS.

Get back to me when any survey of 10,000 or so people anywhere finds no division of opinion on ANYTHING.

(05-31-2015 08:56 PM)Buccaneerlover Wrote:  You guys seriously should accuse everyone of plaigarism. The negative stuff coming out is almost word for word the stuff that was said towards ETSU. No joke, guys. It's the EXACT. SAME. TALKING. POINTS.

You raise a powerful point here that I think we've overlooked:

We still know very little about Sard Verbinnen's involvement. Who hired them? How much were they paid? What was their involvement beyond the packet of documents we've seen?

Given Sard's reputation and specialty, and insistence on secrecy, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they were involved at both ETSU and UAB. And then that raises the question of the ETSU VP added at the last minute to the SACS team reviewing UAB this winter, who supposedly ramrodded the "no problems here" whitewash.

There's no such thing as "coincidence" when the dealings are this dirty.

(05-31-2015 06:24 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  UAB students divided on return of football program

http://m.wvtm13.com/news/UAB-students-di...m/33318334

Excerpt:

UAB students have mixed views when it comes to the possible return of football.

"Honestly, don't care if we have a team or not because I don't feel that they deserved to play for the school," Myisha Velez says. "They didn't put enough effort into it in my opinion."

"UAB, it's more than just a medical school," DeMarcus Williams says. "It's more than just a college. It's about a community of people and these people put all their work into what they enjoy. And we should allow them to do that again, so I would love for football to come back."

Reminds me of local Atlanta news station doing a story on GSU football a couple years ago and finding some girl wearing a UGA sweatshirt to interview. They had to have gone past 50 GSU wearing students. Yes news stations troll.

Also brother 58, I find it odd that Sard was even tapped for the job in the first place. We have a peripheral connection to Protective Life, as they used Sard for the Dai-ichi transaction. They typically only deal on Wall Street, which makes their involvement an interesting wrinkle in the saga.

Regardless, at Auburn's arena in November 2015, I will link arms with my brethren and sing in that old Blazer spiritual:

Fire Ray Watts! Fire Ray Watts! Thank God Almighty, Fire Ray Watts!

Good ole Chip Scarborough. He's the best at making me laugh during the nightly news.

(05-31-2015 10:27 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(05-31-2015 08:56 PM)Buccaneerlover Wrote:  You guys seriously should accuse everyone of plaigarism. The negative stuff coming out is almost word for word the stuff that was said towards ETSU. No joke, guys. It's the EXACT. SAME. TALKING. POINTS.

You raise a powerful point here that I think we've overlooked:

We still know very little about Sard Verbinnen's involvement. Who hired them? How much were they paid? What was their involvement beyond the packet of documents we've seen?

Given Sard's reputation and specialty, and insistence on secrecy, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they were involved at both ETSU and UAB. And then that raises the question of the ETSU VP added at the last minute to the SACS team reviewing UAB this winter, who supposedly ramrodded the "no problems here" whitewash.

There's no such thing as "coincidence" when the dealings are this dirty.

Who was the VP? Was it Wilsie Bishop?
Our situation was different. We had a president who wanted to drop athletics altogether, and a tennis coach who hated football. The state legislature started sabre rattling about funding and money, ETSU, who had NEVER had a student fee for athletics jumped and dropped football. Two months later the rattling stopped, Austin Peay added scholarship back (they're a sister institution), and everyone else added fees to increase funding. Part of it was a little orange and white influence, but not a ton. It was mostly incompetent leadership. When the president finally retired and our current guy became a candidate, we all knew it was his to lose. Bill Haslam (the governor) wanted him specifically to be over the entire UT system when they hired the current guy, and he lost that battle. ETSU hired him, and magically the funding for projects we've waited 30 years for appeared, and football returned with the ability to actually fund it.
Politics have dictated both, and the talking points for dropping it truly are the same. But I will tell you it DOES NOT WORK. The funniest part of our situation was all those years ago the basketball groupies we have were promised an elevated program that would be in a C-USA type conference. 12 years later...
You're going to win, either today, or in a few years. You just have to fight and never quit.