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ESPN and some other talking heads continue to report that UAB Football is spending 30 million dollars a year. That is our ENTIRE athletic budget.

Actual UAB Football Expenses:

UAB spent $8,956,079 on its football program and generated $8,980,301 in revenue during that time. The football program represented approximately 29 percent of the entire athletic department's revenue, per Equity in Athletics.

I've been VERY disappointed in most of ESPN's coverage of this.

If they can't even get the name right, what can you expect?

ESPN does not typically do sports journalism - they show sports highlights and pass off "opinion" as news, much like the 24 hour news stations.

They do have some journalists but the business leaders clearly need to spend some of their 40 gajillion dollar budget on fact checkers. Otherwise they're not any more reliable than Chris from math class.

ESPN's goal is to protect ESPN(that means the SEC Network; that means the SEC; that includes its golden calf - Alabama) from negative publicity.

So send ESPN the stories that explains what is really going on.

Already have. They already know. Certain reporters have mentioned it, but the on-air personalities present it with a different slant...

What more would you expect from a network that employs Paul Finebaum. I heard him yesterday say he doesn't buy this idea that Paul Bryant Jr. and the UA BOT are attacking UAB football. The guy is full of it!

They are probably committed to looking into it because it is a big story for multiple reasons, but what will probably happen is that another site like Deadspin or al.com will make a big break and then ESPN will jump right back into it. They usually have an abundance of vetted sources, but I never really expected them to gain that much traction on this until some of more seedier aspects came to light.

Didn't Mr. Finebum make his name originally by writing an article for Sport (?) Mgazine. The article critized or outlined questionable recruiting tactics of Buck Johnson. Wasn't he later pulled from one of his radio shows and forced to apologize to a UA fan ? Maybe Mr. Finebaum has learned....

During his local show he repeatedly talked negatively about ESPN and their corporate structure and slanted reporting. And now,...

The panel on yesterday's edition of "Around The Horn", particulary, Pablo Torres, Bomani Jones, Bob Ryan and Cowlishaw (can't remember his first name) all said "buy" to what was done to our football team, one of them had the nerve to say that if you're not a "Power 5" program, this is the reality your school could be facing in the future, only one of them, although he said "Buy" instead of "Sell" (Ryan), expressed his suspicions that there's more to this than meets the eye.

(12-04-2014 04:23 AM)Shrack Wrote:  UAB spent $8,956,079 on its football program and generated $8,980,301 in revenue during that time. The football program represented approximately 29 percent of the entire athletic department's revenue, per Equity in Athletics.

You do know that is with subsidies .

(12-04-2014 04:23 AM)Shrack Wrote:  ESPN and some other talking heads continue to report that UAB Football is spending 30 million dollars a year. That is our ENTIRE athletic budget.

Actual UAB Football Expenses:

UAB spent $8,956,079 on its football program and generated $8,980,301 in revenue during that time. The football program represented approximately 29 percent of the entire athletic department's revenue, per Equity in Athletics.

ESPN can't get it's nose out of the SEC's behind long enough to see what is really happening here.

(12-04-2014 05:01 AM)BirminghamBound Wrote:  I've been VERY disappointed in most of ESPN's coverage of this.

(12-04-2014 07:53 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  ESPN's goal is to protect ESPN(that means the SEC Network; that means the SEC; that includes its golden calf - Alabama) from negative publicity.

(12-04-2014 08:12 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  Already have. They already know. Certain reporters have mentioned it, but the on-air personalities present it with a different slant...

(12-04-2014 08:19 AM)KevMo4UAB Wrote:  What more would you expect from a network that employs Paul Finebaum. I heard him yesterday say he doesn't buy this idea that Paul Bryant Jr. and the UA BOT are attacking UAB football. The guy is full of it!

Fartbomb knows where his bread is buttered. He is nothing if not an SEC homer.

(12-04-2014 07:53 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  ESPN's goal is to protect ESPN(that means the SEC Network; that means the SEC; that includes its golden calf - Alabama) from negative publicity.

This is spot on.

Even though UAB is not my team, I cannot express how angry I am over this. Sadly, the four letter will never tell the truth about Paul Bryant Jr. and his ilk.

(12-04-2014 04:23 AM)Shrack Wrote:  ESPN and some other talking heads continue to report that UAB Football is spending 30 million dollars a year. That is our ENTIRE athletic budget.

Actual UAB Football Expenses:

UAB spent $8,956,079 on its football program and generated $8,980,301 in revenue during that time. The football program represented approximately 29 percent of the entire athletic department's revenue, per Equity in Athletics.

I like giving people links so they don't have to go searching

http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/InstDetails....333920504d

These and other lies have been repeated so often over the past two decades that, as Joseph Goebbels accurately stated, they are accepted as truth by many / most listeners ("The Big Lie Theory"). Just because this particular lie is directed at UAB doesn't change the dynamics of human reality. UAB has little, if any, national support for its position at the mercy of the System BOT because in most of America such totalitarian bodies are not common, especially in education. Alabama on the other hand is used to just that kind of governance and accepts it as normal.

(12-04-2014 10:24 AM)pbt140 Wrote:  

(12-04-2014 04:23 AM)Shrack Wrote:  UAB spent $8,956,079 on its football program and generated $8,980,301 in revenue during that time. The football program represented approximately 29 percent of the entire athletic department's revenue, per Equity in Athletics.

You do know that is with subsidies .

Yes, but we're not subsidizing our football program at some gigantic number like they're reporting.