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The MEAC big wigs should have made a way to pull GSU into the MEAC. It was a chance that needed to be taken to improve marketabilty of MEAC football in the A. Think of the Alumni Associations that would have set it owt when their alma maters are in town to play GSU. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   http://www.tnstate.edu/ "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -B.T. Washington |
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GSU would not want to be in the MEAC, MBC is getting better but that neighborhood still has some elements in it that can still cause trouble. The Dome is a win win situation for GSU
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Papa's right! I dare you to go to the northeast side of the AUC. On my last visit in April, they are beginning to transform everything north and east of Mo Browns stadium block by block heading toward the GA Dome. It would be very easy for a smart minded business man to remove the indigent peoples and gentrify the area to the benefit of GSU football with its 50,000+ students and equally as large alumni base. By the way, the alumni base is 25-30 percent African-American and living in or near metro ATL. What's funny about that is.... that equals approximately 12,500 black alumni in the area that possibly would be hungry for HBCU football. P.S. Someone will bring up that they are members of the CAA. Yes, in all sports , but football but there is an announcement today (4/17) at 2PM YOU CAN WATCH THE ANNOUNCEMENT LIVE BELOW: http://www.georgiastatesports.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ http://www.tnstate.edu/ "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -B.T. Washington |
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I drove by that area on Easter Sunday in 2007. It was the first time I did that in years, and I noticed a lot of changes. Therefore, it would not surprise me that developers would have plans for the area.
Note. The area has basically in in Black folks hands for around 120 years. |
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Papa, you're putting a big story out there. How is this "takeover" supposed to occur? How does GSU "Takeover" MB? That's what you need to explain.
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Actually BOG, I explained the whole lengthy strategy before. In short it goes like this: Mo Brown is privately held and owes $25 Million+ interest. Now Georgia State as a 'Regents' school can absorb all of the risk across the entire umbrella. Last I heard $150 Million was offered to the AME church plus the elimination of the debt a total package of $180 Million (I know where did the extra $5 Million come from-lawyers gotta get their cut). Remember the church was offered $25 Million by the Tom Joyner Coalition (which included quite a few heavy hitters from the Afram community). They turned it down flat because of the deal with the state. Look at the progression- something I told the former head coach Sol and two wealthy Mo.B alums. We stood out on the mezzanine just below the suites. I showed them through my 300 mm lenses how the area was changing (and this was back in 2002). Over the years mysterious fires have burned out some residents. After the fires came the flood waters. Which by the way somehow bypassed the GA Dome floor which sits 1.5 stories below the hydraulic gradient. In laymen's term the GA Dome should have been the world's largest pool. But somehow not a drop. Many of what happened in the area is identical to what went on in Chicago, Baltimore and other urban areas. A press release was issued about two years ago by the former head coach of GSU announcing the signing of 42 NOI letters for football. One day later GSU announced it would form a committe to study bringing football in as a varsity sport. GSU applies for admission to the CAA (decent mid major football). Today's announcement solidifies GSUs commitment to fielding a varsity football team. There's more but you get the idea. Go back and check my previous entries on this matter. I've been consistent throughout. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945 |
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Exactly! Same occurred in the East Lake area, and around Turner/Ted Stadium. Before his incident went down, word was that Donald Schockly Sr. was in line for GSU HC job. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A RATTLER TO THE VERY END!  |
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As for the Pittsburg/Summerhill area (near Turner field), it was being "redeveloped" during the mid '60s. Note. This is where I 75/85 meets with I-20 and where the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was located. Those who remember the old Pittsburg/Summerhill area said that about half of the neighborhood was gone. Black people started settling the area just over 100 years ago. Gentrification or regentrification is not at all new to Atlanta.
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So. In other words, gentrification is the operative word here, huh? Kinda like what's happening in NE DC? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   THIS IS SPARRRRTA!!!!! Do what you GOT TO DO, in order to do what you WANT TO DO.   |
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One thing for sure, that area looks a whole lot different than when I came to the ATL in the 80s. I didn't see those yt faces in that area several yrs ago like I am seeing now. All a byproduct of the olympics. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A RATTLER TO THE VERY END! |
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You have been to the area since I was there. The last time I was in that neighborhood was the late '80s for a Falcon's game. I saw no White faces in that neighborhood. |
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If you go one street over from Northside [away from the AUC], you will see NEW condos, lofts, restaurants, coffee houses, other business. And also on Peters Street. That whole entire area around the Ga Dome, along Northside Drive, on MLKing across from CAU, Busy Bee, has been and is continuing to be revitalized with new residential and retail spaces.
