LSU is severely underfunded....

State so corrupt

LSU and TAF are not the same, and TAF is not underfunded by any means, at least not right now.

You think Aleva is the only one making the decisions on coaches? LSU pays the coach like $250k. The other $4-5 million comes from TAF, which means it comes from the big money people in TAF, and they have to give their approval for hires like this.

quote:

---

And as a result we have hired poor leaders who make bad decisions. They are Alexander and Alleva. You cannot hire top of the line leadership if your state funding has gone from 70% to 25%. To start fixing this football situation, we need a new AD and President.

---

The two are not the same. TAF has the money.

We have had felons as our guvna. Jindal could do the little he did and be one of the best. I don't know of any stories of the felonies he commmitted. I do of Blanco. You know much of the others crimes.

Tell me about. I’m sitting in the homeless shelter known as Middleton right now.

Think we’re underfunded now? Wait til the AD can’t fork over that bonus

The firing of mike Martin was a big political play that had the BOS divided and fighting. I don’t know what the reason was but the pro-Martin side claimed it was without cause

If we're underfunded, which I'm not saying we're not, that makes giving a coach who was practically BEGGING for the job ANY buyout clause all the more absurd. Not to mention having a $12 million buy out. It is unfathomable to me that that doesn't cost someone their fricking job. It is incompetence that is completely inexcusable and pathetic.

Jindal left this state's finances a mess, just as Republican governors in Wisconsin and Kansas. You can't just slash taxes, and at the same time provide state fund giveaways to Big Oil and Big Hollywood, and not expect that services, and higher education won't suffer.

quote:

---

You are correct. Yet, some folks want to slash taxes which is where the money comes from to fund LSU.

---

We have some of the highest taxes in the nation and what do we have to show for it? Awesome roads? Education? Infrastructure?

quote:

---

And no person is more responsible for inadequate funding to higher education in La. than Jindal.

---

No. Not even close to being correct. Louisiana's problems with funding for higher education and healthcare, for that matter, have been decades in the making. Unlike states like California, which allows itself to operate state government at a deficit, Louisiana requires that its budge is balanced every year. There are so many sweetheart deals that lawmakers in Louisiana have made over the years that when it comes time to submit a balanced budget, the only places for discretionary cuts which the Governor, whoever that is, can make are in education and healthcare funding. Any other cuts require our state lawmakers to pass legislation, which they can never seem to agree on. That is why the Governor holds special legislative sessions every year in hopes that the legislature can balance the budget. The alternative is cuts to education and healthcare. Regardless of their political affiliation, our state politicians have fricked over Louisiana citizens for years.