And EE shut up with your stupid gate receipt stats. YOu are so freaking boring with that crap. Look all schools but LSU are wardens of the state. The state is partly to blame for that as well. If we could release student fees, like most other states our budget would be much higher. As it is Tech already has made great moves to get the budget up to 16 now. Yes we know EE we know it needs even more but god at least we are doing something now instead of staying stagnant like the last AD. I mean ULM and ULL don't even top 10.And for whoever asked earlier, the whitewashing went very well. look white.http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2567&d=1217937221

theATLDawg Wrote:And EE shut up with your stupid gate receipt stats. YOu are so freaking boring with that crap. Look all schools but LSU are wardens of the state. The state is partly to blame for that as well. If we could release student fees, like most other states our budget would be much higher. As it is Tech already has made great moves to get the budget up to 16 now. Yes we know EE we know it needs even more but god at least we are doing something now instead of staying stagnant like the last AD. I mean ULM and ULL don't even top 10.And for whoever asked earlier, the whitewashing went very well. look white.http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2567&d=1217937221

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Guess what. LSU cannot collect student athletic fees either but to off set that they CHARGE THEIR STUDENTS FOR TICKETS. Louisiana will not allow any of the state schools to charge student athletic fees because of the free tuition program. LSU therefore charges students for tickets, it averages about $20. per ticket for football. Could that be one of the reasons LSU is not a ward of the state like Loser Tech? Why doesnt Loser Tech do that? Wait, I know, if they did then no one would be at their games except the teams and the officials. LSU, the school you so dearly love, charges their students three times MORE for a ticket than Loser Tech charges the general public. The fees you mention at Loser Tech are for such things as energy surcharges, lab fees, etc. Surely you, although obviously ignorant (I wont say stupid) can understand why those fees cant be transferred to athletics. Also, I will not shut up about your gate receipts. Gate receipts clearly define a program, it washes away all the smoke and mirrors, all the "announced" attendances, etc. One can look at the figures and make their own conclusion. Your program, for example, collected just over $800,000 in ticket sales for ALL home games, both MEN AND WOMEN, in ALL sports for the last audited year and about the same for the year before. Frame that and look at it before you ever get the nerve to degrade another program.

oh yeah right. i am sure that is the only reason. you are a joke man. to even compare LSU with the other schools. People eat live and breath LSU in Louisiana. Not an even playing field man.
They spend 10m on the upkeep of the tiger cage man. that is run like a professional franchise down there.

theATLDawg Wrote:oh yeah right. i am sure that is the only reason. you are a joke man. to even compare LSU with the other schools. People eat live and breath LSU in Louisiana. Not an even playing field man.
They spend 10m on the upkeep of the tiger cage man. that is run like a professional franchise down there.

He made a reasonable point - instead of always going for a tax (which "Student fees" are) why not charge user fees - charge students for a ticket.
Raise your own money.

eager eagle Wrote:Louisiana will not allow any of the state schools to charge student athletic fees because of the free tuition program.

You keep saying this. Are you talking about TOPS?

theATLDawg Wrote:conferences are not judged by revenue. the ENTIRE reason conferences we formed was to get money, and insure bowl bids...THAT was the point of conferences in the first place. they are judged by the kind of teams you put on the field and how they perform. no, individual school are graded that way, but not a conference as a whole they are judged by having a losing record against the belt last year. lol, no they're not...sure didn't stop us from going to yet another bowl game...what bowl did Tech play in last season? the year before? the year before that? They are judged for having a one trick pony basketball conference. uhhh, Memphis played in the National Title, Tulsa won the CBI, and UAB played in the NIT...hell, UAB has a sweet 16 from just a couple of seasons ago...Tech basketball is a JOKE. They are judged by having a pathetically low RPI. says the team that finished at #329 in the RPI...now THAT'S funny! YOu guys keep telling yourself that about revenue because the truth is the country is bored with your six bowl bids of 6-5 teams. once again, UCF won 10 games...Tulsa won 10 games...Houston won 8 games...ECU won 8 games...Southern Miss won 7...Memphis won 7...so i'm just trying to figure out which C-USA team went 6-5? i know Tech football sucks, but even you should know we play 12 games now. They are judged by being BCS busters and yes sometimes winning them. They are judged by great Memphis in basketball and horrible S. Miss in basketball. the same "horrible" USM squad which finished higher in the RPI than Tech? Stop telling yourself that you are some power conference because your schools sit in great media markets. that's just icing on the cake Of which no one cares to show up at the games anyway. uh, Memphis brings 30,000 to football games and 17,000 to basketball games...may want to re-think that You talk about our horrible fan support yet we average 18k for games in a city of 20k and your schools cant draw that in Houston, Dallas and Birmingham. Houston averaged 21,000 last season...i have no idea about UAB Your media markets don't translate to fan support and they definitely don't translate to winning games and they definitely don't make a great conference. yes, it does. And its a smack board Memphis boy. making baseless statements isn't smack...it's just the words of some idiot in Ruston, LA...i would be pissed if i lived there as well. you have more Trolls talking down on my school every chance you get so get the freak used to it. yeah, it's OUR board...we can do that Until you shut up about us, we will call you out too. you're not smart enough to "call out" anyone.

theATLDawg Wrote:oh yeah right. i am sure that is the only reason. you are a joke man. to even compare LSU with the other schools. People eat live and breath LSU in Louisiana. Not an even playing field man.
They spend 10m on the upkeep of the tiger cage man. that is run like a professional franchise down there.

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Review your post and notice it was YOU who raised the LSU and student athletic fee issue. You & other in state schools always complain about lack of student athletic fees so I only wanted to clarify that in noting that LSU cant charge athletic fees either but make up for that by charging the students for tickets to athletic events on campus. Why do you insult your students by not charging them, arent they just as good as the LSU kids? Appeal to their self respect, let them know your needs, let them know they are getting a completely free ride, and then take a vote. I bet they would agree to paying for their tickets too, make them feel better by knowing they are shouldering some of the responsibility. Makes for good citizens, take them off the welfare roll early.