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UAB will host a 4 p.m. CT press conference to announce its decision on whether it will reinstate football, bowling and rifle.

The press conference, which will be held at the UAB administration building, will include both UAB president Ray Watts and athletic director Mark Ingram.

The press conference comes almost exactly six months after Watts announced the school was disbanding the three programs. At the December announcement, Watts stated it wasn't financially feasible for the school to support football.

Since that announcement, the school created a task force to study the decision and commissioned an outside review of the much-discussed CarrSports Consulting report. UAB boosters, led by former football player Justin Craft, worked to raise outside funds to financially support a reinstatement of the football program.