re: Serious questions about spending priorities at LSU.

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Do you care that there are academic buildings on campus with the ceilings caving in, that can be fully renovated for $15 million, but we just spent $90 million on a new south endzone? (Please spare me the speeches about return on investment, I know all of that.)


People like you need to quit running your mouth about the athletic department. They are self sufficient and get no money from the university but instead give millions back.

The university has nothing to do with the athletic departments finances.

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BOOM, MOTHERfrickER!

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People like you need to quit running your mouth about the athletic department. They are self sufficient and get no money from the university but instead give millions back. The university has nothing to do with the athletic departments finances.

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On the average, the "millions" given back to LSU by the athletic department just offsets the cost of athletic department salaries, I am well aware that Les Miles salary is mostly from the TAF, but the coaching staff has a long list of people that are the highest paid of all university employees, and the cost of the additional load on campus infrastructure created by athletic department activities. Every dollar donated to the TAF by alumni and others is a dollar that could have been donated to the university, but people have pretty screwed up priorities.