Clearly not. Lemons are much more useful then lemonade. I could use the lemon juice to encode secret messages for example or drizzle over a tasty piece of blackened fish. The lemon peal can be used to clean my garbage disposal. etc
While you're cleaning the kitchen with lemon peels, I'll drink a refreshing glass of lemonade and eat the blackened fish you cooked. :thumb:
Hate to be a wet blanket, but this list could also read as "Universities with their priorities furthest out of wack"
Elaborate on your comment. I know what you mean, but it doesn't apply to LSU. Do you know what others on the list it doesn't apply to either?
I'll let this smart guy elaborate for me. I'm as big a fan of college football as there is, I live for autumn Saturdays, but this guy has a point: Matthew Yglesias Spending on Sports vs Spending on Teaching LSU is a 2nd-tier school (barely) yet pours millions of dollars into the arms-race that is college athletics. Wow, we have the 2nd best weight room in the country, that's great. Too bad that my degree carries no prestige outside of the LA state lines. Maybe on my next job interview, I'll reference the top notch weight room that our football team gets to work out in. That'll impress them.
Louisiana State University commits ZERO dollars to college athletics. We're doing it the right way. Our athletic department is financially self-sufficient. :thumb:
are you not aware that not only does lsu athletics pay for itself, it gives money to the academic arm of the university? that top notch athletic program is generating enough money to be able to support not only itself, but to give to academics. by having the best facilities and getting good athletes, the athletics dept is turning out a product that people pay for, allowing athletics to have the money to give to academics. if we had a crap athletic program, it would be taking money from academics, not giving to it.
That is awesome that we've privatized an amateur activity. And how is Louisiana State University doing in the whole being a university part? Is the state of Louisiana still 50th in education, or has it wrestled away 49 from Mississippi? Doesn't matter where the money comes from, it still comes down to a wacked priority system. People will fork over half of their yearly income for ticket licenses, TAF fees, and travel expenses to follow the Tigers, but they can't donate to the now-depleted Flagship Agenda. Programs are getting cut, professors laid off, and the national reputation of the school as an academic institution remain tepid at best. You heard of the 'Save LSU' campaign? Surely these people are just making all this up, and have yet to hear of all the great contributions the AD gives to these soon-to-be-cut programs: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=281776789313#!/group.php?gid=281776789313&v=wall http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/95925784.html But that's great that we make a crap ton of money from athletics.
