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Message: [QUOTE="Boston Tiger, post: 474986, member: 662"] As an alum of another school that hit bottom before they committed to upgrading their football program, I can tell you that you have to have a mix of big donors and small if you want things to take off. LSU was in the doldrums in the 1990s, since the AD at the time was doing everything in his power to limit the impact of the big donors in the TAF (Tiger Athletic Foundation). He knew that if he started depending on them, Joe Fan would get priced out of his cheap seats in Tiger Stadium. We went through a decade of lousy football teams, and eventually he moved on and we got an AD and university president who recognized that changes were needed to compete in modern day college football. They also went out and stole a coach named Nick Saban from Michigan State, and NTP insisted that the TAF invest in the necessary infrastructure changes that would help land recruits. They first built an outstanding academic support center for all athletes (it includes some rooms available for the general student population as well). Next up was a state of the art football practice facility across from Tiger Stadium. The funny thing about that is that NTP left for the Dolphins the year that his football palace was finished. But the investments made at that time continue to pay off in spades, since my set of Tigers continue to compete at the highest level. (There are some problems with that, since some fans now consider anything less that a BCS title to be a failed season.) Finally, congrats to the original poster for the Peach Bowl win. That was a heartbreaker for LSU fans, but at least I was still on a high from the fantastic time I had in the Bronx a few days earlier. I never thought I would enjoy watching a snow bowl as much as I did. I'm now 4-0 in bowl games that I've attended in person. [/QUOTE]

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