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.
Big Al (mascot)
Big Al is the costumed elephant mascot of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Mascot History.
The origin of the mascot dates back to 1930. On October 8, 1930, a sportswriter for the "Atlanta Journal", Everett Strupper, wrote about the previous weekend's Alabama-Ole Miss football game. He wrote, "That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical [Coach Wallace] Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive,
the journey. I guess that's what you get for hitchhiking Alaska this time of year. I've been calling the office for almost two weeks straight, but no answer. I'm starting to think that they sent me up here on a ruse of some sort. Like maybe if they got me out of the office on my first vacation in 7 years they'd have a chance to actually have some fun or something. I'm pretty damn sure I heard Antoinette say something about St. John, but that could have