re: Because people are stupid, our Governor feels coaching salaries should be capped

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Can no one read? This is not a self-imposed cap for Louisiana.

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Thanks for reading it for me. I could easily see that happening in one or another place first before it became 'standard', but again, many thanks...

I also believe the Governers salary should be capped as well as the Senators and Congressmen’s. And their salary is deducted from tax revenue.

Like virtually all public employees, Governor and Congress salaries are set by law, so therefore they are capped.

The man does idolize Huey P. Long so his ignorance isn't all that surprising.

Does our brilliant Gov realize that a national championship football program brings students from out of state who pay extra bucks in out of state fees to be students

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The man does idolize Huey P. Long so his ignorance isn't all that surprising.

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Yours is, unless you've never set foot on campus.

Back in the 70s-80s Long Field House was something.

Have you been to LSU football games? He was involed in recriting and co-wrote Touchdown for LSU, smdh.
You may not agree with his policies, but vs much political backlash, Long tripled it's size and did more for LSU than any other Louisiana politician in history.

What about this joke of a governor getting a free ride on the LSU football charter plane to the Tennessee game? He threw passes at a practice before the bowl game... so isn't he getting free benefits the rest of can't get and he wants to cut funds for LSU and for coaches? Sounds hypocritical to me...

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Cool story bro. Most of Louisiana's political and budgetary problems can be traced back to Long's centralization of government, and his so called reforms.

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Right or left, it's not like Long's policies weren't needed during the depression when LA was a complete shithole without bridges or decent roads, excepting the larger cities.
Had you been one of the literally starving and without healthcare you'd feel different.
The state took a giant step forward, not back and there's been plenty of time to redirect those policies since LA got back on it's feet anyway.

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And what about those faculty members at LSU and elsewhere who haven’t had a raise of any size in many, many years and they’re seeing what’s happening in athletics?”

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since when did 102,000 mofos show up to watch a kid do a fricking chemistry experiment?.. move along, dip shite..

Below is interesting read copied from article

So for example by 1981, Schembechler, who had the highest winning percentage of any coach during the 1970s, was being paid a little more than $155,000 in university salary and $130,000 for other contractual obligations, making his total compensation $285,771 (again in 2014 dollars).

Then in January 1982, Texas A&M, awash in oil money and eager to challenge the University of Texas for football supremacy in the Lone Star State, stunned the college football world by offering Schembechler the then-staggering sum of $250,000 per year in 1982 dollars, which would have more than doubled his salary. (This was equivalent to $611,790 in 2014 dollars).

Schembechler turned TAMU down (Domino’s Pizza king Tom Monaghan gave him a Columbus, Ohio franchise), but Pittsburgh coach Jackie Sherrill didn’t, inspiring this amusingly quaint article in the New York Times, which wrestles with the incredible proposition that any employee of a university could be paid a quarter million dollars per year. (Of course today even some non-sports-related university employees make millions).

From there it was off to the races. Nominal coaching salary milestones, with inflation adjustments:

Bobby Bowden: Florida State 1996: $1,000,000 ( $1,505,105 2014$)

Steve Spurrier: Florida 2001: $2,100,000 ($2,800,209 2014$)

Bob Stoops: Oklahoma 2006: $3,000,000 ($3,154,152 2014$)

Nick Saban: Alabama 2007: $4,000,000 ($4,555,777 2014$)

Nick Saban: Alabama 2014: $7,000,000

And now we apparently have an eight to ten million dollar man (I should add that as a Michigan football fan I heartily approve of this particular development, while sincerely deploring the overall system that has brought it about).