Shuffling of UL & LSU Systems

[RiverRanchMan]

_ How about you move to Baton Rouge, and keep yourself occupied on Tigerdroppings. Your screen name suggests you live, work, sleep, eat, raise a family, are completely rooted in Lafayette. Yet all your money goes east. All your support goes east. You come on here waiting for people to trash your school, but wait it isnt, you live in Lafayette. Your the problem. So that begs the question? Why do you live in Lafayette when everything for you points east? Is Lafayette not good enough for you? Does Baton Rouge really make you all tingly in the shorts? Why cant you see, without UL, this great university in Lafayette, your screen name doesnt ____ing exist? Show some sack, support your local university or get the hell out of town! _

I support both universities. I have season tickets to LSU football, UL Football & UL basketball. As much as many of you would like to make this a Lafayette-BR thing, I like most folks in Lafayette, will not. It is a Louisiana thing. LSU is the school that represents the state whether you like it or not. UL is a state regional school. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face!

[Turbine]

_ refresh my memory Turbine??? I seem to remember some shenanigans??

Z _

Tier I swallowed Tier II.

Ingenious, sounds like something Huey would orchestrate.

[CajunRed]

_ "it is not MY "state school", nor should it be."

Actually if you live in Louisiana it is. You don't have to like it...but it is what it is...The Flagship of this state, and the only tier 1 university in this state. _

So you are saying all Florida, Texas, California, Alabama, Michigan residents... even those graduates of other schools in those states should give money and support those schools.

Yep... I can just see those Texas A&M, Florida State, USC, Michigan State and Auburn fans and grads rooting for and making out those checks to their respective " state schools".

How stupid do you think they and we are?

[CajunRed]

_ I support both universities. I have season tickets to LSU football, UL Football & UL basketball. As much as many of you would like to make this a Lafayette-BR thing, I like most folks in Lafayette, will not. It is a Louisiana thing. LSU is the school that represents the state whether you like it or not. UL is a state regional school. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face! _

LSU doesn't represent me. It represents itself... and all the LSU fans across the state that think that LSU refers to a football team in Baton Rouge.

[ULwarhawksRULE]

"Texas A&M, Florida State, USC, Michigan State and Auburn"

Not the same type of schools...these are all large top universities that are the original university in their system. Louisiana is set up to have a Flagship, and then a system of small regional schools. Can Troy (regional) be an Alabama fan and Troy fan...yes. Can FIU fans be a Florida fan...yes. Can an Ark State fan be a U Ark fan...yes. Can a Texas State fan be a U Tex fan...yes. Can a Central Michigan be a U Michigan fan...yes. Can a U-L-M, U-L-L, LA Tech, NW state, McNeese State (all regional Ex. Region and/or city tag) be a fan of LSU...yes. Compare to schools of your size...not large BCS conf schools. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. U-L-L is in no way a Texas A&M, FLA St., USC, Mich St., or Auburn.

[CajunRed]

_ "Texas A&M, Florida State, USC, Michigan State and Auburn"

Not the same type of schools...these are all large top universities that are the original university in their system. Louisiana is set up to have a Flagship, and then a system of small regional schools. Can Troy (regional) be an Alabama fan and Troy fan...yes. Can FIU fans be a Florida fan...yes. Can an Ark State fan be a U Ark fan...yes. Can a Texas State fan be a U Tex fan...yes. Can a Central Michigan be a U Michigan fan...yes. Can a U-L-M, U-L-L, LA Tech, NW state, McNeese State (all regional Ex. Region and/or city tag) be a fan of LSU...yes. Compare to schools of your size...not large BCS conf schools. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. U-L-L is in no way a Texas A&M, FLA St., USC, Mich St., or Auburn. _

So you are helping to prove my point. This is the only state of the ones I mentioned that has a "supposed" flagship university that thinks so little of itself and has such little confidence in its position that it must spend so much of its time and efforts, not making itself better, but in an attempt to make sure no other schools improve themselves and provide competition. This goes back to the days of the school founder and band leader, Huey P. Long, who was obsessed with the school of "grape and yellow".

That is precisely why, as I've said previously, that LSU cannot and will never compete with other large universities across the country. The LSU degree is second to all of them and so many more across the country.

But, hey... how bout dem tigas?!

[Turbine]

Not the same type of schools...these are all large top universities that are the original university in their system. Louisiana is set up to have a Flagship, and then a system of small regional schools.

Even LSU wasn't "set up" to be what it is today. Through transplant and opportunity it grew into it's current role.

The travesty is preventing anyone else from growing.

[zephyr]

_ I support both universities. I have season tickets to LSU football, UL Football & UL basketball. As much as many of you would like to make this a Lafayette-BR thing, I like most folks in Lafayette, will not. It is a Louisiana thing. LSU is the school that represents the state whether you like it or not. UL is a state regional school. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face! _

I think all of the state schools represent this state on different platforms. ULM represented, maybe to a lesser degree but nonetheless, when they beat Alabama. We represented in the CWS and women's CWS as well as when we participate in the NCAA tourney and so on. I think Tulane represented about ten years ago when they went undefeated and were nationally ranked. To cheer for a university is a choice, not a requirement or duty bestowed upon those that happen to live within its local reach.

[CajunRed]

_ Even LSU wasn't "set up" to be what it is today. Through transplant and opportunity it grew into it's current role.

The travesty is preventing anyone else from growing. _

I disagree with you, Turbine. If you trace LSU's history back 70 years or so, you will find that it indeed was artificially set up and was seeded financially to get to where it eventually arrived. I'm not talking athletically. I'm talking academically... which, of course, is the purpose of all the schools we are talking about. It was then also seeded athletically. Even the band, Huey's pride and joy, was handed funds. (wow... that was money well spent!)

[Just1More]

_ I support both universities. I have season tickets to LSU football, UL Football & UL basketball. As much as many of you would like to make this a Lafayette-BR thing, I like most folks in Lafayette, will not. It is a Louisiana thing. LSU is the school that represents the state whether you like it or not. UL is a state regional school. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face! _

Hey, we in Baton Rouge own LSU! We only loan it to you little people in the outskirts to make you feel better about yourselves. Keep supporting us and we might allow you to keep worshipping us and sending us money.

You keep buying our P&G Baton Rouge stuff too... I'm not trying to get you to stop that... but you stop going around stirring up trouble you little dweeb. We have something pretty special going on and we don't like our little surrogates like you running around creating issues. Everyone with half an operating brain cell knows that UL is the biggest economic engine in Lafayette and LSU is the biggest economic engine in Baton Rouge. Keep sending me that check and keep that Baton Rouge flag flying on your "ranch".

Do you realize how much crappier Baton Rouge would be if we didn't have all you little neophytes out there sending us your money!?