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re: Terry Bowden out at ULM
Posted on 11/27/23 at 7:54 am to Pedro
Posted on 11/27/23 at 7:54 am to Pedro
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We really need a student fee to help fund the athletic department.
As does Tech and ULL. Cajuns are still hanging around thanks to some of the talent Napier brought in, but dark times are ahead for all three programs in this era of football.
All three have extremely low budgets and no realistic way of raising them. Louisiana is also, to my knowledge, the only state that requires a student body vote to implement a fee.
There is a middle ground to be found between this and the nonsense at James Madison. Universities should be able to tack on a fee that covers student tickets to athletic events. Whether students choose to take part in those athletic events is up to them.
I have a feeling the Louisiana legislator will eventually figure this out but the question is how far they let their 3 UL-System FBS schools fall behind before waking up. History does not lead me to be optimistic about this timeline.
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Posted on 11/27/23 at 9:39 am to msutiger
quote:Apparently there's also some cooling off period that has to occur before you try again if it fails too. The vote we had in '16 was set to be super quietly passed. Only people that really knew about it were athletes and even then only a few of us knew. A freshman teammate of mine who was on student council found out and threw a huge fit. Vote ends up getting shot down largely due to the campaign he lead. Was quite frustrating.
Louisiana is also, to my knowledge, the only state that requires a student body vote to implement a fee.
quote:honestly in the day and age we live in anything like this that gets proposed is likely to get shot down quick. the time to change that was likely in the early/mid 2000's.
I have a feeling the Louisiana legislator will eventually figure this out but the question is how far they let their 3 UL-System FBS schools fall behind before waking up. History does not lead me to be optimistic about this timeline.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 10:21 am to msutiger
The student fee will work if you have a large student body. But in Louisiana for most of the schools, it will replace what they transfer from the general fund: and it may not even fully replace that. Now maybe the idea is to put the student fee on top of the general fund transfers but that opens up another issue.
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