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Reports: UAB AD out, football program could shut down this week
By Chip Patterson | College Football/Basketball Writer
November 30, 2014 3:27 pm ET
UAB would be the first major school to shut down football since Pacific in 1995. (USATSI)
UAB athletic director Brian Mackin is reportedly out and the football program could be shut down as soon as this week, according to multiple media reports.
USA Today's Dan Wolken and Sports Illustrated are reporting that Mackin, the Blazers athletic director since 2007, will be fired as part of major changes to the athletic department that will include shutting down the football program. UAB will become the first Football Bowl Subdivision/Division I-A school to drop football since Pacific in 1995.
According to ESPN.com, UAB head coach Bill Clark did not think the chances were good for the program's survival. "Unless something changes before the weekend ends, I think the odds are very high it ends this week," he told Joe Schad.
Concern about the future of the program began when UAB's president and athletic director released noncommittal statements regarding a strategic study of the school's athletic department. UAB's football boosters are concerned, as Clark's contract does not extend beyond 2016 and the Blazers have no non-conference games scheduled beyond 2016, either.
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