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Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:14 am to rbWarEagle
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Awesome, thanks for the link
Ya, if put to good academic use, this campaign will be awesome for AU. A lot of departments are getting well deserved upgrades facility wise.
I do wish we put more money into COSAM + endowed professorships. Engineering is obviously a huge part of AU but they are ignoring that engineering students have ~2years of classes in the math department. Either Engineering funds or additoinal funding for an improved teaching math department would be huge.
Also, Auburn needs to do a better job of attracting top professors who bring in research money. Our graduate programs will never be taken seriously unless our professors are top tier.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:18 am to JamalSanders
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In '11-'12 three sports made money, football, baseball, and gymnastics.
I could see softball and men's basketball being added to that list if we continue doing well.
I wish we could charge an additional sports fee to students of ~$5 that gives access to all other events. I think it is small enough that most people would pay but students would feel like they should go more since they "paid" for it already. I just know that if attendance starting going up, some dumb AD official would want to keep increasing it
Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:18 am to JamalSanders
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In '11-'12 three sports made money, football, baseball, and gymnastics.
Hot damn.
There's probably a way to make most of the sports appear on profitable depending on which accounts you debit. But I assume most Universities use the same metric so it doesn't totally matter.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:33 am to ellitor
I'm all for it. Football is king, but I like to see well rounded athletics. It is not easy for Auburn to compete with State schools. These upgrades would help recruiting across the board. Anything we can do to help recruiting will pay off in the end, IMO.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 11:44 am to TheJones
Football is the only thing making money at most every SEC school, outside of Kentucky.
I will let you know what I find out. Being a contractor, I have good friends who are the engineers for many AU projects. I have been inside the video board, and it is impressive, no matter what your opinion is of its existence.
ETA: There are odd years where other sports profit. As a rule however, football is king.
I will let you know what I find out. Being a contractor, I have good friends who are the engineers for many AU projects. I have been inside the video board, and it is impressive, no matter what your opinion is of its existence.
ETA: There are odd years where other sports profit. As a rule however, football is king.
This post was edited on 1/26/16 at 11:46 am
Posted on 1/26/16 at 12:08 pm to NYCAuburn
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Are you voting for Bernie Sanders?
I am. Let's go!
Posted on 1/26/16 at 12:52 pm to Maddness
Is Wayne Hall still in the construction business. 
Posted on 1/26/16 at 1:45 pm to MrAUTigers
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. It is not easy for Auburn to compete with State schools.
You do realize that Auburn is a state school right?
Unless you mean schools with the state name in the title...
Posted on 1/26/16 at 1:49 pm to ellitor
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PHASE I
-- $75 million for north end zone renovation and other upgrades at Jordan-Hare Stadium. The renovations would include new home and visiting team locker rooms, new recruiting area, multiple premium seating options.
Originally we saw that that the expansion would cost up to $145 million. Have the plans changed or was the amount BS?
The total cost of the project, which had initial estimates were $145 million, is unclear, as is how it would be funded. Auburn spent $100,000 in the planning and design phases of the renovation project, according to documents obtained by AL.com.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:29 pm to JamalSanders
quote:They've been quite successful in making gymnastics a Friday night "thing". Not unusual to have 5-7000 people at those meets. They can probably make softball profitable too.
In '11-'12 three sports made money, football, baseball, and gymnastics.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 3:35 pm to AUBorn
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They've been quite successful in making gymnastics a Friday night "thing". Not unusual to have 5-7000 people at those meets.
Extremely popular for people with their daughters. Only about an hour long, they do a good job with jumbotron for little kids and only ~$5/ticket.
If you live in the area, it is a fun & cheap "big event" to go to with kids.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 4:42 pm to AUBorn
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gymnastics
They also do more camps and clinics than any other sport by a ton. I think they also get credited with money made from the open tumble nights at the womens center.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 8:23 pm to NYCAuburn
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Are you voting for Bernie Sanders
I am.
But I live in the South. So the rednecks, anti-science flat-earthers, religious nut jobs and civil war reenactors that dominate southern politics make my vote obsolete.
I'll ban bet right now that Alabama reelected that piece of trash Richard Shelby to the US Senate.
Posted on 1/26/16 at 9:24 pm to CaptainBrannigan
I will say as a person born here and recently moved back I can't believe how dumb, poor and clueless this state is. People who are conservative who are some of the poorest people I know. The fact that Alabama is a red state blows my mind. We're literally the 2nd worst at everything aside from Mississippi. It's tragic. I wish people would get their noses out of the bible and remove all that trash from politics and actually help themselves for once.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 8:29 am to Maddness
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People who are conservative who are some of the poorest people I know
There are also a ton of extremely poor liberals. Just ask anyone who was screaming about their obama phone.
The black belt counties in Alabama and the percent on SNAP: New York Times article
Barbour 19 %
Bullock N/A
Butler 24%
Choctaw N/A
Crenshaw N/A
Dallas 36%
Greene N/A
Hale N/A
Lowndes N/A
Macon 30 %
Marengo 22%
Montgomery 20%
Perry N/A
Pickens N/A
Pike 21%
Russell 23%
Sumter N/A
Wilcox N/A
The average of the 49 out of 67 (73%) total counties in Alabama that the nyt provided data on is 15.1%, while the average of the 8 out of 18 (44%) black belt counties is 21.6%. So if we assume the Times to be unbiased and just couldn't collect the data in the counties that always vote blue, then on average in Alabama it is a liberal voter that is more likely to be poor and receive welfare.
quote:Just because they do that doesn't mean they can't
people would get their noses out of the bible
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remove all that trash from politics
There is a lot of shite in our state but people reading the bible ain't part of it.
End rant. This isn't the poli board. frick JJ. War Eagle.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 8:40 am to JamalSanders
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There is a lot of shite in our state but people reading the bible ain't part of it.
There is nothing wrong with people who have faith. In Alabama though, there are a ton of people who resist improvement and progress based on their religious convictions.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 8:44 am to GenesChin
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there are a ton of people who resist improvement and progress based on their religious convictions.
Agreed.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:02 am to GenesChin
There are also a ton of ppl in the South (I'm in GA) who think that the government spending our great grandchildren into the poor house is wrong so that those who "don't have" can be bettered with health care coverage, a cheap place to live and enough money to have nicer things than I do(with my child in college) that I'm paying for.........
Not a Trump guy but America is not America anymore
Not a Trump guy but America is not America anymore
Posted on 1/27/16 at 10:21 am to CaptainBrannigan
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Are you voting for Bernie Sander
Free shite for errybody.
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