🏈 Updyke: The gift that keeps on giving...

[bamachine]

Been here for 18 years!!! I teach elementary PE at Indian Valley.

Yeah, worked on their existing phone system and did a little IT work for them. Spent way more time at SHS and the BOE than any of the other schools.

 

[JoshB]

Did they give that foreigner a saliva test? Not sure why the barners are struggling with the concept that Updyke has flat out lost his marbles. My guess is if that german was wearing crimson he would have needed a better lawyer.

If they had so much as THOUGHT there was a chance he was a Bama fan dude would be UNDER the jail.

 

[78ChrisUA]

 

[UAgrad93]

Yeah, worked on their existing phone system and did a little IT work for them. Spent way more time at SHS and the BOE than any of the other schools.

They've been putting band aids on the HS for awhile. The BOE moved off of that old school site on the hill to an empty bank building downtown. We just completed a $5 million upgrade to the football stadium this past fall.

 

[JoshB]

They've been putting band aids on the HS for awhile. The BOE moved off of that old school site on the hill to an empty bank building downtown. We just completed a $5 million upgrade to the football stadium this past fall.

Wait... the high school had to move to an old bank building while they completed a 5 mil football stadium? Am I missing something here? lol

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I've seen many rivals fans point to what he did. I've seen very, very few Bama fans laud his vandalism. Very, very few and I suspect it was tongue in cheek with several.

To doubt the toilet paper and hosing the trees down to clean them hasn't harmed those trees ... simply put, wrong. It's not the only contributing factor, but it's a part of a larger problem. Those tree are already stressed due to where they are--in the city and their geographical location. When you add the rolling and pressure washing ... it's undue stress. They are literally changing the way the tree feeds itself, grows, etc.

I dont know about all that...but may be..may not..spent 35 years as a Forester and would ....based on education and experience...would lean toward not...but..also would not think that it was good for them either... But that species of oak is certainly able to withstand a lot of stress... Just my opinion...

 

[TerryP]

I dont know about all that...but may be..may not..spent 35 years as a Forester and would ....based on education and experience...would lean toward not...but..also would not think that it was good for them either... But that species of oak is certainly able to withstand a lot of stress... Just my opinion...

I'll go with my background in abiotic maladies in Forest Pathology ... but, we'd only digress in this conversation.

Take a second, scroll up, and click on that article linked from the Auburn Alumni magazine ... their own agricultural department prof's talk of the rolling of the trees and how it's harmful.

The Live Oak, while a hardy species, is also a interesting one when it comes to their growth. It's important to remember it is not a deciduous tree. These clean up efforts are literally tearing its feeding system off of the plant in the fall.

 

[UAgrad93]

Wait... the high school had to move to an old bank building while they completed a 5 mil football stadium? Am I missing something here? lol

You totally whiffed!!! The BOE, Board of Education, moved to a vacant bank building. The BOE had been housed in a former school that it owns. The school recently completed the last of 4 renovation phases. The school is land locked and isn't in an ideal spot as it is. The football stadium is located directly across the street from the HS. It was built in 1947 by the Comer family, he was a former governor of the state. It was meant for the use of both schools, Sylacauga High and BB Comer HS. It was in need of a huge facelift and received it this past fall.

 

[bamachine]

Yeah, when I was still working for my former employer, the BOE was still in the old school bldg. Guessing they may have moved the system, though not sure, as I was the only one that knew how to work on that system, unless they sent someone else out to Richardson, TX for a week of training with Samsung.

 

[JoshB]

You totally whiffed!!! The BOE, Board of Education, moved to a vacant bank building. The BOE had been housed in a former school that it owns. The school recently completed the last of 4 renovation phases. The school is land locked and isn't in an ideal spot as it is. The football stadium is located directly across the street from the HS. It was built in 1947 by the Comer family, he was a former governor of the state. It was meant for the use of both schools, Sylacauga High and BB Comer HS. It was in need of a huge facelift and received it this past fall.

Just read it wrong. I was about to say, that seems a bit excessive even for Bama lol

 

[planomateo]

They've been putting band aids on the HS for awhile. The BOE moved off of that old school site on the hill to an empty bank building downtown. We just completed a $5 million upgrade to the football stadium this past fall.

I wish these asshats out here would learn a thing or two about building football stadiums. But nope, they have to try to one up the next one. Allen High School $60M, Frisco gave a shitload of money to Jerry Jones so he'd build the Cowboys headquarters here and they get to use the practice field for games, now McKinney is spending $70M+. I have no doubt our tiny town of 16k will try to one up everyone of them (Prosper, TX) when the time comes, we already have the most expensive high school in Texas at $130M that was built about 7 years ago. Damn nice, but stupid expensive. And the way they assess property values just increases the taxes by a maximum of 10% every year, good thing we don't have a state income tax.

Not gonna lie, I'm ready for a change of pace.

