re: LSU could beat bama if they gave the state 1 dollar instead of millions

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The football program needs the university much more than the university needs the football team.

Remove "LSU" from the helmet and see how many pay to watch a child's game. It's all about the LSU.

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This strikes me as incredibly simplistic. Of course the football team needs the university - without it the football team definitionally wouldn't exist. But the football team gives money back to the university - a university that has been in deep financial trouble for years. We know where the football team would be without the university: nonexistent. But where would the university be without the football team? My guess is teetering ever closer to the edge of financial collapse; it's already unsustainable without a subsidy from the football team.

The false dichotomy that seems to exist in some fans' minds between the university and the football program needs to be eliminated. Both entities depend on the other to continue functioning. It's silly to even consider seriously which one "needs" the other more, because both need the other, period.

As for the OP, I'm not sure how much additional monetary investment would fix LSU's current streak against Alabama, and as I said above I don't think it's wise to reconsider moving money away from the university given its current financial state. Maybe we can revisit this question once the higher education system in this country collapses and a new one is put in place that requires the kind of financial responsibility that would allow LSU to fund itself, but until we're there, that money has to stay with the university.