Southland was on the brink of being demolished

Due to an absentee landlord, the Southland Conference had become a small town’s derelict property -- a once proud family home that had turned into a neighborhood eyesore where kids throw rocks through windows, and homeless and opossums alike utilize it as shelter on stormy nights. The kind of blight that city councilmen pray that someone burns to the ground. In less than a year, the Southland has…