re: To what extent would LSU be more prestigious if it were in a safer location?

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How big of a role do you think that plays?

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Zero.

The administration of the university is criminally incompetent, for one.

The priorities of Louisianans is another. LSU is the only university in the country whose athletic endowment exceeds its academic endowment. As the state government has reduced funding, it can't rely on its endowment like most other universities have done around the country. People here think higher education is a communist plot. But then, I wouldn't donate any money to that incompetent administration either.

The program I graduated from in 1990 was ranked #12 nationally, public and private. Now it's not ranked at all.