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UAB Creates Athletic Foundation to Circumvent U of A Board of Trustees
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:35 am
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:35 am
Heard this on the radio this morning. UAB has been trying to build an on campus stadium for year but University of Alabama Systems Board of Trustees have blocked their efforts.
I say good for them for taking control of their Athletic Department and pushing towards #freeUAB
I say good for them for taking control of their Athletic Department and pushing towards #freeUAB
This post was edited on 10/28/14 at 4:28 pm
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Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:35 am to undecided
MSB
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:36 am to undecided
I expect many construction delays.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:36 am to undecided
quote:These people knowingly and willingly blocked efforts to build an alternative to Legion Field?
University of Alabama Systems Board of Trustees
Assholes.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:38 am to undecided
UAB doesn't succeed because they are located in quite honestly the shittiest city in the southeast sans downtown Atlanta.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:39 am to undecided
Ok
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:39 am to undecided
it was pretty fricked up how they handled the fisher situation.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:39 am to undecided
Good for them.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:41 am to undecided
Sounds good to me, as long as the System isn't paying for it.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:43 am to undecided
I don't see why they aren't teaming up with the city on the dome project. If UAB committed to anchor the dome it would have been built years ago it seems.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:46 am to undecided
Don't know how this is possible unless the BOT approves. 
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:46 am to undecided
Finally. Finally straw should have been when UAT prevented them from hiring Jimbo Fisher.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 11:50 am to undecided
I have two degrees from UAB, and I have been an active non-supporter of an on-campus FOOTBALL stadium. Stupid idea, supported only by a very vocal minority of UAB fans. Maybe they have the money to throw away - good for them. I don't want be a part of it.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 12:02 pm to undecided
UAB should just dissolve their team or go down in division or something.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 12:15 pm to undecided
UAB wants to act independent until they need money. They will never get the cash to build an on campus stadium.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 12:23 pm to undecided
quote:
on campus stadium
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WHERE? It's smack dab in the middle of Birmingham.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 12:28 pm to undecided
One of mine graduated from UAB and the other is there now. UAB draws chit for crowds. So unless some big time money people like Richard Schrushy step up to the plate I don't see it happening.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 12:32 pm to undecided
We will give them control over the Athletic Department but we get the Medical school back at UA. Fair trade. 
Posted on 10/28/14 at 12:56 pm to undecided
Good for them. ULM needs one in the worse kind of way, not because LSU (not even in the same system) or ULL is blocking their progress but because the adminstration does not care about athletics.
Posted on 10/28/14 at 1:50 pm to undecided
Hasn't Alabama repeatedly paid coaches to go elsewhere instead of UAB or something?
This post was edited on 10/28/14 at 2:17 pm
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