re: Bob Mann hates on LSU Football, gets told STTDB.......

Did you even bother to read what Mann posted?

The funny thing about this whole thread is that it proves Mann is right.
What he ACTUALLY said (and reiterated in his blog "Something Like the Truth", is that those who complain about the academic side being impoverished while the athletic side prospers, are likely to be treated as treacherous outcasts. He acknowledges that the money comes from different places but that they reflect misplaced priorities.
He's right, of course.
But those who say it out loud will be attacked and considered disloyal to...(wait) ...LSU!

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By Robert Mann

I sometimes wonder why more faculty members at LSU and elsewhere don’t speak up about how their schools have been defunded over the past eight years.

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Defunded?

2003-2004 LSU Expenditures $491,076,737

2013-2014 LSU Expenditures $709,711,681

That's a 44.5% increase at a time when inflation only increased 26.6%.

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Defunded?

2003-2004 LSU Expenditures $491,076,737

2013-2014 LSU Expenditures $709,711,681

That's a 44.5% increase at a time when inflation only increased 26.6%.

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I see your point, but total expenditures doesn't list the source of funding. So "defunded" (from state funding) can still be accurate.

Yeah frick that guy.

I don't know anything about Bob Mann, but is there anything to back this up:

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I’ve got a suggestion: Teach more classes, Bob. Bring in some grant money, Bob. Make the investment in your salary and your “research” and writing pay off for the university and this state. Get a real job, Bob.

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Since when is being a university professor not a real job?

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Or perhaps you can’t because nobody wants to hire you in the real world. That’s why you have to live in one made of ivory towers built on the tax dollars of the good people of this state. No Bob, you’re a bad investment and YOU and your ilk are the problem with LSU.

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Oh that's right, people outside of academia are quick to discredit those working in a "publish or perish" career path because "all they have to do is teach two classes a semester." Nevermind that academia in one of the most highly competitive fields to get into, and with grant money drying up it is becoming even more difficult to be successful.

Again, I know nothing about Bob Mann's productivity, but this seems like a boastful rebuttal based on nothing but rhetoric.

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Why doesn’t he go somewhere else if he is so miserable? Perhaps because nobody will pay him $120,000-plus to teach two classes a semester and write his blog and Facebook posts all day. The LSU athletic department is run as a business, and a profitable one at that. The academic side of the university is not run like a business. It’s a bloated bureaucracy and is filled with these faculty types like Mann who believe they’re entitled to something the hard-working people in this state who pay his salary are not. LSU is a very poorly run investment for this state and that’s why our tax dollars are being wasted, paying for blowhards like this dude. Bob Mann is a whiner and a hypocrite of the highest order and his schtick makes him a first-class boor who is wasting MY tax dollars. People who disagree with him are called bigots or worse. He doesn’t allow any dissenting views on his website and blog, yet he relies on his free speech right to belittle LSU and its administrators

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So true.

Drudge is only links to articles there is no content dummy

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but athletics are the tail wagging the dog

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How?

Let's assume there were no athletics at LSU. Would the University be any better off financially?

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It is a fricking University. Athletics wouldn't exist without the educational institution. It's supposed to be an extracurricular activity, but athletics are the tail wagging the dog. And some on the academic side resent that? I'm shocked, shock

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Athletics gives an opportunity to showcase a university on national TV several times a year, athletics reinvests MILLIONS of dollars to the university despite that recognition it allows, and athletics has ZERO negative impact on the funding of the academic side of the university. So the only people who "resent" that are morons right?

The academia crew only sees one thing and it pisses them off so they complain rather than find constructive solutions. They would rather bring down a successfully run aspect of the university that ONLY helps rather than attempt to elevate the academic side.

So in other words they are jealous and they allow this zero sum idea of funding to cloud their rational thought patterns. In other words they are using political tactics to damage part of the very institution for which they work because they don't like the reality of the situation. It is a political tactic used by both parties... "Who cares who we hurt as long as we get our way!" But the problem is they are only hurting themselves, just like the R or D who decides the other party is the enemy rather than they are both on the same team.

But life goes on