re: F. KIng Alexander Speaks on Miles Decision

I fail to understand why, if there are such huge budget cuts, LSU is spending more. It obviously isn't an issue.

Less money from the state, tuition is raised to make up more than enough of that reduction from the state, enrollment actually INCREASES with the tuition increases. That is just from 2011 to 2014

So in short he's saying they used the Rant to come to a decision

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I fail to understand why, if there are such huge budget cuts, LSU is spending more. It obviously isn't an issue.

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Well, one would assume that most of the budget is going to salaries for employees.

That's what you would have to cut.

And they could do so, but it wouldn't be without consequence as faculty can leave and go to other schools that pay more or will give them a raise.

LSU isn't competing in a vacuum. On the football field or otherwise, we have to compete with other schools.

Cut shite enough and LSU will be back to where it was in the 80s as a school.

Here's an article on LSU salaries. It's from a couple of years ago but it shows that you have 12,192 employees making a total of $710 million.

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Putting athletics aside, I don't want this politicking a-hole in charge of any facet of my alma mater. frick him.

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Yeah, well, I'd actually like a chancellor who can get the state to properly fund the university.

That's his number one job.

His number one job isn't to run off a coach who lost 3 games this year so we can go hire who knows to replace him at a cost of tens of millions more.

Now, the AD could have said "Here's the political reality. Me and TAF have Jimbo locked down tight. It's going to happen. So get on board or my friends in TAF will take you down with Miles."

Clearly that didn't happen. Probably because Jimbo was far from locked down. And TAF superpowers may be greatly exaggerated.

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And LSU > Miles....dont ever forget this you silly putz.

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" Les > Les haters" was LSU talking. Nice tshirt.

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You claimed they cut the shite out of the school but spending went up every year.

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They have closed/consolidated 60 programs, per LSU.

I'm not an expert in LSU's budget but I would imagine the small increases in the total budget year over year are largely due to salaries for existing faculty. They have done hiring freezes but I don't know if they've done salary freezes. And if they did, there would be consequences to that in terms of retention and quality of faculty who decide to stay (as played out in the past).

At any rate, it appears the pendulum is swinging back now. John Bel will restore some funding next year.

But we'll be right back here again. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

have any of the boosters who donate a ton of money monthly to the university openly said they are not donating a single penny until King is gone?

I also would imagine that some of the big athletic boosters also donate to the university. I'm wondering how this news is sitting with them and if they will stop donating to the academic side.

In the business world you have the "war room" where you huddle and lay out your plan to execute. Everyone involved understands the objective, tactics, negotiable points, communications piece of it, etc.

Clearly, this group of academic stooges went into this with no such planning. They had no communications strategy to follow through on and F King wasn't committed to the plan as loosely executed. If that is the case, they should have never started this fiasco and embarrass the university, our coach and themselves.

If you were going to fire the man, then you should have fired the man. To let him twist in the wind and then decide to keep him was completely avoidable from the standpoint of negatively impacting the schools reputation.

Just great.