Fire Maggard

[MarlinMan3]

None of that is taxpayer dollars

But for every dollar of A, they could use it to pay for B instead of paying for C

[MarlinMan3]

Do you believe a high school kid shouldn’t be allowed to qualify for TOPS or any other public university academic scholarship if their parents make “too much money”?
n.

Doesnt matter what we believe, it matters what happened...

When Governor Roemer signed the Louisiana College Tuition Plan into law in 1989, it included an income cap; also i seem to recall initially no private school HS grads could use it, not sure for how many years, and not necessarily the se as an income cap

[Cajunrunner]

Which begs the question, if it’s ok for tsab to let the donors buy out their coach, why can’t we?

We have donors ready to buy out this one and fork over more money for another one?

[Esqueleto]

So if they were paying for all of their own facility upgrades and expansions, do you really think they’d still have $80+ million lying around to buy out coaches? They’re already scraping for revenue with jersey sponsors — that’s Peewee-level stuff for a program that claims to be elite. And now they’re hiking ticket and parking prices in the middle of one of their worst seasons. There’s a reason for this new low — it shows they can’t keep up with the real heavyweights when it comes to money.

It's not THEY paying for salaries and buyouts. It's dumbass, big-money football boosters and state-wide coonasses that don't give one dollar or one ____ to academics. Why can't you people understand this?

Meanwhile, UL is about to have taxpayers pay for the Eastside renovations to the football stadium? Do you agree with that?

[Cajunrunner]

So if they were paying for all of their own facility upgrades and expansions, do you really think they’d still have $80+ million lying around to buy out coaches? They’re already scraping for revenue with jersey sponsors — that’s Peewee-level stuff for a program that claims to be elite. And now they’re hiking ticket and parking prices in the middle of one of their worst seasons. There’s a reason for this new low — it shows they can’t keep up with the real heavyweights when it comes to money.

You have an unhealthy obsession. Baton Rouge isn’t the cause of our issues today. Stop whining and crying about everyone else.

They fund a way larger percentage of their athletics with donors and revenues than we do. Maybe we should focus our energy on how we can get better in that arena and stop crying about other schools.

[CrazyCajun]

It's not THEY paying for salaries and buyouts. It's dumbass, big-money football boosters and state-wide coonasses that don't give one dollar or one ____ to academics. Why can't you people understand this?

Meanwhile, UL is about to have taxpayers pay for the Eastside renovations to the football stadium? Do you agree with that?

I would imagine the state would have some responsibility for facilities of a public university and being the stadium is 50 years old and was on the verge of being condemned, I personally see no problem with taxes going to the east side.

[Esqueleto]

I would imagine the state would have some responsibility for facilities of a public university and being the stadium is 50 years old and was on the verge of being condemned, I personally see no problem with taxes going to the east side.

LOL, of course, you wouldn't. I've seen 100 people on this site _____ about the dorms built into Tiger Stadium 100 years ago using tax dollars

[CrazyCajun]

LOL, of course, you wouldn't. I've seen 100 people on this site _____ about the dorms built into Tiger Stadium 100 years ago using tax dollars

They have upgraded their stadium like 20 times. Ours was literally falling apart and had no structural upgrade since we built it. The state was going to have to pay for the west side as it was becoming structurally unsafe but you can’t combine state projects with private so
We paid for the west side and the state will pay for the east side, which will be around half the cost.

[CajunVic]

this is way to deep for RPCA to get it . . .

[fpc4life99]

It's not THEY paying for salaries and buyouts. It's dumbass, big-money football boosters and state-wide coonasses that don't give one dollar or one ____ to academics. Why can't you people understand this?

Meanwhile, UL is about to have taxpayers pay for the Eastside renovations to the football stadium? Do you agree with that?

Last time I checked, LSU A&M was writing the checks — and yes, that money is coming from boosters covering salaries and buyouts. But if they were also asked to pay for all of their own facility and expansion projects, do you really think those same boosters or LSU A&M could still pull off multi-million-dollar upgrades every single year?

If your answer is yes, then explain this: why can’t LSU A&M compete on the NIL stage? Can’t they just ask those same boosters to fork over tens of thousands more to stay “competitive”?

And for the record — if we were firing Des and paying him $100 million not to coach here anymore, I’d 100% oppose taxpayers footing the bill for any new stadium expansion. Honestly, if it were even $10 million, I’d say the same thing. That east-side funding is already in limbo and may never reach the university depending on how the politics shake out, until the money is in the bank, capital outlay funds can be redirected. Right now, the talk in Baton Rouge is about how to keep LSU A&M “competitive” while cutting funds to other state programs. I’m assuming you’re good with that trade-off?