re: Could The University of Alabama be the next Baylor. UPDATE:Another victim has come forward

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trailer park

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smack coming from that cesspool?

Keep shining the light of truth on these filthy cockroaches in Tuscaloosa baws.

Ya as said about 34 - 40 pages ago, this is much more easily explained as a rich person / small town / good ole boy protection story unless Watkins is keeping some evidence to himself for some reason.

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Ya as said about 34 - 40 pages ago, this is much more easily explained as a rich person / small town / good ole boy protection story unless Watkins is keeping some evidence to himself for some reason.

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Clicked into Watkins post and was what I expected: same old story with a bunch of speculation, supposition, and trolling. He just rehashes the same old stuff with nothing new.

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trashy in the least, but most of the posts I've seen from the gumps in this thread has been poor quality and offensive.

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Amen

Yeah, that post today is ridiculous and Watkins has now devolved into attention whoring at this girl's expense, which is pretty repugnant.

Notice that he labeled the post "commentary," which he appears to think gives him the right to say whatever he likes under the guise of freedom of speech/press.

Unless he's in possession of emails between the interested parties that support his statements, he appears to be treading on thin ice, legally. I don't think the press shield laws apply to him, since he's not an official member of the "press" and Abernathy's wife and the people from the WGRC at UA aren't "public figures" for the purposes of liability.

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There is a strong possibility he isn't even aware of this situation at this point.

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come on, Saban reads TD

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Who is Watkins? How does he fit in with UA?

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He was one of the first black UA law school students (he was the 2nd student, after John England, Sr.). He won a pardon for the last living defendant in the Scottsboro Boys disaster; was the attorney in a number of civil rights lawsuits; defended Richard Schrushy in his first trial; and now owns an oil exploration company in Namibia and a bank in Birmingham. He was also the antagonist behind the Eric Ramsey case that brought down Pat Dye at Auburn.

Recently, he rose to fame with his FB posts covering the Robert Bentley scandal. He was the first to post most of the information about the crooked deals and who did what, and, was nearly always spot on correct. At first, it appeared that he was doing something similar in this case, but this last post makes it seem to me that he got addicted to the attention and adulation during the Bentley affair and is looking to rekindle his ego stroke with this opportunity.

Like I and several other Bama posters have noted - there's plenty of wrong to go around and there are people involved who, at this point, apparently need to be held to account. But, Watkins is now insinuating that the local leaders in Tuscaloosa do UA's bidding. I know several of the local and UA leaders and can tell you that if that's true, it would suggest a completely different working relationship than I have ever seen. UA leaders and Tuscaloosa leaders don't cooperate like that. They are often at odds with each other, particularly on issues such as this, e.g. the dope roundups on campus several years ago or their continued conflicts over who should be paying for police services during football games, etc... The Bunns donate money to UA, but not in the amounts that would give them this kind of magical clout. After all, they were one of fifty or more donors in their category that was listed earlier in this thread. Their pull with local officials, however, may be more considerable.

Can I play???????

The PD knew what it was doing, they are pros ay corruption. I agree the the hospital is just incompetent.

The statement by the Tuscaloosa cop that a lot of these kids are doing this just because their grades are bad tells me they talk to Alabama's Administration a lot, I mean how else would he know that?