USCe trying to keep Tate?

Please God

well this sucks

was looking forward to the end of LSU System-ic racism

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USCe trying to keep Tate?

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Was a mistake to give this idiot the job anyway.

It's funny b/c I watched that Graduation address and thought their President sounded like a doofus. Then this. Ah well.

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Days after LSU named William Tate IV its next president, his colleagues at the University of South Carolina might not be ready to let him flee deeper south just yet.
Tate, the University of South Carolina provost, is expected to start at LSU in early July. But over the weekend, University of South Carolina President Bob Caslen ignited a firestorm of criticism over plagiarism allegations and other mistakes in his commencement address, leading some to try to hatch a plan to make Tate his replacement, according to the Post and Courier.

"Some university leaders are discussing efforts to have Tate stay in Columbia and take over for Caslen, which was the ultimate plan when he was hired as the school’s academic chief in 2020," the Post and Courier reports. "Tate was a finalist for the USC president job in 2019."

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Caslen offered to resign from his presidential post as he admitted that he lifted parts of his commencement address from a retired U.S. Navy admiral's speech to University of Texas graduates in 2014. He also congratulated Gamecock graduates over the weekend as “the newest alumni from the University of California.”

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At least we're not the only clown show in the SEC.

We’re not going to keep Tate when we haven’t even let Caslen go yet.

Even if our Board of Trustees accepted Caslen’s resignation tomorrow, the process of appointing our next president is highly political in nature, and it’s very unlikely our governor (who jammed Caslen through despite heavy pushback) is going to suddenly view Tate as the right guy for the job.

We are a shite show, there’s no doubt, but I’m sorry to inform LSU fans that we’re not coming to the rescue on this one.