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ULM trying to get students to vote for a $75 per semester athletics fee! Good for them.
I wonder if UL could try to add $75 more dollars to the $3800 in student fees apparently already being collected! LOL!
https://x.com/aaronsaces/status/1907...EKbwE0_xipAVQw
Don't see fossil supporting this. Hope I'm wrong
There was wailing and gnashing of teeth about lab fees when it started. I think we have now adopted the airline model. “O, you wanted to use the bathroom on this flight?”
The list of fees is startling.
3rd time is a charm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie35
That would only add $2M ish to our athletic budget.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie35
I wasn't aware that UL passed a student fee assessment. When did that happen? Student fees have been driving the larger budgets for other G5 schools.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie35
2 million annually would be huge for us. We can do more with less.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ULM student fee for athletics passed. Lot of folks never thought they would see it. Big day.</p>— Sean Fox (@fox4sportstalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/fox4sportstalk/status/1907939652574871650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
$2 Mill more than what we have today.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun4life
…..Let’s VOTE!!!…….get’er done!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Buds
UL has an opportunity to do the same by passing a modest student assessed fee to stay competitive. This could finally get pass! We can’t say it can’t be done with the right message because ULM just did.
lol not with these liberal kids roaming campus. 99% don’t care about sports and they certainly don’t want more fees on top of the already ridiculous fees they are paying.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMD7636
They are looking at a total increase of $600K right? That is not earth-shaking money. The question we should be asking is would our student body vote yes on another fee? Our university has had more student fees than ULM for years. My gut tells me no way the students here at UL will support another fee, including an athletic fee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie35
It isn't about liberal or conservative, it's about giving students a reason to care about UL athletics consistently. Boost marketing efforts directed at students for every game, stop alienating the greeks, and make game day the place to be for students. You have to do these things consistently year over year to get a culture of students caring about UL athletics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Million$Mullet
Will an athletics fee pass? Depends on if SGA gets behind it or not.
I used to say that there was no way it can be done here...but if ULM did it, UL can.
If you get the right people on campus campaigning for it, it could be done. The fact that ULM did it shows that we need to try.
Was it tried while HUD was here? If so, and it failed, forget the thought. There is no energy for UL athletics in this town anymore much less in that student body.Quote:
Originally Posted by LouisianaB
I don't think it was tried.Quote:
Originally Posted by Esqueleto
They used "Athletics" to front one of the Master Plans (buildings) but an athletic fee specifically for athletics was never on the table.
just my recollection
It ain't so much a liberal vs. conservative thing these days. Hell, if I were a student and knew that right now there was a prefiled bill for this upcoming legislative session to make NIL earnings for Louisiana college athletes tax free, I'd say F--- No to forking over my or my parents' money in the form of a tuition fee to fund athletics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Million$Mullet
And I voted YES on the one that was attempted when I was at UL, but today's format is a completely different game, and I honestly don't like it.
We passed a student fee when I was a student. But it was sold as being for Bourgeois and Athletics or something.
I really don't think students would pass it now-a-days, especially after seeing the current tuition and fees breakdown in another thread. I'm with runner, I don't even know if I'd vote for it today. When is enough enough for "student" athletes these days?
Students enjoy athletic events at no cost. UL doesn’t have an athletics fee, but most universities in the SBC do. In order to stay competitive, UL needs to pass this too. An athletic fee is not NIL, but to support athletics.
If I was a student there is absolutely zero way I’d vote yes on a student fee.
No one said the athletic fee was or for NIL. But now with NIL, and in Louisiana an effort to exempt NIL monies from state income taxes when your regular student working at Pizza Village is still subject to state income taxes, I can see where those students say no way.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMD7636
What are the reasons & situations UL students would agree to an athletic fee?