 

[UAgrad93]

@planomateo and @Birdman37 , I have been living and teaching here in Sylacauga now for the past 18 years. I have seen this small, city school system make some of the most dumb, asinine decisions that would make your head spin. They spent $60k on 2 different occasions for stadium restroom and concessions renovations. Lipstick on a pig!! Pursell Technologies was willing to donate land so the system could build a new school and athletic facilities. All they asked in return was to use the grounds as a showcase for their fertilizers and mowers. What did our BOE do? Rejected it!!! Then they crammed a new middle school, not a new HS, into a 20 acre tract of land with room enough to only add a football field. They had 2 other tracts at a cheaper cost besides the Pursell property!!!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I'll go with my background in abiotic maladies in Forest Pathology ... but, we'd only digress in this conversation.

Take a second, scroll up, and click on that article linked from the Auburn Alumni magazine ... their own agricultural department prof's talk of the rolling of the trees and how it's harmful.

The Live Oak, while a hardy species, is also a interesting one when it comes to their growth. It's important to remember it is not a deciduous tree. These clean up efforts are literally tearing its feeding system off of the plant in the fall.

Good discussion over a cold beer or 2....

 

[TUSKtimes]

I'll go with my background in abiotic maladies in Forest Pathology ... but, we'd only digress in this conversation.

Take a second, scroll up, and click on that article linked from the Auburn Alumni magazine ... their own agricultural department prof's talk of the rolling of the trees and how it's harmful.

The Live Oak, while a hardy species, is also a interesting one when it comes to their growth. It's important to remember it is not a deciduous tree. These clean up efforts are literally tearing its feeding system off of the plant in the fall.

I'm sensing some real potential in forest management.

 

[JoshB]

@planomateo and @Birdman37 , I have been living and teaching here in Sylacauga now for the past 18 years. I have seen this small, city school system make some of the most dumb, asinine decisions that would make your head spin. They spent $60k on 2 different occasions for stadium restroom and concessions renovations. Lipstick on a pig!! Pursell Technologies was willing to donate land so the system could build a new school and athletic facilities. All they asked in return was to use the grounds as a showcase for their fertilizers and mowers. What did our BOE do? Rejected it!!! Then they crammed a new middle school, not a new HS, into a 20 acre tract of land with room enough to only add a football field. They had 2 other tracts at a cheaper cost besides the Pursell property!!!

Im with ya man, I just saw the high school here approve a 3 million dollar indoor athletic facility for the football team while they still dont have an on-site baseball/softball field, track, pool or soccer field. The football teams get brand new alternative uniforms and helmets every year while the basketball and baseball teams have to do fundraisers to get any type of equipment or uniform upgrades. I love football as much as the rest but its sad to see the other athletic teams have to beg for crumbs.

Now, granted the school itself has the best of absolutely everything (whether it be books, teachers, technology, whatever they have it)... whats really sad is you look down the road and within a 25-mile span there's four schools that are all title-1 schools just scraping by wishing they had a 10th of that budget.

 

[bama alum]

@planomateo and @Birdman37 , I have been living and teaching here in Sylacauga now for the past 18 years. I have seen this small, city school system make some of the most dumb, asinine decisions that would make your head spin. They spent $60k on 2 different occasions for stadium restroom and concessions renovations. Lipstick on a pig!! Pursell Technologies was willing to donate land so the system could build a new school and athletic facilities. All they asked in return was to use the grounds as a showcase for their fertilizers and mowers. What did our BOE do? Rejected it!!! Then they crammed a new middle school, not a new HS, into a 20 acre tract of land with room enough to only add a football field. They had 2 other tracts at a cheaper cost besides the Pursell property!!!

I've coached a number of soccer games in your stadium. Good Lord! You guys need a new field! That is the biggest crown I have ever seen! That exposed drain on the sideline isn't a real danger to football players, but it is to soccer players.

Granted it's been about nine - ten years since I've been in your stadium, but on the plus side, most of your parents there are pretty good and calm people, not banshee idiots like a certain school east of Auburn.

 

[UAgrad93]

@bama alum , you should come by for a visit now. The stadium received the new astroplay field turf and soccer has it's own "stadium" behind the visitors sideline.

@Birdman37 , I've been in education for 24 years and nothing has changed! Football is the cash cow for all other sports. One thing that our system has done, and I commend them for it too. The revenue sports are placed on a cycle as to when new uniforms may be purchased. They rotate from uniforms, equipment, practice gear, etc. As for golf and tennis, they purchase their own "uniforms" each season. The rotation cuts out on A LOT of that wasteful spending in the revenue sports, simply because they have the funds in their accounts.

 

[bama alum]

Soccer-specific is good! No more corner kicks being taken three feet below the goal!

 

[XXL TideFan]

I was driving and listening to finebaum when updyke called in. I thought it was a joke. I said that if some ahole really did that, he would be publicly hanged.

 

[JoshB]

@bama alum , you should come by for a visit now. The stadium received the new astroplay field turf and soccer has it's own "stadium" behind the visitors sideline.

@Birdman37 , I've been in education for 24 years and nothing has changed! Football is the cash cow for all other sports. One thing that our system has done, and I commend them for it too. The revenue sports are placed on a cycle as to when new uniforms may be purchased. They rotate from uniforms, equipment, practice gear, etc. As for golf and tennis, they purchase their own "uniforms" each season. The rotation cuts out on A LOT of that wasteful spending in the revenue sports, simply because they have the funds in their accounts.

Thats probably what all schools with that type of money should do, seems like most of these schools with huge budgets have more cents than sense.