UAB football to close up shop

[dal4018]

Stop.
Drop.
Shut 'em down and close up shop.
Ohh.
No.

Earl Simmons thank you.

[JohnStOnge]

Unfortunately, if States were REALLY to become fiscally responsible, a LOT of football programs at State universities would be shut down. Probably a substantial majority of them.

[dbackjon]

Unfortunately, if States were REALLY to become fiscally responsible, a LOT of State universities would be shut down. Probably a substantial majority of them.

This applies to the state of Louisiana

[COBBLESTONE]

UAB Football is officially dead. RIP

Here is a video of the UAB President (A UA BOT puppet) addressing the team, and the team addressing him.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvSuQEh6lI[/youtube]

Dammn shame !!!!!!!

The UAB President is a pussy.

[89Hen]

The UAB President is a pussy.

Cobble comes out of retirement and this is the thread he chooses?!?!

[tribe_pride]

The UAB President is a pussy.

Cobble comes out of retirement and this is the thread he chooses?!?!

To be fair, next year a game between UAB and URI would be pretty competitive.

[TribeFanInNC]

They're ba-a-a-ack. Press conference at 5, per ESPN.

[93henfan]

[TribeFanInNC]

Well, 93, you did care enough to reply.

Personally, I find this whole thing a fascinating study in how not to run an athletic department. This screwed-up administration managed to give themselves a one-year death penalty, tick off their fan base, chase away their best players and shackle their recruiters and schedule-makers for years to come.

[JohnStOnge]

There's a whole lot of delusion going on out there. Like you see this article:

http://www.sbnation.com/college-footbal ... all-return" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's some stuff in there about how it really wasn't about finances. But here's the thing:

You can go to the finances database at http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and see that UAB's entire athletic department had $1,165,323 in ticket sales, $3,205,602 in contributions, and $3,899,935 in rights/licensing in 2014. That pretty much does it for what the athletic programs actually generated and adds up to $8.3 million. The athletic department expenses were $30,805,171.

It's clear that athletics at UAB were a HUGE money loser with the football program in place during 2014.

[Skjellyfetti]

Good story here.

And, they make it a pain to copy-and-paste, so I won't bother

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/shaq- ... omecoming/

[Skjellyfetti]

[JohnStOnge]

But the athletic program is probably still costing the school somewhere around 10 million dollars. In 2017 the school had to kick in about $11 million to balance the books. We'll have to wait until the 2018 figures come out but it's almost certainly going to be similar.

[Baldy]

But the athletic program is probably still costing the school somewhere around 10 million dollars. In 2017 the school had to kick in about $11 million to balance the books. We'll have to wait until the 2018 figures come out but it's almost certainly going to be similar.

They're getting a better ROI than McNeese.