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Birmingham isnt terrible but I would say everything south of that until you hit the beaches is pretty awfulThe amount of brain power per capita in N. Alabama is probably as high or higher than most anywhere else in the country. It’s quite literally the Silicon Valley of the south. Legit rocket scientists live there.
As for the rest of the state, eh.
The amount of brain power per capita in N. Alabama is probably as high or higher than most anywhere else in the country. It’s quite literally the Silicon Valley of the south. Legit rocket scientists live there.
As for the rest of the state, eh.
"N. Alabama" is spreading the credit far too far.
A family member on my wife's side married into the Elkmont, Alabama, community and lived there a while. We visited. Those folks, the whole town's worth, are just as dumb as bricks.
Elkmont is even further north than Huntsville.
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I'm in total agreement with Huntsville being a beacon of light. But its beneficence does not spread beyond the city limits.
In short, Northern Alabama is just as ignorant and backwards are the rest of the state. Huntsville stands entirely alone. [but i do like Mobile, too, fun place full of nice folks]
So the University of Alabama funds public schools in the state? I just dont get your connection with the money that the AD makes at Alabama and public education in the state. Your post is inferring that either the University is responsible for public education funding in the state or that the state funded LED lights at BDS. Surely you dont think #50 in education rankings is the ranking of the University.
You do realize that the population of Elkmont is about 450 people right? Thats like going to Oakdale Tennessee and saying that everywhere in north east tennessee is like that."N. Alabama" is spreading the credit far too far.
A family member on my wife's side married into the Elkmont, Alabama, community and lived there a while. We visited. Those folks, the whole town's worth, are just as dumb as bricks.
Elkmont is even further north than Huntsville.
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I'm in total agreement with Huntsville being a beacon of light. But its beneficence does not spread beyond the city limits.
In short, Northern Alabama is just as ignorant and backwards are the rest of the state. Huntsville stands entirely alone. [but i do like Mobile, too, fun place full of nice folks]
No, I am not a troll scooter. Money spent on those light have dick to do with money spent on education in the state. It's totally different money. I agree, its pretty simple and some of you knuckleheads should get it, but you dont lol. I couldn't possibly care less for the lights, but stop with the narrative that the University spending the money on those lights has anything to do with the deficit in funding for the public schools in the state. They have absolutely nothing to do with each other.Are you a bammer troll? He's simply saying that the money spent on the stupid lights could be spent on education. It's a pretty simple post that you're twisting around in a failed effort to defend it.
University rankings are "foggy", as the individual colleges have wide and varying degrees of academic standards, for example Business Insider ranks Bama's law school as the third best public law school in the country, while US News ranks the Bama law school as #26, business 54 and nursing 104. Bama is a very good Public University, I am not addressing the k-12 that is a different animal.Actually the University is ranked #153 in National rankings(UT is 104) . Higher education in Alabama is ranked #45. I did say in my original post I realize no public tax money is used, it's just the perception that most people in the country have that Alabamastan is a third world backwater state. And by the way I was a freshman in 65 when the vols ran through the T for the first time against Army and thought(and still do) that it is one of the great entrances of any sports team.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-alabama-1051
Rumor is, Saban has his players taking arts and craft classes to bedazzle their jerseys.
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Uncle Sam’s / Sobone club.Me too. A flash in the pan. Give me the football game, the marching bands, the cheerleaders, the tradition. Reminded me of Uncle Sam's, the Alcoa Highway disco that was hot in the 1970s. Now all they need is multi-colored lighting under the field. Last thing we want is to copy something from backward-ass bammer.
Yep, got a chance to meet Chancellor Plowman Monday at a reception. She pointed this out. She is very, very impressive, think we finally have a leader as Chancellor. Now if Randy Boyd will just stay on a Prez we will have the best leadership we've had this century.Another way of looking at rankings is the USN&WR National PUBLIC Universities ranking. UT is 44th (moved up 7 spaces this year) and bammer is 72nd.
If you remember Rich Rodriguez took the Tide job but when he got home his wife told him if you think I am moving to thar cesspool you are crazy. And they lived in West Virginia. Otherwise they would have never gotten SabanI will be glad when Saban leaves that he!! hole of a state. He is quite literally the only marketable commodity worth pissing on that is in that state.