⚾ 🥎 Coach Rob Vaughn covering the first 500 student tickets for the Super Regional vs St. Johns
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There's more around that you'd think. A good many were at the regional games... this should draw more of them if the weather cooperates.
A lot take summer courses than what they used to back in your day and in mine!
There's a thing I left UA without knowing why. IF you can take a class over the summer in 5 weeks versus three months in the fall or spring...between Summer I and II, Interim, and the full session options, you can knock out a semester quickly.
@OldPlayer IF we include external learning, online, etc., UA carries about 12K in summer sessions. There's around 6K, on campus, based on the last reports from UA. It fits with what was going on when I was at UA: around a third of the full time students took advantage of summer classes.
7276Bamabeancounter
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Times after certainly changed since I graduated in 1976. Of course, total enrollment was only about 13000-14000 back then but I had a college roommate that told me he stayed in town after our freshman year and took summer classes and he said the campus was almost dead in the summer. Being from Birmingham like we were, that could make for a lonely summer. My brother who is 11 years older than me took summer classes all four years so he could graduate in three because he was afraid if he didn't he might get drafted and not be able to finish as that was when the Viet Nam war was in full swing.
That part hasn't really changed, when you compare it to the normal fall and semester school crowds.
My best friend and college roommate, was an electrical engineering major and he took classes every summer, including that first summer after HS graduation. I waited and didn’t start taking summer classes until the following summer. It was a dead area from my experience.
Justneedme81
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Jobs aren’t as hard to find as many are led to believe. I’m sure philosophy and poli science majors have a difficult time, but jobs are out there. Now one may have to get out of their hometown or their college town, but jobs are out there.
From my personal experiences, when I was doing my practice teaching at Tuscaloosa Central, UA put on a Regional Educators Day and invited school systems throughout Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and Tennessee to come in and “pitch” their system to prospective teachers. Now l was born and raised in North Jefferson County, about 20-25 minutes North of Birmingham, but I did talk with multiple systems from GA and FL. My first interview happened to be with Eufaula Elementary School. I was to teach PE and be QB coach and head baseball coach at the HS under Rush Propst! He wanted me but the principal at the elementary school didn’t. He wanted a teacher only, not a coach too.
A LOT of these kids now do multiple internships with prospective future employers and have jobs in place before they even receive their diploma.
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Bammerboy321
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They need to be doing that plus some food trucks all the time, but.......
Bammerboy321
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See, I think shit like this would help promote fan attendance throughout the year. I don't know why our athletic department is so unimaginative when it comes to fan engagement. Surely Greg Byrne isn't totally oblivious to stuff like this? Even the Trash Pandas do dollar hot dog night.
Guess I'm asking for the moon.
Justneedme81
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I think part if the issue is the current concession contract. But, that's also not to say that they will change course when it's time to re-up. I've said this before though.... every baseball game I go to, which is a lot, I see multiple members from the AD's office there... they see the same issues I do. I'm just at a loss as to why they don't seem to try and do more about it.
Breaking a state contract isn't easy
I was going here. You haven't gone far enough.
In my view you can't just lay this at the feet of the Ath. Dept., @Bammerboy321 Learfield has a contract with UA which includes fan and concessions and those experiences. Levy has a contract, alongside Learfield, with UA. (As an aside, Levy has a contract with Dreamland for the Pulled Nachos. It's one of forty something partnerships they brag about with minority and women owned businesses.)
I'm seeing the problems you guys are discussing and looking at those who could change it and how. UA, would have to contact Levy, who in turn would have to contact their partners, or organize a special like this for the weekend when all of these parties didn't know the event was going to happen less than a week ago. Then they would go to Learfield for the fan experience side. That's a lot of hoops to jump through ... for something we didn't know about until a few days ago.
It's how the whole thing is organized. But, I'm can't point to an idea that would work better than what's in place. You know how big Learfield has become. Levy? Ohio State and the likes of Oklahoma join Bama in using their services. It works for large university settings.
The logistics seem like a nightmare for food trucks. Love the idea!
I keep thinking "they are going to run out of water for fans" Sunday.
One issue that we deal with in Ohio is that elementary schools usually start 45 minutes to an hour later in the mornings so they also get out later and miss some of practice. The only way around scheduling is to move a coach to last period prep but then we had to fight the union because of grievances filed by other teachers with the coach leaving.
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