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All-American [589]
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People aren't getting the LSU issue completely..
Feb 12, 2016, 11:08 PM
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Believe they are saying without funds.... School shuts down. No school means no grade or "incomplete ratings" for grades which means no student, even student athletes are ncaa compliant. Ie, no football
In other words... Booster funding for football won't matter. Program will have money but no student athlete will have "grades" that make them eligible to do play their sport Reply
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All-American [589]
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Re: People aren't getting the LSU issue completely..
Feb 12, 2016, 11:09 PM
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Athletes "won't" have grades
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All-In [40868]
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Can someone translate this post to English
Feb 13, 2016, 1:51 AM
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please?
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I'd be willing to venture that three things prevail in the
Feb 13, 2016, 6:09 AM
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great state of Louisiana: Almighty God, family and LSU football.
All things else pale into insignificance, including threats by any politician to mess with any of those three. Hence, the good folks of that state will continue to fill the churches, have Sunday dinners with their kin and fill DEAF Valley to the brim come football Saturdays. That's because in Louisiana, when there's a will, there's always going to be a way-wardness to grease palms, get rid of opposition and keep that Tiger football program alive and well! lol
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All-In [38422]
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Re: I'd be willing to venture that three things prevail in the
Feb 13, 2016, 8:35 AM
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/\ forgot delicious creole food .
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LSU should play the coots in Columbia next time
Feb 13, 2016, 6:46 AM
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they're scheduled since last years game was moved because of the flooding. All's fair in love and war - never really understood that saying btw and i may be using it out of context.
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Orange Blooded [2584]
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Re: LSU should play the coots in Columbia next time
Feb 13, 2016, 11:06 AM
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It is not going to matter where it is played.
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Orange Blooded [3921]
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I agree with this. Thing is though
Feb 13, 2016, 6:47 AM
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As a land grant school I am going to bet that, like In SC, state government cannot allow the school to stop research and extension activities. It is law. The school will remain open. Couple that with the millions upon millions in federal funding that the school receives and you quickly realize that someone, either at the school or State gov. level, is simply trying to push the envelope.
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Re: I agree with this. Thing is though
Feb 13, 2016, 7:47 AM
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Yep, it's known as "The Washington Monument Ploy', when politicians threaten to shut down something that causes an outcry with the public, usually in a budget battle.
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In the time-honored practices of graft, corruption nepotism
Feb 13, 2016, 8:27 AM
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fraud, embezzlement, etc, the state of Louisiana is galaxies ahead of South Carolina---and dating far back before the Kingfisher built that monstrosity of a building in Baton Rouge.....one former governor--Edwin Edwards--was imprisoned for the corruption surrounding the introduction of casinos to La....and then was RE-ELECTED after his jail term!!
I suspect that Bobby Jindal and his cronies were just playing politics the Louisiana Way (similar to the Carolina Way in college athletics has been exposed) and now the higher ed coffers are empty
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Jindal cut funding for education to balance the budget
Feb 13, 2016, 11:18 AM
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It had nothing to do with "The Louisiana Way." The Governor in LA now is John Bel Edwards. Name sound familiar?
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Re: Jindal cut funding for education to balance the budget
Feb 13, 2016, 1:23 PM
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budget cuts for higher ed aside, I think it would be naive to think there was no hanky panky going on in other parts of Louisiana's state gov't that necessitated the current funding crisis....for all we know, Jindal involvemment may have been totally that he inherited a huge sewage backup
But with oil, chemicals and tourism, one would think there'd be enough money coming into the state to avoid the headlines---and this may be a big scare tactic.
Did they really elect another member of the Edwards family??? Unbelievable....
Quick Edwards story---the wife and I were trying to wend our way past a gigantic crowd in front of a French Quarter hotel during Carnival many years ago.....the next morning, read in the Times-Picayune that the First Lady of Louisiana (Mrs. Governor Edwin Edwards) was in the middle of some women on a 3rd story balcony baring her upper torso for a few strands of beads.....ya gotta love that place!
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Jindal was crooked too, he would have never reached...
Feb 13, 2016, 3:09 PM
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the top down there with out at least being a little crooked.
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He cut funding for education because he is against public...
Feb 13, 2016, 3:08 PM
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education. Kind of funny at one time the Republicans were touting him the next big thing for them, then he drove the state of Louisiana into chaos to follow his unrealistic and harsh policies. Been down to Louisiana before, it's a nice place. Feel bad for the people living down there, having to deal with a system thrown into chaos.
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Re: I agree with this. Thing is though
Feb 13, 2016, 10:26 AM
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Actually the two things not protected by the state constitution are health care and education so land grant doesn't matter in this case. They are trying of change that is what I've heard though.
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Orange Blooded [4753]
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a google search found that LSU had an endowment fund
Feb 13, 2016, 7:52 AM
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of $568,000,000 as of 2013. Spend some of it guys.
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Athletic Dir [881]
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They already use the endowment earnings
Feb 13, 2016, 3:02 PM
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to fund things. Spend down the endowment and the earnings drop. And parts are earmarked for specific things and can't be touched.
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Re: People aren't getting the LSU issue completely..
Feb 13, 2016, 8:33 AM
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My bet is that they play football or some one takes the Gov. out
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Re: People aren't getting the LSU issue completely..
Feb 13, 2016, 11:21 AM
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and there will be a 100 witnesses that swear it was suicide.
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Varsity [238]
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Is there anyone that does't understand that?
Feb 13, 2016, 8:56 AM
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Seems pretty obvious.
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Nohing is happening to LSU nor LSU football...
Feb 13, 2016, 8:59 AM
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It's all hype. We all know that in a few years from now nothing will have changed.
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They'll play football. It's a tactic to raise taxes by the governor.
Feb 13, 2016, 9:13 AM
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I'm not sure which party is worse the GOP or the DNC.
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Not sure how this became an opportunity to bash the parties***
Feb 13, 2016, 11:14 AM
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Re: People aren't getting the LSU issue completely..
Feb 13, 2016, 10:30 AM
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It's not that they aren't getting state funds per say. It's that the state has said they are suspending payment on the tops scholarships. Tops is comparable to our life scholarships. The number I've heard is 70% of the students here are on it. If a university doesn't get 70% of its tuition payments it can't function.
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All-TigerNet [13031]
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They will never shut the school down and sends students home
Feb 13, 2016, 10:35 AM
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This is just a shock tactic.
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It doesn't matter, because it won't happen
Feb 13, 2016, 11:10 AM
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This is just a typical tactic to get funding. You threaten to cut out essential services and the things people care about the most first so that there's a public outcry for more funding.
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Yep. Instead of cutting funding to pet projects and non-
Feb 13, 2016, 12:22 PM
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essentials, they threaten the most important things like education to shock/scare voters into accepting tax hikes. There's almost certainly many other ways to balance the budget, but no politician wants to start cutting funding because they will lose votes or political ties. The entire thing makes me sick.
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That's the problem with the policy of spend a lot and...
Feb 13, 2016, 3:13 PM
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cut taxes at the same time. You can't keep on spending money you don't have. Just simple math, you can't increase or keep spending at the same levels when you have huge tax cuts.
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Re: People aren't getting the LSU issue completely..
Feb 13, 2016, 11:19 AM
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Political saber rattling that will never happen.
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Re: People aren't getting the LSU issue completely..
Feb 13, 2016, 4:07 PM
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UNCheat football and basketball players attended that institution, without classes, for 18 years. Without any NCAA problems...
Why would that work for a team in the SEC (Seems Everyone is Cheating)?
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Re: Maybe we can hire
Feb 13, 2016, 6:34 PM
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Les Miles as Special Teams coach.
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