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re: I just googled Paul Bryant Jr.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 3:58 pm to auburnphan23
Posted on 12/1/14 at 3:58 pm to auburnphan23
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I bet not many schools would let that type of person run their athletic department
What's Milton McGregor doing these days?
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Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:03 pm to therick711
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t doesn't shock me that you wouldn't understand why people care about this. Alabama is basically killing a football program in its state. Given your fans predilection for killing things that get in Bama's way, of course it would be interesting to this board.
A program that has never pulled its own weight financially, operates year after year substantially in the red and who cant sell more than a few thousand cheap tickets every game.
The State of Alabama has a constitutionally mandated balanced budget that is driving this decision. We don't need to support a welfare sports program to the tune of 17 million taxpayer dollars per year. Fiscal responsibility....its not so hard to understand
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:03 pm to 14&Counting
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More than Tuscaloosa....I'm not sure what your point is.....the medical school was and is the University of Alabama's....what is now UAB developed out of that decision to place the medical school in Birmingham and build out UAB.
My only point is that a large part of the success was in part due to the smart choice of location. I think Alabama nailed it there. My problem is the football program is good for undergraduate studies, something UAB is keen on, but UA BoT seems to be lukewarm at best about.
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Well, first the threat to the University Honors Program, and then the threat to UAB football, and the overwhelming evidence that Ray Watts was simply doing whatever certain members of the BOT [Board of Trustees] directed him to do, instead of leading. The fact he had been completely absent from the media and from numerous requests for comment since the threat to UAB football went public led me to start it.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:03 pm to 14&Counting
When was Milton McGregor ever on the Auburn BOT? little bear is not only on the bammer board, but he is the chairman of the athletic committee or something like that if I remember correctly
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:04 pm to auburnphan23
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I bet
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originally made his money by owning dog tracks.
Sounds like you're just his type of guy. Good luck at the tracks.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:04 pm to mattloc
Deflection.
Lots of programs offered by universities lose money. Do all UA athletic programs make a profit on their own. It enhances the undergraduate experience.
Lots of programs offered by universities lose money. Do all UA athletic programs make a profit on their own. It enhances the undergraduate experience.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:05 pm to auburnphan23
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little bear also originally made his money by owning dog tracks. I wonder how many colleges would let their athletic department be controlled by somebody who was involved in the gambling industry at one time. I bet not many schools would let that type of person run their athletic department
Wait, is this real? An Auburn person wagging their finger about another BOT's shady business dealings?
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The bank ran into problems after it was revealed that it had bought $1 billion in mortgages from Taylor, Bean & Whitaker that Taylor Bean did not own in one of the biggest fraud cases in history. The CEO of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, Lee Farkas, was put on trial and found guilty of fraud. Bobby Lowder, the CEO of Colonial Bank, was investigated and was not involved with the fraud.[1]
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:06 pm to auburnphan23
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When was Milton McGregor ever on the Auburn BOT? little bear is not only on the bammer board, but he is the chairman of the athletic committee or something like that if I remember correctly
When can all agree there are a lot of dirty people with wealth in Alabama.
This just seems like UA BoT trying to keep UAB down and that is a shame.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:06 pm to auburnphan23
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I wonder how many colleges would let their athletic department be controlled by somebody who was involved in the gambling industry at one time. I bet not many schools would let that type of person run their athletic department
What the frick do you think funds the HOPE Scholarship in the state of Tennessee?
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:07 pm to higgs_boson
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Lots of programs offered by universities lose money. Do all UA athletic programs make a profit on their own. It enhances the undergraduate experience.
The point is none of the undergraduates seem to care about this experience except for the football players, trainers, band and cheerleaders.
In that case, they should either move to a lower level (which they should have kept doing until they figured out how to be a real football program) or quit playing all together.
I wish they'd keep playing and just move down instead of implode the program, but my guess is that option was tossed around and the decision was made that UAB folks would rather not have it at all than have a D2 or D1AA program.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:07 pm to NorthGAVol
you dun got the bammers all riled up -- he got the name, so it doesn't matter what he does.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:08 pm to SummerOfGeorge
quote:The person you are referring to is no longer on the Auburn board and Auburn people worked for years to get him off. OTOH, little bear is still on the bammer board today and bammers like you largely just ignore or deflect from his problems. Seems like a pretty big difference to me
Wait, is this real? An Auburn person wagging their finger about another BOT's shady business dealings?
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:08 pm to auburnphan23
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When was Milton McGregor ever on the Auburn BOT? little bear is not only on the bammer board, but he is the chairman of the athletic committee or something like that if I remember correctly
You have heard of Bobby Lowder and that little bank he owned, right?
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:09 pm to 14&Counting
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The fact that UAB is what it is today is due to the good stewardship of the Bama BOT who placed its medical school in Birmingham and built what is now UAB
medical schools are always in bigger cities. having a medical school in tuscaloosa would be a disservice to their students/residents
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:10 pm to rootisback
Little Bear gets a pass.. He is corrupt, not well liked, but he is smart to keep a low low profile.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:10 pm to auburnphan23
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Seems like a pretty big difference to me
Yea, I agree. One is involved in "horse racing" which "sounds shady".
The other was Chairman of the Board of a $26B bank that failed due to $1B in fraudulent mortgages that ended up being the 6th largest bank failure in the history of the United States at the same time that he was on the AU BOT.
Yea, big difference.
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Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:10 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Please don't deflect this to a finger pointing competition about whose BoT is worse. UA BoT may very well kill another universites football program as well as Honors Program this year.
That is the issue.
That is the issue.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:11 pm to higgs_boson
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My only point is that a large part of the success was in part due to the smart choice of location. I think Alabama nailed it there. My problem is the football program is good for undergraduate studies, something UAB is keen on, but UA BoT seems to be lukewarm at best about.
As I said, I am all for supporting UAB academically and not just the medical school, medical research, or graduate studies....but to an earlier post, UAB undergrad. has always been a commuter school. I.E. most undergrads are probably part time. If they really want that campus lifestyle, then Tuscaloosa is 55 minutes away. When there is finite resources, then some priorities have to be established.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:12 pm to NorthGAVol
In related news, Mizzou was Paul Bryant's daddy.
Posted on 12/1/14 at 4:13 pm to 14&Counting
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If they really want that campus lifestyle, then Tuscaloosa is 55 minutes away. When there is finite resources, then some priorities have to be established.
That's great for all of the out-of-staters that make up most of the student population at SPUAT, but what about the in-state people who need a school that will actually try and educate the people of the state?
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