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Actually, LSU has tons of money in the Athletic Department. By state law LSU can't use any state funds for athletics. The LSU Athletic Department is 100% funded by donations, ticket sales, concessions, novelties, SEC and TV/broadcast revenue. LSU also has quite a few donors who are very wealthy (Pennington, Turner, Bernhard to name a few) and they have no problem raising money to buy out Miles or anyone else. The problem was the way this was being done was simply a backroom deal with no search and a few donors picking a coach. That is the system that gave LSU Curley Hallman and Gerry Dinardo. LSU moved away from that BS when Saban was hired and Joe Dean was forced out as AD. Cooler heads prevailed in the Miles situationand the coup was put down.

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The public perception is otherwise, fueled in large part by Alleva's front and center involvement with F.King Alexander's chicken little antics over state budget cuts last spring.

And indeed, Alexander found himself hoisted on his own petard when it came time to spend that much money to fire Miles (and assistants) and bring in Fisher and a new staff. Despite the fact that none of that would involve taxpayer money, Alexander was worried about how it would appear to a public he had just spent months convincing LSU would be bankrupt if the budget cuts happened.

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WE WILL NEVER BEAT LSU.

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I love your thinking!

Disagree slightly. WE can beat LSU, Sumlin can't.

Ed Orgeron can sale water to a rock.

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WE WILL NEVER BEAT LSU.

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We will beat them this year.

LSU has a funky schedule this season. Face Ole Miss at home October 22nd, open date before the Bama game at home, then the Hogs in Fayetteville, then cupcake South Alabama at home, five days later...us at Kyle.

Sets up pretty well for them in the home stretch, I'd wager.

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Wish they'd of ****ing fired Miles

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Most of their commits would still go there if they had no coach

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Same with t.u.? Im beginning to believe this more and more.

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Wish they'd of ****ing fired Miles

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Most of their commits would still go there if they had no coach

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Same with t.u.? Im beginning to believe this more and more.

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Louisiana is different. LSU rules the entire state and it just so happens to be a very talent rich state. (Insert 40 page thread on why that state is talent rich complete with Jimmy the Greek and Hitler references here.)

The horns are a little different in that they are not the only game in town. They do have a tradition and deep reliable pipeline to state of Texas HS recruits, though. Boosters are mostly responsible for keeping that going within their own neck of the woods.

It is interesting, however, to read about criticisms of past sip coaches Akers, McWilliams and Mackovic. At various times each faced criticisms of either how they recruited the state too much or too little.

Regarding LSU, it isn't just the fact that kids are born in Louisiana and LSU is the only Power 5 program in the state. There is a very high participation rate in Louisiana for athletics. It is stressed at an early age. It is part of the culture. Then there are excellent coaches and programs all over the state. Then there is a state pride in Louisiana that is undeniable and that leads to the extreme loyalty to LSU. It doesn't
matter to most LSU fans whether they attended the school or not they still will support LSU no matter what. It is a little hard to describe to people who haven't grown up in Louisiana but for the most part the kids in Louisiana truly want to play at LSU.

In reality, LSU has outstanding facilities, lots of tradition, and is a one of the traditional "big 6" of the SEC. Why wouldn't a Louisiana kid want to represent his hometown and family at LSU? It almost recruits itself.

On a side note, there is a lot of football talent in Louisiana and realisticly LSU can't sign them all.

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Actually, LSU has tons of money in the Athletic Department. By state law LSU can't use any state funds for athletics.

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I don't know if it's a state law because the other universities in Louisiana get state aid for athletics every year. USL expanded their stadium so they could have 15,000 more empty seats with all state money.

LSU athletics gives money back to the academic side ... $10 million last year. So when. I give money to athletics, a percentage also goes to academics.

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That passion, most say, is why the members of The Advocate's 2016 Super Dozen are part of a historic group. The dozen players headline arguably Louisiana's deepest recruiting class in recent history and have the state atop the nation again in per-capita recruiting.

Louisiana has 21 players rated four or five stars in 247Sports' composite rankings. No other state produced more highly rated recruits (four or five stars) compared to state population.

There are 4.49 highly rated prospects for every 500,000 males in Louisiana this year, leading the nation by a wide margin.

The number is double the amount of Florida, where there are 2.26 four- and five-star players for every 500,000 males. Texas, known nationally as the jewel of high school football talent, averages just 1.89 highly rated prospects for every 500,000 men.

Louisiana's stiffest competition this year comes from Mississippi (3.67 for every 500,000) and Georgia (2.54). A whopping 17 states don't have a single four- or five-star player this year, and two of those states New York and Massachusetts have a bigger population than Louisiana's 4.67 million.
Alabama and Kentucky the closest states to Louisiana's population have a combined nine highly rated recruits this year compared to the Bayou State's 21.

And, to think, that number could be higher. Shea Patterson (five stars), the former Calvary Baptist quarterback, and receiver Drake Davis (four stars), the ex-Dunham star, transferred to IMG Academy in Florida.

"That further makes a statement on how deep Louisiana was this year," said Sonny Shipp, Louisiana recruiting analyst for 247Sports.com.

"Every two or three years, there seems to be a really strong group. You can see it from a mile away, that that group is going to be extremely top-heavy," said Mike Scarborough, Louisiana recruiting analyst for Rivals.com. "This is one."

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