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When BEMC is demolished, how should the school honor Joel Eaves?

Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:24 pm
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
35893 posts
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:24 pm
The master plan calls for the building to be removed.

How much do all of you know about Coach Joel Eaves?

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Eaves coached the Auburn men's basketball program from 1949 to 1963. He guided Auburn to its first SEC championship in 1960, and was named SEC Coach of the Year that season. Eaves made famous the shuffle offense while at Auburn.[9] After 14 seasons at Auburn, Eaves finished with a record of 213–100 (.681), making him the winningest men's basketball coach in Auburn history. Eaves also assisted with the football team while at Auburn, helping with the freshmen ends for two years before coaching varsity defensive ends, contributing to Auburn's 1957 national championship.[10] Joel Eaves was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.[9]
This post was edited on 3/6/22 at 7:30 pm
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
35893 posts
Posted on 3/6/22 at 7:26 pm to
Not to mention Jeff Beard:

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he enrolled at Auburn and became captain of the track team and Southern Conference champion in the discus throw.[2][3] He graduated from Auburn in 1932 and returned to the university in 1933 as business manager of athletics.[2] In 1937, he also became Auburn's assistant track and field coach.[3] Beard was promoted to athletic director in February 1951.[4] In the three years prior to his promotion, the Auburn Tigers football team had compiled a 3–22–3, including a winless 0–10 season in 1950. Beard's first major decision as athletic director was the hiring of Ralph Jordan as head coach of the football team. Beard was also responsible for expanding the seating capacity at Cliff Hare Stadium from 20,000 to 63,000 and for the construction of the Memorial Coliseum, later renamed the Beard–Eaves–Memorial Coliseum.[2] Beard stepped down as Auburn's athletic director in July 1972. He remained at Auburn with the title Director Emeritus of Athletics.[2] All told, he spent all but one of the first 44 years of his adult life on the Plains as a student, athletics official, coach, and athletic director.[citation needed] In 1974, Beard was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and the Athletic Director Hall of Fame.[5]
Posted by auzach91
Marietta, GA
Member since Jan 2009
41236 posts
Posted on 3/6/22 at 9:20 pm to
Busts in the arena.
Posted by DutchValleyTiger
Member since Dec 2014
1145 posts
Posted on 3/6/22 at 10:43 pm to
I wouldn't worry about it too much. I hear it will cost too much to tear down (think asbestos mitigation). They will never tear it down.
Posted by allin2010
Auburn
Member since Aug 2011
18447 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 5:42 am to
It has more to do with moving things out of the building. It is still used.
Posted by Rhino5
Atlanta
Member since Nov 2014
30804 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 8:35 am to
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When BEMC is demolished, how should the school honor Joel Eaves?

How much money did he donate? That’s apparently all that matters anymore. Not endless hours and years of working for the university.
Posted by SECdragonmaster
Order of the Dragons
Member since Dec 2013
17335 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 9:11 am to
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I hear it will cost too much to tear down (think asbestos mitigation). They will never tear it down.


It’s going to be demolished. You are forgetting the annual costs to heat/cool/power and repair it over and over.
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