A trip down memory lane: Collette Connell greeting Nick Saban

IWHI. Something about her trashiness...

Then you would be fricking a corpse. She died like 5 years ago of liver failure she was apparently arrested for a DUI on the trip home from meeting Saban.

Looks like a stereotypical bama fan

RIP...

You don't want to do this, bama has the trashiest fans in the nation and there's plenty of pics to confirm.

The Birmingham News
Sunday, August 1, 1999

Many AU students sold on mobile-home life
by Brett J. Blackledge, News staff writer


AUBURN-Garbage bags piled on the front porch are the first giveaway that college students live here. Inside are clothes crumpled on the couch, stacks of dirty dishes in the kitchen, an empty pizza box on the floor.

Bobby Cornelius is living like most college freshmen. What’s different is where he lives. Cornelius and two roommates share a mobile home in a trailer park a few miles west of Shug Jordan Parkway on the outskirts of Auburn University.

No other college in the country has taken to trailers the way Auburn has, said Jim Grimm, the University of Florida’s housing director and past president of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. (Really now?)

For years, thousands of Auburn’s 21,500 students have snubbed dorms for their own mobile homes off campus. “There are so many trailer parks around here,” said Amy Schreiner, a 21-year-old psychology major from Trussville who bought a mobile home last year with her sister. “And the majority of people who live in them are college students.”

If college campuses are a gauge of popular culture, then Auburn students are the best example of mobile homes’ wide appeal in Alabama.

“There’s kind of a stereotype that mobile home people are poor and rednecky,” Cornelius said. “That’s not generally what people here think about it.”

More than a half-dozen mobile-home parks line Wire Road just past the veterinary school. The parks look like any other, with only a few hints that under-graduates live here -- student parking decals dangling from rear-views, a few Auburn bumper stickers and license plates on cars, several porches sporting AU flags.

The students keep to themselves. And that’s the real attraction to living off-campus in a mobile home -- the privacy. There are no neighbors to worry about on the other side of the wall.

Amy Sibley bought her mobile home two years ago because she didn’t like the idea of signing an apartment lease. “You can get your money back when you sell it and you don’t have to pay rent,” said the
21-year-old senior from Russellville.

Her two older brothers lived in mobile homes while at Auburn years ago. And most of her friends are envious. She had some girlfriends over recently for a wedding
shower. “They said, ‘I wish I lived in a trailer. You can decorate it any way you want.’ “

There are occasional cracks from friends when they find out you’re living in a trailer park, friends who learned everything they know about mobile homes from Jeff Foxworthy jokes.

Even Mike Gerry, a freshman from Huntsville, was floored when he heard that his brother was moving to one. “I thought, ‘Great. My brother’s a redneck.’ “

But Gerry admits he was surprised. “When I saw how nice it was, I said, ‘Now I want

Hey, you're the guy that started with the stereotype thing. There are plenty of photos of real live people out and about, if you want to see them, including the one of the Auburn fraternity that may actually be criminal, or if not, it's one of the most hateful things I've seen in a long time.

God she's so dreamy

I have been one acquainted with the night, or days and nights, I should say, of drug and alcohol addiction. I don't do it anymore, though, and haven't in years, so I know for a fact that some people can quit it.

I also watched my nephew slowly die over a couple of years, from chronic alcoholism for most of his life. He finally passed a few days before the last Thanksgiving, so it's still pretty fresh in my mind.

Clearly then, I have seen it first hand, up close and personally, and from the perspective of one who has lived it and beaten it, and from watching a loved one that didn't beat it.

Sorry if that's over your head and out of your realm of experience.

I tried to make an alter off her name years back, haven't tried since baw.


I definitely wanted to give Will Wade a Collette-style welcome