re: Is Baton Rouge hurting LSU coaching search?

Do you honestly believe folks who make the kind of money college coaches are paid, worry about crime in the areas they live?

Well, I guess no one will be moving to Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans or New York “for the money.”

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You can say that for most any big city.

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No. No you can't.

I'm not really addressing the topic at hand I was just making an observation about shity cities.

Mediocre, run-of-the-mill medium to large cities such as Omaha, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Etc usually don't have some phenomenal place just outside because there's nothing to drive the good people out of those cities. Those cities are just good enough for people to remain that are from there.

Baton Rouge just got bad relatively recently, mostly after Katrina, so now you're starting to see that juxtaposition develop with the Saint George movement.

When New Orleans really started to get bad in the 70s and 80s is when you really saw the movement to Saint Tammany Parish pick up. St Tammany was extremely small in population at the time. New Orleans at the time was driving out many of the decent, intelligent and wealthy people. So st. Tammany ended up with a higher concentration of those groups than your typical run-of-the-mill Louisiana city/parish like Shreveport or Lafayette. I've noticed that this phenomenon repeats itself in most cities that turn sour. They always develop an area just outside that's well above average in desirable attributes. And yes, that can also manifest itself as a neighborhood within the city but it typically develops in a neighboring jurisdiction such as a nearby municipality, unincorporated area or a parish in whole.

I have lived in Baton Rouge for years. Great people, great churches, great restaurants, beautiful neighborhoods, great shopping, many great schools (magnet and private). 70805 is a crime mess but that happens when you have congregations of poor people. And violent crime is up nationally not just in BR and Knoxville.

The city of BR is not keeping anyone who makes good money from moving here.

This is one of the dumbest fricking threads I’ve ever seen

Parts of the University area and mid-city/Garden district, South and Southeastern Baton Rouge are fine for raising a family.

Where is USC located? Where is Tulane located? Where is Florida State located? tOSU? UH? UW? Memphis? Louisville?
GaTech?, South Car? Notre Dame?

I don't know if you've noticed but the crime has been increasing in those areas. Nowhere is a "good" spot to raise a family in BR. You're always a corner from being stabbed or robbed by the neighboring slums.

If you haven't noticed whatever "good" areas you have in BR crime eventually overtakes those areas and at the very least is shrinking them.

BR and NOLA have character

Addis looooooooool

A young coach can afford a BR private school and there are some really good ones.