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    Uab UAB Football gone in 2016?

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    Concern over future of UAB program growing

    Posted by Kevin McGuire on November 5, 2014, 10:12 PM EST

    Despite being on the verge of the first bowl-eligible season since 2004, there is some real concern about the state of the UAB football program building among boosters and former players. Boosters for the program have addressed their concerns to the president of UAB, stating it is their belief the Board of Trustees could be preparing to shut the football program down after the 2016 season.
    In a letter written by the UAB Football Foundation and addressed to UAB President Ray Watts, the UAB booster program expressed concerns about head coach Bill Clark not having a contract beyond 2016 and the football program not having any future games scheduled beyond 2016. These two oddities help to suggest a lack of a long-term vision for the program. The foundation says the board has been reviewing data related to the athletics program in an effort to potentially shut down the football program. Football programs can cost a lot of money to operate, and for many outside of power conferences it can be a struggle to turn a profit.
    Considering most coaches are given at least a four-year contract when they take over a program, Clark’s three-year deal comes off looking strange. It is also a little strange to see UAB without any future non-conference match-ups scheduled beyond 2016. Charlotte, a new program joining Conference USA in 2015, has multiple non-conference games scheduled for each season through at least 2019. Every other school in Conference USA has at least one non-conference game scheduled through at least 2018, and most have games set for 2019, if not later. In a day when college programs lock up non-conference match-ups years in advance, UAB not having any games set after 2016 is odd.

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    Do you think this is a distraction, helps to fire them up or will have no effect in our upcoming game ?

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    Quote Originally Posted by JAMROB View Post
    Do you think this is a distraction, helps to fire them up or will have no effect in our upcoming game ?
    No effect...... I just wish ulm would take the hint.....

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    Would C-USA take South Alabama to replace them? Does C-USA need a presence in Alabama?

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    What the University of Alabama Board of Trustee's forces on that school is criminal

    They will never compete with the Tide, why should they continually try to keep them under their thumb
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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    Quote Originally Posted by sportdawg View Post
    Would C-USA take South Alabama to replace them? Does C-USA need a presence in Alabama?
    Ill see your South Alabama and raise you a Georgia Southern.

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    one of the F-U twins are also in the same boat - they have no games scheduled past 2016
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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dubya261 View Post
    Ill see your South Alabama and raise you a Georgia Southern.
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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    I sometimes wonder about Rice. They have such small crowds in that huge stadium. Probably similar to UAB. They were conference champions last year and still can't draw a crowd. Of course losing to ODU at home didn't help.

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    What Dwayne said is accurate -- the University of Alabama Board of Trustees is almost entirely made up of people that care only for the mother ship in Tuscaloosa. UAB, and to an even greater extent UAH badly need to get out from under that board and on their own as the University of Huntsville/Birmingham/Central Alabama/whatever. Whether they shut football down in 2016 or not, the real problem (the BoT) is only going to get worse.

    Here's the local newspaper's article on the issue.

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    Quote Originally Posted by Houston Techsan View Post
    I sometimes wonder about Rice. They have such small crowds in that huge stadium. Probably similar to UAB. They were conference champions last year and still can't draw a crowd. Of course losing to ODU at home didn't help.
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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    It's a good thing for Rice that Div 1 status no longer hinges on average home attendance. A few years ago we chased around town and the calendar to find a date and place that wouldn't count as a home game for their attendance records. That's when we ended up in Reliant Stadium on Monday night. Not to be confuse with the first "College Game" in Reliant Stadium a couple of years before when they let Rice use the stadium for free to get the experience of handling a college game.

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    Quote Originally Posted by champion110 View Post
    No effect...... I just wish ulm would take the hint.....

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    Re: UAB Football gone in 2016?

    Does anyone know how far in advance UAB would need to officially notify the conference that it would no longer be fielding a team?

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