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re: SIAP: Paul Bryant Jr's Bank Tie That Binds UA BOT
Posted on 3/27/15 at 2:17 pm to higgs_boson
Posted on 3/27/15 at 2:17 pm to higgs_boson
quote: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.
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.
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.
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Posted on 3/27/15 at 2:23 pm to RT1941
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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.
My point was the Pr firm and the fact the stories keep painting the President in a negative light. Did not want to edit out the athletic parts because that would be disingenuous. Sports is being used as a spotlight against the President, right or wrong, all this press makes it difficult for a savvy administrator to do a good job, let alone someone who is clearly not comfortable in press meetings.
Edit --- the sad truth is the football issue drives the story even though the academic issues are more important. If it was just the academic side, I doubt it would have even made a single headline, but that is a problem much larger than this specific issue.
This post was edited on 3/27/15 at 2:27 pm
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