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re: UAB football likely coming back
Posted on 5/29/15 at 8:43 pm to dswear
Posted on 5/29/15 at 8:43 pm to dswear
UABs basketball program has had pretty decent success. You don't need a football team to be a good basketball school. You will note that no one is suggesting UABs basketball program be shuttered.
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Posted on 5/29/15 at 9:06 pm to 14&Counting
Except that is exactly what is suggested by losing CUSA affiliation. Let me know what conference UAB will be in since the school is in Alabama. I've already shown why moving to the MVC with no football program will cost the same as staying in CUSA and keeping football.
Do you think it would be wise for UAB to pay generally the same money only to drop down to the 20th RPI ranked Sun Belt or the 30th RPI ranked Atlantic Sun? CUSA isn't great anymore, but it is still better than either of those. Is losing a football program worth going to the MVC? Probably not. If there was a Big East or an A10 invite on the table I could at least understand the argument.
You can't just shutter a football program inside of a bubble. College athletics don't work like that.
UAB basketball will have dropped from a top 10 basketball conference down to a sub 20 to 30 RPI ranked conference in only a decade's time if they don't stay in CUSA or end up in the MVC. That is a monumental failing by the people running it. I'm not sure that has even been accomplished before in any other school's history. Think about those implications :P.
Do you think it would be wise for UAB to pay generally the same money only to drop down to the 20th RPI ranked Sun Belt or the 30th RPI ranked Atlantic Sun? CUSA isn't great anymore, but it is still better than either of those. Is losing a football program worth going to the MVC? Probably not. If there was a Big East or an A10 invite on the table I could at least understand the argument.
You can't just shutter a football program inside of a bubble. College athletics don't work like that.
UAB basketball will have dropped from a top 10 basketball conference down to a sub 20 to 30 RPI ranked conference in only a decade's time if they don't stay in CUSA or end up in the MVC. That is a monumental failing by the people running it. I'm not sure that has even been accomplished before in any other school's history. Think about those implications :P.
This post was edited on 5/29/15 at 9:16 pm
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