re: Some LSU profs don't support athletics

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sorry couldn't type laughing so hard thinking of Alexandria as a metro area

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Dude, they've got a traffic loop (roundaboot). A sure sign of civilization.

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Football is a whole lot more important and will bring the university a lot more money than whatever meaningless research the prof is doing.
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signed,

ignorance is better; i mean look how i turned out?

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That's funny

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good to see there are still a few piople around at least thinking about the future and progress fo the university and state. Somehow the "progress"="loberal" which has been trashed into a derogatory term by "conservative" media only to be ran up the flagpole by sheep who don't bother to think it through that "consevative" media is ALSO part of the MST...just the part that they tend to agree with.

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TigerWoody, truer words have not been spoken. Ideaology (sp) gets in the way of progress big
time. people make things a political issue when they are not. those damn "liberals" sure ruined austin, tx. all of those educated know it alls just ruined that town.

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Yeah, but the people there don't know how to use it...they just keep going around in circles.

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Its true. Its an all too familiar story in Alec when you've got to go rescue your poor grandma from the traffic circle.

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people move out of Alexandria to go to Pineville.

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I was once at a bar in Flagstaff AZ talking to this forest ranger guy. We didn't talk politics but I didn't get the feeling he was an extreme conservative by any means. He said he might get an opportunity to get stationed in Pineville and asked about the place. Normally I'm not one to discourage people from moving into our state .... but I could not tell a lie.

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1.You said that BTR population was declining and that it has a winning football team.(LSU)

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yes I did.

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2. You also stated that "Other University cities" with bad teams were increasing in population etc...

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I said that if football was a barometer for economic health, how do you explain the success of other university cities with bad teams so you really missed the point. You make it sound as if I said the driving point was the football team.

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There is NO University cities in LA with a growing population.

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No I did not say that, Lafayette is growing. And that was just the ONE I looked up. WTF are you even talking about.

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So these people must be LEAVING BTR and going to cities out of state.

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Well they are leaving, but in regard to the ones leaving BTR specifically I have no idea where they are headed.

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You tried to draw a coralation between the the pop.drop of BRT with a winning team and other Univ Cities with poor teams and pop. increase

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No, I drew no such correlation (spelling not coralation). I specifically pointed out that there was possibly NO coralation in a winning football team and economic growth. (the debate was about the economic engine of LSU football)

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My hypothesis is that you are such a giant a-hole, you are making people even in BTR leave the state. See the logic now?

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I see what you THINK is logic, but seeing as how it is not based in any sort of reality, well I can only think gave you too much credit with being 11.

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WRONG!!!! This couldn't be more wrong. It is actually the other way around....athletics department gives millions to the academic side every year!!!

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You are correct. What is worse is that I was trying to make this point and wrote it backwards! Talk about "FAIL". My bad. I'll edit the post.

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Sort of like Pineville would be considered the Alexandria metro....sorry couldn't type laughing so hard thinking of Alexandria as a metro area

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Hell with Pineville, by your nine parish definition, we could damn near take in Nathitoches AND real gems like Opelousas.(no offense to the citizens of Opelousas, Alexandrians cant take the high road to anyone)

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i had no idea that education was valued so low amongst the posters here.

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I don't think the posters do. They are just LSU football fans who enjoy watching football, understand that the football program makes a lot of money that benefits the academic programs and don't like it when they hear about a professor complaining about the support for the football program.

There are some (including in this thread) that take the view that while the football program does generate some money for academics, if the money that donors spend on football were actually directly donated to the academic programs, that would be more beneficial to the school. But even taking that result at face value, that is a pipe dream. There is no way football booster says, "you know, I'm going to forego the TAF donation and season ticket purchase this year and all the money I spend on concessions, souvenirs and the like and instead give that to the biology department." It's just not ever going to happen. And so bemoaning the fact that it doesn't happen seems silly. It's why academia has the bad rep for engaging in ivory tower thought that doesn't work in the real world.

Instead, be glad that our program costs several million dollars per year less to operate than the revenues it generates and that excess profit gets funneled into the programs that weren't otherwise going to get that money.

I think that's the right way to look at this. At least it's my opinion.

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The OP never mentioned politics

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Come on man. The guy is a professor who doesn't like sports, and is whining about why football gets so much attention. All the while he's collecting a big fat salary provided by the taxpayers for teaching and researching God knows what. He's a liberal.

I graduated from LSU in 1977.