Bammer trying to kill UAB?

[Renegade]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jon-solomon/24806444

TL;DR - Paul Bryant Jr. is mad that the father of UAB athletics, Gene Bartow, accused Alabama basketball of cheating and indirectly tied Bear Bryant into it. He's had it out for UAB for years as a result, and is trying to make his crowning achievement on the Alabama Board of Trustees being the end of UAB's football program. Also keep in mind that he had the Board veto the hiring of Jimbo Fisher as UAB's coach and forced them to hire Neil Callaway, who played for Bear.

After all, every dollar spent on UAB is a dollar not spent on paying of Nick Saban's house.

 

[Brick]

 

[Renegade]

Why's New Mexico, North Carolina, and Virginia included in that?

 

[GatorTD]

Yes.

 

[Rutgers Mike]

Why's New Mexico, North Carolina, and Virginia included in that?

Why not. New Mexico territory had slavery.

 

[Southpaw]

This is nothing new. They nixed their hire of Jimbo Fisher too.

 

[Yankee151]

Not surpising given that they prevented the hiring of Jimbo as well.

 

[Rob's FSU]

Just imagine the heights UAB could've attained had jobob not nixed the Fisher deal.

 

[bruin228]

Don't forget that Alabama prevented UAB from hiring Jimbo Fisher as well

 

[pavel]

Alabama has a basketball team?

 

[JAR201166]

More bullshit hating on Alabama...

 

[Bmack]

Imagine how powerful alabama would be if Bear Bryant had been able to sign Collinsworth in the mid 70's. Its downright scary. I'm frightened at the thought. Very worried about it.

 

[Wooly]

More bullshit hating on Alabama...

It's never bullshit to hate Alabama.

 

[BasinBictory]

It's never bullshit to hate Alabama.

Well, it's like hating a retard because his retard strength makes him the top wrassler in the county.

 

[Hachiko]

My main university's women's volleyball team (Long Beach State) is better than Alabama's so...

#BammerProblems

 

[ajw18]

Reports coming out that this shit is actually happening. I never really took it seriously. I knew that, despite how ridiculous the thought was, the threat was real. I just didn't actually believe the bastards would follow through with it. Roll Timed.

 

[TXHusker05]

Reports coming out that this shit is actually happening. I never really took it seriously. I knew that, despite how ridiculous the thought was, the threat was real. I just didn't actually believe the bastards would follow through with it. Roll Timed.

How shitty is that? Not just for the program but for the coaches and players. It sounds like a bunch of them plan on suing if it happens. Players for losing scholarships, coaches for UAB not honoring or ignoring buyouts. Most coaching contracts have a clause that protects the coach in the unlikely event that the program stops sponsoring football, it sounds like the UAB coaches did not have this included in their contract.

 

[gilstein21]

Bill Clark should have known better when they wouldn't give him more than a 3 year contract anyway.

 

[coogrfan]

Bastards.

 

[MtneerManiac]

do they have any DTs that want to play in the B12?

 

[Rutgers Mike]

do they have any DTs that want to play in the B12?

What about Big Ten safeties?

 

[Renegade]

Fuck Bammer and that cunt Paul Bryant Jr.

 

[bruin228]

 

[GatorTD]

That can't be legit can it?

 

[Iron]

If true, UAB will be dropped from C-USA as well.

 

[TXHusker05]

Does anyone know how a program closing its doors impacts athlete scholarships? Are they just fucked? If they want to transfer to another school do they have to wait out the normal year? That's such bullshit, UAB fans and donors should riot.

 

[gilstein21]

free to transfer and be eligible immediately ... that's what happened when pacific closed up shop in the 90s

 

[Renegade]

If true, UAB will be dropped from C-USA as well.

I'm not convinced CUSA will walk out on an original member. They can bring UMass in football-only and keep UAB's good basketball.

 

[TXHusker05]

free to transfer and be eligible immediately ... that's what happened when pacific closed up shop in the 90s

What about the athletes who can't get scholarship offers from other programs or can only get partial scholarships by dropping down to a lower level? Have to imagine they would have grounds to sue.

 

[gilstein21]

Ya that I don't know. I don't know if the university has to honor anything bc I doubt Uab has 4 year scholarships. I'm sure those details will be out shortly though.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Paul Bryant Jr. confirmed for shitheel

Shocking that could be true of a Bama booster and power broker, I know

 

[Renegade]

 

[ajw18]

I had just changed my avatar before I clicked this thread.

Oh, and fuck Ray Watts and Paul Bryant Jr.

 

[Renegade]

So some good tweets about the meeting between the UAB president and the football players....











https://twitter.com/JonSolomonCBS/status/539878094820352001

 

[Renegade]

Also, it's official per a university press release. This was the last season for football; it's over immediately.

 

[Packfan]

 

[mcnoles]

 

[GatorTD]

Fuck Bryant.

 

[OU11]

Alabama really is the worst of all the genders

 

[Iron]

Last year's UAB coach Garrick McGee who left (not fired) for an offensive coordinator job at Louisville was apprently tipped off about this happening and bolted. Shoulda known, that was one of the weirdest coaching moves last year.

 

[bruin228]

Most people just took that as an inditement of how shitty being the coach of UAB was.

Wow, can't believe they killed it.

 

[TXHusker05]

Time for all the other schools to go plunder what's left. Take everything not nailed down, players, coaches, pads, footballs, practice equipment.

Then burn the University down on the way out.

 

[goblue96]

Does Saban get a Scrooge McDuck vault now?

 

[TXHusker05]

Depressing tweet is depressing.

 

[ZeekLTK]

Then burn the University down on the way out.

You mean the one in Tuscaloosa, right?

 

[TXHusker05]

You mean the one in Tuscaloosa, right?

I'm always in favor of anything to do with Bama burning.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Need a gif of Bugs sawing a little farther north.

 

[MtneerManiac]

I feel horrible for UAB.

 

[fried rice]

Now we just need to get them to close down Alabama and we'll be all set.

 

[Iron]

Ray Watts looks like a tool this whole video