Honestly, LSU needs to be far more selective in admissions, but we won't because $$$ talks. LSU doesn't have enough resources to handle 30K students. We just don't.
The amount of 4-year schools in LA is way over the number needed to serve the needs of the population. Probably half of the kids at LSU would do just as well or better at some of the other 4-year schools, which are suffering from under-enrollment, while LSU is suffering from over-enrollment. When like half of your student body or more is using state money to go to college, you're in deep s**t. When your state is broke like LA, you're f***ed.
Even if Edwards is bluffing to try and gain political support, which, being a dirty politician, he probably is, eventually the TOPS program will have to be shut down completely, and most of the LSU student body will have to drop or enter massive loan debt.