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[JMV JustMyView]

Henry

Nunez

[CajunVic]

Nunez

I was about to come back with Hebert’s Steak House in Nunez . . . I think they get the picture . . .

[Turbine]

Mouton Cove supports Gator Cove Soccer Complex on the outskirts of Cajun Basin.

[cajun4life]

Houston is not dependent on the metropolis’ of Ossum, Cade, Wright, Mulvey, Parks, Meaux, Leroy, Onse La Butte and Indian Bayou for its population and wealth to get there . . .

And yet there are hundreds of millionaires in those areas.

We set a goal to reach $100M in the UL Foundation. Reached it extremely quickly after setting the goal.

Announced a $500M corpus facility initiative, reached that very quickly.

God forbid we set a $1B goal for the UL Foundation within the next 10 years. We might actually get there is we tried.

[CajunVic]

. . . who are you, the mayor of fantasy island . . . 100 millionaires . . . what does that get you these days . . . there may be 100 half a billionaires in the Houston metropolitan area 1 million dollars is not nearly enough for a couple to retire comfortably . . .

14 billionaires
Houston is the city with the second most billionaires with the highest combined net worth in Texas. There are a total of 14 billionaires in the city who are worth a combined $52.9 billion.

[Turbine]

. . . who are you, the mayor of fantasy island . . . 100 millionaires . . . what does that get you these days . . . there may be 100 half a billionaires in the Houston metropolitan area 1 million dollars is not nearly enough for a couple to retire comfortably . . .

14 billionaires
Houston is the city with the second most billionaires with the highest combined net worth in Texas. There are a total of 14 billionaires in the city who are worth a combined $52.9 billion.

Are they imports and do they support the cougars?

Same can be asked for the millionaires from Meaux.

ps you, make it sound like millionare wealth stops, at a million.

[CajunVic]

Are they imports and do they support the cougars?

Same can be asked for the millionaires from Meaux.

ps you, make it sound like millionare wealth stops, at a million.

. . . what cougars

. . . as Meaux is so small and the mall is no longer there, there may be no millionaires in Meaux (we may have one from Leroy who played sports at Meaux School)

. . . since he claims only 100’s, even 25% at or near 1 million is a substantial hit to the point sought to be made and generally speaking one almost needs to probably double that number before being in a position to comfortably retire (much less donate in amounts to make an impact) as one’s house probably accounts for somewhere between a quarter million to half a million even at the lowest ranges . . .

. . . I believe we all know that being a millionaire these days unless it is in multiples no longer infers an ability to donate in a material way financially anymore . . .

. . . finally, I will go out on a limb and guesstimate that many (way more than hundreds) of the current RCAF members are millionaires and look what that has gotten us . . .

. . . Houston is just not in any way analogous in this situation . . .

. . . Lafayette is probably more like Beaumont than Houston . . .

(we do have you and JMV from that VP area which may boost the numbers of the substantial donor pool)

[CrazyCajun]

UH has 46k students
USF has 51k students
UCF has 68k students
Cincy has 44k students

[cajun4life]

. . . what cougars

. . . as Meaux is so small and the mall is no longer there, there may be no millionaires in Meaux (we may have one from Leroy who played sports at Meaux School)

. . . since he claims only 100’s, even 25% at or near 1 million is a substantial hit to the point sought to be made and generally speaking one almost needs to probably double that number before being in a position to comfortably retire (much less donate in amounts to make an impact) as one’s house probably accounts for somewhere between a quarter million to half a million even at the lowest ranges . . .

. . . I believe we all know that being a millionaire these days unless it is in multiples no longer infers an ability to donate in a material way financially anymore . . .

. . . finally, I will go out on a limb and guesstimate that many (way more than hundreds) of the current RCAF members are millionaires and look what that has gotten us . . .

. . . Houston is just not in any way analogous in this situation . . .

. . . Lafayette is probably more like Beaumont than Houston . . .

(we do have you and JMV from that VP area which may boost the numbers of the substantial donor pool)

We have at least 2 billionaires that have graduated from UL.

[cajun4life]

UH has 46k students
USF has 51k students
UCF has 68k students
Cincy has 44k students

We have 14,000 undergrads. Who’s fault is it that we aren’t growing?

[CrazyCajun]

We have 14,000 undergrads. Who’s fault is it that we aren’t growing?

LSU doesnt even have that enrollment, houston has 2 million more people than the state of louisiana, maybe those schools just arent our peers. LSU and UL combined arent as big as USF and UCF. Texas has 30 million people, florida has 23 million, louisiana has 4 million.

[cajun4life]

LSU doesnt even have that enrollment, houston has 2 million more people than the state of louisiana, maybe those schools just arent our peers. LSU and UL combined arent as big as USF and UCF. Texas has 30 million people, florida has 23 million, louisiana has 4 million.

The point I’m making is our undergraduate enrollment had dipped, the last 5-8 years, to the smallest it has been since we first ended open enrollment. We currently have roughly 16,500 students enrolled, 2500 of those are graduate students.

It has been stated on multiple occasions that we need to be around 20,000 undergraduate students in order to close on some budget shortfalls. We aren’t close to that.

For all of the progress we’ve made academically and athletically, we’ve taken bigger steps back. Something’s are out of the control of the university, but the majority of it is. Incompetence and a lack of accountability are the cause.