Thanks to all of you. I have an old buddy who is, or was, a professor at UAB, but I doubt that he has anything to do with football. I was really surprised that they’re shutting down their football program. Your comments make sense of it.
UR welcome. I hated to see UAB’s program closed down also. The players can immediately sign with new schools and can play this year. A few might get to larger schools, but most will probably end up at the likes of Jacksonville State, Troy, North Alabama, West Alabama and West GA. Smaller schools, but if they get a scollie, they can play and the school pays. But, UAB was in terrible money troubles in the football program. Nobody came to the games. They gave away tickets to get fannies in the seats. Sad. But it is not really a football school. Never was. They had a very good basketball tradition when Gene Bartow started the program. It has slipped badly also. Gene had good teams back in the beginning. Maybe they can put the efforts into the basketball program and bring it back up.