re: Were any of you LC baws friends with Robert Noland?

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It's going to be really hard for McNeese to prove he wasn't competent. For $15 million you shoot your shot, but they're almost certain to lose.

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McNeese is giving the appearance of distant relatives/people claiming to be relatives sniffing money and coming out of the woodworks to try and grab something of what they aren't entitled to

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I knew him a little from alumni events. In 85 or 86, I was in BR working for a regional fiber optic network, which was cutting edge at the time. We provided point-to-point data lines for larger businesses. We called on him several times, and he eventually became a client. He was a model train enthusiast, and since our network was laid alongside the KC southern railroad, we used some kind of spool mounted on a rail cart. (something like that) He wanted photos so that he could have a replica built for his model trains. He was somewhat eccentric, but always nice. We always planned for long meetings as he seemed happy for the company. I liked him.

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Nanette, his sister runs the show since his older brother Willis died at sea. I knew Willis, great guy. Their dad liked to stray with young hotties. One told me that dad would just get drunk and pass out, the next morning she would tell him what a stud he was. Once dad took the jet to an LSU game and Nanette had it flown back to Lake Chuck while he was still at the game. He had to find another way home just not in style. Nanette made a shrewd move and bought out all of the relatives with the land/canal company, rice dryer, rice mill, timber, and the power plant fueled by rice hulls. She has also developed property in Costa Rica, on the Pacific, in Baton Rouge, and owns a few others businesses. The King family, as a whole had money out the wazoo, that's their mother's side. They developed a big chunk of land between Lake Chuck and Iowa to rice farms which they supplied the irrigation water for along with their own rice farm acreage. That was a huge cash cow until Reagan stopped the subsidies in the early 1980's by stopping the purchase of rice to give away overseas.

She also owns several radio stations.

Mike Barbe laughed about how they sold barely enough land for Robert to build his home on the lake so he wouldn't have an estate property like other homes between Lake St and the Port.

I read every word in this string above.

Money rules the world. Appears to me that letting money be the central tenet of your life and relationships is not the best business decision.