I hope Texas A&M never prioritizes football over academics. No amount of championships can make up for the fact that LSU is a dump and ranks #140 in USN&WR.

Football players that will never see the inside of a library don't care

How can you be surprised from a place where the state food is a corn dog

Most, if not all, cajuns don't look at LSU as a school. They look at it as a football program. In short, they couldn't care less about academic facilities.

Way to include the absolute worst parts of the library and the best parts of LSU's football program. Totally not biased Jennifer or whatever her name is.

The athletics over academics culture is specific to LSU, not the SEC.

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Of the nine schools in the Southeastern Conference with separate foundations for athletics and academics, LSU is the only one where athletic fundraising outpaces academic fundraising, according to the newspaper's analysis of four years of tax documents.

"If you look at the buildings of LSU, all of the newest and most spectacular buildings belong to athletics," said Kevin Cope, president of the Faculty Senate. "Meanwhile, there are faculty, students and community members who work in buildings where the plumbing doesn't work, walls are falling down and the facilities are generally in a state of Third World disrepair."

Not only do LSU's peer schools take in more money for academics than for sports it isn't even close for most of them. The University of Florida, Mississippi State, the University of Georgia, Auburn and the University of South Carolina all raise more than twice as much money for the classroom as for the locker room.

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TAMU bball fan said:

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Wabs said:

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Most, if not all, cajuns don't look at LSU as a school. They look at it as a football program. In short, they couldn't care less about academic facilities.

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Which made me apprehensive about A&M joining the SEC. It's not a cultural fit. I would rather associate with UCLA, Stanford, et al.

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Well that's never ever gonna happen! Talk about a cultural mismatch...A&M and anything from Cali...even the sips...as cosmo as they view themselves are not a fit

A&M has more in common with UCLA than LSU. My goodness LSU is a community college with a football program. UCLA is a world class university.

The total system wide endowment of A&M is $13.5 billion. LSU's system wide endowment is $845 million.

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A&M has more in common with UCLA than LSU. My goodness LSU is a community college with a football program. UCLA is a world class university.

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Yeah, but A&M and Auburn were separated at birth. Couldn't be two schools more alike.

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A&M has more in common with UCLA than LSU. My goodness LSU is a community college with a football program. UCLA is a world class university.

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Maybe, but there is more to this than simply academics. Culturally, we have zero in common with UCLA or anything Pac 12. Except for being human beings who live in this nation, I suppose. The SEC is full of folks who believe similarly (in a general sense), who do similar things (bbq, hunting, fishing, and sharing a love of college football). In the Pac 12 you have a lot of highly-rated schools, and yeah, we'd fit it with those schools from a purely academic standpoint, but we also fit in with the better academic schools in the SEC.

And while LSU may very well be a football factory more so than an academic institution, no one is going to deny that Texas A&M also values football very highly as well.

The dad of one of the girls on my daughter's soccer team is a LSU grad from LA. He told me the smartest thing he ever did was to move out of LA after graduating and ensuring his kids didn't have to go through those schools. If this is at their flagship university, imagine what it's like at some of their poorer public schools.

TAMU bball fan said:

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Wabs said:

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Most, if not all, cajuns don't look at LSU as a school. They look at it as a football program. In short, they couldn't care less about academic facilities.

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Which made me apprehensive about A&M joining the SEC. It's not a cultural fit. I would rather associate with UCLA, Stanford, et al.

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You sound like a sip. The SEC is absolutely a cultural fit.
You have to be trolling, right?

TAMU bball fan said:

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Most, if not all, cajuns don't look at LSU as a school. They look at it as a football program. In short, they couldn't care less about academic facilities.

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Which made me apprehensive about A&M joining the SEC. It's not a cultural fit. I would rather associate with UCLA, Stanford, et al.

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Huh? A&M and the SEC is a perfect cultural fit.

Auburn is a great school. Being complimentary of another school doesn't mean my school isn't good.

You ever been there? The two are a lot alike.

Both originally land grant colleges
Both are land, sea, space grant colleges (2 of only 17)
Both solid academic institutions
Both very conservative.
Cultures are damn near identical.
Kids yell War Eagle at everyone they see and if you don't say it back, they add a 'damn' to it... Sound familiar?
Both have to deal with an arrogant, t shirt fan blue blood school down the road.
I could go on...