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re: SIAP: Paul Bryant Jr's Bank Tie That Binds UA BOT
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:30 am to higgs_boson
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:30 am to higgs_boson
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The issue is, the board is supposed to treat all universities under its stewardship equally.
Yet they are not equal. They have different mandates, demographics, and purposes they serve. This concept seems to escape you.
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If Bryant Jr. had supported UAB athletics, I tend to think it would have been moderately successful. Cannot say for sure because it is only hypothetical.
You answered your own question. Football had 22 years to build a fanbase and the fact remains hardly anyone in the Birmingham metro area cared enough. This is undeniable. Yet we should put hundreds of millions more into this on the premise of "build it and they will come". Ludicrous.
Have you heard anyone complaining about UAB's success in basketball in the past or even this year relative to the program in Tuscaloosa?
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:34 am to 14&Counting
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Yet they are not equal. They have different mandates, demographics, and purposes they serve. This concept seems to escape you.
I am only going by what the BoT publicly says.
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“We are a system. We are supposed to be supporting everyone,” Espy said.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:44 am to 14&Counting
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They have different mandates, demographics, and purposes they serve.
All of this changes over time. UA now is more a school for out of state students than in state. UAB has developed a undergraduate program with more than 20k students.
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You answered your own question. Football had 22 years to build a fanbase and the fact remains hardly anyone in the Birmingham metro area cared enough.
Again a chicken and an egg argument. Blocking the hire of Jimbo Fisher, not even voting on the stadium proposal and keeping the program under a cloud of cancellation since 2004 hurt the program.
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Have you heard anyone complaining about UAB's success in basketball in the past or even this year relative to the program in Tuscaloosa?
Yes. Alabama fans still curse Gene Bartow and will not play UAB in basketball. Example a reply from Alabama fan at capstone
[quote]uab athletics was born of a lie. the lie being that the basketball program everyone agreed to was going to start out at division three.
then they went behind everyone’s back and hired bartow. bartow, coming from ucla, would never have agreed to come coach a division three team.
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