Simple answer: A whole lot. The caliber and number of applicants will drop significantly due to this. Which is a shame because UAB has done a lot in the last 10 years to make it less of a commuter school and a good experience for all students.

If this were solely a money thing then I think people that actually know the university wouldn't be so up in arms. Its a clear writing on the wall message that has been popping up for years but has recently taken a major swing. The BoT is run by UAT graduates who want to make UAB (a much better school overall, both…

I've written this before, but I'll say it here again. The BoT is not just after the football program. The BoT is composed of a strong majority of UAT people who are embarrassed that the main campus school in T-Town is significantly inferior to the branch campuses at Huntsville and Birmingham academically. They have…

Note: You can't actually donate directly to UAB as a booster. It goes through the UA system, which as you may guess never goes to UAB

Everyone here is making the argument that this was done as a financial choice and that it will benefit the academic programs. This is patently false. Leaving out that this was actually a personal vendetta, and the Board of Trustees has undercut the UAB football team since it's inception in 1991. No student tuition…

Sports isn't the be all end all of any school. But if you don't live in Alabama/Georgia/TN would you know to look at UAB if it weren't for sports? Sporting attracts candidates and then you can show them your worth. For example, the average SAT score at VT - an excellent engineering school - went up 150 pts after they…

Also, it's difficult to build a profitable program when the BoT undercuts your every move (not just in football). Hire Jimbo Fisher? Nah, lets hire Paul's buddy. Expand the Nursing school? No way, Tuscaloosa has one despite not being near any well accredited hospital. The BoT wants to turn UAB into a medical branch…

I see you Paul Bryant Junior. Now quickly tell me the cost of any program outside of the power 5? Explain to me where the added benefit will come - the university is not decreasing tuition and has repeatedly threatened to shut down the Honors Program, the Materials Science department and the History department as well…

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This is just in reply to your comment and I kind of feel bad putting this out there, but Ray Rice was this level of stand up guy in the community before he decided to abuse his girlfriend like AJ abused Cortland Finnegan. The NFL should hide behind this guy because he seems awesome, but if (hopefully never) he turns…

Where's Joe Webb when you need him?

Last time I checked, simple assault, possession and shop lifting were not punishable by death without trial or jury.

I, for one, would have preferred a special prosecutor to be hired. There was an enormous conflict of interest using this prosecutor. In addition to the emotional (his father was shot by a black man during a kidnap arrest), the familial ties to the St. Louis PD (brother, uncle, cousins), and his history of failing to…

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/wai… Just to help your argument if you don't think waiting for the facts gets a whole lot done. I'm not quoting this blog because I'm not sure I agree with it. Just throwing it out there

really? kill himself? come on man.

I live on the green line. You obviously haven't taken a bus

Russell Wilson isn't "black enough" because he won a super bowl. This flies in the face of all black QB stereotypes so the media tries to make him seem whiter - and they're good at it. The rest of the black QBs in the league right now fit the bill. They have one break out season then crash back to average or bad QBs…

Here let me correct that for you - "It's not like anyone got hurt being thrown under the bus. Most white people in DC use the trains anyway."

I feel like that is the player's choice to make. He is literally putting a price tag on his own health by choice. He sounds like he knows there is risk and decided, as an adult, the risk was worth the reward. I think he deserves a better medical option too, but at the end of the day - it's on him

**Unpopular opinion alert** We need to stop shitting on Donte Stallworth. Yes, he killed a guy while driving intoxicated, but the guy he killed had jumped a highway median in a 40 mph zone (going 50), early in the morning, with all black clothing on. It's not like he hit a pedestrian on the sidewalk or wrecked another…