Mess at UAB

College football has enough visible problems to make it tough for even us big fans. Lately though the ugly underbelly of the sport keeps coming up to the surface in a way that makes one truly shake his head. With the UAB football situation there are some clear-cut snakes here that are making decisions about that program that are not in the best interest of UAB football. And make no mistake about it. We are not talking incompetence. While there is plenty of that in college football, this case is one featuring very crafty people maliciously taking down this program. They were caught in their lies and now the program is returning, but a lot of damage has been done and no one has lost his cushy job over the situation. While President Watts of UAB is rightfully taking the brunt of the heat over this, his manipulator in the situation, Paul Bryant Jr., is not getting enough heat. And while it is sad that he is the Bear's son, we must separate that from our view of him. Without that he really looks bad. Pathetic is probably a better word. The other problem with this whole story has been the amount of coverage it has received in relation to the amount of coverage the football team has generated over the decades. No one nationally cared about Blazers football until this story became so juicy and soon nobody will care again. That's nationally--myself included--but there are a lot of peple who care about the program and they fortunately got their message out. Hopefully the media will stop being so star driven and start covering the entire sport. Like a corrupt board suddenly acting in the best interest of what they are supposed to oversee, that is probably wishful thinking.