UAB Forum
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Well, in his defense, he probably had to get the rifles off campus after deciding to cancel football...it's a strategy move to save his own hide...bowling, though? It's the only sport us pasty midwesterners can hope to dominate ourselves. Admittedly, I don't have the gigantic beer gut out front for a counterweight, but I'm in training. For this travesty, I say:
I moved from Ames to Auburn last year, and its amazing how similar the sporting situation is in Alabama.
Ag school + all-around decent cats = Iowa State = Auburn
Liberal arts school + D-bag fans = Iowa = Bama
Little brother = UNI = UAB (or Troy)
LOL. Yeah, if any of you have listened/watched to the Paul Finebaum show you're heard some of them. Basically, think of that stereotypical redneck that gets interviewed after the tornado hits the trailer park. I hate to feed that stereotype but those grow up for a reason.
You have no idea how crazy Alabama football is. You may think you do but unless you have been in it, well... you just don't.
You have no idea how crazy Alabama football is. You may think you do but unless you have been in it, well... you just don't.
Sorta, except that UAB is the big urban school, high ranked med school, many research dollars from the NIH. UAB brings in 76% of the money into the UA system, UATuscaloosa and UAHuntsville split the rest.
We started out as an extension center of UA but now cover 92 blocks of downtown Birmingham. UAB is the largest employer in the state other than the federal and state government. We have about a $5b impact on the Birmingham economy.
The attitude we get from Tuscaloosa is "Y'all keep graduating doctors, that's what you're good at. We got the football thing covered."
Birmingham is a surprisingly nice area. The Pittsburgh of the South fits IMO. For being founded in the late '60's, UAB is quite a school. Located in another state, they would be thought of a lot differently.
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It does, but it's also high tech and medical. The steel thing played out here twenty years or better ago. If Birmingham didn't have UAB we'd be Detroit.
It's big enough to have many solid options for entertainment and restaurants and the like, but still has a small southern town attitude. Mostly that's good, sometimes it's regrettable. Shrug.
It's big enough to have many solid options for entertainment and restaurants and the like, but still has a small southern town attitude. Mostly that's good, sometimes it's regrettable. Shrug.
I suppose I should have specified "little brother in sports" for UAB. Definitely not comparable to UNI in terms of ultimate economic impact.
I am guessing you haven't been to Pittsburgh lately. The rise, fall, and revitalization of the two are very similar IMO.
I worked a site in Hoover, its realllllly similar to a West Des Moines IMO. My favorite part about Birmingham, though, is where it sits amongst the mountains - you can't see much of the city at once unless your on top looking down.
Was fun to see George Washington Carver High School while zipping into downtown on I-65 last time I was in Bham.
Only semi-relevant because of the Carver/ISU connection.
Only semi-relevant because of the Carver/ISU connection.
No, I don't get up that way much. I can believe it.
I grew up in Atlanta, and in the mid-sixties if you drove over to Birmingham the sky would start to turn brown when you were about halfway there. Still horrible ozone levels here.
Hey, that's another Ray Watts story. He was Dean of the Med School before getting the President's job. While running the med school, Watts began a program called the Clean Air Initiative, designed to bring down ozone levels and air pollution in the Birmingham area. However, two weeks after he became the UAB president, he shut down his own program with little explanation or warning, which is basically his pattern regarding many things since becoming president.
The kicker is that many of the richest and most powerful members of the Trustees and Trustees Emeritus are big in the coal and coke industry. Paul Bryant Jr. and Gary Neal Drummond had a word with him before he got the job and POOF, no more clean air initiative. Drummond, as in Drummond Coal, as in dead union organizers near their mines in Brazil. It's corrupt as hell.
http://gaspgroup.org/football-uab-needs-academic-integrity-independence/
We don't get much Big 12 hoops down here, and no, most of us are not familiar with you guys. Mostly we get a heavy and perpetual dose of SEC everything. I figure B12 is probably the best conference and you guys were in second. I do that math pretty good.
We have a puncher's chance. What the hell, we were not supposed to sniff winning the conference either. We're damn happy to make the dance... and unwilling to see it end. Somebody has to be this year's Cinderella. Why not us?
Besides, I want to win so I can see Bilas strangle trying to announce that we did. He hates us, and we return it with interest.
