re: So the u of Bama wants to become more yankee?

It's a double-edged sword. UGA has a similar issue, though we don't have to go out of state as much (though we seem to be getting a ton of kids from Texas and North Carolina). Rather, the ATL metro area is so overflowing with transplant families from the North that our alumni base in places like New York, DC, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, etc are really growing. The downside is that these are kids that weren't raised ot be die hard UGA fans and after college, they don't have much reason to hang around Athens unless they stay to work in Atlanta (and to be fair many are because Atlanta is steadily on the rise in a number of industries). Still, it's not the UGA of the 80s or 90s where a lot of the in-state students are from native Georgia families.