<p>“I knew about LSU’s sports obsession when I enrolled, but it does get to be a bit too much sometimes. As an applicant, I never once got an email about LSU student accomplishments (all the other colleges bragged as much as they could), awards, new rankings, or anything of that nature. I did get an email from the admissions department Thursday about the baseball team’s win, though.”- Sleepy_Sentry</p>
<p>I’ve received e-mails about student awards and honors plenty of times. They even have a section devoted to current LSU students who have received notable awards on the front page. [Only</a> One LSU](<a href=“http://www.lsu.edu/now/]Only”>http://www.lsu.edu/now/) </p>
<p>I suggest you read each of the people’s bios including Chancellor Michael Martin’s. When I went to orientation, the one thing they stressed about the most were they more proud of these students than the student atheletes. </p>
<p>Since you’re now an LSU tiger, you should not hate on LSU athletics that much. Athletics are big at EVERY large state university. You name it: UNC, UM, UT, USC, UF, UA, etc. they all are big on one sport or another. As you can tell from the list, these schools have fairly good academic programs. </p>
<p>You made a sacrifice of turning down a $30,000 s.ship from Tulane in order to go LSU. I’ve seen your stats in other boards, and I bet LSU gave you a pretty good deal. If all LSU was just focused on sports, you and I would not have scholarships to go to LSU.</p>