(07-23-2014 08:53 AM)Nugget49er Wrote: The results so far are incredibly impressive on their own, and the fact that you are shooting for $1 billion is incredible. Congratulations.
I was worried about taking this conversation off track but that has already been done so I will ask my question anyway. If UAB were to build a OCS would the state pay or help to pay for it? Is that the hurdle, that you cannot get the state funds approved? In NC state money cannot go for athletic facilities so I think we issued bonds to build our stadium, and raised money through FSLs and naming rights. I would think UAB could take the same approach, although the timing might be bad with your other campaign going on right now.
Anyway, good luck hitting your goal.
UAB put a conservative, revenue-positive proposal in front of the UA Board of Trustees (read: Tuscaloosa Country Club). It was yanked from the agenda without a vote or public hearing, in apparent violation of state open-meetings laws, but try to get a judge in THIS state to hear it.
They argued that it was fiscally irresponsible (while single-handedly resetting the market for coaches' salaries at our rural western sister campus). They argued this is their
post facto rationalization for never bringing it to a vote.
UAB will play football on campus, but, to quote David Housel, "a few high-profile funerals will have to take place, first."
In an unrelated matter, Tuscaloosa just got BoT approval to renovate their baseball field for about 2/3 of what UAB's proposed stadium was to cost. Not build. Renovate.
The short answer is, the UA Board of Trustees put the kibosh on it.
I'm not sure how germane that is to this conversation, though. I hear some football facility needs will be addressed (and there are many) in this campaign, but if it includes an OCS, it's way, WAY under the radar.