(11-21-2014 12:03 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  After the rally: What are the next steps for the save UAB football effort?

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index....cart_river

It would be great if 40K could show up tomorrow for the game against Marshall.


Even better if UAB wins.

(11-21-2014 12:31 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(11-21-2014 12:03 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  After the rally: What are the next steps for the save UAB football effort?

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index....cart_river

It would be great if 40K could show up tomorrow for the game against Marshall.


Even better if UAB wins.

That's exactly what people should be doing.

Senseless arguing about how much people hate board on the internet wont accomplish anything. Get out there and buy tickets to the football game and show your support.

No excuse to not show up either the weather forecast is this is one of the biggest home games ever for UAB.

UAB has only had one November home game over 20K in recent memory. Expecting more than that would be foolish no matter the circumstances. I do know the boosters are buying some blocks of tickets but people have to show up.

One single game will not and should not affect a decision like this any way.

(11-21-2014 12:54 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  UAB has only had one November home game over 20K in recent memory. Expecting more than that would be foolish no matter the circumstances. I do know the boosters are buying some blocks of tickets but people have to show up.

One single game will not and should not affect a decision like this any way.

It in itself won't affect the decision, but it should be a show of support - if you care that much about UAB having a team, get off your ass, spend a few bucks, and a few hours and go to Legion Field.


If UAB can't draw a crowd Saturday, with UAB trying to get to a bowl for the first time in a decade, against an undefeated team, then it gives the shutdown crowd a lot of ammo

(11-21-2014 12:54 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  UAB has only had one November home game over 20K in recent memory.

What game was that?

Middle Tennessee last year.

(11-21-2014 12:57 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(11-21-2014 12:54 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  UAB has only had one November home game over 20K in recent memory. Expecting more than that would be foolish no matter the circumstances. I do know the boosters are buying some blocks of tickets but people have to show up.

One single game will not and should not affect a decision like this any way.

It in itself won't affect the decision, but it should be a show of support - if you care that much about UAB having a team, get off your ass, spend a few bucks, and a few hours and go to Legion Field.


If UAB can't draw a crowd Saturday, with UAB trying to get to a bowl for the first time in a decade, against an undefeated team, then it gives the shutdown crowd a lot of ammo

Yeah, one game will not be a deciding factor but if the city got behind UAB and showed up to this game it would show the city does care. Can you imagine how many people would show up to the last home game for other programs given this situation?

How is the crowd? I can't find it except on subcarrier using rabbit ears and it is utterly unwatchable when there is a picture at all.

(11-22-2014 02:38 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  How is the crowd? I can't find it except on subcarrier using rabbit ears and it is utterly unwatchable when there is a picture at all.

28K.

(11-22-2014 07:36 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 02:38 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  How is the crowd? I can't find it except on subcarrier using rabbit ears and it is utterly unwatchable when there is a picture at all.

28K.

Super!

(11-22-2014 09:07 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 07:36 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 02:38 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  How is the crowd? I can't find it except on subcarrier using rabbit ears and it is utterly unwatchable when there is a picture at all.

28K.

Super!

That's super? 28K vs a top 25 team and same day Bama AND Auburn played FCS teams? Not good.

(11-22-2014 09:43 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 09:07 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 07:36 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 02:38 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  How is the crowd? I can't find it except on subcarrier using rabbit ears and it is utterly unwatchable when there is a picture at all.

28K.

Super!

That's super? 28K on a weekend which Bama AND Auburn played FCS teams? Not good.

You watch any games today. Empty seats are rampant this time of year.

Largest November crowd ever. 3 games over 27,000 this season.

I was there! Great atmosphere, great game. It was a lot of fun. Turned on three fluke plays (two endzone fumbles and a deflected pass with a homing beacon), two of them went to Marshall, and so did the ballgame. I'd put the crowd at 30-33K, in an utter landfill of a stadium. They ran out of decent beer and I was reduced to swilling this godawful apple-flavored horse urine in a red can. They ran out of beer!!!

Clark is the real thing. UAB isn't very good, but they don't seem to know that. They are really well-coached.

Shutting this down to feed one man's ego, just 'cause Papa loved his players more than him, would be criminal. Unfortunately, so's most everything else in Junior's history.

It looks like a 30,000 seat on campus stadium would be right up UAB's alley if UAT ever let's them build one.

(11-22-2014 10:17 PM)Proud Bammer Wrote:  I was there! Great atmosphere, great game. It was a lot of fun. Turned on three fluke plays (two endzone fumbles and a deflected pass with a homing beacon), two of them went to Marshall, and so did the ballgame. I'd put the crowd at 30-33K, in an utter landfill of a stadium. They ran out of decent beer and I was reduced to swilling this godawful apple-flavored horse urine in a red can. They ran out of beer!!!

Clark is the real thing. UAB isn't very good, but they don't seem to know that. They are really well-coached.

