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Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:12 pm to higgs_boson
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:12 pm to higgs_boson
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I do donate to UAB. My father graduated from there with his Masters, my wife was an associate professor and I was a TA.
Hopefully others will follow your lead. You are one of the people fighting the good fight here on behalf of UAB and I wish you luck. My problem is with those who are just using it for trolling.
We're in agreement that it is a shame the program is gone. I'm extremely sorry for UAB players. I remember after being bounced from the high school playoffs my senior year, knowing it was the last time I'd ever play the game. Cried like a baby. That time comes for everybody eventually, but it's unfair that the Blazers had to hang it up for off-the-field reasons. I don't know what motivated the board. If it wasn't simply because the program was losing money, then that really is a travesty. I'd always wanted Bama to play UAB and never understood why they wouldn't.
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Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:13 pm to Bama323_15
Personally, I think its because UA feels it validated another instate program many moons ago by playing it when it was irrelevant and consequently we now have to share instate talent, have been knocked out of championships by this instate rival etc and we are hell bent on making sure we don't make that mistake again.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:18 pm to tider04
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Personally, I think its because UA feels it validated another instate program many moons ago by playing it when it was irrelevant and consequently we now have to share instate talent, have been knocked out of championships by this instate rival etc and we are hell bent on making sure we don't make that mistake again.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:23 pm to tider04
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tider04
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Personally, I think its because UA feels it validated another instate program many moons ago by playing it when it was irrelevant and consequently we now have to share instate talent, have been knocked out of championships by this instate rival etc and we are hell bent on making sure we don't make that mistake again.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:27 pm to CrimsonCrusade
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My problem is with those who are just using it for trolling.
I really don't see anybody trolling except Bama fans. All I see is legit points why this is wrong and most of it has nothing to do with Bama and everything to do with UAB. But leave it to Bama fans to make it about them...
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:31 pm to bamamonty
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UAB is a money-pit on the whole system. Twenty-three years of deficits in the program. If the boat don't float, it sinks.
Per the UAB Pres:
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'This is not about financial woes," Watts said.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:34 pm to tider04
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Posted by tider04
Personally, I think its because UA feels it validated another instate program many moons ago by playing it when it was irrelevant and consequently we now have to share instate talent, have been knocked out of championships by this instate rival etc and we are hell bent on making sure we don't make that mistake again.
The Gump is strong in this one...
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:35 pm to weagle99
And if money was the issue, why not announce a fund raising campaign? Give an opportunity to raise monies needed. The team was bowl eligible this year and a bowl payout would have been nice. Attendance had doubled from last year
Just seems particular to get the "results" back from some report and immediately without second thought shut down a major function of the school and cause major ramifications.
Just seems particular to get the "results" back from some report and immediately without second thought shut down a major function of the school and cause major ramifications.
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Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:37 pm to GoldenDawg
UAB and UAT are part of the same University system and governed by a Board of Trustees.
What's so hard to understand about that?
What's so hard to understand about that?
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:39 pm to weagle99
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Per the UAB Pres: quote:'This is not about financial woes," Watts said.
But long term projections led them to believe staying competitive in CUSA would cause financial woes.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:41 pm to fillmoregandt
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without second thought shut down a major function of the school and cause major ramifications
Embellish - to enhance (a statement or narrative) with fictitious additions.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:41 pm to GoldenDawg
It is because UAT is a football program with a shitty university attached to it.
They have to have UAB to prop them up as a university. UAB has never wanted to be associated with UAT.
The ignorant Bama fans want to blame AU fans for all their woes, but everyone is starting to see it now.
They have to have UAB to prop them up as a university. UAB has never wanted to be associated with UAT.
The ignorant Bama fans want to blame AU fans for all their woes, but everyone is starting to see it now.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:42 pm to Bama54
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It seems it matters a lot to UT, AU, and LSU fans.
Not this LSU fan. Only a nutjob would think Alabama had some faux illuminati agenda to kill off UAB's football program. They may may have a plan like that for Auburn, but not fricking UAB.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:43 pm to Bama323_15
You can't tell me the Bama athletic program hasn't been swimming in money for the last decade and doesn't have te money to float a little bro program.
Bama is "The Dynasty" and yet can't afford to throw some money to a little bro program?
What Alabama has done to UAB is a travesty and all Bamers should be disgusted by this.
Bama is "The Dynasty" and yet can't afford to throw some money to a little bro program?
What Alabama has done to UAB is a travesty and all Bamers should be disgusted by this.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:43 pm to GoldenDawg
If only the city would shut down next...
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:44 pm to JakeFromStateFarm
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Not this LSU fan. Only a nutjob would think Alabama had some faux illuminati agenda to kill off UAB's football program. They may may have a plan like that for Auburn, but not fricking UAB.
You may have become the wisest poster on this site...FWIW.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:46 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
Where have you beem TiM? Through days and days of turmoil and tragedy over the demise of the storied UAB football program, and you've been MIA?
Posted on 12/2/14 at 10:49 pm to TaxmanMSU
Bama's been floating them $17 mill a yr. that ain't exactly chump change even in the profitable Saban era.
If UAB can pickup their own tab, then by God they can play all the football and march all the band members to their hearts desire.
If UAB can pickup their own tab, then by God they can play all the football and march all the band members to their hearts desire.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 11:00 pm to higgs_boson
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UA got what it wanted in the end, and the only ones suffering will be the kids and the 300 fans of UAB.
fify.
Posted on 12/2/14 at 11:04 pm to TaxmanMSU
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Bama is "The Dynasty" and yet can't afford to throw some money to a little bro program?
Well, since the Aubs are so sympathetic to helping UAB football, why didn't they play them instead of Samford? Hell, they could have even played a home-and-home with UAB and they might have even filled up Legion Field. Would have been a big payday for UAB.
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