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re: Some LSU profs don't support athletics
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:24 am to Tommy Patel
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:24 am to Tommy Patel
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He should teach at MIT, CalTech or U of Chicago if he wants to be in a purely academic environment.
MIT has a football team.
So does the U of Chicago.
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Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:26 am to taf
tiger stadium should be turned into a planetarium imo
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:26 am to byubengalboy
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(LSU, the university, should be no lower than #50)
Maybe among publics
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:27 am to Tommy Patel
Actually, if you look it up, not only is LSU one of the few schools in the nation who's athletic program is completely self-sufficient but LSU's football program actually funds ALL of the other athletic programs at LSU in addition to providing MILLIONS to the university as a whole........which certainly includes helping to pay that snobby prick's paycheck.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:28 am to LStateU
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Spoken like a true bleeding heart liberal!
Nope, possibly the most conservative man on the planet......but you just go ahead with your juvenile assumptions. Also, go ahead and be so dense as to not see that these arguments are not mutually exclusive.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:29 am to tigerfoot
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In the grand scheme of things if the money, talent and energy spent on LSU football and its surrounding events were spent on social ills, I dramatic positive impact would be felt.
Wrong. The money spent on LSU football creates jobs and helps fund the university (both academics and other sports programs). That is, money spent on football has positive repercussions elsewhere.
You can spend all you want on social ills and you either won't fix them or find new social ills to spend money on.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:29 am to tigerfoot
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but you just go ahead with your juvenile assumptions. Also, go ahead and be so dense as to not see that these arguments are not mutually exclusive.
I am sorry, but I cannot find agreement with your comments.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:33 am to tigerfoot
I agree with him that LSU has big problems, but the FB team has nothing to do with it. It's called politics and it is killing LSU.
The further LSU can get from politians, the better off it will be. We as fans and alums should do everything we can to kill the state legislative autority over setting tuition. LSU is 10 years behind everyone else in raising it's tuition. It will eventually cost us our top tier status which, btw, is hanging on by a thread! La is the only state in the country with this setup.
TOPS should also get killed. It is a waste of funds and does not have much to do with attracting top students. UT and TAM do not have
anything like TOPS and they are turning great students away by the thousands. Good students want quality - not cheap and low grade.
The further LSU can get from politians, the better off it will be. We as fans and alums should do everything we can to kill the state legislative autority over setting tuition. LSU is 10 years behind everyone else in raising it's tuition. It will eventually cost us our top tier status which, btw, is hanging on by a thread! La is the only state in the country with this setup.
TOPS should also get killed. It is a waste of funds and does not have much to do with attracting top students. UT and TAM do not have
anything like TOPS and they are turning great students away by the thousands. Good students want quality - not cheap and low grade.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:33 am to LStateU
Since when did 95,000 people show up to see some kid do a GD Chemistry experiment!
-The Program
-The Program
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:43 am to byubengalboy
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as much as I love LSU football...the man has a point. with a collegiate quality ranking of #128 nationaly (LSU, the university, should be no lower than #50)...global warming...the loss of Louisiana's wetlands and the erosion of it's coasts...the diversification of industry and job creation...the pathetic levels of healthcare...the rebuilding of lost and protective infrastructure for New Orleans and the coast parishes...the statewide deterioation of social and racial climates...etc, etc, etc.
Liberal guilt...projecting misery...thinking the government can fix everything...believing there can be utopia in this world...expecting someone else to fix it or pay for it...believing that success always comes at the expense of others...expecting the worse...unquestioningly buying into the latest media-hyped crisis...I could go on and on.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:46 am to TigerFan55555
This is a liberty issue. People spend tons of money on...pets each year. With that money we could blah,blah,blah. We ought to do away with nine of the fourteen four year colleges we have in this poor state. Unlikely...
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:46 am to Mike Linebacker
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The money spent on LSU football creates jobs and helps fund the university (both academics and other sports programs). That is, money spent on football has positive repercussions elsewhere.
So hotdog vendors, liquor stores, and trash pickup is where Louisiana is needing economic and infrastructure help. In that case, the professor has no cause for his opinion. Carry on.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:48 am to MontanaTiger
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Liberal guilt...projecting misery...thinking the government can fix everything...believing there can be utopia in this world...expecting someone else to fix it or pay for it...believing that success always comes at the expense of others...expecting the worse...unquestioningly buying into the latest media-hyped crisis...I could go on and on.
BOOM!
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:56 am to MoreOrLes
Though I don't know, I suspect that when LSU is successful on the football field and everybody is excited about the Tigers the contributions to the Alumni Association go up, thereby providing more money for these professor types to operate.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 10:56 am to Brown Mountain
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Liberal Arts Prof
I think you mean "Social Sciences." "Liberal Arts" refers to a variety of courses which include math, science, business, medicine, etc.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 11:00 am to tigerfoot
quote:DO you think this is the only industries that benefit from LSU football? You don't think that the travel industry picks up a few hotel booking and flights? Maybe a few restaurants get a few customers? Beverage distributors? Come on man! Oh and Carry on.
So hotdog vendors, liquor stores, and trash pickup is where Louisiana is needing economic and infrastructure help. In that case, the professor has no cause for his opinion. Carry on.
Posted on 10/30/09 at 11:08 am to BruslyTiger
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You don't think that the travel industry picks up a few hotel booking and flights? Maybe a few restaurants get a few customers? Beverage distributors? Come on man!
I know, economic stimulus is what it is all about.
BTR really does boom when the Tigers do, that is the basic business barometer. Of course BTR metro also has the second fastest declining population in the country. And has a decline in BTR city population since the glory of LSU football resurfaced, from 2000 to 2007 showing an actual decline even with the Katrina influx. Also, the number one employer within BTR is government. So if the LSU football team is such an economic driving force...how do you explain the decline in the BTR area.
Yet there has been vast expansion at other University cities that have mediocre or horrible football programs. What is your explanation?
Posted on 10/30/09 at 11:09 am to taf
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Some LSU profs don't support athletics
they give us really hard test on the Mondays after big games
Posted on 10/30/09 at 11:16 am to MontanaTiger
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They are basically unhappy losers that want to inflict their misery on the rest of us
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I could not have said it any better if I would have slept on it all night!
They are basically unhappy losers that want to inflict their misery on the rest of us
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I could not have said it any better if I would have slept on it all night!
Posted on 10/30/09 at 11:16 am to mylsuhat
As much as I love LSU football, and as much as I am glad to have a degree from there, it has at best an average academic reputation. You should be glad that professors are disinterested in it. The faculty are working hard on the other part of the university, typically known as the "mission."
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