Solomon: C-USA won't change bylaws to keep UAB without football

[Mike Gwinn]

Sources: C-USA won't change bylaws to keep UAB without football
April 29, 2015 12:55 pm ET

Conference USA has communicated to UAB that the league won't amend its bylaws to keep the Blazers without football, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

UAB dropped football in December and has a study from a consultant expected to be released by May 15. Conference USA's executive committee meets in June and will formally vote on UAB's future. But there is not interest from two-thirds of C-USA's presidents to change the league's bylaws requiring football as a condition of membership.

Assuming UAB doesn't reinstate football for 2016, the school will most likely be a C-USA member for one more academic year in 2015-16, given the short timeframe for the Blazers to find a new home. C-USA is reluctant to kick out UAB and leave its sports without playing schedules...

C-USA won't change bylaws to keep UAB without football

 

[Herdstruck]

Just put a bullet in UAB's program already...

What does anyone think this will do? They'll spend tons of money to re-instate everything, only to have...MAYBE 25,000 fans show up (and that would be because Auburn and Alabama were off that Saturday).

UAB would be deserved another shot if the football program was actually good and could win. There would be some true merit to the program, but rather, it's the opposite. A crappy program with a crappy history wanting to come back from the dead and remain...the same crappy program it once was.

I don't foresee UAB changing drastically even if they came back...they're still light years away from Bama and Auburn...not to mention the school itself is within the UA school system...this is a big thing because their funding, for everything, comes from it...just wait till "budget cuts" come in...and money slowly runs dry.