My friend went to the University of Alabama, it was actually founded in 1820 if you can believe that!
That's pretty old for a Southern American college but I think compared to Europe some of our colleges seem super young. 
I think you're probably right about that. Fun fact about the University of Alabama, the only publicly supported law school in the entire state exists there, seems like they could use some more.
Hmm that is interesting but I am not sure how many lawyers the college outputs a year versus the needs of that states. SO I can't really say if they need more or not. What else is unique about that college?
That is a valid point you make. One unique thing is that the University offers other academic programs unavailable elsewhere, such as metallurgical engineering, social work, and even romance languages.
Metallurgical engineering sounds pretty interesting to me. What is their mascot? 
Funny enough, their mascot is an elephant named Big Al, what elephants have to do with Alabama I have no idea!
Haha that is pretty weird. No natural elephants here in the United States. Hell at least the boll weevil makes sense.
Apparently the origins of Big Al date back to 1930, when a sportswriter compared the Alabama football team to elephants I guess.