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Posted on 7/25/19 at 9:02 am to Srobi14
Here’s the problem. There are two groups of thinking of why this is wrong.
1 is the group that says they can build this but can’t pay the players
2 is the group that says they can build this but LSU has other places that could have used the money on the academic side.
Both of those lines of thinking sound good and virtuous on the outside. So anyone uneducated in the situation can easily get in one and feel good about themselves but when you dig down deeper you see that thinking is wrong.
1. It’s not lsu’s fault they can’t pay the players. They would if they could. This is the best way to get that money they make in the players hands.
2. It was private donations earmarked for the athletic department. Some from former players that put their blood, sweat, and tears into the university. Alabama has proven that a great athletic program can bring up the university as a whole. The university of Alabama has grown tremendously since Saban started winning because out of state kids want to go to that school for academics not just football. I love Louisiana and the people here but if you want to grow the university side of it you need people from other parts of the country to come as well.
1 is the group that says they can build this but can’t pay the players
2 is the group that says they can build this but LSU has other places that could have used the money on the academic side.
Both of those lines of thinking sound good and virtuous on the outside. So anyone uneducated in the situation can easily get in one and feel good about themselves but when you dig down deeper you see that thinking is wrong.
1. It’s not lsu’s fault they can’t pay the players. They would if they could. This is the best way to get that money they make in the players hands.
2. It was private donations earmarked for the athletic department. Some from former players that put their blood, sweat, and tears into the university. Alabama has proven that a great athletic program can bring up the university as a whole. The university of Alabama has grown tremendously since Saban started winning because out of state kids want to go to that school for academics not just football. I love Louisiana and the people here but if you want to grow the university side of it you need people from other parts of the country to come as well.
Posted on 7/25/19 at 9:05 am to Srobi14
People will find anything to be outraged about.
Posted on 7/25/19 at 9:17 am to Srobi14
We're living in the age of Bernie Sanders now and the traditions upon which this country was founded upon are eroding. The popular opinion is shifting from 'if you work hard and become the best at what you do, you'll be rewarded for your sweat equity' to 'someone else worked hard and became the best at what they do, and they should share that success with me even though I contributed nothing to it.'
The football program brought in nearly $90,000,000.00 last year and consistently donates several million dollars back to the university every year.
Maybe if Louisiana State University positioned its graduates for success the way it does its football players then you'd see more donations to academics. Or maybe if the university was run appropriately and people believed their money was being spent well, you'd see more people willing to donate
In the end, this all comes back to JBE and FKA.
Stepping off the soap box now...
The football program brought in nearly $90,000,000.00 last year and consistently donates several million dollars back to the university every year.
Maybe if Louisiana State University positioned its graduates for success the way it does its football players then you'd see more donations to academics. Or maybe if the university was run appropriately and people believed their money was being spent well, you'd see more people willing to donate
In the end, this all comes back to JBE and FKA.
Stepping off the soap box now...
Posted on 7/25/19 at 9:18 am to Srobi14
If anyone is actually upset about renovations and improvements to the athletic facilities, they need therapy.
However, there is nothing wrong or improper about being upset about the lack of renovations to academic facilities. All facilities, athletic and academic, should be first class at a great university like LSU!
However, there is nothing wrong or improper about being upset about the lack of renovations to academic facilities. All facilities, athletic and academic, should be first class at a great university like LSU!
Posted on 7/25/19 at 9:31 am to Srobi14
It’s a small amount of idiots who live to be offended and pissed off.
Posted on 7/25/19 at 9:51 am to Srobi14
Posted on 7/25/19 at 10:00 am to Pacito
We must be reading a different OP
Posted on 7/25/19 at 10:05 am to Srobi14
because they want to tell other people how to spend their money.
Posted on 7/25/19 at 10:46 am to Pacito
many more fans like it than oppose it
Posted on 7/25/19 at 10:52 am to Srobi14
:soapbox:
This is not new; it is just one more instance of a thing that has plagued the human race since humans have been on this planet:
>> Envy and hatred of anyone who’s having a better time.
>> Envy and hatred of anyone who’s more successful.
>> Envy and hatred of anyone who dares display that success.
And it is always accompanied by the notion that no one should be allowed to be more successful than anyone else, and that all manifestations of such success must be destroyed, lest there exist any lack of parity in the world.
It is an attitude of the feckless -- those inconsequential souls yearning to seem consequential.
They have always been with us, and they will always be with us.
Screw ‘em.
:/soapbox:
This is not new; it is just one more instance of a thing that has plagued the human race since humans have been on this planet:
>> Envy and hatred of anyone who’s having a better time.
>> Envy and hatred of anyone who’s more successful.
>> Envy and hatred of anyone who dares display that success.
And it is always accompanied by the notion that no one should be allowed to be more successful than anyone else, and that all manifestations of such success must be destroyed, lest there exist any lack of parity in the world.
It is an attitude of the feckless -- those inconsequential souls yearning to seem consequential.
They have always been with us, and they will always be with us.
Screw ‘em.
:/soapbox:
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