Posted on 12/02/2014 1:26:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
UAB is shutting down the football program.
The university announced the decision Tuesday minutes after President Ray Watts met with the Blazers players and coaches. UAB made the decision after a campus-wide study conducted by a consulting firm over the past year.
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This is going to get ugly. UA in Tuscaloosa BOT calls the shots for UAB and UAH. Conflict of interest? Many seem to think so.
Read somewhere not long ago that it is a myth college football makes money. Only a few at the top make real money.
I think a lot of smaller schools will be dropping football, they just can’t compete with the big guys.
college football is an expensive hobby and UAB doesn’t have the fan base of say . . . Tennessee or Texas or the other well known programs.
It does suck that the school shut down the shooting team, that IS a useful skill.
Bring in consultants to take the hit for delivering the bad news. And they say it’s not a business.
Especially since Title IX
Who do you like to replace Coach Boom?
Reading comments on this some claim Tuscaloosa is like a vampire and sucks resources away from UAB and UAH. For example, most of the profits from the UAB Hospital/Medical School gets sent to Tuscaloosa.
Some programs may be worthwhile anyway due to the benefits to the larger community and the opportunity it gives young people for scholarships and such.
But the harsh reality is that too many programs only subsidize six figure salaries (and more) for coaches and serve as uncompensated farm teams for the NFL.
Ultimately, the shortfall in money comes from taxpayers, alumni, higher tuition and other non beneficiaries.
I got my first serious well paying job because the company liked my college's reputation for turning out serious workers in my field, even though its football team usually went 2-11 or, in a great year, 4-9.
Sorry.
I have heard the same thing, but the political will doesn’t exist in Montgomery to split up the two universities.
Also I am reading about Paul Bryant Jr seems have something against UAB. Why would he want to stick it to UAB? Did UAB do something to his papa?
Already internet talk of UAB boosters setting up UAT players and recruits in a big way. May get interesting.
Nick Saban. ;)
Actually it looks like it will be Jim McElwain from Colorado State. At least he does have some head coaching experience.
Would be a good hire.
The real scandal is the universities taking the students’ money in exchange for worthless degrees that do not qualify them for employment.
Several years ago UAB tried to hire Jimbo Fisher, but the BOT nixed that deal...
Speaking of Tennessee, we will be looking for a new opponent for our opener next year. It was UAB.
I believe Georgia State's new football program faces the same impossible odds in downtown Atlanta, where it competes with strong loyalties to UGA, Georgia Tech and the Falcons. But away from Atlanta, Georgia Southern and Valdosta State thrive in smaller ponds - as does the even smaller and newer football program at Mercer University in Macon.
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