CCU NIL ....

[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