re: What if LSU was not located in Baton Rouge?

BR would be like Jackson or any other medium sized city in the south. Utter garbage. Basically Alexandria

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Lafayette, Hammond or possibly Covington

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I cannot wrap my head around living in those cities. BR is what it is because of LSU. Could maybe see New Orleans, but that is it.

If Bama was in Tuscaloosa it would be pretty much the same.

Baton Rouge and LSU are synonymous.

Idk I didn’ treally go around 99% of BR.

LSU always felt like a small town in and of itself.

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re any of those places surrounded by a ghetto like LSU?

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THIS

Wrote my first research paper for my major on this very topic, as LSU relates to all of the changes in location.

Baton Rouge is perfect, its the location within Baton Rouge that has only gotten worse everyday since they moved it from downtown. Hindsight is 20/20 but if the campus was North of the current location and directly south of downtown BR it would be perfect. Previous campus would have never had the room for sustainable and effective growth needed for a flagship right in the heart of downtown.

Downtown BR struggles just like some of the other southern capitol cities (Jackson, Montgomery, to a much lesser extent Little Rock and Tallhassee.) But it could have been much much better for the entire city, state, and university if there was no gap between downtown and the borders of campus that has always been low income trashy single housing.

If the campus was a little bit closer to the river and against downtown, not only would the downtown BR nightlife and food scene be incredible but no Tigerland (Will forever love it still). Downtown living real estate would easily be doubled in value, but the main positive is all of the thousands of quick build campus apartments that have engulfed the campus on all sides would be gone or very very little. After 4-5 years max, now it seems its 2-3 years of the complexes putting zero upkeep in them they sell them and turn it into Section 8, then just build more and more. They are making money hand over fist but the traffic will only get worse (Already the worst planned transportation SEC town or city) crime will continue to rise, and truthfully LSU will slowly lose a few more of the wealthier legacies that want to go out of state because it is come to that.

With LSU being the flagship and no competition its ideal for the campus to be centrally located but close enough to New Orleans to keep it New Orleans hometown school. Baton Rouge has always had advantages geographically than Jackson or Montgomery or we would be as bad off, with the port, major interstate connection, and the government, it will never get Jackson bad too much money in industry, oil, and corruption for it to come to that.

Everything would be enhanced, no donwsides because traffic and overcrowding cant get any worse. LSU has this "water campus" bs that is a nice way of saying hopefully by like the year 2050 they can buy up and build through that swath of low income housing and the outer reaches of the new campus would be fairly close to downtown. But at the rate the apartments are being built and Baton Rouge is now completely run by incompetent zebras and it will only get worse, the water campus is wishful thinking.

Will try and post the pic from the thesis have Tiger Stadium right next to downtown closer to the river than its current spot, PMAC is downtown next to the river center, obviously hope we would have a Rupp or KFC Yum center look with a huge convention center. Alex Box is built up overlooking the river much like PNC park which was probably the coolest part of the design.

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Baton Rouge would be a complete shite hole....there would be no buffer to separate the trash from the non-trash and the non-trash would find it easier to move out thus giving the trash free reign over the whole city.

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It already is man, it already is, look around not a whole lot of buffers left. Baton Rouge without LSU would never reach Jackson levels because of the petrochemical, oil, gas, and shipping industries. As well as the river at the very least cuts one side from completely engulfing the city in a 360 degree radius.

I can't stop laughing at the OP who thinks Baton Rouge is a big city.

Boy...you gotta get out more.

It definitely not, hope he meant relative to most of the other SEC campus locations. Nashville is much bigger, but Vandy is tiny both in the size of the campus, economic impact, and student body size.

Baton Rouge and Knoxville I would say are probably the largest "cities" of the SEC campuses excluding Vandy. But even then neither are what I would consider "big cities" or have a big city feel. Obviously since I have posted damn near half a novel in a row my feeling is BR is perfect for LSU, but the location is terrible and IMO is the reason BR can never and never developed in any other way positively.

For grad programs there are many advantages to being in a bigger city. Helps to attract and retain faculty as well. I personally think Oxford and Tuscaloosa suck. Kind of boring. Athens is fun because of its music scene and not far from Atlanta.

Baton Rouge reminds me of what Alabama would be if they were in Birmingham. I feel like Monroe would be the Tuscaloosa equivalent. And then the equivalent to say a Mississippi College Town would be Hammond. Which I certainly enjoy.