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Thanks for posting the info.  The article says he's the nephew of Kevin Millar so I wonder why he didn't go to Lamar in the first place.

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Does this mean UNO sport is really dead?

Henderson is the only student-athlete off any roster this year that has left according to any of the articles that have come out.  I do not believe he left due to the future of the athletic department.

Nothing is for sure as far as UNO and their athletic program.  It still needs to go to the legislature.  Read the last part of this article and it will tell you where they are in the process of retaining the program.

The Louisiana Legislature is also looking at putting funding back into place. The Governor has agreed to go into the Rainy Day fund. There is a Senator who is looking at plugging up the reductions completely with a bill that would put $118M into higher education. The key is getting the state funding back into higher education. Do that and all the other stuff that is happening per the media, they could be in the best situation they've been in.

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I will not get into a debate about why Henderson is leaving UNO but I do know that there are still a lot of hurdles for the UNO program to be sound once again.  They have private donations that will help defer the costs of next year's program but it does not cover everything. 

In the following article you will see exactly the bill the Senate sub-committee is trying to get passed.  It will restore only part of what is needed for the higher education budget and I doubt that athletics is on the top of the list to spend this money on if by chance it gets approved in the budget.  Gov Jindal has said he would veto this type of bill.  It will be an uphill battle for UNO,  they are opptomistic and hopeful that UNO athletics has a future but there are still many unresolved problems.  The crisis is only partially resolved for next year but not for the year beyond.  Do you fault a player for wanting to come to a program that is as sound as Lamar.  Also he is coming home to play where is big brother did and also his Uncle.  I for one am glad he is probably coming back, he could contribute a lot to our program.

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HERE IS THE ARTICLE.  AND I POSTED ANOTHER ONE FOUND ON www.bayoubuzz.com  about the budget cuts.  As you can tell UNO is a long way from keeping their programs.  These kids and their parents were told the day after the student body vote that they were to go find somewhere else to play and they would receive their releases.  It is really a scary time in Louisiana and yes there are other kids looking to make a move not just Henderson.  He was just the first to tell his coaches he was not coming back. I guess we will know the fate of the program by June 26th for sure.  I hope for everyone involved in any state funded athletic program in Louisana that they get to retain their programs.

Louisiana Senate Committee Helps Higher Education, Gov. Jindal Vows Veto

Written by: BayouBuzz Staff

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Governor Bobby Jindal who has had a good legislative session but for an embarrassing vote on the stimulus unemployment legislation that occurred Monday on the House floor, suffered a setback Thursday as a House Committee voted to “approve a funding mechanism†due to the loss the Louisiana Budget was having upon higher education.

A press release by Senate President Joel Chaisson explains the setback:

A bi-partisan coalition of state lawmakers, led by Senate President Joel Chaisson, Senate President Pro-Tempore Sharon Weston-Broome, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Michot and Senate Finance Committee Vice-Chair Lydia Jackson, moved today to restore higher education funding. The coalition won the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee's approval of Senate Bill 335 by Sen. Jackson. The measure provides a funding mechanism to restore $118 million in higher education funding, which could reduce the proposed $219 million budget cut in the executive budget to a much more manageable $101 million reduction.

            Senate Bill 335 would simply retain the currently allowed excess federal itemized deduction on a taxpayer's individual income tax return at 65% for a period of three years. The bill does NOT impose any new taxes and continues to allow any taxpayer with excess itemized deductions to claim the same percentage in 2009, 2010 and 2011 as they can currently claim this year under existing law. In 2012, taxpayers would be able to claim 100% of the deduction. The bill does NOT in any way alter or reduce the state income tax relief provided to Louisiana citizens last year under the Shaw bill that repealed portions of the Stelly Plan. 

            "In lean budget years, cuts need to be made and higher education need to become more efficient and to bear a meaningful portion of cuts. However the amount of the cut proposed for higher education is simply unsustainable and will result in layoffs of tenured faculty, reductions in students services and the start of a downward spiral in the quality of our higher education institutions which could take decades to reverse. We can't afford to let that happen," Senate President Chaisson said.

            Senator Jackson, Senator Michot and Senate President Pro-Tempore Broome agree.

"Today we are faced with budget reductions that will generational scars on the face of higher education in Louisiana. Senate Bill 335 attempts to  provide a little salve to the wounds," Senate Finance Committee Vice-Chair Lydia Jackson said.

            "For the state's immediate and long-term future, it is clear that we cannot allow budget cuts that will do irreparable harm to our colleges and universities, institutions that are the engine that powers the creation of jobs and businesses in Louisiana," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Michot said.

            "Providing our citizens access to quality higher education services is key to building better neighborhoods, better communities and a better Louisiana," Senate President Pro-Tempore Sharon Weston-Broome said. "We cannot permit our current state budget crisis to eat away at the foundation of a stronger Louisiana."

            Board of Regents Chairman Artis Terrell as well as Regents William Raspberry and Charlotte Bollinger indicated their support of Senate Bill 335 as the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee considered the measure. The bill next moves to the full Senate for consideration.

Chaisson told Bayoubuzz that four Republicans in the committee including Republican Mike Michot supported the committee’s action. 

However, should the legislation pass the full Senate and the House, it appears that the action might be short-lived.   

In an email response through his Director of Communications, Melissa Sellers, Governor Bobby Jindal stated “We have said all along that we would veto any legislation that delays tax relief for Louisianians. We share the legislature’s concerns that reductions too often fall to higher education and health care during lean budget years and we will continue to work with them to find ways to protect these critical areas.â€

Should Governor Jindal veto the legislation, the Legislature would then be forced to override the veto, should it attempt to do so.

