LSU Hate Week and a 10,000th post

Yeah it would be pretty hard to hate LSU when you can lose to them and just get a free bypass of the SECCG and make it to the BCS ship

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Because of the ongoing decline (both academically and in football) at LSU; you don't even rate for Hate Weak

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1.7/10

You are incorrect.

Where LSU stands
LSU President F. King Alexander says LSU matches up favorably with Alabama and several other schools that have a higher national profile.

In higher education circles, for example, research expenditures are considered one of the best measures of a university’s growth over time.

Money spent on research generally shows whether a university is growing academically. Academic growth on a university’s part translates to student achievement.

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LSU’s Baton Rouge campus had about $150 million in research expenditures last year. Alabama spent roughly $55 million.

Furthermore, a recent survey says the mid-career earnings of LSU graduates rank 34th out of 167 public research universities. That means LSU graduates who have settled on a career generally make more than graduates of Ohio State University, the University of North Carolina and the University of Wisconsin —.

“We’re relatively underrated,” Alexander said. “Our grads are getting good jobs. We’re the only one in the state that increased enrollment. We have a lot more to brag about, we just need to play more offense. We’ve been reacting and recoiling, when we need to be more out there.”

Alexander concedes that even though enrollment has recently risen after several years of decline, LSU needs a stronger recruiting push. He said plans are in place to increase the number of recruiters from 12 to 20. LSU plans to hire one new recruiter immediately, then add a few more this spring, depending on their budget, until they eventually get to 20 in the next several years.

Alexander acknowledges Alabama’s success in winning over students in Texas, Georgia and Florida who don’t get into their first choice of schools in their states.

But Alexander said one arena in which LSU can separate itself from other Southeastern Conference schools is value — the balance of offering a rigorous academic curriculum without saddling students with excessive debt.

“If these things matter to students and their parents, I’m very pleased with where we look compared to any other SEC schools,” Alexander said.

Alexander added that it’s tough to make an apples-to-apples comparison between Alabama and LSU.

Alabama is known as that state’s liberal arts college, he said, while its in-state rival Auburn University is regarded as the school specializing in science and technology.

While LSU is regarded as the go-to public university in Louisiana for all of those areas of study plus veterinary medicine, agricultural science and engineering, Alexander said.

If Alabama has been focused on overall growth, Alexander said LSU is focused on growth in targeted areas, including business, engineering, health studies and foreign language.

He said LSU will never strive to enroll more than half of its students from out of state, nor will it look to grow to 50,000 or 60,000 students.

LSU is focused on recruiting faculty in high-demand fields, getting student-teacher ratios closer to 20-to-1 rather than the current 23-to-1; and attracting more international and ethnically diverse students to the campus.

“If you want a great degree of breadth in your fields of choice to study, LSU offers a great opportunity to go to a university that offers what Auburn and Alabama offer combined,” Alexander said. “They are both great universities, I am not disparaging either. What I’m saying is that their degree is not worth more than an LSU degree.”

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Politiceaux

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Draco said I'd catch a few...

You were too easy. I'll have to throw you back as I'm already over my limit.

Thanks for playing

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Politiceaux

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Good luck to your CornDogs this weekend, may none of them be injured and may they all them remain upbeat about their impending trip as a 4 loss team to the Cotton Bowl.

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stat19

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Solid troll. Make sure Chicken doesn't catch you over your limit though.

10 fk'n thousand posts on a LSU site...

Another stupid bama poster