re: UPDATE: President Tate leaving to be president of Rutgers

First T-Bob and now Tate



Seriously, Tate did a great job here and I was skeptical at first. He will be missed and good luck to him.

Bring Stephen Moret home. It would be the home run hire. PhD, LSU grad, knows economic development and higher ed.

There’s more to the university than athletics. LSU has skyrocketed in research under Tate and that has brought money and recognition to the university. The average GPA’s and ACT’s in incoming classes continues to increase. The university has received a record amount of grants and funding for other projects also. What about that isn’t prospering?

Thank Gawd!

Does this mean that math can go back to being non-racist on the LSU campus?

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This just isn’t true. He’s leaving LSU in an infinitely better position than he received it.

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You all can hyperbole the accomplishments of Tate all you want. LSU admissions went to shite under Tate. Tate/ LSU has done zero keeping Louisiana's best in state. Way too many good students went to other state universities in the Southeast and Texas who would have other wised stayed with just a little effort or incentive.

Landry certainly wants his own candidate. It remains to be seen how much push back Landry gets from big LSU supporters. Lots of those supporters would endorse Moret, because of his work at LED and in Northern Virginia.

Moret makes significantly more money that Tate was making and may not have an interest. Also, his family may want to stay in in that area.

It will be an interesting next few months.

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nor CFB, especially from a historical LSU perspective.

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Based on the program’s performance this century, 9.9 wins is exactly our average. We have averaged 3 losses during that time. Both numbers ignore the COVID season as an outlier in play and number of games.

We have won 10+ games in a row for multiple seasons only 4 times in program history, all in this century (partially because the number of games has increase to 11 and 12 over time), but a 4 year run is a long as we’ve ever sustained it. We also had one 3 year stretch and two 2 year stretches, and one of those is under Kelly. That’s it. Also consider that the SEC has only gotten stronger top to bottom since then and everyone has money now.

Do we all want to be better than this historical average- yes. Does LSU the potential to be better- absolutely. But don’t distort the facts to fit some rosy, fantasy narrative of 2000-2019, and especially the history before that. We’ve always been good to very good other than for most of the 90s, but we have never sustained greatness for more than one season at a time. That’s just the honest truth and the numbers spell that out very plainly.

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Way too many good students went to other state universities in the Southeast and Texas who would have other wised stayed with just a little effort or incentive.

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This has been happening LONG before Tate. Every University prioritizes out of state students.

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But enlighten us. Name one liberal DEI or woke agenda item that Tate initiated since his arrival.

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His background made it seem like this is what he might do here, but that just wasn’t the case in reality. He got behind our athletic programs and did a good job in improving research and academic metrics pretty much across the board during his tenure. He did an objectively good to very good job, and on the heels of a buffoon in Alexander. Because he didn’t overly push own perceived personal and political agendas in his role at LSU, I give him credit for a good job and hate that he’s leaving.