For all those who say P5 schools are the only sustainable programs going forward: they are wrong. No one will drop football in the years to come and their will be MORE FBS schools. Good.

I like UAB. I don't mind them coming back since they have real tradition in FBS.

With that said, adding additional FBS schools weakens the TV value and leverage of all of the long-time members. You really can oversaturate the market with college football inventory.

There is such a thing as having too many G5 schools.

We haven't seen the end of this ride yet. Let's see some more red ink spilled before we say that there are 125+ "true" FBS schools.

It's not good generally for those G5 schools that are trying to compete. If you add another 20 or 30 schools with no plan, no facility, no intention or strategy for being competitive, it actually weakens the case for equality across the division.

If they can lump ECU into a bucket with Georgia State and UAB, how on earth does that help ECU?

Another thing to worry about:

Schools like SMU, Cincy, Houston and Tulane - your conference mates - have dumped NINE FRICKING FIGURES in completely rebuilding football facilities. Those schools NEED to schedule good opponents - and overloading the FBS ranks waters down the value of their investment.

(06-01-2015 03:38 PM)OUGwave Wrote:  It's not good generally for those G5 schools that are trying to compete. If you add another 20 or 30 schools with no plan, no facility, no intention or strategy for being competitive, it actually weakens the case for equality across the division.

If they can lump ECU into a bucket with Georgia State and UAB, how on earth does that help ECU?

my point is that there will not be any G5 schools dropping football like a lot of troll internet fan board fans of "P5" schools have been touting. I don't want more G5 schools necessarily, but I'm saying no one in FBS will drop football for decades if ever. This was the first attempt in decades at doing so. (early 90's Cali big west schools) and ultimately it was reversed in 6 months. No FBS will attempt to drop football and many many FCS will try to upgrade.

UAB fb being reinstated is not a good thing. If it was that great of a thing it wouldnt have been deep sixed to begin with.

I guess a good thing for CUSA not having to expand with another Sun Belt team and keeping a good UAB Basketball team in the league. If UAB could build a nice 30k seat OCS they could probably compete well in CUSA.

I'm indifferent

(06-01-2015 03:47 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  Another thing to worry about:

Schools like SMU, Cincy, Houston and Tulane - your conference mates - have dumped NINE FRICKING FIGURES in completely rebuilding football facilities. Those schools NEED to schedule good opponents - and overloading the FBS ranks waters down the value of their investment.

Neither Cincy or SMU has rebuilt their facility during their time in the AAC. Also, ECU has spent nearly 200 million in the past 8 years on facilities. So don't act like we're standing idle.

hate to be that guy but nothing was said today making it a stone cold lock UAB still ever plays another down of football. Watts put a lot of conditions in the way of " working toward football returning in 2016".

(06-01-2015 04:32 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  UAB fb being reinstated is not a good thing. If it was that great of a thing it wouldnt have been deep sixed to begin with.

You dont know what you're talking about so it must be another day ending with the letter y.

(06-01-2015 06:08 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  hate to be that guy but nothing was said today making it a stone cold lock UAB still ever plays another down of football. Watts put a lot of conditions in the way of " working toward football returning in 2016".

Seriously doubt Watts is around to enforce anything.

Maybe - time will tell , but the bammer BOT is eternal

(06-01-2015 06:25 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  Maybe - time will tell , but the bammer BOT is eternal

Which is why the free UAB movement must continue. They need a BOR badly.

Today takes all the political steam out of that.

(06-01-2015 06:31 PM)panama Wrote:  

(06-01-2015 06:25 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  Maybe - time will tell , but the bammer BOT is eternal

Which is why the free UAB movement must continue. They need a BOR badly.

Let them have a BOR. Let the same brain trust that made bham the great city it is run the place. Take away the med school and let bham fund the school

Great idea

I'm happy for their fans let's hope they have more fans this time around

Maybe now I'll stop hearing about them every 5 minutes.

i was joking around this afternoon that maybe this whole thing was a giant marketing scam - after all before all of this, how many people in other parts of the country even knew uab had a football team?

(06-01-2015 06:21 PM)panama Wrote:  

(06-01-2015 06:08 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  hate to be that guy but nothing was said today making it a stone cold lock UAB still ever plays another down of football. Watts put a lot of conditions in the way of " working toward football returning in 2016".

Seriously doubt Watts is around to enforce anything.

I think a lot of what he said about conditions and so on is probably some facesaving b.s.