Robert Wilson said:

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BUATX2000 said:

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Also, who paid for this? They already owe Brian Kelly $60MM…lane is getting almost $100mm. Crazy times

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Wondered that myself. Who is/are the cash cows for LSU?

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I agree. LSU may have all the tradition in the world, but I don't see how LSU can keep up with the Texas's and the A&M's under today's financial realities.

That's how college football is broken.

Chuckroast said:

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Robert Wilson said:

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BUATX2000 said:

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Also, who paid for this? They already owe Brian Kelly $60MM…lane is getting almost $100mm. Crazy times

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Wondered that myself. Who is/are the cash cows for LSU?

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I agree. LSU may have all the tradition in the world, but I don't see how LSU can keep up with the Texas's and the A&M's under today's financial realities.

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LSU has some substantial donors, but more importantly they have some that are rabid LSU donors. They can more than keep up. I do not see how this madness can continue without TOTALLY destroying college sports in general. There will be some guard rails put up on this run away train before the golden goose is killed off.

OXFORD, Miss. -- They came in droves, speeding into the parking lot of the tiny University-Oxford one-terminal airport, to say a final goodbye to Lane Kiffin.

They offered hundreds of one-finger salutes, almost in unison, and shouted expletives at Kiffin, who announced Sunday he was officially leaving Ole Miss for LSU.

From offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. to Lane's ex-wife Layla, anyone who dared step foot on the two private planes sent from Baton Rouge received nothing but vitriol from spurned Ole Miss fans who so desperately wanted to believe Kiffin when he said he had changed and found happiness in their small Mississippi college town. It was mostly college-aged young men decked out in New Balances, but there were also multiple children, including one infant wrapped in a blanket and sucking on a pacifier. It's never too early, after all, to teach your children it just means more.

Never has there been anything like it, fans letting loose all their anger and disappointment at a man who had won 11 of his 12 regular-season games this year and had the Rebels all but guaranteed to make the College Football Playoff. Of course, never had a coach left a team with a real chance to win a national championship, still, either.

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Chuckroast said:

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Robert Wilson said:

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BUATX2000 said:

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Also, who paid for this? They already owe Brian Kelly $60MM…lane is getting almost $100mm. Crazy times

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Wondered that myself. Who is/are the cash cows for LSU?

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I agree. LSU may have all the tradition in the world, but I don't see how LSU can keep up with the Texas's and the A&M's under today's financial realities.

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It will be hard.

But they have a top level of very rich and very successful alumni. Obviously I don't know if it will be enough.

Not to mention I am sure since Tigers football is so important to the State...the Louisiana State government might very well help out in some way (clever accounting on campus between tax payer education support and university athletics support)

I will say....LSU is in no worse shape than everyone else in the SEC that is not named u.t. austin, aggy, or Florida.

Arkansas, Ole Miss, Miss State, Auburn, Alabama, Kentucky, S. Car, Missouri, etc. are certainly not schools that are any bigger than LSU or have very many richer alumni.

Vanderbilt is a question mark (small school but very successful alumni...do they care about football now that they are winning? Maybe). And Tennessee might be in the upper level or lower (I don't know much about Tenn. and their alumni support levels in terms of money to spend). OU might also be in the category of Tenn. or lower depending on things.

Vandy fans are enjoying their Art Briles success. I know three grads and none of them care about football or athletics. Winning will change that.

OU can keep up with anyone in the money grab department. Maybe not UT, aggie or LSU but most.

Apropos of nothing or maybe everything, I met a guy recently that ran a business selling high end memorabilia, mostly movies. Think Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, Lord of the Rings original movie items or identical replicas.

I was curious how that is a business, and he said they sold over a million a month, with many items being $100,000 plus and some $1 million plus.

I asked how people could afford that, especially people that wanted million dollar movie crap (no offense to him)

His answer was just "Crypto"

Between the early investors and scammers, you'd be real surprised how many very wealthy 30 to 40 yo guys there are out there that have no sense of the value of money. You find a few that love college football and are jock sniffers, and you're in business. Well, until you're not.