re: LSU vs UM 2018 (Making progress)

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I never said that LSU was the only AD that operates financially independent of the university. That AND means something.

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Yeah, I knew what you meant and clarified my point before you posted.

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Good to know that he's coaching for such a bargain at $300,000.

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Still public employees.

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And that does not make LSU athletics a slave to the state. The AD has gone above and beyond the call of duty.

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By not taking money from the school that it doesn't need? I guess we have a different definition of "above and beyond the call of duty."

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Disregarding the accomplishments as a moot point is absolutely ridiculous.

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Clearly we just disagree.

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Giving $36 million back is goes well beyond that responsibility.

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No it doesn't. The responsibility of the athletic department is definitely to the student athletes and the university and then, since they're public employees of the flagship state school, to the state.