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re: BOS meeting has begun...UPDATE: Dalton is new chancellor, Rousse is LSU System President
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:07 pm to UpToPar
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:07 pm to UpToPar
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I know you love to fan boy for everything Lake Charle
wait what? you mean the city i bash all the time? wtf?
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He didn't "build two businesses," he worked for two companies that got sold. Those are two different things.
um...so he didnt work his way up at Sea and Sea and then manage it before it got sold?
i am being intellectually honest. if you are against it because he didnt have experience over a tier 1 research, i can respect that. I disagree but i can respect it. but lets not act like he wasnt extremely successful in the business world and like he didnt knock it out the park at McNeese
and im anything but a LC fan boy. I am a fan of Rouse. I am not a fan of the AD coming to be LSU AD, not at all.
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Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:11 pm to Adam Banks
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It should be Dalton president rousse chancellor.
im actually fine with that too
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The money for the system that CAN roll in because of research dwarfs any undergrad Baton Rouge enrollment.
i agree....my point was not talking about though. I was talking about the main campus and what the actual vision of that should be
but i can tell you Rouse was really really good in getting investment from private companies and gov on the LNG center. I think he would be great at doing the same for the Pennington bio center nad the two hospitals and the dental school.
he is actually really good on the fundraising side and research investment...at least at McNeese. and he did work for the federal reserve for a couple years in a role that crossover to those types of things
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:11 pm to lsu777
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um...so he didnt work his way up at Sea and Sea and then manage it before it got sold?
Working you way up the corporate ladder at a company and building it are two VERY different things. He graduated with his masters degree one year before the business was sold. He spent quite a bit of time in a non-managerial role.
He was only at CCM for 5 years before they were allegedly bought.
Neither of those qualifies as building a business.
I am neither for nor against Rousse, but to say he has some stellar resume (either in the corporate world or in academia) is quite the stretch. To say he built two businesses and sold them is intellectually dishonest..
This post was edited on 11/4/25 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:12 pm to UpToPar
What the frick is taking so long?
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:13 pm to Geauxldilocks
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What the frick is taking so long?
This must be your first board meeting...
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:14 pm to Geauxldilocks
Have they not started or did they stop for lunch??
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:15 pm to Geauxldilocks
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What the frick is taking so long?
Have to go through lunch to get fed on the board's dime. My podnah caters these meetings. He said while he was delivering the bbq sandwiches he heard them talking about Saban on $18M per year, 3 years. Spread the word
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:15 pm to Ingeniero
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He said while he was delivering the bbq sandwiches he heard them talking about Saban on $18M per year, 3 years. Spread the word
print the hard hats
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:17 pm to Earnest_P
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You’ve set up a false dichotomy between a trade school and a degree factory/liberal indoctrination camp. There is a vision of education that is superior to both of those things, and the university should be led by someone with such a vision.
Im fine with people in trade wanting the university to be useful by producing people who can work in trade. That’s part of the purpose. It just doesn’t make sense to me to put one of those people in charge of the university.
I’d rather smaller universities and bigger trade schools, if that’s all we are worried about.
what are you calling a trade? are you calling an engineer, architect, a lawyer, a doctor, a dentist, etc a trade?
im all for a neo-classical liberal education and we should have those.
but the emphasis should be on the Stem degrees and research and honestly we need to do a much better job of emphasizing our business school and especially the law school.
with the med school being in NOLA, we should put a huge emphasis on building it up in enrollment and research, especially in conjunction with the Pennington bio center.
huge emphasis on the Engineering school, law and business on the main campus. should be main focus right now.
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:18 pm to UpToPar
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Working you way up the corporate ladder at a company and building it are two VERY different things. He graduated with his masters degree one year before the business was sold. He spent quite a bit of time in a non-managerial role.
He was only at CCM for 5 years before they were allegedly bought.
Neither of those qualifies as building a business.
I am neither for nor against Rousse, but to say he has some stellar resume (either in the corporate world or in academia) is quite the stretch. To say he built two businesses and sold them is intellectually dishonest..
fair enough...we will just have to agree to disagree.
