{"id":13300,"date":"2015-02-09T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=13300"},"modified":"2015-02-09T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:07:44","slug":"in-birmingham-they-love-the-football-woo-woo-woo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=13300","title":{"rendered":"In Birmingham they love the football (woo woo woo)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously on WCD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=13035\" target=\"_blank\">the University of Alabama-Birmingham shut down their football program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/09\/sports\/ncaafootball\/after-uab-football-programs-death-outcry-raises-the-possibility-of-a-quick-resurrection.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">In the turbulent weeks since the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that it would shutter its Division I football program, rallies and protests have erupted on campus, powerful donors have threatened to withhold their support, and the faculty senate approved a resolution of no confidence in President Ray L. Watts\u2019s ability to lead the university.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The university has appointed a task force to review both the finances of the athletic department and the consulting firm&#8217;s report that led to the decision.<\/p>\n<p>And in other news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/09\/sports\/ncaafootball\/after-uab-football-programs-death-outcry-raises-the-possibility-of-a-quick-resurrection.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">Kent State recently paid $35,000 to an outside consultant to review the fiscal viability of its $26 million athletic department and its football program, which has had only one winning season since 2006.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously on WCD: the University of Alabama-Birmingham shut down their football program. Now: In the turbulent weeks since the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that it would shutter its Division I football program, rallies and protests have erupted on campus, powerful donors have threatened to withhold their support, and the faculty senate approved a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,101,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-schadenfreude","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13302,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions\/13302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}