Meanwhile in Ruston...

[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.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Destin Cajun texted If I'm reading data correctly the Cajuns finished 116th in the Director’s Cup standings. No. 1 in SBC, LoTech 247, hoax 253.

I replied
So LoTec not only in the same zip code with the Hoax they’re in the same block.

Destin agrees
Trailers side by side.
I replied
I love the trailer park they’re in. The SPCA checks out LoTec dog weekly for signs of heat abuse

[Turbine]

Destin Cajun texted If I'm reading data correctly the Cajuns finished 116th in the Director’s Cup standings. No. 1 in SBC, LoTech 247, hoax 253.

I replied
So LoTec not only in the same zip code with the Hoax they’re in the same block.

Destin agrees
Trailers side by side.
I replied
I love the trailer park they’re in. The SPCA checks out LoTec dog weekly for signs of heat abuse

I miss that guy.

[BeauCajun]

I miss that guy.

Same here. Last time I saw him was a couple or 3 years back in San Marcos.

[ZoomZoom]

I think I found their lost dog.

[R1Letterman]

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.

Does this mean academics brings in more revenue than athletics? 43 M (does tuition count as well? What is that about 200M in tuition?) Athletics budget is 35M?

[Jeaux]

I know we love to hate on the Turds for all the stuff they pull historical but logically what value does L.A. tech bring to the state as a whole? I mean why are there 4 public 4 year Universities in north Louisiana?

Seems like a better use for shrinking state funding would be split up the programs between the other three Universities and Ruston tech becoming a 2 year Juco. The remaining employee could go work for the new bucees. They'd probably be paid more there too. Lol.

[fanof71]

I think I found their lost dog.

Now that's funny!

[fanof71]

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

Us?