Conference USA sticks a finger in UAB’s eye by naming Bill Clark its Coach of the Year. Which allows for another thoughtful reminder of what should have been:
Clark’s first year at the helm turned out to be his only when UAB President Ray Watts announced the school’s football program would be discontinued just days after the Blazers’ 45-24 regular-season finale victory at Southern Miss.
“Right now, we’re kind of going through the emotional roller coaster of getting bowl-eligible and then you don’t make a bowl,” Clark said. “Obviously, the biggest thing is not having our team back when we had a chance to be really good next year. All that’s really tough. This award is nice to have. It’s just another reminder of this team and all the heart and effort they put into it this past year.”
Well played, folks.
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Weird wild stuff going on over there in Alabama.
Can’t wait for the full story to finally surface.
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looks like UGA just grabbed their leading tackler…which is good for him and us.
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2nd leading tackler, perhaps?
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I guess, I dont know. I thought most of the articles were saying he was the leading tackler.
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so what happened exactly (yes, I know they discontinued the program)?
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Bear Bryant Jr. has a tiny penis. To make up for his small manhood he focus his attention on being a vindictive prick towards someone he felt slighted his family in a newspaper article from 40 years ago.
That meant taking football away from young men who had nothing to do with the perceived slight. Football that has given so much to his family, he used as a weapon to take away something from thousands of other families, and right before the holidays no less.
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C’mon on, now. It’s not a matter of girth or length. Let’s just say he’s being a jerk and leave that other kind of stuff out of it.
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Right. The fact that Bryant, Jr. has a ridiculously tiny prick has nothing at all to do with what happened with UAB. So let’s not bring that “he has an itty bitty tiny penis” stuff up again.
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Acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree. 😉
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So he said UAB football was losing money right? And most people now think that is not the case?
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Even if the school was losing money. They could have worked out an alternating schedule of playing Auburn and Bama each year. I highly doubt that a program that small could be losing a ton of money. Playing a team like that every year would give those teams a free win, be a short bus trip for UAB (ie low travel cost), and probably cover whatever money the program was losing.
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+1
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Most D-IA schools are technically losing money on football–on paper.
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I could not possibly give a fat rat’s ass if UAB drops football, but the figures in the Bham papers indicated football was costing like, $30 million a year…out of the UAB general fund.
Having the university support football rather than t’other way twixt is not a recipe for long-term viability.
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Tough break for the players, to be sure.
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