Ramblin Wreck

It is my first year to go there and I don’t get the complaining. It is a nice ball park, easy access, great surrounding neighborhood, plenty of nearby restaurants and hotels, plenty of policemen to direct traffic, it’s a pretty setting, etc. The city of Hoover seems to go way out of the way to make it a good experience.

I bet most of those that complain have never been and wouldn’t go to whatever the other options are either if it were moved.

I was very grossed out for a minute there. LOL

Not public, my comment was highlighting the overall lack of public or private courses in Baton Rouge. Being the capital and having so much industry, one would think there would be a lot of golf playing by politicians, industry managers, and sales people.

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So, they spent most of the service for announcing this stuff?

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It was like 5 minutes dude. I don’t think it qualified as heresy.

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For Georgians it would be like if all of the sudden in 1945... Georgia State University got the Medical School of Georgia dropped in its lap.

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Somewhat related, until the last decade, I believe that Georgia Tech had the only engineering program in Georgia. I didn’t grow up in Georgia and haven’t lived there since I graduated, so can’t speak with complete certainty. The lack of other engineering programs helped make GT the strong program that it is because funding and resources could be concentrated there. I was surprised recently when my company hired an engineering intern from the University of Georgia. I didn’t even realize they had an engineering school. The intern told me her reason for choosing Georgia was she grew up in Atlanta and wanted to be further from home. I’m sure Georgia is better set up for the entire college experience too. I never thought about the college experience when I was at GT, I was more mission focused and trying to get through the brutal aspects of it as quickly as I could, worrying about how I was going to pay for it while having money for food.

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I assume pre-med is more difficult than someone going for criminal justice or elementary education or whatever.

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I would bet it is major specific but pre-med can probably be any science heavy major. I transferred to GT after my freshman year and the GPA requirement varied based on how crowded the discipline school was. At the time, way back in the day, you could only transfer into the electrical engineering school if you had a 3.7. The mechanical engineering school required a minimum of a 3.2 GPA. That is how I suddenly decided my life long dream was to become a mechanical engineer. LOL. It might be just the opposite these days.

I go to a church in the area of the south corridor of Hwy 280 in Birmingham so we have mostly kids that live in Hoover, Oak Mountain, Vestavia Hills areas. They announced all the high school seniors today and where they will be attending college. I didn’t do an exact count but would estimate it was about 30. Out of that number, roughly 10 are going to Auburn, 10 to Mississippi State, 2 to Alabama, 1 to Tennessee and the other 7 to smaller colleges in state. That is pretty surprising. Only 2 to Alabama and none to UAB (obviously not SEC but a good local university). Is Mississippi State recruiting heavily in Alabama or do a lot of MSU grads end up in Birmingham and their kids choose it because of family ties?

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Why would you do that? Not being facetious at all, I'm picturing if I lived in ACC country I can't imagine going to their tourney that my team had no involvement in. As an aside, wanna sell me your first round tix for Saturday?

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I enjoy going to any type of sporting event and this is super easy for me since I now live here. I wish the tournament had been this week because the weather has been spectacular, lows in the 50’s and highs in the low 70’s. It will be a little warmer next week and some rain at times. I’ll hang on to my Georgia ticket for now since you guys have one of the top teams in the tournament. Besides the Georgia fans I sat with at the GT - Georgia game were pretty fun after I got over the barking.

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The poor lady was somewhat flabbergasted when I explained that I sold my last share of that shite stock as soon as I retired.

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That shite stock, as you refer to it, has gone up 44% in value in the last year. What is your criteria for a good stock performance? LOL

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I am confused?

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I own stock and don’t vote but my shares are set up to automatically place votes for whatever the board recommends. I assume that the board has the company’s best interest in mind. These people want the ability to automatically have votes just the opposite no matter what the resolution is. Kind of like people being against whatever a particular political party brings to a vote even if it solves every problem in the world.