re: Bobby Lowder distancing himself from Chizik?

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. Can someone fill me in on him other than what I said?

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His money is good for the program, but his meddling in the program created the too many cooks in the kitchen effect.

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Explain how this guy is a cancer though.

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He dismantled the journalism dept after they spoke out against him stuffing the BOT with his cronies courtesy of ole Donnie Siegelman.

He had a personal feud with another BOT, and once that man retired Bobby used his influence to move the economics dept (the other BOTs personal "baby" program if you will) under control of the business school and then cut all funding to the grad level education. The econ dept literally lacked the funding to hire a new professor for 15-20 years because of this. They also lost the grad school in the process.

His actions to put 2 of his cronies on the BOT in order to have control nearly cost AU its accreditation.

He tried to run this school like it was his own personal playground. He's done more damage than could ever be considered good. IDGAF about the football program if the school had lost its SACs accreditation. Peoples priorities are royally fricked up if they want Bobby back just so football "might" be good again.

And if all you care about is football you should have punched Scarbo in the fricking face for his stupid arse article about all the good Bobby did. Yeah all the good like ensuring 90% of the state's sports journos would be from that other school by nearly ending the journalism dept at Auburn. How do ya'll like that? How do you like having tons of negative articles in the news about AU every time something might be wrong? Who all in here bitched about the treatment of the Cam Newton stuff by the Birmingham news? Because that journalistic bias is a direct RESULT of Bobby's need for power.

Bobby thinking he had easy money in Florida in 07 was the best thing that has ever happened to this university because it cost Lowder his bank, his money, and his position on the BOT.