LSU Cancels Classes for Two Days

Bear in mind the top tier schools have players that rarely if ever attend a class or even step foot on the academic campus. So maybe no change for the players from their usual day. OSUs QB was asked about attending OSU and he said he wasnt sure he had ever seen it. Same with Burrow, same with bama players. They just take some online courses. They are not student athletes in any sense. Schools like ND, Mich, Stanford, have to decide whether to go the same rout as the big boys. They can, but their near 100% graduation rate will go down.

[quote]oregano maybe wrote:

The coach makes $4 million, paid by taxpayers, and the school closes for two days after winning a football game.

FFS, America. Grow up.

The LSU athletic department as a whole made $5.3 million last year over expenses that was transferred to the academic institution. It is one of the NCAA athletic programs that turns a healthy profit. LSU football generates most of the income and funds financial sink holes like women's basketball and track and field.

https://www.lla.la.gov/PublicReports.nsf/04DF107346D27FF5862583970079F463/$FILE/0001BAF3.pdf

With the national title this year, it can be assumed they made even more this year. Sorry it hurts your European sensitivities so much to see someone (the coach) get rewarded for it. He makes less than a lot of the coaches out there. If you have such a problem with the US spending money on athletics you should stop coming over here and taking athletic scholarships in our country.

Sorry,

It was actualy $2.6 million. But it's worth noting that the fb program itself generated $55 million in profit that funded the rest of the athletic department and created the overall profit.

I didn’t read the articles, but I would not be surprised if the president closed the campus as a safety precaution.

Let the kids go off campus or home or to New Orleans for the game. Then they will not destroy the campus. Win or lose, there is a distinct possibility of a riot, vandalism and destruction on campus.

1 - LSU in national championship about once every 10 years

2 - coincidentally game is nearby in New Orleans

3 - game was Monday night - travel to New Orleans

4 - Tuesday - hangover and return to campus

5 - most classes meet MWF or TTh, so each course has 1 missed session

so 1 class per course canceled every 10 years for football

kids not interested in football have an extra day to work on papers, study for test etc, no different than if prof calls in sick, but...

we all know they wait til end of semester anyway and cram at last minute.

Captain Steve wrote:

That's ridiculous. Students are paying thousands of dollars to go to college, and then classes are being cancelled for football?!

In-state tuition is $11,962 ($28,639 out-of-state) at LSU. A semester is usually 16 weeks when you exclude one week for spring break. 16x5 = 80 days of classes. 11,962/80 = 150, thus, one day costs an in-state student $150 ($358 out-of-state).

I think it's outrageous to cancel classes for this reason. People pay a lot to get an education there, but in those two days they are not getting what they are paying for.

I agree with this. It shocked me that several years ago Tennessee cancelled Thursday classes for a Thursday evening football game. And remember, this is an AMATEUR sport.

The NCAA has clearly spelled out that college football is an AMATEUR sport.

joedirt wrote:

Sorry,

It was actualy $2.6 million. But it's worth noting that the fb program itself generated $55 million in profit that funded the rest of the athletic department and created the overall profit.

You want to look at what Gross Income was versus expenses to give you a clearer picture of this AMATEUR sport.

Let us also look at Appalachia State.......another successful AMATEUR program.

Christ Almighty, how many times am I going to have to capitalize AMATEUR before you "get it"?

It's like SEC satire....but real !

oregano maybe wrote:

The coach makes $4 million, paid by taxpayers, and the school closes for two days after winning a football game.

FFS, America. Grow up.

https://www.katc.com/news/covering-louisiana/start-of-lsu-school-semester-pushed-back-for-national-championship-game

You really should twice before griping about something you know nothing about.

The LSU athletic department is self-sufficient. It does not rely on tax payer dollars to operate. The department brought in $145 million in the most recent available data from 2017/2018. They had $137 million in expenses. This year they will obviously set records in revenue and profit.

Power 5 school football programs all make money and pay for all other sports except for men’s hoops and in a very few cases women’s hoops which also make a profit/pay their own way. Lower division football programs do lose money as do all their other sports. Portland St is considering dropping football for that very reason.

As for LSU cancelling classes, they may schedule make up days but heck, they may be #1 in football but they’re only #153 amongst “National” universities so it’s not like they are damaging their lofty academic reputation

Bear wrote:

Power 5 school football programs all make money and pay for all other sports except for men’s hoops and in a very few cases women’s hoops which also make a profit/pay their own way. Lower division football programs do lose money as do all their other sports. Portland St is considering dropping football for that very reason.

As for LSU cancelling classes, they may schedule make up days but heck, they may be #1 in football but they’re only #153 amongst “National” universities so it’s not like they are damaging their lofty academic reputation

I don't understand why more schools don't drop football in favor of men's & women's soccer. Soccer is normally a 25 person roster.

You still get the Saturday afternoon "event".

Way to late to get in the way of college football and it's impact.

Classes postponed, not canceled. Days will be made up (similar to hurricane days). Daughter goes there. In past, they've scheduled makeup days on a Saturday and instructors have option of deciding to actually have class or not.

OP, you are right. We should lower taxes and make all universities private. They are able to pay that $4M because of their revenues in football anyway, so they don't need tax money. Let's get the government out of it! While we're at it, let's get rid of food stamps. I saw some people buying some fairly pricey stuff at the grocery and paying with food stamps (EBT cards). They should have to get the off-brand types of products.

As an Ohio State student, I was fully prepared to skip all my classes on tuesday had we made the championship and won it. I've heard stories about 2014 how campus was bristling with burning couches and parties in the streets until 3 or 4 am after we won. Its a once in a lifetime (well a couple times if you're bama or clemson) to win a national championship while you are in college.

And I think Coach O fully deserves all his pay as do most coaches of big time programs. These programs not only bring massive sums of money into the university, but also the local area and can be a huge economic boom. A lot of people complain that OSU cares about the football team so much and basically gives them a blank check every year, but personally football is one of the reasons I chose this school. Gamedays are the best days of the year and we have 36 sports teams, and only two of them are profitable. That money has to come from somewhere and 90% of it is from our football program

It's amazing how miserable people on this website are. Get a life! Find a real issue to focus your attention on. Goodness people. You're sad.

Should have cancelled the week.

That’s nothing, I’ve heard that there were some students at BYU that took 2 years off from classes after they won Nationals.

Liberals are ruining this country