Quote Originally Posted by TexasTerror View Post
The economic impact study by the Univ of Louisiana system was everything a dummy knows about the impact of higher education and what having colleges do for anywhere (i.e jobs, federal $$$, etc). I don't think that will make much a difference in what's going on...

Education is a failure in this state. From K to college. Gov. Bobby Jindal should know a bit about it since he has had some involvement. Unfortunately, the state planned for too much revenue from gas money that did not come. Now, everyone is cutting and since education has never been important to the state, may as well cut it some more.

Look for some schools to cut sports (if they can "afford to" without breaking NCAA and conference rules).
The state did not PLAN for more revenue from gas! They base their budget projections as does any other state on averages and a lot is oil and gas taxes to be exact... In addition, no one expected the Stock Market to collapse the past 6 months as it did driving Oil below the magic number where they make money thus driving them to cut back on new projects, which in turns drops state revenue.

These cuts will affect additional hirings, academic building projects and things of that nature more than anything.. Athletics will be fine because schools like Mcneese have great booster and fan support...