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re: Just Back From Tuscaloosa--Impressions:
Posted on 11/13/13 at 1:10 am to HaloWarriors
Posted on 11/13/13 at 1:10 am to HaloWarriors
I've been to Tuscaloosa a 4-5 times to visit friends, games, and for a college tour and as always, I had a good time but am still glad I chose LSU
1) Their campus is very nice but the red brick/white column thing has been way overdone. Every building looks exactly the same. You can't help but notice the millions apon millions of dollars they've invested to revamp their campus by simply adding red bricks/white columns to the outdated buildings. Landscaping also looks good. If anyone wants to believe LSU has committed the same to update our campus - you are a fool (lack of funding). I walk through our campus every day and many buildings south of the quad and north of Patrick Taylor & BEC need to be torn down/overhauled (e.g. Forestry Building, Electrical Engineering Building, Food Science Building, Human Ecology Building, Dairy Science Building, Doran Hall, Lockett, Middleton, etc). No campus in the SEC can beat our quad/inner campus but we need to expand the beauty farther. Budget cuts have slowed down a lot of LSU construction but new buildings are continuing to open (e.g. Choppin Chemistry Annex, BEC, Animal & Food Science Labatories, Patrick F Taylor Expansion)
2) Alabama Guhs be fine but no finer than LSU guhs
3) Denny Bryant looks damn good. Atmosphere is eh and will prefer our stadium once all our renovations are complete.
4) LSU sorority row > Alabama sorority row
5) LSU fraternity row < Alabama fraternity row (absolutely insane)
6) The strip is awesome, I've seen better but it's nice. Once LSU finishes Nicolson Gateway we will have a similar area. They are also moving the LSU Foundation and other offices to the new development which will open up room for new sorority house by the lakes.
7) Alabama football successes have helped in their recruitment of students across the US. Students want to go to a school that wins championships.
8) Alabama like many colleges play into the US Rankings. I believe they are flawed. Here are a few articles agreeing: Business Insider The Atlantic
I prefer Forbes and their method of college rankings. They rank LSU 25-30 spots above Alabama. At the end of the day, each school is the state flagship university and the quality of education is very similar.
9) The LSU Foundation is increasing their fundraising efforts. LINK
10) LSU isn't trying to increase undergraduate enrollment size but is more focused on making the undergraduate body more diversified and increasing the amount of recruiters across the county. Alabama has 10-15 more recruiters than LSU that are located across the United States. Budget cuts once again plays a huge part in this. LSU is also more worried about increasing the enrollment of graduate students too (research).
11) Going forward I believe LSU's forefront is brighter.
1) Their campus is very nice but the red brick/white column thing has been way overdone. Every building looks exactly the same. You can't help but notice the millions apon millions of dollars they've invested to revamp their campus by simply adding red bricks/white columns to the outdated buildings. Landscaping also looks good. If anyone wants to believe LSU has committed the same to update our campus - you are a fool (lack of funding). I walk through our campus every day and many buildings south of the quad and north of Patrick Taylor & BEC need to be torn down/overhauled (e.g. Forestry Building, Electrical Engineering Building, Food Science Building, Human Ecology Building, Dairy Science Building, Doran Hall, Lockett, Middleton, etc). No campus in the SEC can beat our quad/inner campus but we need to expand the beauty farther. Budget cuts have slowed down a lot of LSU construction but new buildings are continuing to open (e.g. Choppin Chemistry Annex, BEC, Animal & Food Science Labatories, Patrick F Taylor Expansion)
2) Alabama Guhs be fine but no finer than LSU guhs
3) Denny Bryant looks damn good. Atmosphere is eh and will prefer our stadium once all our renovations are complete.
4) LSU sorority row > Alabama sorority row
5) LSU fraternity row < Alabama fraternity row (absolutely insane)
6) The strip is awesome, I've seen better but it's nice. Once LSU finishes Nicolson Gateway we will have a similar area. They are also moving the LSU Foundation and other offices to the new development which will open up room for new sorority house by the lakes.
7) Alabama football successes have helped in their recruitment of students across the US. Students want to go to a school that wins championships.
8) Alabama like many colleges play into the US Rankings. I believe they are flawed. Here are a few articles agreeing: Business Insider The Atlantic
I prefer Forbes and their method of college rankings. They rank LSU 25-30 spots above Alabama. At the end of the day, each school is the state flagship university and the quality of education is very similar.
9) The LSU Foundation is increasing their fundraising efforts. LINK
10) LSU isn't trying to increase undergraduate enrollment size but is more focused on making the undergraduate body more diversified and increasing the amount of recruiters across the county. Alabama has 10-15 more recruiters than LSU that are located across the United States. Budget cuts once again plays a huge part in this. LSU is also more worried about increasing the enrollment of graduate students too (research).
11) Going forward I believe LSU's forefront is brighter.
This post was edited on 11/13/13 at 8:03 am
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Posted on 11/13/13 at 6:26 am to GeorgeReymond
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11) Going forward I believe LSU's forefront is brighter.
I believe this is the case for one simple reason: How can it get any worse? The only way to go is up.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:00 am to GeorgeReymond
Well said. Literally 9/10 of my Alabama friends I know live out of state; In fact a surprising amount from California. Almost all of them toured LSU and were impressed, but said Alabama was very personable on their visit and it was more one-on-one than just being another number in the group...budget cuts 
I'm a big fan of the voucher system, so that ideology Jindal has I actually do support. I feel like he's in a difficult position though with LSU, due to our excess of four-year universities. Ideally I'd imagine he'd want politicians to "fall on the political grenade" like previously stated, but he can'y force them to.
As for the Greek system-kudos to Alabama for realizing that having a strong greek system greatly encourages OOS kids to go to Bama. That was another reason my friends went to Bama from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and so on. they wanted to go to the "Southern Greek Sorority/Fraternity thing" so that weighed more heavily than most realize. I am not Greek at LSU, but I certainly would have had I gone to Ole Miss, Bama, UGA, or even Arkansas. I had been to just about every major SEC campus for football and concluded that LSU just doesn't take Greek life seriously. In hindsight I kind of wish I would have, but most of my friends are greek anyways.
I'm pretty positive LSU is about to renovate its last few dorms that have been neglected. If we can just get a new library, some new classrooms, alleviate the parking issues, and somehow managed to get rid of the ghetto down highland, I think our perception would improve drastically.
I'm a big fan of the voucher system, so that ideology Jindal has I actually do support. I feel like he's in a difficult position though with LSU, due to our excess of four-year universities. Ideally I'd imagine he'd want politicians to "fall on the political grenade" like previously stated, but he can'y force them to.
As for the Greek system-kudos to Alabama for realizing that having a strong greek system greatly encourages OOS kids to go to Bama. That was another reason my friends went to Bama from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and so on. they wanted to go to the "Southern Greek Sorority/Fraternity thing" so that weighed more heavily than most realize. I am not Greek at LSU, but I certainly would have had I gone to Ole Miss, Bama, UGA, or even Arkansas. I had been to just about every major SEC campus for football and concluded that LSU just doesn't take Greek life seriously. In hindsight I kind of wish I would have, but most of my friends are greek anyways.
I'm pretty positive LSU is about to renovate its last few dorms that have been neglected. If we can just get a new library, some new classrooms, alleviate the parking issues, and somehow managed to get rid of the ghetto down highland, I think our perception would improve drastically.
This post was edited on 11/13/13 at 10:01 am
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