<p>“Sports. What else matters.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, that is still the prevalent mindset among the student body and as long as that remains LSU will likely be near the bottom of the SEC in just about every academic ranking system. Now I don’t really believe that LSU is 10th out of the 12 SEC schools, which is where US News has the university ranked currently, but no real progress will be made until there are some serious changes. The rather large budget cuts are only going to hurt also.</p>