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re: Prophetic Auburn and Alabama officials in the 1920s...
Posted on 7/9/12 at 3:40 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Posted on 7/9/12 at 3:40 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Maybe the legislature was smart enough to know that placing AU under the Capstone would drag it down academically. The "Capstone" leaders would never had allowed AU or any other school under their control to outgrow or surpass them academically. Look what they are trying to do with UAB.
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You were. And the state legislature should have just added the "blue collar" college to the already existing Capstone of the state of Alabama.
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Posted on 7/9/12 at 3:47 pm to Dodgson
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that's noticed this. For all the "It's all Bear this, Bear that to them" talk, I've only really ever talked about Bear Bryant with my dad since he watched him coach a game or two. If you get a bunch of gray-haired 'Bama fans together he's likely to come up, but what else do you expect.
Now if yall could only let those horrible looking houndstooth baseball caps/car flags go.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 3:52 pm to piggidyphish
Posted on 7/9/12 at 3:54 pm to piggidyphish
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Now if yall could only let those horrible looking houndstooth baseball caps/car flags go.
I'd rather have car flags go altogether.
I never like to roll into anywhere like I'm damned President of something.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 3:54 pm to NBamaAlum
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NBamaAlum
haha,
You damned dirty bammer
Posted on 7/9/12 at 3:57 pm to Dodgson
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I'd rather have car flags go altogether
could not agree more.
The only redeeming part of car flags is watching some dumbass roll the window down while driving with one, then stick his (or her, becuase we have equally dumb male and female fans) head out the window to look back at it as I swerve to hit it.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 4:02 pm to Irons Puppet
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Look what they are trying to do with UAB.
Which is?
UAB, despite their incompetent leadership, has grown into a fairly decent school. They are no UA or AU, but it's getting better. With Witt as system leader now, I expect that to continue.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 4:09 pm to attheua
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Which is?
UAB, despite their incompetent leadership, has grown into a fairly decent school. They are no UA or AU, but it's getting better. With Witt as system leader now, I expect that to continue
UAB and their Med School want to break away from the Capstone, but Witt knows it is the flagship of their System. UABs leadership still has to go through the UA BOTs to get anything done. If it causes UAT to look like 2nd place, the BOTs will stonewall it.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 4:57 pm to marshallcotiger
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marshallcotiger
Posted on 7/9/12 at 5:12 pm to Irons Puppet
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UAB and their Med School want to break away from the Capstone, but Witt knows it is the flagship of their System. UABs leadership still has to go through the UA BOTs to get anything done. If it causes UAT to look like 2nd place, the BOTs will stonewall it.
Oh, I thought we were discussing reality, not ITAT fantasies.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 5:32 pm to attheua
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Oh, I thought we were discussing reality, not ITAT fantasies
No, that is from people involved with UAB.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 5:33 pm to attheua
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UAB and their Med School want to break away from the Capstone, but Witt knows it is the flagship of their System. UABs leadership still has to go through the UA BOTs to get anything done. If it causes UAT to look like 2nd place, the BOTs will stonewall it.
Oh, I thought we were discussing reality, not ITAT fantasies.
I know Auburn and UAB people love parroting this mythical fantasy about it being "their (UAB's) medical school" but just because they want that to be the case it isn't. The University of Alabama School of Medicine located in Birmingham is the University of Alabama's, both the main campus and the system as a whole, medical school whether they like it or not. Silly semantics aren't a good enough reason for UAB people to think they can steal the medical school away from the main campus.
Semantics aside, the UA school of medicine no more belongs to UAB then an engineering program at Auburn located in Montgomery belongs to AUM. What UAB has tried to do would be the equivalent of Auburn placing it's veterinarian or architecture school in Montgomery on the AUM campus and AUM decided to name it the AUM School of _________ and claiming it belongs to them instead of Auburn. Same exact thing. UAB can "secede" the minute the main UA campus gets back the medical college that was hijacked and stolen from them.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 5:50 pm to Govt Tide
Posted on 7/9/12 at 6:05 pm to Govt Tide
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Semantics aside, the UA school of medicine no more belongs to UAB then an engineering program at Auburn located in Montgomery belongs to AUM.
fyi- you can not get an Engineering Degree from AUM.
Posted on 7/9/12 at 6:24 pm to Irons Puppet
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UAB and their Med School want to break away from the Capstone, but Witt knows it is the flagship of their System. UABs leadership still has to go through the UA BOTs to get anything done. If it causes UAT to look like 2nd place, the BOTs will stonewall it.
