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I always heard that the Bear's son screwed them over and that they were the victims on the disbanded football thing.

Other than that. Most people know they used to be really good at basketball.... and they have a highly respected medical school.

So you Bama people need to fill some of us in about UAB hate.

That's the view put out by the media but it was really very simple ( The Birmingham News). UAB football does not make enough money to support itself. The requirements for 15K avg per game is barely met if it is met at all. They had to get the city of Birmingham to build them a stadium that I wouldn't even call theirs. If you are going to compete in the SEC you can't be subsidizing other programs. Jax State, Troy, South Alabama all seem to do fine. All of those just mentioned average around 25-27K a game in small, out of the way towns. Why can't UAB do it a large metro area? so their fall back is to always blame Tuscaloosa for their horrible leadership and their alums who don't give one hoot about UAB football. UAB basketball has a nice fanbase and its a really good program that the University gets behind. Football is just not a thing there and honestly they can't afford it but, as much as I don't like it, Tuscaloosa will continue to prop them up.

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Posted by paperwasp

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 3:15 pm to TouchdownTony

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UAB football does not make enough money to support itself

It's kind of like professional women's sports — you don't ever watch it, but you don't have anything against them, and it's sort of cool when your local team is doing well, but suddenly when they start complaining and bitching to be "paid just like everybody else," you're reminded of how they wouldn't even exist without your subsidies, and then the more you think about it you just kind of wonder why they can't support themselves and why they're even doing this if the community actually doesn't care (even though they said they did), and geez why am I still paying for their program to flounder around when they just see me as the enemy?