This Is What GOP Economic Policies Lead To--LSU and 20 Other Louisiana Universities Prepare to File for Bankruptcy (school, party)

[majoun]

Originally Posted by TheWiseWino

public universities are not businesses!

They could give the teaching jobs to young professors just coming out of school.
Or even better, use the budget crisis as a way to purge the school of PC Social Justice Warrior professors. Doing so could actually give LSU an excellent reputation that would appeal to many prospective students and their families. It could even serve as a new model of public higher education.

[michiganmoon]

Originally Posted by SyraBrian

They would make even more profit without a few assistant coaches and 20 less scholarship players.

Probably not. They make profit primarily because they #1 Win and #2 are in the SEC.

Giving yourself a competitive disadvantage would hit the profit eventually.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by majoun

Is it feasible to privatize the football team, but with the university retaining licensing rights?
Or, alternately, keeping the team but doing away with athletic scholarships and sacking the coaches while hiring new, young coaches who'll work cheaper?

There is no need to privatize a football team thats pulling in money to the university.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by majoun

They could give the teaching jobs to young professors just coming out of school.
Or even better, use the budget crisis as a way to purge the school of PC Social Justice Warrior professors. Doing so could actually give LSU an excellent reputation that would appeal to many prospective students and their families. It could even serve as a new model of public higher education.

They should just do what people are advocating of the minimum wage and just double admission fees.. yeah, that'll solve the problem overnight, people wont seek to go elsewhere,

[Ih2puo]

Some people need to remind republicans that the economic miracle of Reagan in the 80's was because the tax rates were 70 ****ing. % 70 people seventy!

Of course that worked. The same will not happen when you go from 40 to 35. Or cut the max state tax to 5% for every freaking body.

Republicans are the party of stupid.

[pghquest]

Originally Posted by Ih2puo

Some people need to remind republicans that the economic miracle of Reagan in the 80's was because the tax rates were 70 ****ing. % 70 people seventy!

Of course that worked. The same will not happen when you go from 40 to 35. Or cut the max state tax to 5% for every freaking body.

Republicans are the party of stupid.

The party of the stupid is those who actually believe ANYONE ever paid 70%..

[AuburnAL]

Originally Posted by SyraBrian

They would make even more profit without a few assistant coaches and 20 less scholarship players.

They'd make even more without Title IX.

[AuburnAL]

Will LSU and Southern University combine? If you avoid two universities in a city the size of Baton Rouge, that should save a nice chunk of change.

[metroxian]

Bankruptcy will provide the state an opportunity to layoff its excess administrative staff, as well as release some otherwise useless liberal arts professors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/op...=fb-share&_r=0

The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

By contrast, a major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions

H/T: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/204613/
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[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by SyraBrian

They would make even more profit without a few assistant coaches and 20 less scholarship players.

Nope, A great deal of that money comes from TV contracts. The general population isn't interested in watching no talent teams, so no contract. These popular sports programs at larger Universities like football or men's basketball not only pay for themselves but are usually used to prop up the rest of the sports programs.