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re: Florida wins the UAB lottery. Gators setting up a super tough schedule in '17
Posted on 1/19/16 at 1:33 am to higgs_boson
Posted on 1/19/16 at 1:33 am to higgs_boson
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NAh.
Best way.
Set Benchmarks.
You need to reach X in attendance.
You need to reach X in donations.
You need to create a booster club that generates X amount a year.
You have X number of years to reach these goals or the program is closed.
How the thing should have been handled from the beginning tbh.
Why is UAB held to this arbitrary standard that no other program in the country is held to? Several fundraising goals have already been met. The students voted on a fee increase. Attendance was up in 2014 because the team actually had a pulse.
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Ray Watts, that's UAB alum Ray Watts btw, has got to be the luckiest SOB alive. He singlehandedly kills and resurrects Blazer football with nothing but his pen, and all the mindless frickwits in this state blame the decision on some Manchurian candidate/evil boardroom conspiracy out of Tuscaloosa instead
Watts is still in office despite a vote of no confidence from the faculty senate and repeated calls to resign. Now, how could that be? What a mystery. I just can't figure it out.
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Posted on 1/19/16 at 9:23 am to TommyM
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Why is UAB held to this arbitrary standard that no other program in the country is held to?
Attendance is not an arbitrary standard at all. It is an NCAA requirement for a team to remain at the FBS level it must have either an actual or paid attendance average of 15,000 a game. If not for the City of Birmingham buying 5,000 tickets a year (1/3rd of the requirement), UAB football would have failed to meet this requirement a long time ago.
The others aren't particularly arbitrary either. Playing college football is expensive. In the last decade, half a dozen colleges have dropped their programs and there are many more teetering on the brink.
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