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* April 2002: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees passed a resolution requiring the UAB Blazers athletic department to eliminate its deficit or be shut down. Football coach Watson Brown was named interim athletic director and took charge of a fund-raising effort that brought the deficit from $7.6 million to around $5 million. Incoming UAB president Carol Garrison submitted a plan to continue reducing the amount year by year and succeeded in convincing the board to rescind the ultimatum. ([http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Dec/19/sp/sp02p.html link]) | * April 2002: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees passed a resolution requiring the UAB Blazers athletic department to eliminate its deficit or be shut down. Football coach Watson Brown was named interim athletic director and took charge of a fund-raising effort that brought the deficit from $7.6 million to around $5 million. Incoming UAB president Carol Garrison submitted a plan to continue reducing the amount year by year and succeeded in convincing the board to rescind the ultimatum. ([http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Dec/19/sp/sp02p.html link]) | ||
* November 2011: Trustee Finis St John IV had the UAB National Alumni Society mail out a letter explaining his position on removing the proposal for an on-campus football stadium from the Board's agenda. He cited challenges in maintaining excellence in health care and research as reasons to pull back on investments in athletics. ([http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/11/trustee_finis_st_john_says_uab.html al.com]) | |||
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A few notes
- April 2002: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees passed a resolution requiring the UAB Blazers athletic department to eliminate its deficit or be shut down. Football coach Watson Brown was named interim athletic director and took charge of a fund-raising effort that brought the deficit from $7.6 million to around $5 million. Incoming UAB president Carol Garrison submitted a plan to continue reducing the amount year by year and succeeded in convincing the board to rescind the ultimatum. (link)
- November 2011: Trustee Finis St John IV had the UAB National Alumni Society mail out a letter explaining his position on removing the proposal for an on-campus football stadium from the Board's agenda. He cited challenges in maintaining excellence in health care and research as reasons to pull back on investments in athletics. (al.com)