LaTech's Vernon Butler goes to Carolina at #30

[Coach Bill Lewis]

First Tech 1st round defensive player.  Great accomplishment for a school with one of the lowest budgets in Cusa.  This will only help their recruiting. Great job Tech!

 

[FirefightnRick]

Lowest budget but hardest working AD department imaginable.

 

"Chronicling Vernon Butler's attempt to make NFL history."

http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sports/college/louisiana-tech/2016/04/27/chronicling-vernon-butlers-attempt-make-history-nfl-draft/83427822/

 

 

Rick

Edited April 29, 2016 by FirefightnRick

[untjim1995]

La Tech gets away with a smaller budget because of two things that they have in their corner. One, they are in a very talent-filled state. Two, if you stay in Louisiana, because of Tech's history of being a winner and making football its primary window to the school, kids don't look down on an offer from them. That history trumps ULL and ULM by miles. Basically, they remind me of UCF or USF in Florida. Clearly both are behind FSU, UF, and Miami on the pecking order of recruits in that state, but they are both ahead of the F_Us, so they get some serious talent that has proven to be able to be shaped into a big relevant winner on a national scene.

It also helps to rarely compete with the former SWC schools in your home that still looks at them as various levels of royalty, for sure. But when you don't let football or athletics be your primary window to your university, you cannot be too surprised when a school with a smaller budget and enrollment runs circles around you in that sport. We may have more students to make our budget look better, but those only a small percentage of those kids even want to watch us play football, much less follow us after they leave here. Its not that way with La Tech students and grads--not at all.