Noted LSU nut James Carville at it again - LSU has already beaten Alabama

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The latest Payscale report must be particularly galling to Alabama fans, who love to brag on their football team but must fall silent as they see their university’s 359th national ranking, more than 130 notches below LSU and trailing even lowly Arkansas, which ranked 340th. One can only imagine the distress in the offices of SEC commish Greg Marmalard — oops, I mean Sankey (my bad) — head of officials Steve Shaw and the other Boys in Birmingham. There is no “further review” of this call. It stands, and it gives me an overwhelming feeling of schadenfreude (the entire state of Alabama can look that one up) every time I read it.

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In the spirit of SEC comity, I would be happy to put together a team of LSU faculty members to do an academic intervention in Tuscaloosa to free Nick Saban’s university from the depths of post-baccalaureate mediocrity. As for the gaggle in Oxford, Mississippi, the intervention they need is not of this world.

But I digress.

If you factor in tuition costs and the cost of living at LSU, our flagship university probably ranks even higher than the Payscale survey reported. One of the basic metrics that describes the value of a university is how well its students do when they go out into the larger world. By that metric, LSU is doing exceedingly well.

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George Cross, former president of the University of Oklahoma, once famously said, “We want to build a university our football team can be proud of.” Here in Louisiana, we not only have a great football team, but we also have a university that our football team — and all its fans — can be proud of. Moreover, as soon as our students and faculty have the library they deserve, uneasy will Vanderbilt wear its Payscale crown — its bounteous endowment notwithstanding.

Geaux Tigers!

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