re: Should Legion Field be torn down?

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Miss State under Croom

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When did this happen? The only game I remember UAB playing against Miss State was in 2010, and UAB lost (29-24).

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When did this happen? The only game I remember UAB playing against Miss State was in 2010, and UAB lost (29-24).

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UAB beat State 27-13 in 2004.

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They have been in the red for several years running.

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That's not a link showing me that UAB football is draining the UA system.

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3rd raters all time

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They have been in the red for several years running.


That's not a link showing me that UAB football is draining the UA system.

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Even if it is true, the UA system couldn't survive without UAB, so they should get what they please.

UAB has played teams close...

Oklahoma, FSU, MSU, UGA, LSU, TENN....

Just a matter of time

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with an OCS UAB could be a player like boise st and TCU

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Except Boise has California to recruit from and TCU has Texas. Its not like UAB is gonna start taking the top 10 instate kids from Bama and AU, and theyre sure as shite not gonna be able to recruit out of state.

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That's not a link showing me that UAB football is draining the UA system.

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Use google sometime.

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There's the rub. UAB, like most Football Bowl Subdivision schools, hemorrhages money largely due to football.

The Blazers lost $1.7 million on football in 2009-10, according to UAB's latest NCAA financial report, not counting subsidies from the university as revenue. That also doesn't include student-fee revenue, which wasn't allocated in the report to any particular team. UAB's athletics department lost $13.8 million -- 40 percent more than just four years earlier.

The department received $14.2 million in subsidies last year, including $3.5 million in student fees. The university provided $10.5 million directly to athletics last year, a 41 percent increase from four years earlier.

Subsides accounted for 59 percent of the athletics department's total operating revenue last year, up from 53 percent in 2005-06. Meanwhile, donations to UAB football dropped 26 percent from four years earlier.

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theyre sure as shite not gonna be able to recruit out of state.




Well they already do most of there players are from Georgia and Florida.

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Sorry, should have added "at the level they would need to". They can pull all the 3 stars out of wherever they want, but that isnt gonna get them to the next level.

Have you seen boise states recruits? most of them are 3 stars if UAB got to consecutive bowl games they would be able to recruit at the top of C-USA easily.