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Oct 5, 2026
Teddy LehmanHOST
What are we doing? I'm with him.
Tyler McComasHOST
And last one I have, the Louisiana board – a Louisiana board of regent member, Wilbert Pryor.
Tyler McComasHOST
Does that sound like a Louisiana board of regent member, Wilbert Pryor? Yeah.
Tyler McComasHOST
He is suggesting that Louisiana Tech – Louisiana Lafayettes and ULM, they should have a nice slice of humble pie.
Tyler McComasHOST
What does he mean by that? He says there are staggering annual financial losses with those three Louisiana universities.
Dave SchultzHOST
FBS or FCS? That was the big question that hit the news last week.
Dave SchultzHOST
Wilbert Pryor, a board of regent from Louisiana, suggested that Louisiana, ULM, and La Tech all drop down their athletic programs from, or the football team, I guess, from FBS to FCS.
Dave SchultzHOST
What does that mean? What does it entail? Or what are some unintended consequences? We bring in our buddy John Hartwell, former athletic director.
Dave SchultzHOST
He worked at Troy, Utah State, ULM.
Dave SchultzHOST
Maybe some of it you won't be able to share, but that's okay.
Dave SchultzHOST
We're just looking for broad strokes and maybe some specifics.
Dave SchultzHOST
What was your reaction to the news when you heard that Wilbert Pryor decided that due to budgetary deficits with those three schools and the Cajuns did have a deficit.
Dave SchultzHOST
I'm not sure about the other ones, but the Cajuns' deficit was very publicly well-known.
Paul IhanderHOST
Uh, there's an attorney in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Paul IhanderHOST
His name is Wilbert Pryor.
Paul IhanderHOST
He suggests that three schools, quote-unquote, "Take a slice of humble pie," because the cost to compete rises and they can't compete.
Paul IhanderHOST
This is in Louisiana, right? Think about the last few moves that have been made by schools in Louis- the state of Louisiana when it comes to paying for coaches.
Brian RiceHOST
Well, the other side of that is, where's that money going to come from? Well, Eric Hage, there's an idea.
Brian RiceHOST
Thanks to Shreveport attorney Wilbert Pryor, who's a politician in the state of Louisiana, and sits on the Louisiana Board of Regents.
Brian RiceHOST
He says, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana Lafayette, Louisiana Monroe need to, quote, take a slice of humble pie from Quote, schools that are trying to play Division I, that's just a sinking hole trying to play Division I ball.
Brian RiceHOST
I don't think much of the public would know the difference.
Dave SchultzHOST
All right? I don't believe that it is.
Dave SchultzHOST
[laughs] All right? Uh, I'm not exactly sure other than the profits and the deficits that, uh, w- Wilbert Pryor is talking about, and he's the Louisiana regent, a Vanderbilt grad and LSU law grad, um, wanting to bring this up.
Dave SchultzHOST
All right? So I...
Dave SchultzHOST
You're gonna, you're gonna hurt enrollment to begin with, all right? I, I know we, you know, complain certainly about, you know, the Cajuns' attendance at football games.
Dave SchultzHOST
Football allows you to do the other sports.
Dave SchultzHOST
And you're just setting up the institutions for failure.
Dave SchultzHOST
Wilbert Pryor said, "You know, the fans, if they're being honest, wouldn't be able to tell the difference between playing McNeese, Nicholls, or Southern Miss or South Alabama or Troy or Marshall or JMU." You don't think they'd be able to tell the difference? They would know the difference.
Dave SchultzHOST
You wanna see season tickets plummet, move them to the FCS.
Brian PateHOST
Um, he has said that Louisiana Tech, Louisiana Monroe, and Louisiana Lafayette need to drop down to FCS because year after year, they have been posting staggering losses.
Brian PateHOST
A Board of Regents member named Wilbert Pryor, who is a Shreveport attorney, um, said that they all need a slice of humble pie during the budget hearings for the University of Louisiana system schools.
Brian PateHOST
So all these schools play FBS ball, but he's saying you aren't making enough money.
Brian PateHOST
And, um, he also said that they belong in FCS.
Landrum RobertsHOST
Now reports of what took place and some of the conversations that took place are now surfacing.
Landrum RobertsHOST
Apparently, Louisiana Board of Regents member Wilbert Pryor, a Shreveport attorney, said Louisiana Tech, University of Louisiana Lafayette, and University of Louisiana Monroe should take a slice of quote, humble pie.
Landrum RobertsHOST
during the board's meetings earlier.
Landrum RobertsHOST
He also said, reminded people, that the schools belong in the Division I's second tier, also called the Football Bowl Subdivision, or the FCS, along with other University of Louisiana system schools like Grambling State, McNeese, Nichols, Northwestern State, and Southeastern Louisiana.
Joe CunninghamHOST
And the University of Louisiana board met recently on September 22nd at a budget hearing.
Joe CunninghamHOST
And in the process, Wilbert Pryor, one of the board members, said that because of deficits at UL, at Louisiana Tech, and at ULM, the board should move those three universities from the top tier of Division I football, the FBS, to the FCS.
Joe CunninghamHOST
Still in Division I, but the lower level.
Joe CunninghamHOST
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