We want LSU to be a winner, but the whining about jersey sponsors, hotel taxes, etc.

I wish I could upvote this more than once

I don't think putting tacky arse sponsor patches on LSU's ICONIC white jerseys is the way to go. Some things are sacred! Maybe put them on some of the Circus Clown alternates.

None of it really correlates to on field success anyway. We have had a Heisman QB with an elite offense and a supposedly top tier, top dollar roster. Results will be the same with BK whether we have a Popeyes logo on the jersey or not.

Joking aside no one will notice the jersey sponsorship after a few games

Dumb argument. I think "they" are complaining about CFB as a product not LSU specifically

Im good with a couple patches but I dont want it to be like Nascar.

Backing a tax to pay college players on your favorite football team isn’t an emotional take? Ok.

LSU has to raise money to compete.

LA, maybe NM, is the poorest state in the Union. While U of Michigan and Ohio State can count on widespread financial support from their respective states, LSU can not. Its citizens are poor.

They can afford internet however, probably subsidized by the government.

Your statement misses a very big question: a winner at what?

Many of us have spent decades watching college football. It has an endless variety of traditions, eccentricities, moments, and history. It also has had certain qualities for the vast majority of its history. Many of those qualities are minor and largely irrelevant to the overall sport. Some, however, are not. College football is not pro football. That's literally the reason the word "college" is in it. With the expansion and creep of NIL and other forms of pay for play, that distinction is eroding almost completely to non-existence. With it (in my opinion) will also soon follow the erosion of the student-athlete quality of college football when some football player successfully sues to eliminate the registration requirements. At that point (if not sooner), it will be impossible to say that LSU is competing in "college football".

So the question becomes, do we want LSU to be a winner at professional football? Maybe so. But I, personally, don't give two shits about professional football. I would like for LSU to succeed in everything it does, but I have no more emotional investment in an LSU-sponsored pro football team than I do an LSU-sponsored equity investment in the stock market. I'm not likely to buy tickets and then show up hours early to tailgate for an LSU School of Business job fair. I hope those things go well for them, but I'm disinclined to spend thousands of dollars a year on tickets, parking, merch, concessions, etc, and invest endless hours and emotions in them. Ditto for a professional sports team. If I did care about pro football, there are much better pro football teams playing on Sundays, and one of them is even right here in the state. So if I were inclined to invest time, money, emotion and energy into pro football, why would I waste it on a B-league team on Saturdays?

My passion is college sports. As long as LSU fields a college football team, I will be passionate about following it. When LSU stops fielding a college football team, I will mourn the loss of a passion (unless other schools are still fielding college football teams; in that case, maybe one of them will trigger an emotional connection; but I doubt it). I don't know the future, so I can't guarantee that I won't care about LSU's B-League pro football team, but I can't really see any reason why I would.

Then again, fandom is seldom (if every) about reason.

But that's the correct question.

No LSU does not have •plenty” of wealthy donors when compared to other schools.

Not even close.