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UA Trustees create new sports technology research center
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(06-21-2016 09:12 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  UA Trustees create new sports technology research center
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I saw that in Ed Enoch's tweets and wondered why they would do that if the UAB facility was going to have that as a main innovation

I would love to see the explanation for why a sports health research facility is at a low tier research university with a top tier sports program instead of an elite tier medical research university with a mid-tier Div I athletics program. It speaks to the way they think.

I don't see any medical related entities involved in the UA center

(06-21-2016 09:17 AM)interested Wrote:  

(06-21-2016 09:12 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  UA Trustees create new sports technology research center
http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/mo...earch.html

I saw that in Ed Enoch's tweets and wondered why they would do that if the UAB facility was going to have that as a main innovation

Because the BOT can't have UAB be innovative in it first.

(06-21-2016 09:32 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  I don't see any medical related entities involved in the UA center

Sure there are. They're scattered throughout the enterprise. They are de-emphasized as concentrations on non-medical aspects are promoted. With this sort of thing you cannot avoid it. Coach Clark's idea wasn't new or revolutionary as it is currently being done elsewhere, but it is not commonplace. And it could be that UA had planned to do this anyway. But, coach's idea, which was still an excellent idea, died on the vine and was never heard of again. Coach Clark's idea may have been more UAB medicine-based looking to take advantage of UAB and its research prowess but there was a strong sports medicine/injury research component to it, also. UA's take seems to be a $-based extension.
http://uanews.ua.edu/2016/06/ua-trustees...ch-center/

typical

with UAB's helmet research and a new UA contract could that be a link that could make it happen? If UA goes beyond jerseys and helmet paint to the core gear, we could be the folks who give them the research and marketing edge?

There's more than one way to skin a cat. If there were a strong coordinator to get medicine, surgery and nursing to all play on the same team on campus there are research opportunities that would dwarf anything they could possibly do in Tuscaloosa

Auburn
http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.s...iver_index

While renovations to Jordan-Hare Stadium's north end zone (a project that would cost upward of $140 million) have been at the top of that list, construction of a new sports medicine facility is also a priority.

Lol. It's impossible to recruit top research faculty to Tuscaloosa. It's a poor location and it has poor research infrastructure. It would be career suicide.

Was it actually coach's idea?

Imho this shouldve happened years ago.

Yes it was. I remember when he first brought it up to me.

(06-25-2016 03:15 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  Was it actually coach's idea?

Imho this shouldve happened years ago.

Lots of things regarding UAB football should have happened years ago.