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re: Updated in OP: Sometimes you’ve got to say “No”. LSU got a hard no today.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 4:56 pm to DiamondDog
Posted on 9/17/20 at 4:56 pm to DiamondDog
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Instead, we’ll be opting to just cut the kids preferred school a check every year once they submit a copy of their fee bill.
Welding classes are the most expensive the school counselor said. It’s $1500 for the first level or whatever they do at BRCC. So if we give $3,000 a year, it’ll help two kids get a good start doing some type of trade school.
First...great job! You can either fund this, or give that money to TAF who will use it to buy half a calfskin purple and gold locker room reclining vibrating chair for someone who has no appreciation for you or the gift. Seems an easy call.
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LSU actually responded to my email from a very nice lady that is the Vice President of something or another.
We engaged in a couple emails.
Essentially, they’re standing behind their Diversity Inclusion Roadmap and all of us who disagree can just be big mad.
That’s fine. My money is going elsewhere.
I appreciate you letting us know this. While not an LSU alumnus, I gave up my season tickets after 19 seasons due to all of this and a lifetime of being an LSU fan and booster. I'm glad they're sticking to their guns. It makes me feel that much better about my decision to walk away and never look back.
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Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:01 pm to Jake88
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How is this different than what they've been doing for years? Honest question. Haven't almost all colleges made moves to bring in more minorities for decades now?
They lost me with this stuff...
Tiger Stadium lit up in the high school colors of George Floyd...
Actually read this nonsense...
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Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:02 pm to CedarChest
quote:I am sure I watched one earlier but my first that i vividly remember was the Ole Miss v Rice Sugar Bowl. 61 I think. Jake Gibbs rolls left to put the game away
The first football game I remember watching in its entirety on TV was the 1962 Sugar Bowl between Arkansas and Ole Miss.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:02 pm to DiamondDog
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LSU actually responded to my email from a very nice lady that is the Vice President of something or another.
We engaged in a couple emails.
Essentially, they’re standing behind their Diversity Inclusion Roadmap and all of us who disagree can just be big mad.
That’s fine. My money is going elsewhere.
Get Woke. Go Broke. Enjoy the fruits of your labors.
I’m an LSU alum. I’ll watch the football team on TV this Fall because of that. I’ve had baseball season tickets since the new Box first opened which I won’t be renewing.
That was my last financial tie. LSU has seen it’s last penny out of me. It’s not the university I attended.
This post was edited on 9/17/20 at 5:03 pm
Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:05 pm to Diamondawg
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Jake Gibbs
Had the pleasure of meeting him at the SEC Baseball Tournament a few years ago. Great guy with a tremendous sense of humor about Halloween night.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:10 pm to Jake88
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Diversity Inclusion Roadmap
How is this different than what they've been doing for years? Honest question. Haven't almost all colleges made moves to bring in more minorities for decades now?
“Diversity inclusion roadmap” is just gobbely goop language to fool the fools. How about an institution of higher learning actually cultivate diversity of thought and not just focus on people’s outward appearance? That would be a novel idea.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:12 pm to DiamondDog
If you had real balls you'd boycott the football games this year too.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:38 pm to DiamondDog
The Univ of Alabama has their "Bama Blitz" donation scheme going on right now. I've never donated through this, but always did to the Culverhouse business school by other means. I got an email from them in late spring trying to make me feel bad about blacks. I wasn't a huge donor, my name was always printed in with the hundreds of others. But I told them I won't be donating.
I am also a graduate of Georgia St & they've been the worst about this forever. Never donated to them & never will because of their social stances preferring inequality.
I am also a graduate of Georgia St & they've been the worst about this forever. Never donated to them & never will because of their social stances preferring inequality.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:49 pm to GeauxTigerTM
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They lost me with this stuff...
They lost me with that foolishness as well. I'm not one of their "big donors", but I have better things I can do with my money.
Been a football season ticket holder for over 40 years, suffered through the Hallman era, and drove from Katy, TX to BR for football games for over 20 years.
Just don't think I want to support them any longer.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 5:50 pm to Godfather1
quote:Great guy. Problem with hiring an alumnus as a coach. Great athlete but not very good as head baseball coach. Probably held on to him until everyone else passed them by.
Had the pleasure of meeting him at the SEC Baseball Tournament a few years ago. Great guy with a tremendous sense of humor about Halloween night.
Posted on 9/17/20 at 6:12 pm to PrivatePublic
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If you had real balls you'd boycott the football games this year too.
Lol I’m already ahead of you broseph. I’m not wasting any of my time on that. The Saints were first on my ban list; these folks can be next.
I’m all for inclusion but as I told the lady in the email:
“ I think the University would make fundraising a lot easier on the Foundation and your staff if they chose to focus on enhancing the lives of its students instead of meddling in divisive issues.”
Posted on 9/18/20 at 8:12 pm to TGFN57
Why stop at 3 grand? Give them all your money...which we all know you don’t have shite and never gave a dime to LSU in your life.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 8:13 pm to DiamondDog
I just here figuring out how to upvote this post more than once
Posted on 9/18/20 at 8:19 pm to Drizzt
I don’t know who you’re responding to but I gave LSU about $30,000 in tuition and we have given money to LSU. I was scheduled to give LSU another $50,000 for the Executive MBA Flex starting in January 2021. I am now rethinking that.
I’ve supported this school in the past through season tickets and sports things.
My extended family has a scholarship in their name. We have been generational supporters of the school. I have not but am just 35 and had just begun getting in the position to give consistently and was giving.
We are the targeted donor base. Top 4-5% of household income who can afford consistent giving. Do we give a ton? No. But there are plenty like me. I’m just a singular sample of a problem they have.
I’ve supported this school in the past through season tickets and sports things.
My extended family has a scholarship in their name. We have been generational supporters of the school. I have not but am just 35 and had just begun getting in the position to give consistently and was giving.
We are the targeted donor base. Top 4-5% of household income who can afford consistent giving. Do we give a ton? No. But there are plenty like me. I’m just a singular sample of a problem they have.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 8:21 pm to DiamondDog
Awesome thing for you to do. Hopefully this is the kind of jumpstart someone needs to get their shite together and be productive.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 8:47 pm to DiamondDog
The poster I responded to said that he was giving LSU an extra 3 grand since you weren’t giving them money. I was calling BS on that.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 9:10 pm to DiamondDog
This thread is such an encouragement.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 9:54 pm to baobabtiger
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This thread is such an encouragement.
I hope it helps others that give, whatever amounts, to look locally to see where their money can do the most good. Even if it’s unorthodox to some.
Until LSU refocuses on providing quality education and seeking to improve the lives of all its students, they can seek donations from those that support their worldview.
I have a feeling people who think like me in Louisiana are the majority on these issues.
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