This didn't pick up as a reply. Sorry, new bulletin board format to me.

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"This is a small stadium in the College football capital of the world for a shitty team that will never compete for a NC. It's a waste of money for a glorified high School Stadium that will never see a "BIG" game other than a State High School Championship. UAB football is a bastard stepchild that should have been put out of its misery long ago. UAB won't be able to sell out this stadium. It should have built an on-campus a 20,000 seater - and that still would have been too big.

Alabama and Auburn are the only big-time teams in the state of Alabama that can support themselves. UAB and almost all other FCS teams are welfare programs - tax burdens on ALabama citizens. Subsidizing FCS teams is not a good thing. Charity has more urgent needs than a $170 million stadium for a shitty bottomfeeder program with a tiny fanbase in a state with two Goliath programs UAB will never play or be able to compete with. Neither Auburn or Alabama will ever play a game at this stadium. It's a vanity project for a very small group of UAB alumni businessmen who lobbied to get Alabama citizens to pay for with tax dollars. The new stadium will make more money and fill more seats with concerts and monster truck events than football games.

It's time to face that fact some colleges shouldn't have football teams. If a team can't support itself financially it shouldn't exist."

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UAB Football does not cost you a nickel in tax dollars. It gets some subsidy money from UAB, but UAB is the source of roughly 60% of the income of the University of Alabama system, with the other 40 coming from UAT and UAH.

Any other school who wants to build a facility or expand one, say Bryant-Denny, issues construction bonds. UAB is not allowed to. We have to pay cash for what we want. That new $20m football complex was paid for by the UAB boosters and fans, no UAB money at all in it.

This is nonsense. No one builds a big project or buys a house without financing it. A bond issue or mortgage is totally normal, but for anything we want to do we have to raise the cash for in advance before we can start.

The up side is that the UAB boosters and fans can do pretty much anything they want to - as long as they can pay for it.

That's the reason that the bonds were issued by the BJCC. UAB isn't allowed to issue bonds - or to build their own on campus stadium. Verboten.

As to "Won't compete for a NC", not won't, can't. Not allowed to. We're a G5 program. Look at UCF, three straight unbeaten seasons were not enough to be allowed into the cartel's football tournament.

What we can do is to compete for our conference championship, and we've won one after coming back from the dead. You don't value that, that's fine. We have a team we love and we got it back. It's bigger and better than it has ever been. You don't like it, lump it. Go watch your team and quit crapping on mine.

This post was edited on 7/20/20 at 1:45 pm