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Posted on 9/8/21 at 3:01 pm to cdur86
Posted on 9/8/21 at 3:01 pm to cdur86
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This in turn has absolutely KILLED our in-state recruiting for the larger metros. When I graduated high school in 2005 in Huntsville, there were more kids going to UA than anywhere. Last year I believe AU doubled the amount of kids going to AU than kids going to UA in Huntsville. An absolute shame and it shows in the workforce too.
I see it around me as well. I live in Birmingham... just south of downtown. The number of students going to Alabama and Auburn used to be fairly even, but in recent years is easily 60/40 in Auburn's favor... and its been this way for over a decade.
The Over-the-Mountain area of Birmingham is the type of place that most kids who grew up there want to come back and raise their families there. I've often wondered what the impact of 10+ years of Auburn having the advantage will do, not just in those 10 years but in future years as well.
When I'm at the park, you just see more kids running around with Auburn gear on. Alabama still has a huge presence for sure, but the area seems far more pro-Auburn than it did when I first came to Birmingham years ago.
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Posted on 9/8/21 at 3:14 pm to BHMKyle
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I see it around me as well. I live in Birmingham... just south of downtown. The number of students going to Alabama and Auburn used to be fairly even, but in recent years is easily 60/40 in Auburn's favor... and its been this way for over a decade. The Over-the-Mountain area of Birmingham is the type of place that most kids who grew up there want to come back and raise their families there. I've often wondered what the impact of 10+ years of Auburn having the advantage will do, not just in those 10 years but in future years as well. When I'm at the park, you just see more kids running around with Auburn gear on. Alabama still has a huge presence for sure, but the area seems far more pro-Auburn than it did when I first came to Birmingham years ago.
This is an embarrassment to me, and even more so with Birmingham so close to Tuscaloosa. Get our recruiters out of Illinois/California/New Jersy/New York/Pennsylvania and into the metros of Birmingham, Huntsville, and Mobile or else you will continue to see more of the kids with AU gear. Even our alumni do a horrendous job of keeping legacies of UA to actually go to UA. I can't tell you how many split households where there is one AU parent and one UA parent and their kids will choose AU over UA. I can understand them going to AU if they want to be a vet or pharmacist or something that UA doesn't have, but they are going there because all their friends go there and major in something like Business.
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