re: The threat from ULL to LSU (long)

You need to seriously pump the breaks. I spent just a few years working in college athletics. Was at three different programs, two of which were smaller by LSU standards but much bigger than ULL.

In just those few years I saw not less than 50 venues slated to built or upgraded. Almost all of those projects are still unstarted and I've been out of that field for over five years.

ULL is will always be a solid baseball and softball programs, but they're one football coach leaving away from being exactly where they were a decade ago.