re: ULL's complaints

This is deeper than that. Older Laffy folks (who would be say 100 years old this year) used to cry how much better they were than Lake Charles. This was back when each had only a single public high school and Laffy guys who holler how Lake Charles got better athletes from nearby by their dads getting jobs and the plants to relocate. None of it true. USL then would compare itself to McNeese (which only went from junior college LSU feeder to full 4 year college in 1950).

Then USL opted to compete with major colleges the season after its football team went 0-10 against the likes of Southeastern, Northwestern, Northeastern (now ULM), LA Tech, McNeese and Lamar (Nicholls didn't have football yet). It's had the death penalty twice for paying basketball players. The first time in mid 70's with Bo Lamar and Roy Ebron and their walking around campus with full length mink coats and brand new Caddies with big swan hood ornaments and throwing cash everywhere.

It's not the athletes who were like this. An uncle was on their pre-WWII national championship boxing team (it was actually of the biggest tournament type bouts in Philly) and had no such jealousy. His only loss pre the tournament was to an LSU boxer. He won all others by KO or TKO as a light heavyweight.

Laffy would still be the size of Natchitoches if not for Lake Charles city leaders opting not to build office space for the burgeoning oil industry and Heyman building the Oil Center in Laffy for them to move to there.