Shutting this down to feed one man's ego, just 'cause Papa loved his players more than him, would be criminal. Unfortunately, so's most everything else in Junior's history.

Didn't LEgion Field run out of beer for a Pitt bowl game a few years ago?

(11-22-2014 09:43 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 09:07 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 07:36 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 02:38 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  How is the crowd? I can't find it except on subcarrier using rabbit ears and it is utterly unwatchable when there is a picture at all.

28K.

Super!

That's super? 28K vs a top 25 team and same day Bama AND Auburn played FCS teams? Not good.

Explain? Were you thinking that 50,000 fans would be there? The game was at 11:00, not a good time IMO to start a game. It was also on local TV. 28K was super and it was probably more than that. You sound like the AP write that said although UAB had 29,000 at the game, nearly 41,000 seats were still empty.....duh!!!

(11-22-2014 10:17 PM)Proud Bammer Wrote:  Clark is the real thing. UAB isn't very good, but they don't seem to know that. They are really well-coached.

Gonna disagree with you on UAB not being good. The Blazers have talent, they just have to learn how to win. Unfortunately, they may not get the chance to do that.

(11-23-2014 08:08 AM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 09:43 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 09:07 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 07:36 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(11-22-2014 02:38 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  How is the crowd? I can't find it except on subcarrier using rabbit ears and it is utterly unwatchable when there is a picture at all.

28K.

Super!

That's super? 28K vs a top 25 team and same day Bama AND Auburn played FCS teams? Not good.

Explain? Were you thinking that 50,000 fans would be there? The game was at 11:00, not a good time IMO to start a game. It was also on local TV. 28K was super and it was probably more than that. You sound like the AP write that said although UAB had 29,000 at the game, nearly 41,000 seats were still empty.....duh!!!

Ok, apparently I'll explain.

Yes, 28,000 is super for a UAB football game. Their last home game drew 9,457. UAB's best home attendance this year was 29,604 for Alabama A&M. Flipping through wikipedia, the last time a UAB home game drew above 30,000 was 2006 for Mississippi State.

Which is the major argument of the movement to mercy-kill UAB football.

The argument against isn't so much that UAB does have fans, or that the UAB stadium plan is an economically viable project, but that the authority deciding doesn't seem to see UAB itself as a priority.

EDIT: Didn't realize that was Blunderbuss, who's been watching a game in Legion Field every other year since forever. Shame on you for trolling like that.

(11-19-2014 01:32 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(11-17-2014 10:32 AM)herdfan2013 Wrote:  

(11-17-2014 03:44 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(11-16-2014 08:05 PM)herdfan2013 Wrote:  Is there any way for the undergraduate programs to break off of the UA while the graduate programs, specifically the medical school, stay with UA? If this has been mentioned already I apologize, but this thread is getting too long to comb through. It seems to me that it would be more politically sound to keep a center for higher learning in Birmingham with undergraduate programs and not just a medical school. This is of course if the thought is that UA still wants to eliminate the undergraduate programs at UAB like they were earlier in the thread. That way the new University of Birmingham or whatever can make their own decisions on the entirety of the school, UA keeps its medical school while cutting off that arm of the university (and saving money), and the largest city in the state keeps a university. It seems to me that all would win in this scenario.

I have a question.

Have you ever been to Birmingham? It would be absolutely unfathomable to do this and even if I did happen I highly doubt they would change the name of the hospital. So you would have a UAB and a UoB in a already crowded location. And you would almost cut UAB's enrollment in half.

Would be the worst decision ever made.

I've only been through Birmingham. I don't think I was clear with my question. It was mentioned earlier that UA wanted to cut everything at UAB except the medical school. Is the medical school half of the enrollment at UAB? If it is, then my opinion of this entire situation changes. If not, and UA only wants the medical school, then my question was why not cede the medical school to UA and keep the rest of the university intact, separate from UA? And it wouldn't be for UAB or UAT's benefit as someone said earlier, but to seem like these people care about the city of Birmingham from a political perspective. Again, I'm not up to speed on the situation. I read the first page or so of the thread when it was posted and that's about all I know about the situation other than a few things that happened over the last few years. Just merely asking a question.

I really think a lot of this has just been blown out of proportion by people who are rightly angered by what could happen to football. And I apologize if I sounded rude I did not mean too, I was just curious if you had ever been to Birmingham.

UAB has around 17,000+ students. 6000+ of them are graduate students, probably around 1000 of them are students looking to get priority into the graduate programs, and another huge percentage are non traditional students. That's why it would pretty much cut the enrollment of the school in half if they ever separated from the medical school.

UAB would gain absolutely no benefit in separating from UA or the medical school. In a perfect world they could go their separate ways and take the medical school with them. But without the medical school the school loses it's cash cow, the thing that it's most known for, and would take a hit to academics.

Saying it would be disastrous for the school would be an understatement.

Why is UABs undergrad so small? They really need to expand their programs and efforts at the undergrad level.