Meanwhile in Ruston...

[CajunNation]

Fun, would love to hear your opinions on todays Supreme Court ruling...but i know this board couldn't handle it....

This ruling is the best thing that has ever happened to that future, citizen-force development Dr, Fun just talked about.

[Boomer]

This ruling is the best thing that has ever happened to that future, citizen-force development Dr, Fun just talked about.

……so when does the quota system of race enter the world of athletics? Wait are some races more gifted athletically than others? Duuuuh!

[Big Poppa]

Good stuff here.

http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showt...l-sports/page2

[ZoomZoom]

Phfffftttttt….

Originally Posted by Blue Dawg View Post
Just look at all the great things he's done for Tech!

No, really, help me look, I can't find them.
He power washed Aillet Stadium

[HelmutVII]

It's Louisiana Tech. They are in Ruston. Who cares.

[ZoomZoom]

How bad it is? Went cruise the CSSN SBC & CDOA boards. Not many mutt sightings. In fact, after the realignment shuffle (and repetitive posts of Tommy Mac) most of their posters have crawled back in their caves.

[ZoomZoom]

Man, missed this from the Methroplex. Former Tech Dean

https://www.knoe.com/2022/03/06/form...session-drugs/

[HoustonCajun]

If you're serious, I suppose so...

But why LSU rejects? What has LSU got that the rest of us really want? We've all worked with their alums; they are no smarter than people I've met from here, or ULM, McNeese, UNO etc. The year before I got to Tulane Med, the top grad was a U(S)L alum. Among my classmates who were really sharp, some went to big-name schools.

A few (because there weren't that many to start with) went to small public colleges.

Of the three sharpest doctors I ever worked with, one went to Rice & Southwestern (TX); one went to UMass & Harvard; and one went to ULM and LSU-S.

And something I noted along the way (and about which I write) is something that is already well-known and well-documented: all of those metrics, those grades, entrance exams, and graduate school grades? They are predictors of one, and only one, thing:

The ability to perform well on tests predicts your ability to perform well on tests.

One MD I worked with won all kinds of undergrad and med school awards. But she was clueless, literally, about a simple case of hypertension.

LSU does not get smarter students than the ULS does, but they do get more ambitious and wealthier students.

LSU doesn't have anything we need.

And most of what they have that we want, we shouldn't want.

Hypothetical. The UL System agrees to donate 100% of all land, buildings, etc. to UL in exchange for UL withdrawing from the UL System and going private. Relieves the State from all fiscal requirements to fund a major university. UL could then have its own entrance requirements, establish its own tuition & fees, grow its burgeoning research, develop its own med school, help fund athletics with student fees and control its identity. Like the University of Pennsylvania, UL would also be a private university with a state name. Isn't UL having to pretty much fund itself now with diminishing financial help from the State?

Possible or absurd?

[R1Letterman]

Good idea but I'm afraid that would make us university of lafayette?

[RedTails]

Hypothetical. The UL System agrees to donate 100% of all land, buildings, etc. to UL in exchange for UL withdrawing from the UL System and going private. Relieves the State from all fiscal requirements to fund a major university. UL could then have its own entrance requirements, establish its own tuition & fees, grow its burgeoning research, develop its own med school, help fund athletics with student fees and control its identity. Like the University of Pennsylvania, UL would also be a private university with a state name. Isn't UL having to pretty much fund itself now with diminishing financial help from the State?

Possible or absurd?

We just got $43,328,605 from the state. I don't wanna call your idea absurd, but you said it.

When the state invests in public higher ed, we benefit. When a Jindal comes in and slashes higher ed funding to the bone, we suffer.