((HT: Montgomery Advertiser))
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley attempted to weigh in on the whole blowing up of the UAB program...
And, in true political fashion, we have this response...
The HQ thinks that the comparison he is TRYING to make has to do with the Lowder instance at Auburn. But Lowder acted independently of the rest of the Board of Trustees and, since Bentley is governor, he is naturally predisposed to getting the information that the BoT is going to do whatever it is going to do.
So, whatever...
And there's no bowl game in the deal for UAB as well... the Armed Forces Bowl seemed to be the only bowl with an open spot and they gave it to Pitt- which makes close to zero sense, but the HQ is quite aware that no bowl game will touch this situation.
We only wished that Florida deferred in the Birmingham Bowl and gave them their spot...
UAB and Middle Tennessee were the two teams bowl eligible in Conference USA
So, here's the presser that killed three teams at once
FOSG Trent Butler anchored coverage at the time
((HT: WIAT-TV))
Showing posts with label Board of Trustees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Board of Trustees. Show all posts
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
DEVELOPING: UAB To Announce The End Of Football Today
((HT: Al.com/Scarbinsky))
At some point today, it is expected that UAB President Ray Watts will announce the end of the football program.
Funny thing is, according to AL.com's John Talty, is that the football program looks like it was a proftable one.
The football program posted a slim positive margin of $24,222 in a time frame of Oct. 1, 2013 to Sept. 30, 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics data
Yes, it's heavily subsidized. The HQ knows that...
But in an interview with Barnett Wright, former university President and founder of the football program, Scotty McCallum, said it shouldn't be a Board of Trustees decision to make:
"This is not the Board of Trustees' decision," said McCallum, who was instrumental in the first UAB football team taking the field in 1991. "The decision should be made by the (UAB) president and the faculty members at the university. It's ridiculous for the Board of Trustees to even think about dropping it."
At the same time, what the HQ- and a lot of you out there- already think was publicly divulged by Talty in an interview with UAB Football booster Jimmy Filler. Filler is the head of the UAB Football Foundation. The Foundation is set to donate $5-million to the efforts of keeping football around, but Filler claims to Talty that no one ever called him to discuss the matter once he came to the fore and the idea is two decades old to blow up the program:
Filler doesn't believe the study will have any impact on whether the program folds or not. Instead, he says, its fate was sealed as far back as 1991 when former UAB coach and athletic director Gene Bartow advised the NCAA to investigate Alabama's basketball program. In the letter to the NCAA, published by The Los Angeles Times in 1993, Bartow wrote that several former Alabama football coaches had been penalized by the NCAA and that they were "trained" by legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant.
Filler believes Paul Bryant Jr., the son of Bear Bryant and a member of the Board of Trustees, has been trying to kill UAB's program for years as a "vendetta" for Bartow's letter. Filler has battled Bryant Jr. and the rest of the board for years to try to get UAB a new football stadium with little success.
"Coach Bartow was a dear, close friend of mine. He said this (would) happen," Filler said. "He said it two weeks before he passed that they wanted to kill UAB athletics. My good friend and dear man was 100 percent right."
There is talk that President Watts will make a public announcement of the university's intentions when it happens...
May his God help him if he does with the reaction he will receive on campus...
Here was the look this morning from campus as students were set to march again:
((HT: MyFoxAL.com))
At some point today, it is expected that UAB President Ray Watts will announce the end of the football program.
Funny thing is, according to AL.com's John Talty, is that the football program looks like it was a proftable one.
The football program posted a slim positive margin of $24,222 in a time frame of Oct. 1, 2013 to Sept. 30, 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics data
Yes, it's heavily subsidized. The HQ knows that...
But in an interview with Barnett Wright, former university President and founder of the football program, Scotty McCallum, said it shouldn't be a Board of Trustees decision to make:
"This is not the Board of Trustees' decision," said McCallum, who was instrumental in the first UAB football team taking the field in 1991. "The decision should be made by the (UAB) president and the faculty members at the university. It's ridiculous for the Board of Trustees to even think about dropping it."
