How come UAB is giving up football?
Because ‘Bama does not want competition. The same board dominated by ‘Bama alums run both ‘Bama and UAB.
The UA Board of Trustees runs UAB. UAB supporters will say the board undercut and handcuffed the UAB program.
Alabama supporters deny that allegation.
I tend to agree with the UAB supporters...
UAB was bleeding money. They gave away tickets to the game. They play in old Legion field in Birmingham. The place was falling apart. They took the top decks off the stadium because they were falling down. It is a really bad part of the HOOD also. You have to pay to park on a public street. If you don’t pay some hoodie to watch your car parked in his front yard, or on the street in front of his house, you might not find the car when you came back. The program was so bad that nobody came to the games. They averaged about 5,000 per game and half that was give away tickets. I have seen high school games with larger crowds at them. The program was going bankrupt. Bleeding money hand over fist. At some point you have to just throw in the towel. All those kids at UAB that were so mad they dumped the program might have tried going to a few games and the program might have made some money and been able to keep the team. There are lower level colleges in the state that do much better that UAB, which is right down town Bham.
“How come UAB is giving up football?”
Because everyone is an Alabama or Auburn fan and they have no support. Stupid to ever start football.