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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5357402, member: 833"] Why would Clark Lea leave Vanderbilt? If Vanderbilt is truly committed to football, then LSU can not compete with it. People don’t appreciate how much richer the top universities like Vanderbilt are than a community college like LSU. LSU’s endowment, depending on how it is measured, is as big as UConn’s, around $650 million. The upper end is a billion, although that includes the entire university system and when you see two estimates, go with the lower one because schools try to stretch their endowment numbers for prestige. Vanderbilt’s is $10 billion. The net worth of Vanderbilt’s alumni is probably more than the rest of the SEC (less Texas) combined. If Vanderbilt is serious about football, Lea would be crazy to leave. History and tradition are irrelevant, and coaching matters, but is not decisive like it used to be. Cash matters. The highest NIL are going to win, and schools like Vandy and Duke and Stanford can pay a lot more, if they want to. [/QUOTE]