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Reports: Bama’s Price at topless bar, had woman in hotel room
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Posted on 05/01/2003 1:18:18 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama coach Mike Price spent hundreds of dollars at a topless bar in Florida the night before a young woman in his hotel room tried to charge more than $1,000 in food and drinks to his bill, according to newspaper reports today. University President Robert Witt issued a statement this morning indicating that he was nearly done with his review of Price’s behavior and would meet with Price and athletic director Mal Moore later in the day.

Witt will update university Chancellor Mac Portera afterward and has called a meeting Saturday with the Board of Trustees’ Athletics Committee and other members "to present and discuss his decision regarding Price’s status as head football coach," the statement said.

"This review involves careers and lives and it has been imperative that it be thorough," Witt said.

The president said Wednesday evening he and Moore were reviewing Price’s "behavior in certain public settings and the appropriateness of that behavior."

Price, 57, spent time at a nightclub called Arety’s Angels in Pensacola, Fla., on April 16, The Birmingham News quoted a dancer as saying.

Price, who was hired in December from Washington State, was in the Panhandle city for a pro-am golf tournament the next day.

"He bought me several drinks. I think he had three private dances in the back area of the club with me," the News quoted dancer "Destiny" Stahl as saying.

Stahl, 36, said Price spent about $200 on her, but nothing happened beyond dancing. In all, Price spent several hundred dollars in cash at the club "buying and tipping all the girls," she said.

"There was no sex, no touching, no lap dancing," said Stahl. "He was a gentleman."

The Montgomery Advertiser reported that the next morning, a young woman in Price’s hotel room ordered more than $1,000 in food and drinks charged to his bill. The Advertiser said Andrea Wright, assistant manager of the Crown Plaza Grand Royal Hotel in Pensacola, confirmed that a guest of Price ordered one of everything on the menu.

Dale Peterson, manager of the hotel, declined comment when contacted by The Associated Press today.

The Mobile Register, quoting four workers at the Crowne Plaza who would not agree to be identified, said the woman wanted the food placed in boxes so she could leave with it.

Concerns about the unusual order prompted the hotel to contact Price, who was listed as being responsible for incidental room charges, the Register said. The workers said Price returned later in the day and paid the bill after the woman left. She was not allowed to leave with the order.

Price, who is married, declined comment Wednesday on his actions, saying he could not talk about the review until the university released a statement.

Hours later, the university said Price’s actions were under investigation.

"We are involved in a very deliberative process of gathering information, discerning what is factual, and discussing these findings with coach Price," it said.

Witt said he was in contact with the chancellor and university trustees and hoped "to bring closure to this situation as soon as possible."

The statement provided no details on the nature of the investigation.

The Register quoted an unnamed source on the university board as saying a meeting of the athletics committee would be held Saturday to review Price’s situation.

Speaking in an interview early today with the Birmingham Post-Herald, trustee John Russell Thomas said the reports felt like "another blow to the program."

"How bad is it? We can’t judge that yet," said Thomas.

Another trustee, John England, said "what happens with the coach is the president’s call."

Stahl denied leaving the club with Price, and she said she knew of no dancer who did.

"The club rules forbid us from leaving with people," Stahl said. "We don’t do that. He’s a good man who was here to have a good time.

"I don’t see what the big deal is. He’s like everybody else. He just wanted to admire a beautiful woman."

A playing partner of Price, Tuscaloosa businessman Larry Wilkin, said in an interview he saw nothing unusual the morning after Price’s reported night out.

Wilkin said Price was early to the course for an 8 a.m. tee time and received a couple of calls while on the golf course, including one from his wife.


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To: Flurry; blam; Texaggie79

Stallings is available to come back to Bama. A clever AD would have Stallings placed on retainer for just this sort of situation, as players don't tend to leave when a National Championship coach comes in to save a program.

On the other hand, we are talking about Mal Moore and Paul, Jr., so the odds-on bet would be that they choose the path that most insures turmoil, chaos, confusion, and mediocrity.

21 posted on 05/01/2003 1:49:52 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Lost Highway
Another witchhunt by a sex-obsessed athletic director. This doesn't rise to the level of firing. Let's move on.
22 posted on 05/01/2003 1:50:09 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Southack
Heard someone on the next row of this cubicle farm suggest that Mal Moore should be taken to the top of a tall building and flung off.
23 posted on 05/01/2003 1:52:00 PM PDT by Laura Earl
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To: AppyPappy
Another witchhunt by a sex-obsessed athletic director. This doesn't rise to the level of firing. Let's move on.

Sounds to me like Mr. Price is the one obsessed with sex. Would you be ok with one of your employees using the company credit card for such purposes?

24 posted on 05/01/2003 1:52:35 PM PDT by Lost Highway
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To: Lost Highway
As a former bartender I can say definitively.....it's par for the course. Republicans and Democrats use corporate money to engage in strip bars, alcohol and escorts.

