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I just googled Paul Bryant Jr.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:52 am
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:52 am
And the very first thing that popped up was a scathing article written by Gregg Doyel in 2006 about "Little Bear" and his hatred of UAB. Very interesting, I must say.
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What has happened this month to UAB, however, is an outrage. Essentially, Little Bear's Board of Trustees blocked UAB from hiring the football coach it wanted. Twice. And the second time, Little Bear's Board stopped UAB from hiring the coach it wanted because, presumably, the coach UAB wanted -- Jimbo Fisher -- might also be wanted by Alabama. Ugly, but that's the deal, based on SportsLine.com conversations with sources close to the situation. After being blocked by the Board of Trustees in its quest to promote assistant coach Pat Sullivan, who became head coach at Samford, UAB turned to LSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher. UAB and Fisher agreed on basic contractual terms, with half of Fisher's annual UAB salary -- ballpark: $600,000 -- to be subsidized by private boosters. UAB was going to get the coach it wanted, a coach whose rumored arrival already was waking up the comatose UAB football program -- yet would have been on the hook for less salary than ex-coach Watson Brown, who made $375,000. It was perfect. Little Bear's Board of Trustees said no. You want to know why? So do I, but Little Bear wouldn't return my messages.
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So here's the theory I'm working on, a theory based on conversations with multiple sources with a vested interest in UAB football: Alabama also is in search of a football coach. The Crimson Tide has gone a month without one, raising the obvious possibility that its next coach has been selected but cannot be unveiled. Someone like, say, Miami Dolphins coach Nick Saban, whose NFL acumen is debatable but college resume (Michigan State, LSU) is beyond reproach. When he was at LSU, Saban's offensive coordinator was Jimbo Fisher. If he's going to return to college football, his choice for offensive coordinator would likely be Fisher. By making Fisher its head coach, UAB would have stood in the way of that, making the Alabama job less attractive to Saban. Alabama can't afford that.
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What kind of man is capable of such a plot? Not sure. But here's the kind of man Little Bear is: He made a fortune from dog tracks, including the notorious track at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which closed in 1995 after reports of monstrous dog abuse. He's a catfish kingpin whose farm processes 700,000 pounds per week. He's a Civil War buff who has been a ranking member of the controversial Sons of Confederate Veterans, which "is dedicated to the promotion of traditional Southern ideals ... to hold in perpetual remembrance all that was great and good." Yeesh.
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In 1989 Bryant was quoted in Esquire as describing the clientele at his Alabama dog track as "a low-class, low-income crowd ... generally your lower class of blacks, your welfare blacks, you want 'em to have enough room to get in and out, but at the same time you want to get as many in as possible." In 2000 the Legislative Black Caucus seized on those comments to try to block his appointment to the Board of Trustees. Little Bear said Esquire invented the quotes. Little Bear got his way -- he got onto the Board of Trustees.
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Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:54 am to NorthGAVol
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Very interesting
What is interesting to me is this board's sudden fascination with UAB's football program.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:54 am to NorthGAVol
a southern racist - color me shocked. 
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:54 am to NorthGAVol
If it's on the Internet it must be true. Amirite?
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:54 am to NorthGAVol
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So here's the theory I'm working on, a theory based on conversations with multiple sources with a vested interest in UAB
You don't say....
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:55 am to NorthGAVol
He is a 
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:55 am to NorthGAVol
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Gregg Doyel
U Florida grad, ACC apologist, CBS sports...
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:55 am to NorthGAVol
Lol the Bryant family must be regarded as the shittiest and dirtiest family in SEC History.
Bear was a drunk, wife beating, smoking a-hole who hoarded recruits and cheated. His son is a slime ball, greedy bureaucrat that could, in essence, be responsible for the death of a D-1 football team.
Bear was a drunk, wife beating, smoking a-hole who hoarded recruits and cheated. His son is a slime ball, greedy bureaucrat that could, in essence, be responsible for the death of a D-1 football team.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:56 am to NorthGAVol
MSB
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:57 am to NorthGAVol
He saved Jimbo Fisher's career by blocking that hire by UAB.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 10:59 am to NorthGAVol
So the claim is the football program wasn't making money. They try to bring in a Jimbo Fisher to turn the program around and they get blocked.
Yeah it looks as if the BOT did all they could to sabotage UAB's program. Jr succeeded. What a leader he must be.
Yeah it looks as if the BOT did all they could to sabotage UAB's program. Jr succeeded. What a leader he must be.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 11:01 am to NorthGAVol
Who the hell cares? I mean that with total sincerity.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 11:13 am to NorthGAVol
The SEC should add UAB. They certainly have a lot of fans across the region.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 11:15 am to NorthGAVol
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But here's the kind of man Little Bear is: He made a fortune from dog tracks, including the notorious track at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which closed in 1995 after reports of monstrous dog abuse. He's a catfish kingpin whose farm processes 700,000 pounds per week. He's a Civil War buff who has been a ranking member of the controversial Sons of Confederate Veterans. Bryant was quoted in Esquire as describing the clientele at his Alabama dog track as "a low-class, low-income crowd... generally your lower class of blacks, your welfare blacks, you want 'em to have enough room to get in and out
^He sounds like a southern comic book villain.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 12:47 pm to NorthGAVol
Haven't you read all of the Gump's rebuttals? These are all lies and Paul Jr is a bastion of integrity.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 1:02 pm to NorthGAVol
Posted on 12/1/14 at 1:05 pm to NorthGAVol
And this all comes to a head in the last year of Bryant Jr's tenure. His last attempt to kill UAB football.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 1:57 pm to NorthGAVol
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What has happened this month to UAB, however, is an outrage. Essentially, Little Bear's Board of Trustees blocked UAB from hiring the football coach it wanted
In the south that is considered "Cock Blocking"
Posted on 12/1/14 at 2:59 pm to NorthGAVol
I will say something good about Bryant, Jr.; his sleezeball dog tracks got John David Crow forced out as AD at A&M (JDC and Bryant, Jr., are thick as thieves, and JDC apparently was a partner in this gambling business, which was the fig leaf A&M needed for to force out an incompetent jerk who just happened to have won a Heisman trophy).
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