In the discussion over public funding for a proposed University of South Alabama stadium, this week's main development might have seemed anticlimactic. The emotion on display was anything but.
Perhaps for the first time, it fully illustrated just how carefully university, community and city leaders will have to tread in order to keep a potential win-win from turning into an embarrassing lose-lose.
In purely procedural terms, the outcome of Tuesday's discussions before the Mobile City Council was clear enough: The Council put off a vote for at least three weeks. That doesn't guarantee that a vote will happen July 31, but it does mean one won't happen until after District 2 Councilman Levon Manzie holds a July 23 forum for members of the Maysville community.