Bill Curry was the head football coach at the University of Alabama when Alabama-Birmingham first discussed fielding a football program in the late 1980s.
Stunned by such news, he infamously joked, “Our university already has a football program,” which earned him a reprimand from his school’s president.
But when word leaked out a couple of days ago that UAB was dropping its football program after 24 years, Curry said his first reaction was one of “shock.”
It’s what he thought next, however, that’s worthy of much contemplation throughout the less financially successful neighborhoods of college football.
“This is just the beginning,” he told himself. “It’s going to happen more and more.”