| FTBL Prosecutor asks Alabama to strip ‘Fail Room’ moniker from locker room

Prosecutor asks Alabama to strip ‘Fail Room’ moniker from locker room

James Fail was a major Alabama donor. He was also connected to insurance fraud schemes.

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A former prosecutor is asking officials to change the name of Alabama’s visitors locker room, called “The Fail Room,” due to its ties to a financial executive with a troubled track record.

University of Alabama officials renamed the room in 2008 after receiving a “generous gift” from James Fail, a 1949 UA graduate who owned several banks and insurance companies across the country. Fail died in 2010 at the age of 83.

“I write to address past wrongs related to Fail, protect the university’s reputation, and avoid harming past, present and future Alabama students whose families have been adversely impacted by Fail’s insurance activities,” Attorney Phillip Stano, who prosecuted Fail in a 1984 case, wrote in a letter to the UA System Board of Trustees on Sept. 6.

 

[rick4bama]

Why didn't this come up in 2008? Is Stano running for another office? Why didn't he say something back in 2008? I mean he the one that was prosecuted him in the case?

 

[alabama mike]

I would think he would have more important matters to worry about than the name of a room.

 

[bamaledge]

I wouldn’t change it if that’s what his donation money bought. People are too sensitive these days.

 

[PurlJam]

My response.

 

[PurlJam]

I would think he would have more important matters to worry about than the name of a room.

Probably why he's a "former" prosecutor.

 

[TerryP]

Probably why he's a "former" prosecutor.

I was thinking it was going to be Tim, or Brandon, that said this...

 

[TerryP]

I was thinking it was going to be Tim, or Brandon, that said this...

The fact I thought about that might be indicative of a bigger problem.

 

[BamaFan334]

My response.

Got suspended a year from rec sports two years ago for this exact same response to the Director. It hits nerves, ha ha.

 

[SnakeDoc]

I would think he would have more important matters to worry about than the name of a room.

Just like Congress has more important stuff to do than deal with college football, NIL, and Jim Harbaugh's creativity.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I think UA should take a page out of another UA alum's, and former prosecutor's, book and send him a letter simply stating...

Dear "Attorney" Stanno:

My response to your letter of September 6, 2023, is - kiss our ass.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Probably why he's a "former" prosecutor.

And it's not lost on me that this dude is about to 'FAIL' again at this lawsuit. Dude can't get out of his own way.