re: Bill introduced in Alabama Legislature to restructure UA BoT

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As API, they really don't have a dog in this fight. Hell, your own atheletic department is in the red. Your system to not be viable financially. Here your telling the University how to run its board. Seems to me, you need to get the crap off your own carpet, before you worry about anyone elses.

UAB football is in the red and financially defunct. They started out wanting to play on the main stage, when they should have been playing on lower levels in another NCAA division. You have to walk before you run. I'm surprised that you people down south at API didn't know that. Then again, expecting common sense from you guys, is just to much of a reach.

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It's not even really about the football anymore at this point. It's the fact that the people in charge are actively undermining what's best for two schools in their system essentially just to make themselves look better.

Do you know how many college football programs make money? Not many. Just because Bama is one of the few that does doesn't mean they should rub their nose at a Univeristy that doesn't. Football is worth the money spent for most colleges. It improves the identity of college, broadens it's profile and appeal, and vastly improves the student experience.

You can't make money without spending money. It's next to impossible to succes without the right tools, and UAB was constantly denied the tools to succeed. Don't approve a coach that's all but paid for. Don't approve a stadium that's all but paid for. Don't approve facilities that are all but paid for. UAB has worse facilities than Hoover HS and was never allowed to upgrade. How are you supposed to win with that? You create an atmosphere for failure and then act surprised when it fails.


And UAB did not start off on the big stage. UAB football started off as a club sport. Then D3, then 1-AA before finally moving up. You only keep a school with a 1-A enrollment that's already been successful in other sports at that level away from 1-A for so long