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Oh look the administrative guy wants more money. How utterly predictable.

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He absolutely right. The rep in the hearing didn't understand the difference after FKA explained it to him.

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And you wouldn't say him not being able to figure out how to explain this incredibly simple yet extremely important concept in a manner that people will understand makes him unfit to be a leader of any kind in higher education, much less the president of a state flagship university?

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I believed this too. But at the end of the video he goes to town on a state rep. bringing up how "the school wastes millions on a football coach"... FKA laid the boom and noted that LSU's athletic department is one of only 7 in the country that is self sufficient enough to donate back to the school.

He gets it.

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If he "gets it" but still has the cancer employed then he's an idiot. In truth, he's not an idiot. He just takes it for granted.

There is way too much at stake. It's incompetence and LSU is going to pay for the lack of action for a few years.

frick you and frick Alexander

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He's a good public speaker?

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eh based on the way he does graduation speeches he's a garbage public speaker

I listened to the entire video

The OP is right

F King has his back against the wall. No other universities are dealing with the budget cuts we are. King said... We have cut 500 professors in the last 9 years. Alabama is hiring 300 new professors next year. They are taking our teachers and students

Yall can say that this has nothing to do with football but you are wrong, it's all related

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And you wouldn't say him not being able to figure out how to explain this incredibly simple yet extremely important concept in a manner that people will understand makes him unfit to be a leader of any kind in higher education, much less the president of a state flagship university?

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100% this. Instead of figuring out a way of explaining it to the legislature and the public, he just threw his hands up and decided to keep Miles. That's incompetence and was grounds for termination.

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We have cut 500 professors in the last 9 years. Alabama is hiring 300 new professors next year.

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You know what else is different between Alabama and LSU? Alabama's president got asked how he justified paying Nick Saban his salary, and answered that it was the best investment the university had made in his time there. LSU's president can't figure out how to explain this concept to people. And the worst part about that is just 17 years ago, LSU had a leader who shared these beliefs and bought into this line of thinking; and it left LSU in the best position it had been in a very long time.

Good video, and it's a good find.

Regardless of one's current opinion on F. King, I think we can all agree on this fact: F. King Alexander is Joe Alleva's boss.

... If Joe Alleva has a job at the end of this calendar year, F. King Alexander has made an incredibly huge mistake and put the future of LSU athletics at risk.

I don't doubt F. King Alexander has some good qualities, and one does not get to that level without a certain ability to think critically and perform (and lobby effectively), but he has without question had some very high-profile blunders as LSU President, and in the context of athletics, has no choice but to rectify those blunders and stop the bleeding or face the consequences athletically and academically, because the two play off of each other and "support" one another. LSU, as an academic institution, is going to suffer if it doesn't get the AD in order, and it's F.King's job to get it in order. Whether it's right or wrong philosophically doesn't matter, but football drives the train for this university as a whole ... always has, and always will, and that isn't changing so it's pointless to debate that. If we have a President that isn't in tune with that and understanding of the implications of that, it's not a good fit, and everything - academics included - is going to suffer in the long run.

A good leader is not made in the good times. A good leader is one that rises in the tough times, makes good and sometimes unpopular decisions, puts out fires and brings us out of the tough times and back into the good times. As far as LSU athletics is concerned, we're in some desperately tough times, and have been for a few years. It is F. King's job to take action and get us out of those tough times. The clock is ticking, because our peers aren't stopping to wait on us.