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:19 pm to tigersquad89
quote:Don't think the DEI BS is going to be a priority under a Landry regime. Hire the best people for a job. Frick all this Tokenism and Quota nonsense.
I turn this on to them talking about protecting DEI lol
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:22 pm to lsu777
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huge emphasis on the Engineering school, law and business on the main campus. should be main focus right now.
Nah bro, take funding resources away from mechanical engineering and give it to plumbing certificate programs at brcc
We’ll push the cutting edge one sink drain at a time.
This post was edited on 11/4/25 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:22 pm to lsu777
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but i can tell you Rouse was really really good in getting investment from private companies and gov on the LNG center. I think he would be great at doing the same for the Pennington bio center nad the two hospitals and the dental school.
I’m not anti rousse to be clear but the answer about how he would grow a R1
research was bothersome.
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:22 pm to lsu777
Ultimately, none of this amounts to a hill of beans because 99.99999% of the posters on this board don't know enough about any of the candidates to know which is best served to lead the university, and 95% of the posters on this board just hope that whoever is selected can convince Nick Saban to come coach our football team. 
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:24 pm to Adam Banks
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I’m not anti rousse to be clear but the answer about how he would grow a R1 research was bothersome.
What time stamp was this?
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:24 pm to 1999
I don't think there are many professional experiences that prepare you for the job of this kind, even in higher ed. Being a "university president" is close, but not quite it.
I think "educator + researcher + fundraiser turned administrator turned lobbyist turned organizational enabler turned visionary founder turned evangelist" is the closest description.
The scale of the entire enterprise is enormous. From the HSCs to the Ag Center extension offices to the facilities and campuses and athletics and the fundraising and the students and their parents and the alums and the donors and the Board and the state and national policies and politics.
Just in BR, there are 3-4 "campuses" (individual units) alone: A&M, Law, Ag Center, and PBRC. Just A&M has 40k students, 1500 faculty, and 5000 staff - and that's one campus. It's a massive regional and state employer, but it's not really thought of that way.
In short, it's a wild job.
GOOD LUCK SABAN
I think "educator + researcher + fundraiser turned administrator turned lobbyist turned organizational enabler turned visionary founder turned evangelist" is the closest description.
The scale of the entire enterprise is enormous. From the HSCs to the Ag Center extension offices to the facilities and campuses and athletics and the fundraising and the students and their parents and the alums and the donors and the Board and the state and national policies and politics.
Just in BR, there are 3-4 "campuses" (individual units) alone: A&M, Law, Ag Center, and PBRC. Just A&M has 40k students, 1500 faculty, and 5000 staff - and that's one campus. It's a massive regional and state employer, but it's not really thought of that way.
In short, it's a wild job.
GOOD LUCK SABAN
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:25 pm to UpToPar
yea i do find it funny that most are over here arguing against Rouse when most on this board only care about athletics and he is one of the ones that will be 100% all in when it comes to athletics and he is pretty anti DEI
i get the reaction to his answer on growing research funding, but he was good at that at McNeese although it is different he was successful.
and i mean most on this board hated Tate and he was a great president
i get the reaction to his answer on growing research funding, but he was good at that at McNeese although it is different he was successful.
and i mean most on this board hated Tate and he was a great president
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:27 pm to The Baker
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What time stamp was this?
It’s not this meeting from what I understand was a prior interview.
His answer was along the lines of “I’m not sure that should be our goal but if the board take me with that I’ll do it”
This post was edited on 11/4/25 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:27 pm to lsu777
quote:what made him great? sounds like admissions is a disaster because of him...
he was a great president
Posted on 11/4/25 at 12:29 pm to Adam Banks
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His answer was along the lines of “I’m not sure that should be our goal but if the board take me with that I’ll do it”
Ouch.
What other goal is there for a flagship school?
Educating the state population is a top priority for the UL system, Nichols, McNeese, etc… but LSU, and perhaps La Tech more distantly, should strive to be Nationally/Globally competitive like Texas A&M, Ohio State, Penn State, UF…
This post was edited on 11/4/25 at 12:32 pm
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