Savoie on the Budget Cuts

[RiverRanchMan]

_ I could tell you were a jerk the second I read you're pompous user name. You probably have NO IDEA why most UL fans "hate LSU", as you so eliquently put it. Go to the top of this page, and click the "UL" tab. Read that article, and enlighten yourself; then you can continue p!ss!ng in the wind concerning your understanding of "LSU bashing". At least you now, when you defend the "f a g ship" of purple and puke, you'll have to PRETEND to be ignorant instead of actually being so. _

I have read the UL “Name Battle” many times. It is misleading and full of assertions rather than facts. Once again blaming LSU. Not much is mentioned about the other universities crying foul, is there? If I remember, every university in the state had an issue with it.

[bballholic]

_ how cute.. He added Lafayette. Coincidence? I think not... _

I've seen LSU addressed in many different ways on this board. What is the official name of your school? On the OFFICIAL athletic website it says "The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I'm under the impression that UL-Lafayette and UL-Monroe were created on equal footing, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Having said that, I will refer to your school as UL if you would like.

[ManAboutTown]

_ I have read the UL “Name Battle” many times. It is misleading and full of assertions rather than facts. Once again blaming LSU. Not much is mentioned about the other universities crying foul, is there? If I remember, every university in the state had an issue with it. _

Not every other University in the state has the credentials to actually have a valid argument! Thats obvious.. And how the hell would you know that these claims are "misleading"?! Please explain whats misleading about it, and debunk the "assertions" for me.. I want the "facts"

[ManAboutTown]

_ I've seen LSU addressed in many different ways on this board. What is the official name of your school? On the OFFICIAL athletic website it says "The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Having said that, I will refer to your school as UL if you would like. _

Mr. Holic, would you like to know what the OFFICIAL name of your beloved school is? And again, be careful what you wish for..

[Just1More]

_ I have read the UL “Name Battle” many times. It is misleading and full of assertions rather than facts. Once again blaming LSU. Not much is mentioned about the other universities crying foul, is there? If I remember, every university in the state had an issue with it. _

Why did you have to read it "many times"? It has a slant to it, but it is based in fact. Other state school representatives were a part of the request for reconsideration. The group that authored and lobbied specific legislators to change the law... well, you guessed it. It's history. Can you possibly believe that for one second an institution and its followers could possibly be selfish and self-promoting... to the detriment of another. Would you believe it possible... even if you loved them dearly?

[Just1More]

_ I've seen LSU addressed in many different ways on this board. What is the official name of your school? On the OFFICIAL athletic website it says "The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I'm under the impression that UL-Lafayette and UL-Monroe were created on equal footing, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Having said that, I will refer to your school as UL if you would like. _

All men are created equal. What they do from that point makes a big difference. We are UL.

[bballholic]

_ All men are created equal. What they do from that point makes a big difference. We are UL. _

I'll just put it this way, I'd send my kid to your school over UL-Monroe any day of the week. Personally, I think the battle is between you guys and La Tech.

[RiverRanchMan]

_ Not every other University in the state has the credentials to actually have a valid argument! Thats obvious.. And how the hell would you know that these claims are "misleading"?! Please explain whats misleading about it, and debunk the "assertions" for me.. I want the "facts" _

“with the strong support of powerful LSU backers on and off the Board,”

Names? How do you know they were LSU backers or even powerful? Didn’t the previous paragraph say administrators at other schools were against it? Yet only the LSU chancellor gets mentioned as opposing the change.

“Judge Brown was an alumnus of LSU, and an active supporter of that school, he did not recuse himself from the case despite this apparent conflict of interest. “

Would it been ok if a Southern grad would have made the ruling? I would bet that 80% of the judges in Louisiana are LSU Law School grads and the other 20% from Southern, Tulane or Loyola. The only judges without an alleged conflict of interest would have to be educated out of state. I am sure one was available but how practicle was that.

“UL Lafayette (“LOUISIANA”), similar to UC Berkeley (“CALIFORNIA”), UT Knoxville (“TENNESSEE”), UA Fayetteville (“ARKANSAS”), UNC Chapel Hill ("NORTH CAROLINA"), and UT Austin (“TEXAS”), among others, is the largest and oldest of the schools that share the same name.”

Wrong. All of the above are flagship universities of their respective systems in addition to being the oldest and original, except UL-Lafayette. Since there is no official flagship university of the UL system there is no “Louisiana”. But we can pretend!

[Turbine]

Since there is no official flagship university of the UL system there is no “Louisiana”. But we can pretend! _

70 years ago UL became the 2nd largest state school in Louisiana.

That same year LSU saw fit to open a school in Southwestern Louisiana.

Motive?

[Hammer58]

_ If you want to count all the insignificant four year Universities in Alabama, then they have just as many. I promise you that the funding is not the same to each school, which is what you’re suggesting. Anyway, the premise of my statement is that Louisiana can’t afford to fund all Universities the same. The LSU system & the UL system get the same amount of funds. If a school in the UL system was declared “flagship” of the UL system, then more funds would be funneled to it but the others would suffer.

I continuously see LSU being blamed for UL-Lafayette’s problems on this board. The big boogie man in Baton Rouge. It is starting to sound like AL Sharpton & Jessie Jackson when continuously blaming white America for Black people’s problems. Why not take responsibility for yourself? You all look ridiculous.

Another thing, you keep referring to another flagship university. The assumption here seems to be that UL-Lafayette should be the other flagship. You really think LA Tech, UL-Monroe & others will allow that to happen? I think you have more than LSU to worry about trying to become the flagship school of the UL system. Even if LSU endorsed such an idea, the other schools will fight it. _

Then you have a selective memory or you haven't been reading this board long enough. We don't blame LSUA&MC for all of our problems. We just blame State for the ones caused by LSUA&MC and its sycophants in the state government.