Boot Up Louisiana! Will Wade is returning to LSU to lead the men’s basketball program again. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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LSU is launching a four-year degree program in A-I this fall. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A reunion between LSU and men’s basketball coach Will Wade is happening as McNeese announces athletics director Heath Schroyer has accepted a job at LSU as Senior Deputy AD. Jim Gazzolo covers McNeese athletics for the American Press and says Wade would not leave North Carolina State for LSU if Schroyer is not at LSU…
Schroyer hired Wade as McNeese’s head coach in 2023, a year after he was fired at LSU for committing NCAA recruiting violations.
Schroyer arrived on campus in 2018 as the Cowboys head basketball coach. He was elevated to Athletics Director in June 2020, during the middle of the COVID pandemic and right before two major hurricanes that struck southwest Louisiana. Gazzolo says what Schroyer did once he got the A-D job is remarkable…
Schroyer will remain the AD at McNeese until April 10th, and then Deputy AD Bridge Martin will become the interim AD.
Wade’s return to LSU means Matt McMahon’s four year run as the Tigers men’s basketball coach is over. He went 60-70 in four seasons at LSU.
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LSU will soon be launching a bachelor’s degree program in artificial intelligence. The four-year program is the first of its kind in Louisiana. James Ghawaly (guh-WALL-ee), an assistant professor of science and engineering at LSU, says this degree program goes well beyond simply how to use A-I.
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Along with building new A-I technologies from the ground up, students will also learn the ethics of using A-I, which Ghawaly says is standard procedure in most engineering programs these days. He says students will also learn how to detect whether video content was created using A-I.
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Ghawaly says the program is starting in just a few months.
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Monroe Senator Stewart Cathey does not believe politicians should be able to run for a seat in the U-S House of Representatives if they do not live in the district they are seeking to represent. Cathey brought Senate Concurrent Resolution number nine up for debate in the Governmental Affairs committee…
The legislation is directed at Blake Miguez, who lives near New Iberia, but is seeking to represent a Congressional district that covers the Monroe and Baton Rouge areas. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee reported the resolution without action, which technically kills the measure for the session…
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Cathey was looking at running for the 5th district congressional seat currently occupied by Julia Letlow, but abandoned a campaign when President Trump endorsed Miguez.
Cathey says if you run for U-S Senate, you have to live in the state that you represent. State legislators have to live in the district that they represent and the same rule should apply for members of the U-S House of Representatives. But Houma Senator Mike Fesi says federal law allows for a U-S Representative to live outside of their district…
Fesi did not feel comfortable passing a resolution in Louisiana when there are 25 members of the U-S House of Representatives who do not live in the district they represent…
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ULM introduced Ryan Cross as its new men’s basketball coach. Cross spent eight seasons as a Warhawk assistant before spending the last six years as an assistant at U-A-B. Cross says the ULM program is one that he has personal sweat equity invested…
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UAB made four postseason appearances in his six seasons as an assistant coach for the Blazers. And when Cross was an assistant at ULM, the Warhawks had their three winningest seasons since ULM joined the Sun Belt. He’s hoping northeast Louisiana will rally around his program…
ULM is coming off a horrible season where they went 4-28 overall, 1-17 in the Sun Belt.