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Sugar Land Caju
I totally agree. We can't sit around waiting for the legislature to allow us to get additional student fees. It likely won't happen. And, even if it does, it won't raise that much additional dollars. We need to raise the money ourselves and let athletics be self-supporting. We need to quit blaming LSU for everything. The are a product of the Long era and benefited from that. It can't be changed and LSU made it work for them. So, how do we overcome what we are dealt? Like you said, get big time corporate sponsors, stadium naming rights, start an athletics funding group like TAF, continue to improve facilities, have a 5 year Plan and announce our intentions to build our program and our budget. All of this will position UL to get into C-USA and get out of SBC. For now, we have to win this conference, go to a bowl game, build excitement for our program, start the independent fund raising (especially now that we have raised $125,000,000 for academics) and then watch what we can do. We need to quit playing the victim and aggressively go after what we want.