Contempt from the administration for LSU customs - bumped with additional coment

I posted a thread similar concerns the other day, but it was more about the complacent style of Louisiana politics. In Lafayette, we just hired a new AD who came from the University of Missouri and played a huge internal role in getting Mizzou into the SEC a few years ago. This was the first AD that we hired from the "outside" since Terry Don Phillips back in the 1980s...who ended up as the AD at Clemson. We also have the executive director of the RCAF who worked at Indiana University for a few years before coming here. Sometimes, it is good to bring in some fresh new ideas from other places because when you hire within, you recycle ideas.

At the same time, culture is something that is NEVER meant to be played with especially in a place like Louisiana. In Lafayette, we are trying to grow our brand name into something bigger. At LSU, it's already there. I don't think it's as much as them trying to push an agenda as it is just them trying to help when they're ignorant on the subject matter. Athletics is a marketing tool for universities. If less is more at a place like LSU games, then they need to keep it that way.