Maybe you would be shocked to realize how many do it, but sex and never ending male need to satisfy themselves is a fact of life.

25 posted on 05/01/2003 1:55:43 PM PDT by zarf (Republicans for Sharpton 2004)
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To: AppyPappy
"Another witchhunt by a sex-obsessed athletic director. This doesn't rise to the level of firing. Let's move on."

Nope! He's toast Pappy. He hasn't even signed a contract yet.

26 posted on 05/01/2003 1:59:10 PM PDT by blam
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To: zarf
Republicans and Democrats use corporate money to engage in strip bars, alcohol and escorts.

1. I don't dobut it for a second. Just because others do it and get away with it does not make it right.
2. That's why I do my best not vote for those I know have low moral character.
3. If I came in on a Monday after using company money for such purposes over the weekend I would be fired before lunch. And rightfully so.

27 posted on 05/01/2003 2:00:58 PM PDT by Lost Highway
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To: BurbankKarl
The rumors have been rampant on the Auburn and Alabama sports chat sites for days. The media were really tiptoeing around the story the last few days. Wonder if they will treat this like DuBose or will the hammer come down.
28 posted on 05/01/2003 2:07:55 PM PDT by AUsome Joy
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To: BurbankKarl
I would get rid of this guy fast. We (Sooners) handed that braggard his butt in the Rose Bowl. Alabama deserves better. I enjoyed the Tide fans in Norman last year. It was a great time.
29 posted on 05/01/2003 2:14:42 PM PDT by arkfreepdom
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To: All
Men will the do the stupidest, career ending, life crashing stuff for the "KOOCH"!
30 posted on 05/01/2003 2:20:44 PM PDT by MoodyBlu
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To: BurbankKarl
As a Husky fan who lives on the eastern side of the state of Washington, all I've got to say is "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy".
31 posted on 05/01/2003 2:25:31 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: All
Lighten-up guys (& gals). I bet if we dirty-up the Alabama AD, Price could get the Democratic nomination. In fact, this would be a nice little senior-project for the Georgetown poli-sci department.
32 posted on 05/01/2003 2:56:00 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: BurbankKarl
Hmmmm....wonder if the girl in his hotel room has a blue dress from The Gap with stains on it. :o)

I have to guess that if he was flashing cash, and tipping all the girls in the topless bar,one of them went back to the hotel with him. Mebbe his Viagra didn't work and all he wanted was oral sex (Which isn't REALLY sex I'm told.)

She decided he had lots of cash, and decided that a one night stand was worth EVERYTHING on the menu. Can you believe that?!

I told my wife that if ALL women understood the power they have over men using sex, women would rule the world. (But I guess they do anyway.) :o)

You have to ask (If you have a son who is an athlete), "Is this the kind of person I want to influence my son for the next four years?)
33 posted on 05/01/2003 2:56:54 PM PDT by Rhetorical pi2
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To: Southack
You drove that nail with one swing. I feel so hopeless. Both my kids graduate Auburn May 10. God help me but I'm thinking about converting. Please help and pray for me.
34 posted on 05/01/2003 2:57:16 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Smokers are people too, most are good people. But Will Rogers never met me.)
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To: Lost Highway
That's why most guys finagle the receipts (in cahoots with the bartenders i may add).

The single most frequent question I got when I tended (and I worked a number of politcal conventions) was:

1) Where's the bathroom?
2) Where's the closest strip joint?

Does it make it right? No, but like sands through the hour glass......

35 posted on 05/01/2003 2:57:30 PM PDT by zarf (Republicans for Sharpton 2004)
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To: Flurry
You are thinking of converting FROM Auburn to Alabama?
But Mike Price is the coach at Alabama...not Auburn.
36 posted on 05/01/2003 4:34:53 PM PDT by Rhetorical pi2
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To: Lost Highway
All coaches have sex. It's his personal life. Let him get back to the job he was hired to do.
38 posted on 05/01/2003 4:56:34 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

It's not the sex (we aren't hiring priests, but coaches), it's the lack of intelligence.

Price was dumb enough to put himself into a bad situation, and he wasn't smart enough to avoid getting caught.

That's hardly encouraging for a guy who is supposed to out-think other coaches in high-level games.

I know plumbers who drink six-packs of beer after work everyday who are smart-enough to not get caught going out to strip clubs. Those plumbers put Mike Price to shame.

Price has *below* average intelligence. He's way out of his league. When a stripper calls you a "gentleman", it means that you were merely an easy mark, not a clever coach.

39 posted on 05/01/2003 5:12:01 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Rhetorical pi2
No, I am an Alabama Fan with two children at Auburn. Alabama seems doomed so I am thinking of becoming an Auburn fan, yeeeech!!! I think my fan status was stated in an earlier reply on the post but I could be wrong.
40 posted on 05/02/2003 4:36:13 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Smokers are people too, most are good people. But Will Rogers never met me.)
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