There is tons of waste. Facilities services that someone mentioned above is not really an exaggeration. There is an army of employees that seems very unnecessary.
I worked in the accounting department at LSU, and at the end of every year they'd find ways to blow through the remainder of their allocated budget, because they knew they would lose it if they didn't.
Vilifying athletics is not the answer. All of that money is raised from football, and every single other sport feeds from the football trough and would not exist without football.
What is to blame is the typical government-style waste that proliferates the system, and it starts with the tone at the top from the last system president Joe Lombardi who did tremendous damage.
However, with all of that said, and in spite of all of those things, LSU still provides tremendously more value, both dollar for dollar and in total, across all of its colleges, law center, health science centers, etc. than does the private competition. Step into Tulane's medical school and it's virtually medieval compared to what LSU offers at two campuses. LSU definitely has its troubles but it is miles ahead of the rest of the state and I would surmise much of the nation.
I worked in the accounting department at LSU, and at the end of every year they'd find ways to blow through the remainder of their allocated budget, because they knew they would lose it if they didn't.
Vilifying athletics is not the answer. All of that money is raised from football, and every single other sport feeds from the football trough and would not exist without football.
What is to blame is the typical government-style waste that proliferates the system, and it starts with the tone at the top from the last system president Joe Lombardi who did tremendous damage.
However, with all of that said, and in spite of all of those things, LSU still provides tremendously more value, both dollar for dollar and in total, across all of its colleges, law center, health science centers, etc. than does the private competition. Step into Tulane's medical school and it's virtually medieval compared to what LSU offers at two campuses. LSU definitely has its troubles but it is miles ahead of the rest of the state and I would surmise much of the nation.