CCU NIL ....

[zeppelincajun]

My apologies, but:

I don't ever remember a post here where someone admired another school for excelling in both academics and athletics. I don't remember any discussions asking, "Why can't we be like them, why can't we do both?"

For that matter, other than posts from myself and two or three others here, I don't remember any discussion of how we might improve academics, nor complaints about how other schools are passing us up in that essential responsibility.

Which is also my complaint with CCU, and several other SBC members. Why should a university try to walk and chew gum at the same time, when its supporters are only talking about gum?

How do you view our plummeting entrance requirements?

[cajun4life]

How do you view our plummeting entrance requirements?

I view it as poor recruiting and the people in those positions kinda sucking at their job.

[RedTails]

Probably wanting a boost to enrollment numbers without visiting local high schools for recruiting purposes.

Could you imagine an undergraduate recruitment staff as hungry for academic recruiting as our athletic staffs are? Would be a beautiful sight to see and would reap so many benefits.

[CajunEXPRESS]

I was in Alexandria last week, UL closer in time and distance than LATurd. Yet they have a program in which certain high value students are given credits for classes they master in high school that they are allowed to skip at LATurd. We don’t have a program like that apparently for a town an easy 80 miles northwest.

We see it all the time. UL is still too focused on Acadiana but wants to be a statewide university.

[cajun4life]

We see it all the time. UL is still too focused on Acadiana but wants to be a statewide university.

I don’t think we even know what we want to be. Where is a new mission statement since becoming R1?

[R1Letterman]

Please allow me to beg to differ. CCU is a sports franchise fronting as a university. They have no doctoral programs, only a handful of masters' programs, an enrollment of only 10K, and they do less than $3M/year in research.

There's a reason that a school that only became a university in 1993 (founded as a JC in 1954) came out of nowhere to compete in the major college division.

I for one do not want to praise schools that put athletics above academics, for continuing to put athletics above academics. Not outside of Louisiana.

Nor inside.

Great point.

[R1Letterman]

I was in Alexandria last week, UL closer in time and distance than LATurd. Yet they have a program in which certain high value students are given credits for classes they master in high school that they are allowed to skip at LATurd. We don’t have a program like that apparently for a town an easy 80 miles northwest.

We see it all the time. UL is still too focused on Acadiana but wants to be a statewide university.

Or La turd gives away their credits too easily