Let's change course for a second. Do you believe, at this point in time, that Ray Watts can be an effective President at UAB?

The hits keep coming. He has lost the trust of the student body, faculty and alumni. Putting football aside, if he really cared about the University, would it not be best for all parties for him to retire at this point? Imagine if Robert Witt, had been caught lying to Alabama boosters? How long would he have been President. I bring him up because he was a great President and comparing him to Watts shows how bad an administrator Watts is.

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The cost of killing UAB football, rifle and bowling includes paying coaches not to coach, an athletics director not to direct athletics and opponents not to play, as well as footing the bill for student-athletes to continue as students but not athletes.

It includes paying an outside consulting firm to run numbers to justify the decision, one outside PR firm to devise a plan to announce and sell the decision and a second PR firm to lessen the fallout.

This is not just chat room banter, it is on the front page of the largest media org in Alabama.

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Posted by RT1941

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Posted on 3/27/15 at 2:17 pm to higgs_boson

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quote:The cost of killing UAB football, rifle and bowling includes paying coaches not to coach, an athletics director not to direct athletics and opponents not to play, as well as footing the bill for student-athletes to continue as students but not athletes. It includes paying an outside consulting firm to run numbers to justify the decision, one outside PR firm to devise a plan to announce and sell the decision and a second PR firm to lessen the fallout.

If you'd stick to President Ray Watts and stop interjecting the football/rifle/bowling teams into the discussion - most folks would probabaly agree with you.

I understand that UAB people want Watts gone and you believe his actions have been detrimental to UAB as a whole.

But it sounds like y'all are using the platform of the lost football team and the media driving it to further your agenda to oust the man.

Why not just highlight the shite job he has done on the academic side and let those actions speak for him incompetance?

The largest media org in Alabama sucks and has for a very long time, but that's all UAB has at the moment. And it's really a shame that UAB supporters have to hitch their wagon to Rep. Jack Williams "jihad" movement to shake up the UA BOT and reinstate UAB football through State legislation.