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Louisiana Jindals Education Budget Short On Leadership

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  More by his actions than his words, it is clear that Bobby Jindal does not aspire to be the higher education governor. He may cause major historic changes to the university system, but whether they are for better or worse won’t be known until after this slow-moving budgetary train wreck plays out over the next few years.

  As anyone who attends or draws a paycheck from a state college knows, its leaders face having to make do with $219 million, or 15 percent, less state funding next year, after $55 million was sliced during the current fiscal year. Those cuts grow doubly worse in two years, when $220 million per year in federal stimulus money for higher ed runs out.

  The Jindal administration has criticized efforts by the House of Representatives to plug some of the holes with one-time money. The governor has outright rejected and promised to veto a bill by senators to raise $118 million by freezing the phase-in of personal income tax deductions, primarily mortgage interest payments and charitable contributions, scheduled to go from 65 percent to 100 percent this year.

  Brushing aside suggestions for short-term relief, the governor emphasizes the need for significant reductions in higher education spending now so that less will have to be cut in 2011, election year.

  Just how to make these immediate and drastic reductions is a task he has delegated to Higher Education Commissioner Sally Clausen. After all, she came up with the bright idea for a new formula for distributing academic dollars based more on graduation rates and research grants than the current gauge of warm bodies enrolled.

  Clausen still champions that plan but points out that it was to be implemented with additional funding, not less. Conceding that cuts must come, however, she and the university presidents are asking for time to ratchet down spending instead of taking such a heavy hit upfront. They warn the immediate loss of 15 percent in state money would chase off top-flight faculty and their research grants with them. In eliminating degree programs, schools still have some obligation to allow upperclassmen to complete those studies.

  The damage has begun already, warned Clausen, testifying before senators about her conversation with a Louisiana professor who is leaving for Maryland “because that governor is not harming higher education.â€

  Gov. Jindal needs to offer more than a deaf ear to legislators’ unconventional, even short-term solutions. He may reject the proposed deduction freeze as a tax increase by another name, but his tough-love/tough-luck response to the colleges’ plight falls short of responsible leadership.

  What sets Jindal apart from his predecessors is that past governors, when faced with fiscal downturns, would do all they could, look for money where they could find it—-recurring or one-time, whatever--to help colleges through bad times.

  In this case, that could be mean tapping into the Budget Stabilization Fund, the so-called rainy day fund, which would net at least $260 million for education and healthcare. There is a constitutional Catch-22 that would require the fund to be replenished some time next year. Yet there are ways to do that with one-time dollars, from several available sources, in order to make the rainy-day umbrella work.

  The governor warns that using one-time money to cover recurring expenses would just make the fiscal problem worse later, but that’s not necessarily so. If there is any constant in budget-writing, it’s that there always is one-time money—-from different sources and in different amounts, but it’s there every year.

  Such is not the preferred budgetary practice, but it is not so dangerous and irresponsible as Jindal claims, not like risking ruin to higher education.

That happened in the desperate budget deficit years of 20 years ago, and it has taken that long for our universities, particularly LSU, to recover.

  Applying some less-than-pure budgetary fixes might require some compromise on the governor’s part, to which he is not accustomed, but that’s what on-the-job training is for.

  Over the next two years, no one will determine the fate of public universities more than will Bobby Jindal, and vice versa. If, by when his time as governor is through, higher education is not efficiently restructured but broken instead, he will own it.

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HERE IS THE ARTICLE.  AND I POSTED ANOTHER ONE FOUND ON www.bayoubuzz.com  about the budget cuts.  As you can tell UNO is a long way from keeping their programs.  These kids and their parents were told the day after the student body vote that they were to go find somewhere else to play and they would receive their releases.  It is really a scary time in Louisiana and yes there are other kids looking to make a move not just Henderson.  He was just the first to tell his coaches he was not coming back. I guess we will know the fate of the program by June 26th for sure.  I hope for everyone involved in any state funded athletic program in Louisana that they get to retain their programs.

Would be surprised if you didn't know the full story...  ::)

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Well TT now that all is behind us yes I do know the whole story.  Not only am I a long time supporter and alumni of Lamar I am also Jake's Mother.  For reasons which should be obvious I did not want to reveal this until all was settled one way or the other with the NCAA.

I am very happy to announce that Jake received his waiver and will be eligible immediately to be a part of LU Baseball program.  We in our family are very excited that he will be back at Lamar where both Kevin and Will played.  Just want to make it clear that he had no problem with the UNO program, just the uncertainty of  athletics at UNO.  They were told to transfer, that UNO athletics were done and so that is what Jake decided to do.  I am glad for UNO that things are looking up for them.  It is an outstanding program and school.  Enough great things cannot be said about Coach Tom Walter and Bruce Peddie.

Jake is glad to be apart of the LU program and hopes to be able to make a positive contribution to it.

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Did not get burned.

Trying to find the post, but wasn't it LU Baseball Fan who made some false statements regarding student-athletes who have left due to the future of the athletic program? Only two athletes at the university, one member of the baseball roster (her son) and one swimmer (one who got a full ride at Notre Dame, hard to blame him in a sport of partials) specifically due to what happened.

False information about such a twisted situation does nothing to benefit OR educate anyone. Good luck to Jake and here's hoping that the Cards improve this season, so we can get an RPI boost for the league as we try to keep a multi-bid league in place.

Here in New Orleans, everything I've read about the future is bright. So, it looks like both the individual athlete and the school got what they want.

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