At the same time, what the HQ- and a lot of you out there- already think was publicly divulged by Talty in an interview with UAB Football booster Jimmy Filler. Filler is the head of the UAB Football Foundation. The Foundation is set to donate $5-million to the efforts of keeping football around, but Filler claims to Talty that no one ever called him to discuss the matter once he came to the fore and the idea is two decades old to blow up the program:
Filler doesn't believe the study will have any impact on whether the program folds or not. Instead, he says, its fate was sealed as far back as 1991 when former UAB coach and athletic director Gene Bartow advised the NCAA to investigate Alabama's basketball program. In the letter to the NCAA, published by The Los Angeles Times in 1993, Bartow wrote that several former Alabama football coaches had been penalized by the NCAA and that they were "trained" by legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant.
Filler believes Paul Bryant Jr., the son of Bear Bryant and a member of the Board of Trustees, has been trying to kill UAB's program for years as a "vendetta" for Bartow's letter. Filler has battled Bryant Jr. and the rest of the board for years to try to get UAB a new football stadium with little success.
"Coach Bartow was a dear, close friend of mine. He said this (would) happen," Filler said. "He said it two weeks before he passed that they wanted to kill UAB athletics. My good friend and dear man was 100 percent right."
There is talk that President Watts will make a public announcement of the university's intentions when it happens...
May his God help him if he does with the reaction he will receive on campus...
Here was the look this morning from campus as students were set to march again:
((HT: MyFoxAL.com))
Sunday, November 30, 2014
DEVELOPING: Done, Done, and Done: UAB Blowing Up Football
In one of the more transparent power plays by a Board of Trustees in recent memory, the University of Alabama Birmingham has fired its Athletic Director and will shutter its football program.
The "when" is the only question...
Joe Schad caught up with Clark after the game as well, and Clark was not optimistic at all: "I think it's going to happen," said Clark, who led UAB to a 6-6 record in his first season at the school. "Unless something changes before the weekend ends, I think it's over. I think the odds are very high it ends this week. To shut the doors? That's sad."
Dan Wolken over at USA Today has some more information: With UAB's football future hanging in the balance, a person close to the decision-making process told USA TODAY Sports that athletics director Brian Mackin has given indications the program will shut down this week and that Mackin is working on a separation agreement from the university. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the conversations were supposed to be private. Mackin did not return multiple calls and text messages seeking comment.
Clark is meeting with his president tomorrow, via his Twitter:
Contrary to news, We haven't heard any decision about our program. We are still fighting!
Here's head coach Bill Clark after becoming bowl eligible yesterday- the irony is inescapable...
Obviously, more when we know more, but the HQ hopes the UA Board of Trustees is happy with themselves...
The "when" is the only question...
Joe Schad caught up with Clark after the game as well, and Clark was not optimistic at all: "I think it's going to happen," said Clark, who led UAB to a 6-6 record in his first season at the school. "Unless something changes before the weekend ends, I think it's over. I think the odds are very high it ends this week. To shut the doors? That's sad."
Dan Wolken over at USA Today has some more information: With UAB's football future hanging in the balance, a person close to the decision-making process told USA TODAY Sports that athletics director Brian Mackin has given indications the program will shut down this week and that Mackin is working on a separation agreement from the university. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the conversations were supposed to be private. Mackin did not return multiple calls and text messages seeking comment.
Clark is meeting with his president tomorrow, via his Twitter:
Contrary to news, We haven't heard any decision about our program. We are still fighting!
Here's head coach Bill Clark after becoming bowl eligible yesterday- the irony is inescapable...
Obviously, more when we know more, but the HQ hopes the UA Board of Trustees is happy with themselves...
