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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:18 pm
Posted by The Baker
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Posted by Elleshoe
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:18 pm to
Ask the president of Alabama what a good athletic program can do for the academic side
Posted by josh336
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:19 pm to
Why so drastic, cant that person care for both?
Posted by thelawnwranglers
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:20 pm to
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Ask the president of Alabama what a good athletic program can do for the academic side





Ask Mark Emmeret what it did for LSU

Posted by The Baker
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Posted by saintsfan22
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:21 pm to
F King isn't knocking it out of the park on the academic side either.
Posted by GeorgeWest
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:21 pm to
A good Univ Prez should take interest in all the university's activities.
Posted by Elleshoe
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:21 pm to
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So then, should we only focus on athletics?


Is there anyone that said that ever on this board or are you making stuff up?
Posted by The Baker
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Posted by MarlinMan
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:23 pm to
They have to balance both. Everybody knows that division 1 football pays for the whole show. Any sport that is televised brings in revenue that can be shared amongst the departments and apply towards expenses .... The most successful schools are the ones that realize how important division one football is because of TV. They work closely with their state governor to be on the same page. That’s winning.
Posted by lsutigertalk
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:23 pm to
If your athletic department donates millions of dollars to your school that you can’t find a way to run without increasing tuition and doing nothing to improve the academics but continue to slash and burn departments... yes you should care.
Posted by waiting4saturday
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:24 pm to
A great Athletic program can bring in a lot of money to the academic side. F king is either a retard or doesn’t care to understand this.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:24 pm to
No, but how about hiring an AD and letting them have the final say without constantly meddling when you want to use athletics for whatever “optics” of the day?
Posted by The Baker
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Posted by CoolKat
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:28 pm to
By holding this opinion, you prove your lack of intelligence. Academics are the reason for the university, no doubt. However, in modern times, to not recognize the importance of visibility to the university that a competitive athletics program provides is idiotic.
Posted by Tigris Christi
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:28 pm to
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We should go for any president who is all in on sports and doesn’t care about improving academics, right?


LOL! Just wondering how many idiots are going to down vote you for asking the question.

The sad truth is the consensus will be "Hell Yeah LSU's AD should care more about sports, not all.... just 99% sports and %1 academic center to support the "student" athletes." It's why Louisiana ranks at or near the bottom of most education metrics. But we're a top 10 football program!
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:28 pm to
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F King only pisses ppl off in the context of sports


Uhh that’s not true at all
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 7:29 pm to
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Honestly, do you hold the opinion that an LSU president should care more about Athletics?

well it's not like our President cares about academics

our holistic admissions and cratering USNW rankings prove that
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