Shout out from the NY Times!

"Still, there is a bread-and-circuses aspect about football that detracts from more urgent concerns at L.S.U. The faculty has gone three years without raises. State budget cuts have sliced through fat into muscle. An outcry would ensue if the football team was underfinanced. But gutting of the foreign language department generates only a comparative whisper." NY Times, November 3, 2011