UL has an opportunity to do the same by passing a modest student assessed fee to stay competitive. This could finally get pass! We can’t say it can’t be done with the right message because ULM just did.
UL has an opportunity to do the same by passing a modest student assessed fee to stay competitive. This could finally get pass! We can’t say it can’t be done with the right message because ULM just did.
They are looking at a total increase of $600K right? That is not earth-shaking money. The question we should be asking is would our student body vote yes on another fee? Our university has had more student fees than ULM for years. My gut tells me no way the students here at UL will support another fee, including an athletic fee.
It isn't about liberal or conservative, it's about giving students a reason to care about UL athletics consistently. Boost marketing efforts directed at students for every game, stop alienating the greeks, and make game day the place to be for students. You have to do these things consistently year over year to get a culture of students caring about UL athletics.
Will an athletics fee pass? Depends on if SGA gets behind it or not.
I used to say that there was no way it can be done here...but if ULM did it, UL can.
If you get the right people on campus campaigning for it, it could be done. The fact that ULM did it shows that we need to try.
It ain't so much a liberal vs. conservative thing these days. Hell, if I were a student and knew that right now there was a prefiled bill for this upcoming legislative session to make NIL earnings for Louisiana college athletes tax free, I'd say F--- No to forking over my or my parents' money in the form of a tuition fee to fund athletics.
And I voted YES on the one that was attempted when I was at UL, but today's format is a completely different game, and I honestly don't like it.
We passed a student fee when I was a student. But it was sold as being for Bourgeois and Athletics or something.
I really don't think students would pass it now-a-days, especially after seeing the current tuition and fees breakdown in another thread. I'm with runner, I don't even know if I'd vote for it today. When is enough enough for "student" athletes these days?
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