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...UAB president Ray Watts gave a presentation to C-USA presidents this week during the conference's winter meetings in Boca Raton, Fla. UAB dropped football last month and C-USA bylaws require schools to play football to be a member.
Since then, UAB has created a committee to reexamine its justification for dropping football, bowling and rifle. A new outside consultant is going to be hired to review financial numbers and assumptions from a previous consultant's report.
"It's an extraordinary situation. It's not like any kind of membership transition," Banowsky said. "We don't really have a timetable. I think our folks have a level of patience and are going to be pretty measured in the way we review it. We're going to stay in communication and monitor the situation as UAB tries to understand what it's going to do."
Watts, who recently received a no-confidence vote by his faculty, told C-USA presidents about the external review examining the prior decision and that it would take "several months," Banowsky said. If UAB doesn't bring football back for 2016, C-USA could change its bylaws requiring football membership through a supermajority vote, or reaffirm its membership rules.
"We decided as a conference a long time ago to become an all-sports conference," Banowsky said. "We had teams like Saint Louis, Charlotte, Marquette and DePaul that didn't have football, and we just decided back then that we preferred an all-sports model. That's our current identity." .....
This post was edited on 1/29 5:08 PM by SpaceRaider
C-USA: League will be patient on whether to keep U
...UAB president Ray Watts gave a presentation to C-USA presidents this week during the conference's winter meetings in Boca Raton, Fla. UAB dropped football last month and C-USA bylaws require schools to play football to be a member.
Since then, UAB has created a committee to reexamine its justification for dropping football, bowling and rifle. A new outside consultant is going to be hired to review financial numbers and assumptions from a previous consultant's report.
"It's an extraordinary situation. It's not like any kind of membership transition," Banowsky said. "We don't really have a timetable. I think our folks have a level of patience and are going to be pretty measured in the way we review it. We're going to stay in communication and monitor the situation as UAB tries to understand what it's going to do."
Watts, who recently received a no-confidence vote by his faculty, told C-USA presidents about the external review examining the prior decision and that it would take "several months," Banowsky said. If UAB doesn't bring football back for 2016, C-USA could change its bylaws requiring football membership through a supermajority vote, or reaffirm its membership rules.
"We decided as a conference a long time ago to become an all-sports conference," Banowsky said. "We had teams like Saint Louis, Charlotte, Marquette and DePaul that didn't have football, and we just decided back then that we preferred an all-sports model. That's our current identity." .....
This post was edited on 1/29 5:08 PM by SpaceRaider
C-USA: League will be patient on whether to keep U
