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Posted on 12/4/15 at 7:36 am to OU812
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y OU812
Why is OK for the state taxpayers to be forced to pay the richest man in Louisiana, Tom Benson, $400 million just to keep his team in NOLA?
You sure bring this up a lot. Pretty much all the time and never back it up
What actual analysis have you done on the economic impact of the saints and dome on the state?
Super Bowls, final 4s, championships, etc
Not to mention that most of the $400 million is indirect, which the state also makes money off of (like concessions). Benson Tower was wasting away and rotting before this deal too. The growth of that area has been pretty amazing since 2005
This post was edited on 12/4/15 at 7:49 am
Posted on 12/4/15 at 7:42 am to TigerBait1127
Has golfer been up all night defending the politics?
Posted on 12/4/15 at 7:43 am to LSUGoose
No sense politico speak. Uber schmuck.
Posted on 12/4/15 at 7:49 am to JPLSU1981
quote:yesterday, would have been a week to late..
I want F King gone. Today.
Posted on 12/4/15 at 8:07 am to JPLSU1981
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The President of a major university just brought academic finance politics into a football decision.
The man deserves every bit of criticism launched his way. He made his bed, now he gets to sleep in it.
Fu King Alexander needs to go frick up somebody else's University.
Posted on 12/4/15 at 9:04 am to RUKidding
Continue contacting the Board of Supervisors and let them know you won't give to the academic or athletics side until major changes are made. They meet next Friday and it's the last meeting for many of the members.
Posted on 12/4/15 at 9:50 am to JPLSU1981
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The President of a major university just brought academic finance politics into a football decision. The man deserves every bit of criticism launched his way. He made his bed, now he gets to sleep in it.
How have so many of you people never heard of reputation risk?
Posted on 12/4/15 at 10:54 am to Elly23
quote:Oh but hell no they aren't the same.
Good lord please tell me you don't equate these as being the same and have anything to do with each other?
One is public money spent on a polarizing, pride instilling , self sufficient entity, enjoyed by a majority of LA residents and the other a public/political interest funded annoying display of LA politics, a national embarrassment enjoyed by none (or so I thought).
Posted on 12/4/15 at 11:18 am to TJG210
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Continue contacting the Board of Supervisors and let them know you won't give to the academic or athletics side until major changes are made. They meet next Friday and it's the last meeting for many of the members.
The Board of Supervisors was supposedly in Alexander's camp way more than the fire Miles camp.
Posted on 12/4/15 at 11:33 am to LSUGoose
Somebody needs to start a petition to get this arseclown removed from LSU. Anybody that would publicly admit to that or even hint at bankruptcy or suspending football season, while you spend $85million on a f**king lazy river is not fit to lead a university. How hard would it have been to say no comment?
Posted on 12/4/15 at 11:36 am to RB10
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“We don’t need to go into the next legislative session with a black eye that we’re throwing tens of millions of dollars around on issues that aren’t associated with academic progress.”
“The public at large really doesn’t differentiate where the money comes from,” he says. “No matter how you explain it, it’s still a $15 million to $25 million decision that needs to be factored into the overall equation.”
There's so much fail in this statement. Private donors were going to inject money and an improvement into the schools main source of income and they turned it down so they could play the poor LSU card at the next legistative session. This is why poors stay poor.
And now theyve doubled down on stupid by admitting they really didnt want to keep Miles, they just didnt want to look like they were spending a lot to replace him.
This post was edited on 12/4/15 at 11:40 am
Posted on 12/4/15 at 12:16 pm to LSUGoose
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“We don’t need to go into the next legislative session with a black eye that we’re throwing tens of millions of dollars around on issues that aren’t associated with academic progress.”
And do these funds for academics and football get pulled from the same pool of money?
Posted on 12/4/15 at 12:17 pm to TigerBait1127
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LSU isn't going to see this $25 million, it was being raised privately for a specific reason
$25 M being raised... dream on.
Posted on 12/4/15 at 12:18 pm to LSUGoose
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You have to weigh everything. A lot of people out there said we had to do something. Half the people said we don’t have to do anything and emotions were all over the place.
So where did this "half and half" estimation come from? Did he take a poll or something? Does he not know TigerDroppings exist?
Posted on 12/4/15 at 12:45 pm to tiggerthetooth
The BOS is appointed by the governor.
It is considered a coveted appointment.
If you look at the folks who populate the Board, you will quickly see (if you know La. politics) that the appointees are overwhelmingly political appointments, who have no business on a board having such an importance influence on the future of higher education in Louisiana.
One hopes the new governor selects folks based on a criterion other than pleasing those who made the biggest contributions to his campaign.
It is considered a coveted appointment.
If you look at the folks who populate the Board, you will quickly see (if you know La. politics) that the appointees are overwhelmingly political appointments, who have no business on a board having such an importance influence on the future of higher education in Louisiana.
One hopes the new governor selects folks based on a criterion other than pleasing those who made the biggest contributions to his campaign.
Posted on 12/4/15 at 12:49 pm to WeeWee
tell me about this lazy river
Posted on 12/4/15 at 1:00 pm to heavylurk
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tell me about this lazy river
Have you been by the area lately. LSU Rec is undergoing a massive overhaul since opening in 91 or so.
It's going to have a fricking LSU shaped lazy river.
New Rec Center
Posted on 12/4/15 at 1:01 pm to mikelbr
Mikel why cant these poons just go out there, get fricking waxed, and enjoy some football without bitching like little babies?
Posted on 12/4/15 at 1:06 pm to bigberg2000
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Mikel why cant these poons just go out there, get fricking waxed, and enjoy some football without bitching like little babies?
Idk. I really enjoy LSU football games and made erry home game this year(SC don't count!). Fish heads for the lot of em. Geaux Miles!
And how much will it cost Alumni to join the new rec? I'm interested in that pool area just to be 'that old dude' with a magazine over his lap near the pool.
This post was edited on 12/4/15 at 1:07 pm
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