re: Quote by a Louisiana Tech fan on LSU

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For a "flagship" school LSU should be a little more concerned about the academic performance of its STUDENT athletes. The 50+% of your student athletes not getting a degree are not all going into professional sports - not by a LONG WAY. It is an absolute embarassment to the state and the institution. LSU might be bigger and there are certainly advantages associated with that, but LaTech will ALWAYS be the state's best return on investment. Louisiana would be much better off (perhaps even moving out of the bottom 3 states in the nation in almost every category) if the legislators would come to this most obvious realization.

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LSU > better than Tech at pretty much everything....and it kills you.


and BTW, a lot of big time programs have low graduation rates for athletes. I'll take low graduation rates for athletes if we keep winning national championships,...... and deep down, you know you would too.

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For a "flagship" school LSU should be a little more concerned about the academic performance of its STUDENT athletes. The 50+% of your student athletes not getting a degree are not all going into professional sports - not by a LONG WAY. It is an absolute embarassment to the state and the institution. LSU might be bigger and there are certainly advantages associated with that, but LaTech will ALWAYS be the state's best return on investment. Louisiana would be much better off (perhaps even moving out of the bottom 3 states in the nation in almost every category) if the legislators would come to this most obvious realization.

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I am guessing this is a flame, so I don't even know if I should bother, but...

Who do you think foots the bill for your trips out to Fresno, Honolulu, Boise, and San Jose? Your great friends of the state legislature do.

The most "obvious realization" needs to be made on your part. Tech doesn't want to be grouped with ULM and Northwestern, yet they feel they belong in the class of Fresno and Boise and the like...the same programs that want nothing to do with Tech. The realization should be that for pride to be restored to college football in nrth LA, Tech needs to swallow its pride and start playing ULM every year; play NWSU and McNeese every year; join a conference with these programs. Attendence will double and triple. What's difficult about that concept?