They want to secede all because we refuse to build an on-campus football stadium for them. First and foremost, who the hell wants to waste millions of dollars on a new complex for fans who can't even fill up 25% of the stadium UAB currently occupies - especially in this economy? They moronically try and factor UA's stadium expansions into the equation, but that happens whenever you can consistently sell out a stadium AND the demand for tickets continue to rise. They should be thankful their school is even fielding a football program in the first place because most extension schools can't say the same. Period.
Regardless, the School of Medicine is OWNED and GOVERNED by the UA System, not UAB. If I'm not mistaken, the medical school originated in Mobile when USA was owned by the UA system. The Medical school ended up in Tuscaloosa before relocating to Birmingham to capitalize on the population boom.
If UAB manages to go, so does their prestigious medical school, and there's absolutely not way around that. The medical school is UAB's and Birmingham's bread and butter and whether they like it or not, it all belongs to the UA system at the end of the day.
If those idiots are that desperate for a stadium, I'll gladly trade them Bryant-Denny for the medical school. Then let's see how long that school lasts without it. I hope those frick-sticks secede, because I'd give my left nutsack to see the medical school BACK in T-Town on UA's campus someday.
This post was edited on 7/9/12 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 7/9/12 at 6:37 pm to BradPitt
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They want to secede all because we refuse to build an on-campus football stadium for them. First and foremost, who the hell wants to waste millions of dollars on a new complex for fans who can't even fill up 25% of the stadium UAB currently occupies - especially in this economy? They moronically try and factor UA's stadium expansions into the equation, but that happens whenever you can consistently sell out a stadium AND the demand for tickets continue to rise. They should be thankful their school is even fielding a football program in the first place because most extension schools can't say the same. Period.
Regardless, the School of Medicine is OWNED and GOVERNED by the UA System, not UAB. If I'm not mistaken, the medical school originated in Mobile when USA was owned by the UA system. The Medical school ended up in Tuscaloosa before relocating to Birmingham to capitalize on the population boom.
If UAB manages to go, so does their prestigious medical school, and there's absolutely not way around that. The medical school is UAB's and Birmingham's bread and butter and whether they like it or not, it all belongs to the UA system at the end of the day.
If those idiots are that desperate for a stadium, I'll gladly trade them Bryant-Denny for the medical school. Then let's see how long that school lasts without it. I hope those frick-sticks secede, because I'd give my left nutsack to see the medical school BACK in T-Town on UA's campus someday.
The UAB Business School and other departments are OWNED and GOVERNED by the UA System too. If they do secede they all go together. UAT could open a Medical School at Druid City. It is not about an on-campus stadium, that is just the latest example of the BOTs management. Ask UAH why they want to secede.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 8:30 am to NBamaAlum
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So did Bama refuse to play us?
Dowell was your president.
Yes, but Alabama refused to play, citing the Auburn president's reasoning from three years earlier.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 9:23 am to NBamaAlum
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Chevy truck that I blare audio from the Bear Bryant Show out of when I'm traveling from Sand Mt. to Iuka, MS.
Man, I wish someone had those, or if they do they worked a deal with CSS or someone and showed those things. His show was awesome. In a way it was incredibly poorly done, but in someway it made it better. 
Posted on 7/10/12 at 10:02 am to Swoopin
quote:Yeah, I noticed that, too. Only in the Lone Star State, the folks in Austin woudln't type it with a lower case "the," it was always "The Univeristy." That's why we call them "t.u."
"the University"
Posted on 7/11/12 at 9:15 am to Irons Puppet
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The UAB Business School and other departments are OWNED and GOVERNED by the UA System too. If they do secede they all go together. UAT could open a Medical School at Druid City. It is not about an on-campus stadium, that is just the latest example of the BOTs management. Ask UAH why they want to secede.
Yes, but it was the University of Alabama School of Medicine WAY WAY WAY WAY before "UAB" had anything to do with the medical school. Heck, UAB didn't even exist as as a school much less have any affiliation with any academic program when the University of Alabama School of Medicine was well into its history. The idea that the medical school is exclusively UAB's and the University of Alabama has no right to a medical school that was in fact...founded BY THE UNIVERSTITY OF ALABAMA...is so ridiculous and illogical it's beyond laughable yet this is the ridiculously arrogant attitude UAB and Auburn people when discussing "UAB's" medical school.
Personally, I don't agree with the BOT's approach to UAB athletic decisions but I also didn't agree with UAB's arrogant treatment of UASOM alumni and the shady attempts by them the last 20 or 30 years to try to phase "UAT" completely out of any involvement or affiliation with the medical school it founded many decades ago. If there is any bitterness between UA and UAB then UAB people trying to hijack the University of Alabama School of Medicine away for "UAT" is just as much to blame as anything
This post was edited on 7/11/12 at 9:20 am
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