I finished reading the Carr Sports report on UAB's athletics program. It didn't take long. The document consists of a cover sheet (one page), a table of contents (one page), actual report (nine pages), table of exhibits (one page) and exhibits (two pages). It's also double-spaced and pretty breezy reading.

So far, here is my favorite reply on Twitter.

@WarOnDumb Exactly. I teach business writing, & students in my classes consistently produce far more effective documents. — Dr. Ashley Patriarca (@aspatriarca) December 2, 2014

After reading the full report and exhibits, I really only have two take-aways.

First, the question put to Carr Sports was clearly "how do we cut football," not "should we cut football." The focus of the report is how to cut football while maintaining Title IX compliance and making a good argument for UAB to stay in its conference. It clearly started with a conclusion and worked backward from there.

And second, for UAB President Ray Watts to hide behind this report today the way he did is made that much more of a sick joke after reading it.

If you want to chat about it, I'll hang out in the comments section below for the next few hours. You can read the report for yourself below.