NY Times · Oct 1, 2015
For U.A.B. Football Diaspora, a Second Wind
Photo Running back Jordan Howard (8) left U.A.B. to play at Indiana, where he leads the nation in rushing with 675 yards in four games. Credit Chuck Burton/Associated Press ATLANTA — When the football program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, was shut down and boarded up last December, the issue that preoccupied many people nationally was the cost of major-college football and the politics that can surround any decision related to the most popular sport on campus.
Almost unnoticed in the debate among fans, bureaucrats and educators was a robust roster of U.A.B. players — runners, tacklers, receivers — who sat in stunned silence when they were told the program was being eliminated.