re: Teachers losing jobs and coaches getting raises??????????

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It is beyond ridiculous to suggest that LSU athletics can be detached from its university or that it could be self-sustaining without the larger institution.

Coaches getting raises while professors getting sacked is an atrocity that wouldn't be tolerated in most other states.

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This, but unfortunately it would be tolerated in most states with major athletics programs. How can any sane person say the athletic department is "separate from the university?"

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It is beyond ridiculous to suggest that LSU athletics can be detached from its university or that it could be self-sustaining without the larger institution.

Coaches getting raises while professors getting sacked is an atrocity that wouldn't be tolerated in most other states.

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I think it's ridiculous that people think that that a permanent funding source for postsecondary education sustainability should come from the profitability of a football program. Something in which success can be unpredictable and the profitability may not always be there.

I hear people clamoring for athletics to give more money to the university. As people have mentioned, no other university's athletic program receives no public funding AND still gives money back to the university.

Additionally, if all states (and subsequently higher education) are facing budget cuts, why is it that the majority of them aren't having to lay off a third of their instructors and can still field athletic programs, when those athletic programs either take public funding and give no money to (or lose money for) the university?

Seems to me that there are other inherent problems within the LA educational system: Low tuition, too many post-secondary public institutions, constitutional protection to other areas of the state budget, and I'm sure there are many more.