I must have missed the cookie sales.
Really, they put the Girl Scouts to shame !!$85 Million in cookies? Yea... Right..
I also tell them that they don't have to be the smartest person in the world, just smarter than who they are competing with for a job. .
$85 Million in cookies? Yea... Right..
This is the recruiting class targeted by adding the Lazy river etc. The athletes and brainy children coming in addition will be because of this recruiting technique.
Smartest thing I've ever read on Bayoushooter.They spend too much on colleges and not enough on trade schools. We need more plumbers, welders and electricians.
I don't profess to have any special insight or knowledge, but I have a few observations which I believe to be true.
- the money LSU football makes goes to paying the coaches, operating a very expensive program, and funding most, if not all, of the other sports that don't turn a profit.
- when i was in college there was much less technology. No pc's, networks, laptops, 3d printers, gps, etc. the IT department was a fraction of what it is today because there was one computer and it was only capable of doing a fraction of what machines do today. Now you have hundreds/thousands of pieces of technology on a campus. The stuff is no more reliable today than it was then.
- when I was in college there was very little compliance law affecting university's and businesses. FERPA, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, etc. didn't exist. Companies have a whole staff of expensive people on staff just to keep them from being sued or fined.
- the helicopter parents of today require a lot more "services" for their kids than they did when I was in school. I got myself admitted to college, got myself there, got my grades, got my diploma, and got my first job without my parents lifting a finger. Today, parents want a school that will cater to every need their child may have and make sure they're safe. I know this because I followed my wife around with our kids and watched her do it. :-)
I'm not saying these things are definitively the cause or that waste and greed may not play a role. Just saying it's not that simple. I've been through trade school and college and I've enjoyed every job I've ever had including digging ditches. I don't see a big difference between working with head or hands from the perspective of value to society. I value any job that has a skill set that must be learned or is tedious/strenuous. I chose my job path based on what I felt I could be happy doing for 30 plus years and would best pay the bills and I've encouraged anyone who's asked me to do the same.
Not saying I have the answers; that's just the way I see it from my rock.
Oh well, off the soapbox, and it's harder typing on an iPad than a typewriter. :-)
LSU athletics is self supporting plus it gives money to academics, how academics spends it is an academics problem not an athletics problem. I also contend in both athletics and academics the high rollers are in a pissing mach with the high rollers at other SEC schools to out do each other on facilities.