re: Confirmed: William F. Tate resigns as LSU President, takes over at Rutgers

How can Rutgers be any good if it admitted Jackie Aprile Jr., the same guy who robbed a card game with made mobsters and almost drowned in three inches of water when he was a little kid

I'm going to expand on some hard truths that need to be corrected by the new administration.

1. LSU's academic standing is atrocious. Its second worst in the SEC (only Mississippi State is rated lower). There is zero reason that LSU should not be middle of the pack in the conference. Actually there is zero reason that LSU should not be AAU. South Florida just received AAU status.

2. As stated above, LSU relies too much on TOPS and Pell Grants. It has lowered admission standards and has attracted students that should not be sniffing LSU. There are way too many sections of remedial math and science being taught at LSU.

3. LSU seems in a stronger position that they are because of "Tailgate Alumni." People who went to smaller universities (or no college) but cheer on the Tigers. This is different than the "Sidewalk Alumni" problem that schools like Alabama has. LSU has some serious donors that have zero academic attachment to LSU. It's all sports. Maybe that's okay, but it hurts the academic side.

4a. LSU's scholarship situation is awful, especially compared to the rest of the SEC. With Oklahoma and Arkansas waiving out of state for Louisiana residents, and Alabama giving tons of scholarship money, there are tons of students leaving the state. Louisiana has a brain drain problem. Our best and brightest aren't staying here.

4b. LSU's branding is entirely tied to athletics. Let's take your 28 ACT/3.8 kid that grows up loving the Tigers. They are going to pay around $25k a year for LSU. There is not a degree at LSU worth $100k. That kid might come on campus because they are a fan, but for a lot of families, they see $100k at LSU or $20k at State, Arkansas, Alabama, Oklahoma and make the financial decision.


F. King did some terrible crap, but dropping the alumni out of state waiver in 2015 was one of the worst. You have a lot of LSU legacy kids in Oxford, Starkville, Tuscaloosa, Fayetteville and Norman, or choosing Tech or Southwest Louisiana.

LSU simply does not get to invest in building programs because of stupid state political.

Example is Mike Foster refusing to let LSU have a Biomedical Engineering program at the behest of La Tech and Tulane by claiming there are already too many in the state and included a $45k/ year at the time private school.

With Pennington and other resources, including the medical schools, LSU is a strong spot for that.

Similarly, they suit all over the Comp Sci department a couple of decades ago and pushed away the best and brightest in those fields who bailed on LSU.

Georgia has more than double the population of Louisiana and yet has less than half of the public 4-year colleges that Louisiana has. Add in that they actually invest in their top schools and they succeed with schools like Ga Tech being top 10 programs in the country.

Add in Louisiana refuses to invest in diversifying their job market and a ton of the best students leave state. Trained on state money to just leave and help another state continue to grow and develop.

Flagship status means nothing in Louisiana. Ole Miss Arkansas and Texas run their respective state. We have way too many mfers in legislature that are graduates of other schools.

We need to take away all that free LSU all those mfers get and only give it to those that support LSU

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It’s funny that people call this board racist and extreme right wing, but we now have multiple threads saying how disappointed we are that a black man is leaving an extremely important position within the state while shitting all over the current white republican governor .

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And the board wept last week when a very well liked and respected black democrat passed away.

This board has brains if you pay attention.

I don't have a strong opinion on this but under Tate hasn't LSU's academic ranking dropped? Haven't the admissions standards dropped?

First time poster here, mostly lurk.. interesting this guy went to Auburn from LSU and now auburn admissions is being investigated


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Tate has been the exact opposite of FuKing. Wish we could have held onto him longer. Lets see what retard Landry supports

Why cant Louisiana vote for any non retarded republicans in office

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Landry is pissing of everyone within lsu, which includes the very conservative base too. He doesn’t know shite about running anything

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lsupride87

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Youre just mad that he opposed your precious death juice.