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re: Louisiana regent suggests LaTech, UL, ULM drop down to FCS
Posted on 10/2/26 at 12:45 pm to YoungSteele830
Posted on 10/2/26 at 12:45 pm to YoungSteele830
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Posted by YoungSteele830 ?
10/1/26 at 9:41 am to thejuiceisloose
As a La Tech guy, why did they let us pay the massive CUSA exit fee to go to the Sun Belt, not even a year ago, just do all this? Plus our travel costs will be going significantly down in the SBC. No more trips to Delaware, FIU, or NMSU. Get to go to Lafayette, Monroe, Hattiesburg, Troy, Jonesboro, and Mobile instead.
I feel like 100% of Bulldog and Cajun fans want to stay in the Sun Belt as long as possible. Nobody wants to go to the Southland. That would just about kill the football program. ULM MAYBE would drop down, although even that’s questionable.
I agree. I think the first step would be to lower costs of playing teams all over the dang country. There should be conferences with tighter geographical areas for the smaller and mid major type schools. I feel as though the NCAA has some responsibility here as well. Seems putting together a conference should come with certain parameters to meet these goals. Not just let schools choose to go to whatever conference they want. There may be more flexibility for larger budget conferences. Still, some rules of the road would help.
Posted on 10/2/26 at 1:52 pm to SiriusBraveFan
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There may be more flexibility for larger budget conferences.
They’ll be like “how can you let the Big Ten and ACC and Big XII be coast to coast but you won’t let conference Xxxx?”
Posted on 10/2/26 at 1:53 pm to Baers Foot
Smart move, they should listen.
Posted on 10/2/26 at 4:31 pm to GREENHEAD22
Best thing would be to shut down USL football completely and give Tech & ULM the USL money.
Posted on 10/2/26 at 6:53 pm to AwesomeSauce
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None right now,
Anyone thinking tax dollars and/or student tuition isn't going into that AD, whether openly or through some obscure backdoor subsidies to mask it from the public eye, (e.g. Oregon admin paying the athletic department millions to have a suite in Autzen, which is owned by the University), is very naive
But if they're going to suggest LaTech/UL/ULM, then why not LSU as well?
This post was edited on 10/2/26 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 10/2/26 at 8:31 pm to Jim Rockford
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You could put together a fun little conference with the schools from LA plus USM and a few from ARK and ETX. Local rivalries, easy travel.
They used to have this… it was called the Gulf States Conference!
Posted on 10/2/26 at 8:35 pm to WeareLATech
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Again Landry only cares about LSU.
This is a so ironic since Landry didn’t go to LSU.
Posted on 10/2/26 at 8:50 pm to ElderTiger
I am glad he is focusing on LSU. We need a true flagship university. We have too many 4 year schools
Posted on 10/3/26 at 5:52 am to Optimism
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I am glad he is focusing on LSU. We need a true flagship university. We have too many 4 year schools
Well then actually be a flagship university. Instead of just an athletic factory. LSU gets the lions share of funding and is ranked 202 overall in USNWR.
That’s not a flagship by any means.
Posted on 10/3/26 at 6:06 am to Adam Banks
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They are playing a shell game to get more money.
Do you people just say whatever incoherent nonsense comes to mind?
LSU athletics doesn’t use taxpayer dollars. So why would that be trying to get “more” of what they don’t get and use in the first place?
Posted on 10/3/26 at 7:24 am to LSUtiger89
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Do you people just say whatever incoherent nonsense comes to mind? LSU athletics doesn’t use taxpayer dollars. So why would that be trying to get “more” of what they don’t get and use in the first place?
Well you need to read and learn about context clues.
Rousse and Landry have been attempting to set up alternative private funding sources for LSU athletics and that to extend even into research dollars.
Rousse has been playing up the athletics deficit to set the table for buy in when they officially reveal the model
This post was edited on 10/3/26 at 7:25 am
Posted on 10/3/26 at 1:48 pm to WeareLATech
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Again Landry only cares about LSU.
Good
Posted on 10/3/26 at 2:50 pm to wadewilson
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Again Landry only cares about LSU.
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Good
Yea. Because frick the other 70% of students in Louisiana that attend other universities.
That’s a great way to keep them around so they don’t haul arse to literally anywhere else.
Posted on 10/3/26 at 2:52 pm to Ldogg123
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That’s a great way to keep them around so they don’t haul arse to literally anywhere else.
Their degree isn’t strong enough to go anywhere else
Posted on 10/3/26 at 3:00 pm to chalmetteowl
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Their degree isn’t strong enough to go anywhere else
Why do so many go to Texas then?
Posted on 10/3/26 at 5:29 pm to Stealth Matrix
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And then the state will turn around and sink more cash into LSU athletics
That isnt possible because LSU athletics and football receives ZERO state taxpayer money and is 100% independent of LSU. Funny this was never mentioned
This post was edited on 10/3/26 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 10/3/26 at 7:01 pm to OU812
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receives ZERO state taxpayer money and is 100% independent of LSU
Hmmm
You might want to dig more into that roughly $2 million is set to receive via the new sports gambling tax revenue.
Posted on 10/3/26 at 7:06 pm to Junky
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You might want to dig more into that roughly $2 million is set to receive via the new sports gambling tax revenue
That isnt state taxpayer money, it is from sprots gambling money!
Posted on 10/3/26 at 7:36 pm to Baers Foot
ULL?
Posted on 10/4/26 at 4:35 pm to OU812
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That isnt state taxpayer money, it is from sprots gambling money!
Sometimes, you can’t win.
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