re: SIAP: Paul Bryant Jr's Bank Tie That Binds UA BOT

No doubt. I did the same thing for UAB even though it was tough. UAB's situation is not UA's situation though. Imagine if instead of UA going after Saban after the tough stretch and instead of investing heavily into facilities...they had Mike Dubose forced on them for another solid decade and put zero extra money into UA football for 10 years. Where do you think the UA program would be right now? Where would donations be? Where would ticket sales be? Would you be getting laughed at?

That's kind of an equivalent situation to where UAB football was at the end of 2006. Instead of going after the up and coming coach, they had a guy coming off a DUI forced on them...and then given a contract extension after winning 30% of his games. There were two ways for UAB to go in 2006 and they were forced down the wrong path.