RIP College football in Louisiana?

[all3rd]

Governor: State deficit could cancel LSU football

Louisiana governor: Budget crisis threatens future of college sports

Facing a budget crisis, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says higher education in the state could be compromised. And that includes the possibility of college athletics in Louisiana being canceled.

In a statewide televised address Thursday, Edwards said campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down in April, highlighting the LSU football team as one of the potential losses from massive cuts to higher education funding.

"If you are a student attending one of these universities, it means that you will receive a grade of incomplete, many students will not be able to graduate, and student-athletes across the state at those schools will be ineligible to play next semester," Edwards said, according to The Times-Picayune. "That means you can say farewell to college football next fall."

The Democratic governor is pushing for tax increases to help make up a $940 million budget deficit by the end of June. He said Louisiana could be forced to cut vital health services as well.

"These are not scare tactics. This is reality," Edwards said. "An unstable state budget will not only hurt children and working families in our state, it will devastate communities, businesses and local government as well."

Some Republicans are unhappy with the size of the governor's proposals, the newspaper reports.

"Gov. Edwards is proposing to implement the largest tax increase in the history of Louisiana," treasurer John Kennedy said in a rebuttal. "It will wreck our economy, already fragile."

If lawmakers find a solution to keep colleges open and save the Tigers' 2016 season, a similar problem looms for the following fiscal year, when Louisiana faces a $2 billion budget shortfall, according to The Times-Picayune.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Wait what...

 

[Big Boss]

 

[all3rd]

Yea my home state is broker then Cali. I think they have a 2.1 Billion Dollar budget shortfall for 2017.

 

[JLova]

 

[thatrapsfan]

What's LSU's athletics budget?

Have a publicly funded budget equivalent to a pro sports team in one of the poorest states on the continent brehs.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

What's LSU's athletics budget?

Have a publicly funded budget equivalent to a pro sports team in one of the poorest states on the continent brehs.

If LSU college football is cashflow positive why is this an issue

 

[NYC Rebel]

Clean up Bobby Jindal's mess he left behind at the expense of the football program, brehs.

 

[PortCityProphet]

yea the whole state is fukked up. Jindal and them repulicans did a number on the budget. then that fool had the nerve to run for president.
but think of all the kids who gon get fukked. they not gon graduate i busted my ass for 4 plus years and im not gon graduate cause ya'll broke? nikka gimme me money back and be thankful they won't find politicians' bodies in a gator's stomach

 

[Silkk]

ZERO% chance

 

[Rekkapryde]

Governor: State deficit could cancel LSU football

Louisiana governor: Budget crisis threatens future of college sports

I though republicans were all about cutting costs

 

[mastermind]

Clean up Bobby Jindal's mess he left behind at the expense of the football program, brehs.

that was the headline

the quotes were actually about all the universities in the state that are publicly funded.

 

[#StarkSet]

Scare tactic

 

[FakeNews]

 

[Donald J Trump]

A lot of people here lost their $2000 scholarship for THIS semester


glad i aint gonna be here after May