If the new Louisiana Governor would simply place a dollar limit cap on TOPS awards to cover his shortfall Tech could come out of this thing better than before. Everyone could read from trusted sources that Tech gives the best educational bang for your newly shrunken TOPS buck. And with our biggest in-state competitor, lsu, for top grade students charging a higher tuition, Tech "should" be the Tier 1 college of choice leaving less of a tuition gap for mom and dad to pay. I would like our chances in this scenario even better than the way it has been since the beginning of the TOPS program.