re: UAB fires AD Brian Mackin & will shutdown football program

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Considering UAB football has started to trend up being bowl eligible for the first time in a decade and attendance going up now is not the time to shut it down. If they were going to should have last year or the year before

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I totally agree. If they were going to do this they should have kept McGee and let them win 2 games again this year then shut it down. But to go through the motions of hiring Bill Clark and let them get bowl eligible then attempt to shut it down is just sorry.

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If their QB can fog a mirror,let's get him to baton rouge

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Yeah, not to sound like a vulture or anything, but if they have a QB that can hit a bull in the arse with a bass fiddle, Miles needs to offer him.

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And I'm sure that most activities at UAT fit that goal? Sure. No boondoggles there.

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There are two main moneymakers at U of A... football and campus housing. That's pretty much the case at all state schools you'd care to name at the Div 1 sports level.

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I also note that UAB has a higher endowment than UAT. How can that be?

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You are factually wrong. U of A's endowment portion of the entire University of Alabama system is about double that of UAB. U of A and UAB are two universities with very different missions even if some student majors and educational facilities are duplicated. UAB is primarily a RESEARCH institution and U of A is primarily an EDUCATIONAL institution, though of course there is some overlap. Their main sources of funding is quite different. While I am a U of A graduate, I really have nothing against UAB at all - they fulfill a different mission in the University of Alabama system. As does UAH where my son attends.

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despite routinely approving borrowing for fraternity mansions

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This shows your ignorance. At U of A, fraternity houses for the most part are owned by the University and leased back to the national fraternity chapters. They are net money makers for the University. This is a pretty common model among many universities with strong Greek systems. At UAB, building an on-campus stadium without primary support from the city of Birmingham was going to be a net drain on finances... and by tens of millions of dollars. The comparison you gave is in no way comparable.

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But for a Board, whose members largely have only tenuous ties to UAB, to ramrod this, looks fishy.

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Just because it looks fishy to you doesn't mean it is actually fishy. I'm relatively sure that the board of trustees are privy to a lot more planning, support, and financial issues that you and I are. Maybe they are making a good decision, maybe they are making a bad decision, I am not sure how it will float out int he long run... but based on what we know, they appear to be making a fiscally based sound decision at the current time. I haven't seen anything to the contrary so far.

I don't think they are that bad