re: What can LSU do to force Baton Rouge to improve the city?

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Never ever felt unsafe. Not sure what BR y'all see

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Family Assaulted for being In "Wrong Part of Town"


You disingenuous pile of bloody vomit.

If you were on fire, and I had a gallon of water, I'd drink it.

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Cough, season opener neutral site games, cough.

Yes, but would that work in LSU's favor if they did that multiple times per season?

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It works in LSU's favor....BUT it hurts local businesses in Baton Rouge which in turn affects Baton Rouge due to decreased sales tax collections...

So, what you are saying is that LSU is maintaining while everyone else is growing? Good point.

Allow North Baton Rouge to become its own city.

Much of the rhetoric I've read says that people in NBR need to support black own businesses and not to do business with white businesses.

So let's take it one step further and allow them to keep their money inside their city.

We'll see how that goes.

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LSU can often make more money by playing games out of state. They should threaten to do more of this.

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Yeah, no.

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Again this could probably be attributed to decreased scholarship funding for out of state students coupled with the fact that BAMA and UGA are throwing scholarship money at students.

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The fact is LSU is not doing enough to attract out of state students and money. LSU had great scholarships available to me as an out of state student with an LSU alum grandparent. I didn't find out about any of these scholarships until I applied to LSU on a whim. LSU offered for me to go there for almost as little as Alabama (free) and if I wasn't already dead set on going to Bama at that point, I would've seriously considered LSU.

They need to get out in front of Sophomores and Juniors in neighboring states and get LSU in their mind. The students that may be planning on Auburn or Alabama but could still change their mind. I didn't see any LSU reps at college fairs in Alabama, whereas you can find Alabama reps at college fairs in New York, Texas, California, etc. If you're not on students' lists by the time they're applying, you're way behind.

Do exactly what they're doing on the north side:
Partner with alumni to buy up large tracts of land and redevelop them.

FWIW, I liked living in Baton Rouge. It should be nice town with some big city benefits.

Baton Rouge issue is not culcha, or even anything LSU can do. Every southern city is dealing with the scars of Jim crow and dem voting poor lower class.

Baton Rouge's issue is infrastructure and planning. It takes me less time to go 20 miles in Houston at 5 than it did some Fridays in baton rouge to go 1/4 of that distance

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Allow North Baton Rouge to become its own city.

Much of the rhetoric I've read says that people in NBR need to support black own businesses and not to do business with white businesses.
So let's take it one step further and allow them to keep their money inside their city.

We'll see how that goes.

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This is brilliant.

We'd need to carve out downtown and the capital area, and LSU of course.

Those can be part of south Baton Rouge since they are obviously inherently racist institutions (with all the nooses in trees at LSU and all)

Let Broome be mayor of NBR.

Gravy can be head of snacks or something like that.

We'd have to exile types like MM and KB to there since they are all about giving back.

And then the City of NBR could be rid of all the crackers.
No more honkies draining all those tax dollars from their businesses. Southern's standards and graduation rates would magically rise.

No cops killing innocent young black men on their way to the church bake sale to raise money for their college tuition. Crime would cease.

It would be a utopia, like Jackson and Detroit.


Top notch idea!