LSU Board Member Says The "State & Taxpayers Have Never Paid For A Coach And Never Will"

Actually you do but it's "hidden". What folks don't understand is facility upgrades, coaches salaries, money for non revenue sports is funded primarily from football and basketball. Do people really think a coach getting a 5 mill raise is paid for by boosters. Nosir. This people didn't get rich giving away money. This is accounted for by raising ticket prices, parking, concessions and those "fees" and "surcharges" you see on the tickets. Yessir the taxpayers are helping to foot the bill. Anybody that says it's as cheap to go to a game today as opposed to 10- 20 years ago is lying to themselves. They haven't said but watch prices go up on certain LSU events the next year to help pay this buyout.

So, in writing, are taxpayers the absolute backstop guaranteeing these contracts...kinda like the FDIC is to banks? Whether there is really any money there to pay it or not.

The state and taxpayers have poured millions into coaching salaries at LSU - to say otherwise is a blatant distortion of facts.

Even the New York Times (leftist) and New York Post (conservative) are reporting LSU using taxpayer money to pay coaches...and it's not true.

The leftist elite always cry this lie --- but they never tell the truth, and they never mention that LSU football is one of only a handful of programs that actually writes a big check (donation) to the academic side.