Friday, January 10, 2014
Today in James Franklin to Penn State News: Stop Speculating, Just a Formality
((ht: statecollege.com))Brother Jon did a great job on Thursday summarizing all the news related to Vanderbilt coach James Franklin and his pending move to Penn State.
But there was nothing etched in stone about any of it.
Well, this morning (Friday), there's more. It appears, despite Vanderbilt saying "He's still our football coach" and information from Vandy insider, the Dirty South Sports Reports Jackson Martin, the move IS going to happen.
Mike Poorman of StateCollege.com, the Newspaper in Happy Valley reports Friday morning that the Penn State Board of Trustees (yes, that board) is meeting on Saturday morning specifically to discuss a "compensation" issue.
Once the board signs off on the deal: It's done.
Read Poorman's story RIGHT HERE
At this point, we don't think there is any reason the deal won't happen. We also are quite amused at the hullabaloo the hire is generating. Yes, Franklin has been wildly successful at Vanderbilt and likely will do well in Happy Valley, but in the grand scheme of things, this is not a Texas hire or even Petrino returning to Louisville.
Still, we would advise our friends in Nashville, Vanderbilt in particular to get moving on the coaching search, waiting this long, thins the pool of candidates.
A lot.
It's done folks. Let's move on.
Monday, August 6, 2012
PSU Trustees File Suit Against NCAA, Spanier and Schultz Still Getting Paid
((HT: ESPN))
Don Van Natta is at it again- in a good way...
As he has uncovered that some of the current members of the Penn State Board of Trustees have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA ordering the elimination of the judgment, lawsuit, and anything else associated with the ruling that came down from Indianapolis...
Basically, the four trustees at the front of the suit claim the suit is "null and void" since the assertion is that President Rodney Erickson didn't have the authority to unilaterally sign the consent decree that the school and NCAA agreed to in the first place.
Ryan McCombie, a new member on the Board, claims that there was a lack of due process, the consent decree was based erroneously on the Freeh Report and the report alone, and that the damage done is "excessive" to an entire generation...
Whatever that means...
Here's the letter of appeal...thanks to Van Natta and ESPN...
Here's how some of the Penn State community is tackling the ruling, outside of the Trustees...
((HT: WHP-TV))
Also, two of the more important and checkered individuals associated with the scandal on campus are still getting paid- Graham Spanier and Tim Curley.
Spanier was fired in November, but he’s a tenured professor. But tenuired professors are protected- from, apparently, everything. In 2011 Spanier made more than $700,000 with pay and benefits.
Curley went on leave right after Sandusky’s indictment, so he is still being paid. According to the Penn State website, he makes close to $400,000.
You like apples...???
How you like them apples...???
Don Van Natta is at it again- in a good way...
As he has uncovered that some of the current members of the Penn State Board of Trustees have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA ordering the elimination of the judgment, lawsuit, and anything else associated with the ruling that came down from Indianapolis...
Basically, the four trustees at the front of the suit claim the suit is "null and void" since the assertion is that President Rodney Erickson didn't have the authority to unilaterally sign the consent decree that the school and NCAA agreed to in the first place.
Ryan McCombie, a new member on the Board, claims that there was a lack of due process, the consent decree was based erroneously on the Freeh Report and the report alone, and that the damage done is "excessive" to an entire generation...
Whatever that means...
Here's the letter of appeal...thanks to Van Natta and ESPN...
Here's how some of the Penn State community is tackling the ruling, outside of the Trustees...
((HT: WHP-TV))
Also, two of the more important and checkered individuals associated with the scandal on campus are still getting paid- Graham Spanier and Tim Curley.
Spanier was fired in November, but he’s a tenured professor. But tenuired professors are protected- from, apparently, everything. In 2011 Spanier made more than $700,000 with pay and benefits.
Curley went on leave right after Sandusky’s indictment, so he is still being paid. According to the Penn State website, he makes close to $400,000.
You like apples...???
How you like them apples...???
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