Underseige

So comparing Florida, Ole Miss, and LSU’s Athletic Foundation 2023 Audits, because this is the most recent year we have for all but Florida (and I don’t think these statements are too old to get a good idea of financial health), The Statement of Net Assets, basically all the things we own less all the things we owe, and the greater indicator of overall financial health of an entity, shows LSU with $500M in Net Assets, OM with around $70M, and Florida with over $200M. So, at the end of 2023 LSU’s financial health was way more impressive to say the least. On a year to year basis, we look at the revenues and expenses. Between the 3, LSU had a surplus of revenues over expenses by about $36m. Florida, while actually taking in a little more revenue than LSU, way outspent LSU and ended up with a loss in 2023. Ole Miss had way less revenues in 2023 than both, and spent as much as LSU relatively speaking compared with Revenue size, but they did end that year in the black. An entity’s results from year to year go on to either add or take away from their position of net assets. Drilling down even deeper, you notice that LSU’s unrestricted revenues are far higher/greater than both Florida and Ole Miss, which is very important because these are the funds the donors will allow spent on any purpose the foundation sees fit, giving much greater financial flexibility to LSU. Florida and OLE MISS both have fancier more complicated to read sets of financial statements, but when you have LSU’s kind of Financual Results, those speak for themselves.

I would like to challenge everyone on this board to never mention the Moses name again. It's (he) is simply not worth the emotions. There are such more import ways to spend that emotion.i'll admit it.., he got me again with this official visit and the timing. I was just so mad at myself for being fooled (a fool) again. When I think about all the most recent recruits of a lifetime that chose Alabama over us... Landon Collins, Hootie, Cam Robinson, even Tony Brown and now Dylan...have any of them really lived up to the hype that we on this board made of them? I don't really feel so. The thing is Saban is a football person that no one coach can really compete with, and why? Seems like someone could just copy the process...but it's not that. Nick Saban is simply a effing maniac that does nothing but football almost 24/7...making it very hard to compete with since most people need just a tiny bit if a life. Nothing can sustain like that.,, crash and burn is bound to happen sooner or later. Alabama won't always have Saban, but LSU will always have a game day experience like no other, fans like no other, and a love for everything LSU football that is of the truest form....for better or worse if you love LSU football you are part of this amazing fanbase that has the coolest most original most culturally diverse people within in it. We need to remember that Saban can take a recruit or two but he can never take away rockstar fanbase, our gameday experience and our passion that sometimes comes off as meltdowns and over emotion. It's our passion that makes these recruits who they are to the nation. When Saban is gone, we will still be us and Alabama will be them in Tuscaloosa with no hot sauce on the table. With a fanbase that drives into Tuscaloosa for the games and then leave because there are only about 2 hotels..,you get my drift? FOREVEVER LSU!!! And that's all I care about in our recruits!

This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately because it has been advertised multiple years that LSU has more current players in the NFL. Most of those NFLSU players are in their first 5 - 7yrs. So, if Alabama has the #1 recruiting class averaged over the last five years, why do more LSU players seem to be making in the NFL? Doesn't it seem like Alabama should have double the amount of players in the NFL ,if you went by recruiting rankings and national championships? So, what's the deal? Do their players get more wear and tear at Bama and hurt their longevity in the NFL? This may have been discussed in another thread, but I was really curious to know if anyone had any thoughts on this.

I have been following this kid since the 8th grade because not only has he been a stud athlete but he also went to my alma mater U-high. You could tell he was absolutely a die hard tiger fan..even more so than other big time LSU commitments. That's why I was so shocked when he committed to Alabama because it seemed he always had that purple and gold running through his veins.

This is why I feel something stinks in Suburbia. All the Baton Rouge/LSU connections, his siblings in B.R., his Dad having a big law practice here in addition to my never hearing anything but positive things about his childhood in Baton Rouge. He grew up with class, and if he were really choosing Alabama, it seems he would go about it in a different way. You don't just have so much loyalty to a program and it's fans and then all of a sudden switch to the program's arch rival and start kind of taunting the hometown fan base with all the Alabama talk and tweets. I just don't see his family allowing him to go about his recruitment in this manner that is somewhat hurtful to sensitive hometown fans that make take it a little personally. Especially so after all the city of Baton Rouge has been through this year. It's just all been a little too much taunting and pro Alabama, and I feel like he is trying to convince someone of something that is not true. I am sure he is super impressed with Alabama, and they are definitely where he would choose if the LSU program did not have a promising future.And he does have the right to choose..I just would not expect it to go down in this manner after all the history he has with the program and B.R. Just my two cents.