All hail LSU.

You really should have capitalized the A in your username.

frick latech

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make an enemy out of the Davidson's.

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Who?

Timeline is one word.

Also, regarding LA Tech:

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Timeline is one word.

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Beat me to it, and he just keeps using it over and over.

That article is full of bullshite. Trying to argue that Tech, ULM, and ULL would experience a drop in their enrollment if they move down from FBS to FCS. I highly doubt that Sun Belt Conference football is a deciding factor in where many kids choose to go to school.

If they need more athletics funding, then go ask for booster donations, corporate sponsorships, or raise ticket prices. We bitch enough about the high cost of college these days. So how does it make sense to complain about how expensive college is, but then argue that schools like ULM, ULL, and LA Tech should add an athletics fee on top of tuition to fund athletics programs that have no realistic chance at competing at the highest levels.

This may be an unpopular opinion especially for fans of the smaller schools but Louisiana has too many division 1 programs and the numbers back it up.

Louisiana currently has 12 division 1 athletic departments. That is tied for tenth most in the country for a state that is currently ranked 25th in population and 29th in annual budget. The other states with 12 D1 athletic departments are South Carolina and Tennessee. Tennessee has a 2.5 mil more people and an annual state budget of around $8 billion more. South Carolina is a bit closer to us with a population of only 900,000 more and a state budget of about $4 billion more.

Here's the biggest difference though: out of the 12 programs in SC, 10 have D1 football programs. Out of those 10, only 5 are public schools. Out of those 5 public schools with football, only 3 are FBS (Clemson, USC, and Coastal Carolina). In Tennessee, 10 of their D1 programs have football, 9 of them are public schools, and three have FBS programs (UT, Memphis, and MTSU)

On the other hand, Louisiana has 11 D1 schools with football programs. 10 of them are public schools, and 4 of them are FBS programs (LSU, ULL, La Tech, and ULM)

Only 10 states operate 4 or more public FBS programs. Out of those 10, Louisiana ranks 9th in state annual budget ahead of only Alabama. The next closest is Georgia who operates around $14 billion more per year.

The reality is football is expensive, and right now Louisiana is trying to operate a lot of public football programs with a shrinking population and a struggling budget. Somethings gotta give and maybe its time for some schools in the state to either up their student fees, drop down to FCS or if they are already in FCS, drop football all together.

As long as Squire Creek stays open frick the Davidson’s.

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make an enemy out of the Davidson's.

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The Davidsons are the oligarchy of Ruston/Choudrant, everyone bends the knee when they walk by, richest family in town.

They own Squire Creek.

The father made a ton of money in trucking.

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So keep this up Jeff. Go ahead and make an enemy out of the Davidson's.

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Jeff Landry is worried about one thing - Jeff Landry. And he proves it time and again. He continually does head scratching things, that he seems oddly oblivious to the fact that they are head scratching.

He got some points here for taking credit for Kiffin, but dude's still done some really mindless things and plenty of them.

I have no skin in this Tech thing and no knowledge of this situation, but it seems that those who do seem to think ole Jeff is bowing up to the wrong folks on this one - and he ain't one to walk things back so this one may come back to bite him....seems short sighted on his part - which also ain't surprising.