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UAB Blazers football
The UAB Blazers football team represents the University of Alabama at Birmingham and competed as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). UAB played its home games at Legion Field, which is located off-campus in Birmingham, Alabama. With a capacity of 71,594, Legion Field is the third largest college football stadium in the state of Alabama and the 40th largest football stadium in the United States.
On November 30, 2014, a day after the Blazers had become bowl eligible for only the second time in program history, ''Sports Illustrated'' reported that UAB was planning to fire athletic director Brian Mackin and end the football program. On December 2, UAB president Ray Watts officially announced that the school would be shutting down the football program, as well as the bowling and rifle programs, at the end of the 2014–15 academic year. He stated that the main reason for the shutdown was the rapidly increasing cost to field a competitive football team. According to Watts, projected costs of a credible football program would cost the school $49 million over the next five years, over the $20 million a year already spent on the program, and that after five years this cost would likely continue to rise. On June 1, 2015, Watts announced the reversal of the decision to end UAB football due to the large public opinion against the decision and the public fundraising of more than $27 million towards the program. The Blazers football program will resume play as early as 2016. On June 4, 2015, Athletic Director Mark Ingram indicated that the 2017 season was a more reasonable timeline to field a football team for play, due to massive transfers from the program following the termination and the NCAA's recruiting rules.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UAB AD says 2017 a more ideal target for football revival )〕 It is also probable that the reinstated program will be treated as a new one, with play allowed only at the FCS level for the first few years. Also on June 4, Conference USA announced it would not take any action against UAB now that it has reinstated football, and the school would, in effect, remain in the conference. The conference stated, "At its fall meeting, the Board expects UAB to submit for review a comprehensive plan addressing the key elements of UAB's football program going forward. No additional action from the Board is expected until that time."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=C-USA announces UAB will remain a member of its conference )〕
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