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re: How is This Sustainable?

Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:23 pm to
Posted by Tunasntigers92
The Boot
Member since Sep 2014
28914 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:23 pm to
Nobody thought LSU had Texas and Ohio State booster money, but we do.
Posted by PurpleSingularity
Member since Dec 2017
3052 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:23 pm to
So you think Ole Miss is a better football program than LSU? They have fewer resources…what do you consider them?
Posted by Jauquismos
Member since Jul 2023
2002 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:24 pm to
It’s our greedy culture.
Disgusting.
Posted by drizztiger
Deal With it!
Member since Mar 2007
49250 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:25 pm to
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Brother, they run the country currently, especially in Louisiana lol
Starting with brother always gets me. I’m easily joking and having fun with a terrible loss. I wish everyone here well.
Posted by Rebelinexile
Member since Oct 2021
420 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:27 pm to
Ole Miss is a better program now. Next
year, who knows ?
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
30796 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:28 pm to
It’s not sustainable for anyone. It’s not for your reigning national champ either. Just like always, you need solid personnel, but luck as well. Look at the IU stadium…they aren’t making anywhere near what LSU rakes in, but the star aligned when they hired Cignetti.

That said…spending this much cash is sustainable for maybe 5-6 programs in the country. And when they stop winning, the cash flow slows as well.
Posted by skullhawk
My house
Member since Nov 2007
28312 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:31 pm to
It's not. Know a 7-figure/yr booster who's already told LSU to stop calling, and this was before tonight’s debacle.

Posted by GeauxOn
Texas
Member since Mar 2014
450 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:31 pm to
It's not sustainable for the sport as a whole... I think at some point the money will stop flowing as heavy as it is now and the "market" will correct. However, it's new and shiny. At some point I'm sure there will be lawsuits/complaints about player pay inconsistency and there will be some type of collective bargaining agreement. At this point players realistically should become employees of their respective schools if making money from revenue share but they will fight that until the end.
Posted by LSBoosie
Member since Jun 2020
20475 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:33 pm to
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Hope you’re right. We better keep eating our Cane’s Chicken Fingers.

I paid $12.87 for a Box Combo tonight. I feel like I got ripped off
Posted by TeeDill
Member since Nov 2020
70 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:35 pm to
Not all. You just funded another Eugene Wilson drop. Money well spent.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
30059 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:37 pm to
Especially when you just let to a team that spent half as much.
Posted by LSBoosie
Member since Jun 2020
20475 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:39 pm to
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Not all. You just funded another Eugene Wilson drop. Money well spent.

frick
Posted by Triple Bogey
19th Green
Member since May 2017
6965 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:41 pm to
Canceling my $15 a month TAF donations
Posted by RemouladeSawce
Uranus
Member since Sep 2008
18778 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:41 pm to
It’s not sustainable for anyone. The sport-wide pullback is inevitable once enough alumni get burned and realize money doesn’t line up and play the games. The shift from student athlete to perpetually free agent mercenary ironically makes it easier to cut them off. The fall in in college sports enjoyment as a whole will have consequences

Even Aggie is having these discussions right now. Not because they can’t physically afford it, but because the people funding it aren’t charities and they aren’t seeing the results

If your school is still going to underachieve why be the dumbass bleeding money? They can suck without it

In LSU’s case its roster was at least from coaching turnover. They had a lot of holes to plug immediately and had to overplay to do it
This post was edited on 10/10/26 at 11:54 pm
Posted by Nix to Twillie
Houston, TX
Member since Jan 2015
20770 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:42 pm to
Lane took the Ole Miss job under the same rules and regulations. He turned them into a contender. How could it not work here?
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
30059 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:44 pm to
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Canceling my $15 a month TAF donations


That’ll show em. Better off giving it to St Jude’s.

One thing about it, we’re stuck with Coach Visor for a while. No more buyouts for the foreseeable future.
Posted by TeeDill
Member since Nov 2020
70 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:45 pm to
I agree and that’s why I give them a pass on the ole Miss game. But Kentucky also has a first year head coach and spent half the money you did in the offseason. You can’t drop games that you’re supposed to win when there’s this much money on the line.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
30059 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:46 pm to
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Lane took the Ole Miss job under the same rules and regulations. He turned them into a contender. How could it not work here?


If you couldn’t watch that game tonight and figure out how it may not happen here….

LSU roster $50,000,000
UK roster $25,000,000

Both first year coaches.
Posted by otowntiger
O-Town
Member since Jan 2004
16984 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:47 pm to
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It is not sustainable. LSU banks on winning which we've sucked about 14 years out of 15 the past 15 years.
this! Outside of the very obvious anomaly that 2019 was, this program mediocre at best
Posted by Woodman17
Seattle
Member since Sep 2026
97 posts
Posted on 10/10/26 at 11:50 pm to
It's not sustainable, but every school that wants to catch the ring will beg, borrow and steal to keep raising up the ante. It's the American way . . .

With the "borrowing", however, it'll likely be a combination of private equity investments into the universities, raised tuitions or both. It'll be interesting if some universities eventually have to file for bankruptcy/restructuring.
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