re: UAB was making money

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It was. The reason this firm was rejected is that members of the football association contacted them directly to ensure that OSKR's selection would guarantee agreement with their argument. To get the deal, OSKR published two papers critical of the move to help assure that the outcome was predetermined if they were given the job.

The head of the national alumni association, who is also chair of the football committee, warned the board that OSKR would not be accepted because the firm was tainted.

He was correct

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Wrong on so many levels!

Only time I will comment on this because I think it is on the wrong board.

The Athletic Task Force (supposedly independent) unanimously picked this firm. Seeing as how they were supposed to be independent --- they told the firm to start work. A week later, the administration said the firm was not acceptable. Some members on the task force paid the firm 20k to finish the report they had started (uab still owes them more than 20k for initial work)

The guy who wrote this is submitting it as part of his dissertation --- meaning it will definitely be peer reviewed.

It was over 100 pages and they were up front. The Carr report --- used to kill the programs --- was re-tasked to justify killing the program and focused on PR tactics t avoid blowback (the whole 28 page pamphlet they submitted)

The Carr report neglected the costs of dropping out of C-USA (2-3 million a year) the loss of playoff revenue (all conferences receive a share) and the additional costs of further travel to get in a basketball only conference.

The Carr report also made this the formula of how much a scholarship costs. Out of state room and board plus tuition times two per scholarship.

By the way, apparently this is the same accounting trick the NCAA uses to say football does not make money when they lost the lawsuit...

Again, it does not matter what school you attended. There is something fundamentally wrong with you if you cannot see that an administration that has been caught in several lies, had no confidence votes from every stakeholding entity, has calls for resignation by the National Alumni Society and from the statewide media keeps his job because the Board of Trustees in charge really does not give a shite what UAB students, faculty, and alumni think. They are the only ones who can remove this arse clown. Instead, they hired a lobbying firm to keep the Board as is, so neither UAB not UAH can appoint a total of four new members that would be added to the existing, self-perpetuating system (it would have been less than 20% representation).