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Football era to begin at Georgia State
ATLANTA - Georgia State President Carl Patton announced today (April 17) that the university will begin football. His announcement received an enthusiastic response from the large crowd of faculty, staff, students and alumni gathered at the Georgia State Student Center. The Panthers, who will play at the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Level (formally known as NCAA Division I-AA), will kick off their inaugural season in 2010 and will play their home games at the Georgia Dome. “I know that many former and current students have dreamed of a day when there would be football Saturdays at Georgia State, and while that might have looked like third-and-long for many years, I think today is a great time for an end-zone celebration,” Patton said. The long process to bring football to the downtown Atlanta campus began when Patton, at his very first meeting with students at a “Panthers Roundtable” dinner in, was asked a question he would hear again many times. “When I became president of Georgia State 16 years ago, one of the first questions I received was, ‘When are we getting football?’ he said. “I have to admit that my answer was, ‘not in my lifetime.’ But, I also have to admit that my lifetime here lasted longer than I thought it would.” Shortly after joining the football-sponsoring Colonial Athletic Association in 2005, Georgia State conducted a feasibility study that showed that alumni, students, faculty and staff were in support of adding a football program. In April of ’07, the school hired former National Football League player and coach Dan Reeves as its football consultant. Reeves helped secure more than $1 million in pledges for a football program. Last October, the Mandatory Student Fee Committee unanimously approved an increase in the student athletic fee, and shortly after that the Fiscal Advisory Committee to the President also endorsed the proposed increase. Thus, with overwhelming campus support, Patton forwarded the request to the Board of Regents for approval, which officially came April 15. Now, Athletic Director Mary McElroy will begin putting together the pieces. “Building a football program from scratch is a tremendous challenge, but it’s also an incredible opportunity because there is no question that Georgia State football has the potential to be very successful at the FCS level,” she said at today’s announcement. McElroy says she hopes to have the school’s first head coach in place by summer. “With the start of our first season about 29 months away, we’re now officially on the clock,” she said. “Our plan is to hire a head football coach and a director of football operations this summer. The head coach will then hire up to four assistant coaches to begin recruiting this fall. Georgia State will sign its first recruiting class in February of 2009.” Women’s lacrosse, which will help Georgia State meet its Title IX, gender-equity eligibility, will likely begin in the fall of 2010, McElroy says. Georgia State would become the eighth member of the Colonial Athletic Association to have football. Delaware, James Madison, Hofstra, Northeastern, Towson and William & Mary are full-time CAA members, and Old Dominion is slated to begin playing football in 2009. Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Richmond and Villanova play football in the conference as associate members. http://www.gsu.edu/27363.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  "Everything this institution has ever done has been based on dreams and against all odds. We do what we do because those dreams are alive, they're living, they're breathing, and we continue to move forward." |
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I was over there on the west side the other day and I was thinkin the same thing. I rode through Pittsburgh and there's some 200K plus houses that have gone up over there. Same goes for Metropolitan...the old stripper stroll. Ride through there now and you'll still see one or two, but they've put up condos, townhouses, luxury suites and they're still building.
Same goes for MLK. I rode down to the Adamsville area and there's new houses & apartments going up EVERYWHERE. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  Bringing the NFL experience to a new level....The Dallas Cowboys  |
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That Cowboy stadium you got in your sig is gonna be boss, ain't it?  It's not even finished, and it already looks wonderful.  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THIS IS SPARRRRTA!!!!! Do what you GOT TO DO, in order to do what you WANT TO DO. |
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Venom, USF is the only show in town. GSU will have to compete with Ga Tech which is 5 min away and UGA which is 45 min away, in addition to everything else that goes on in Atlanta aka Black Hollywood. I don't expect the same success or even close. |
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On MB. I gotta say, I don't know. MB was founded in the basement of Big Bethel and Bethelites aren't hearing anything about a decision to sell MB to the State of Georgia. Now that doesn't mean that such discussion hasn't happened, but you would think that somebody at Big Bethel would have heard about it. The GSU scenario doesn't make sense to me, especially since GT is expanding westward ( currently goes west on North Avenue to Northside Drive), is located within walking distance of MB and has a relationship with MB through the five year dual degree program.
I don't see the bishops of the AME selling MB and I don't see GSU buying the property that close to GT. Remember in the grand scheme of things $25 million is not a lot of debt. The bigger issue was getting the right leadership in place. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If there is no enemy within, the enemy without cannot harm us. |
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But BOG the problem is the AME leadership. Its the Bishops that have been ripping the school off for years. In fact, the local AMEs were supposed to give money in support of the school but what really happened is "the Bishops from each of the churches gave paper donations only no actual cash was ever deposited in the school accounts. On paper it appeared to any prying eyes (congregation members/trustees) like the churches were giving the money but the Bishops were spending that money on themselves. So what kind of leadership is a thief going to put in place? Why do you think all of the leadership that was in place felt so free to embezzle money? Because everybody was doing it over them. Oh and when Tom Joyner went over to Mo.B to see what they had done with the $1 million in cash he gave them...it couldn't be found. Neither could any of the money the alumni group had raised. Not one dime of any money donated to restoring Mo.B. has been used for that effort and none of it can be traced either. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945 |
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PG. I just don't see it. The bishops would need about ten more years for some of these older MB grads to be in a position where they cannot fight. Otherwise, killing MB would split the Church. I don't see it happening.
The bishops proved they couldn't run a university, but nobody was ever indicted for enriching themselves. I think things are under much better control now. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If there is no enemy within, the enemy without cannot harm us. |
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