OT: UAB to drop football

[J-Rod]

...head coach announced today in his press conference that UAB is highly likely to drop football sometime this week. Very sad news.

 

[Wyo2dal]

...head coach announced today in his press conference that UAB is highly likely to drop football sometime this week. Very sad news.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jon-solomon/24839675/uab-football-isnt-alone-in-losing-money-for-athletic-departments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Interesting read on the situation.

 

[pokefanchaz7]

I just don't know transfer rules under a circumstance like this. It would sure be nice to get some help on D and at qb from their ranks.

 

[SnowyRange]

It's likely this will become more common over the next couple decades, outside of teams in the big conferences. The table will continue to tilt in their direction, and they'll stay awash in TV money. Everyone else is going to have start making some hard decisions about whether it makes sense to scale back their football programs, or maybe to eliminate them all together.

The trends are fairly obvious: smaller talent pool, as football wanes as a sport for the young; fear of liability for long-term injuries to players; litigation as players organize to get a piece of the money pie; fewer resources, as students hit their limit to pay rising tuition and legislatures increasingly reduce funding for colleges; no hope of competing in a national way against the well-funded NFL farm system of the big conferences.

It's not as it was 30 year ago, and it will never be that way again.

 

[fromolwyoming]

It's likely this will become more common over the next couple decades, outside of teams in the big conferences. The table will continue to tilt in their direction, and they'll stay awash in TV money. Everyone else is going to have start making some hard decisions about whether it makes sense to scale back their football programs, or maybe to eliminate them all together.

The trends are fairly obvious: smaller talent pool, as football wanes as a sport for the young; fear of liability for long-term injuries to players; litigation as players organize to get a piece of the money pie; fewer resources, as students hit their limit to pay rising tuition and legislatures increasingly reduce funding for colleges; no hope of competing in a national way against the well-funded NFL farm system of the big conferences.

It's not as it was 30 year ago, and it will never be that way again.

UAB has been royally screwed over the last 20 or so years by the Alabama BOT or whatever it's called, as it's compiled of Tide Alumni. And they have basically cock blocked UAB on everything good they have tried to do.

At least for us in the MWC, we only crossover with the PAC, and do a lot of games with them, not to mention fill up the Mountain Time Zone.

 

[MrTitleist]

Bad deal for UAB. Tide alums held them back, it sounds like. Was reading Football Scoop earlier and they said that coaching contracts were not exactly negotiated in good faith.. so the university could see some lawsuits due to the contracts for the football coaches. First major program since Pacific in 1995 to drop football. Alabama A&M better watch out!

 

[alyssa]

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/12/ray_watts_and_his_balance_shee.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[alyssa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvSuQEh6lI&feature=youtu.be" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[fromolwyoming]

Maybe at least the kids will be able to keep their schollies or be able to transfer without being penalized. That would be the least the school and NCAA could do for them.

 

[MrTitleist]

They can transfer without penalty.

 

[McPeachy]

Shame on the NCAA, Shame on the fucked up state of Alabama, and Shame on UAB for just throwing their hands up and saying to hell with it.

 

[Wyokie]

Shame on the NCAA, Shame on the fucked up state of Alabama, and Shame on UAB for just throwing their hands up and saying to hell with it.

The main blame rests with Bear Bryant's asshole kid. He wanted UAB football dead asap!

 

[Asmodeanreborn]

Shame on the NCAA, Shame on the fucked up state of Alabama, and Shame on UAB for just throwing their hands up and saying to hell with it.

The main blame rests with Bear Bryant's asshole kid. He wanted UAB football dead asap!

Yeah, sounded like a weird conspiracy theory at first, but the more I read on this, it appears to actually be the case.

 

[Wyokie]

Shame on the NCAA, Shame on the fucked up state of Alabama, and Shame on UAB for just throwing their hands up and saying to hell with it.

The main blame rests with Bear Bryant's asshole kid. He wanted UAB football dead asap!

Yeah, sounded like a weird conspiracy theory at first, but the more I read on this, it appears to actually be the case.

All because of something the AD or pres at UAB did in 1991 when he said or wrote that Bear Bryant himself cheated at Alabama (not his marriage but cheated at coaching) and that got Junior's blood boiling.

 

[Hayduke]

Apparently they shut down their bowling and rifle teams too.

I'll bet the move to shut down the football team was just a ploy to get attention away from shutting down the bowling and rifle teams...