http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/01/29/lsu-will-show-off-class-of-2016-signees-on-billboards-throughout-louisiana/

Copy cats.

Like Most Wanted Criminals list

Lame. Unoriginal. Not impressed.

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Like a future Most Wanted Criminal list

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Fify

No one drives through Louisiana.

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No one drives through Louisiana.

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Then why does it take me an hour and a half to drive what should be a 15-minute cruise on I-10 to LSU?

I don't know if you've ever been in the part of Louisiana south of I-10 and I -12, where more than 3 million people live in a very small area, proportional to the rest of the state, but Louisiana statistically has some of the worst traffic in the country by far. Drive through South Louisiana anytime of day or night, and the major roads are always packed with cars. A lot of the roads haven't been widened since Huey Long was governor, leading to ridiculous backups even outside of major commuting hours. Try to cross the bridge during rush hour. It might take 2 hours on a bad day, 45 minutes on a good day.

It takes me longer to get back home from LSU sometimes than it does for me to cross the entirety of Houston during rush hour (which I've done at least a dozen times on business trips). Houston traffic sucks, but at least there's a decent infrastructure to deal with the jam. BR and NOLA have none of that. Put that in perspective.

Plenty of people will see these billboards. Whether they'll actually do anything, who knows?

Hey don't take it out on me that you coonass dumb****s are too stupid to build adequate freeways.

How Ole Miss of them

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No one drives through Louisiana.

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Then why does it take me an hour and a half to drive what should be a 15-minute cruise on I-10 to LSU?

I don't know if you've ever been in the part of Louisiana south of I-10 and I -12, where more than 3 million people live in a very small area, proportional to the rest of the state, but Louisiana statistically has some of the worst traffic in the country by far. Drive through South Louisiana anytime of day or night, and the major roads are always packed with cars. A lot of the roads haven't been widened since Huey Long was governor, leading to ridiculous backups even outside of major commuting hours. Try to cross the bridge during rush hour. It might take 2 hours on a bad day, 45 minutes on a good day.

It takes me longer to get back home from LSU sometimes than it does for me to cross the entirety of Houston during rush hour (which I've done at least a dozen times on business trips). Houston traffic sucks, but at least there's a decent infrastructure to deal with the jam. BR and NOLA have none of that. Put that in perspective.

Plenty of people will see these billboards. Whether they'll actually do anything, who knows?

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That's because half of the time that place is flooded.

It's not that we're too stupid to do it. We're too poor. We're not a big, rich, unimpoverished state like Texas.

Like 40% of the state lives in poverty and the price of oil, which our state GDP depends heavily on, is the lowest it's been in about 30 years. We don't have a lot of money to spare at the moment for adding lanes to roads and other luxuries. We're just trying to recover from Katrina and fight through this recession.

Tourism to NOLA and BR is about the only thing keeping us afloat right now.

In other words, you're not smart enough to diversify like we have. Keep digging your hole corn dog.

There's not much to diversify in Louisiana. It's a tiny state with essentially the same climate everywhere (except maybe North of Alexandria) and very limited agricultural range. There's not much that grows in such a hot, constantly wet climate besides sugarcane, soybeans, rice, and some citrus crops. Most of that isn't very profitable at the moment. I would know. I help many LA businesses manage their portfolios. The agricultural industry is very up-and-down here. Very unstable. The demand for natural sugar and brown rice, two of our biggest exports, is quite low right now. There's nothing any of us can do about that. Just a natural bare period in the economy that will rebound eventually, but until it does, the state will continue to hurt.

Texas is a huge, far more populated state with a wider climate range (and thus, a much wider crop range) and massive oil reserves. You also don't have the long-lasting political and economic effects from Jim Crow and Reconstruction almost every other Southern state has. You have many built-in advantages few other states have, which is why so many people are flooding into Texas.

Texas is like California in that you have the climate to grow just about anything. We're not so lucky. Most crops can't handle Louisiana's harsh, subtropical climate. The LSU Ag department is working hard on genetically modifying some cool-weather crops to see if they can survive here better and diversify our GDP more. I'm optimistic they'll get it done.

Dem Racine girlz doe.

Your state is basically Detroit of the south. Maybe consider moving? Or just stay there and complain in a few years when you have lead in your water.

if you've got that good a class and you keep your five-stars more than a year...why not?

As a side note, you guys haven't been in the SEC nearly long enough to call us "corn dogs" yet. That privilege is reserved for fans of the original 12 teams for now, until you and Missouri can beat us in football. Then call us corn dogs all you want.

But we prefer to be called coonasses. Corn dogs is just stupid, and was coined by a drunk Auburn fan that thought our tailgates smelled like corn dogs. We don't eat corn dogs much in LA. No need for cheap carnie food when there's delicious Cajun food everywhere.

For as much as you guys mock the Longhorns in Austin for their arrogance (and I agree with you, for the most part), there are quite a few arrogant and elitist Aggies as well, at least from what I have seen on TexAgs. Just remember that growing up in a rich area or a poor area, and going to a great school or a crappy school doesn't define who you are or what your potential can be. If it did, people like Ben Carson wouldn't exist. So when people say I should be ashamed of being from a place like Louisiana, it doesn't bother me. Just like Yankees look down on us Southerners as dumb hicks, I feel it's a bit hypocritical when other Southerners look down on each other.

We're all on the same team at the end of the day, trying to get through life as best we can.

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As a side note, you guys haven't been in the SEC nearly long enough to call us "corn dogs" yet. That privilege is reserved for fans of the original 12 teams for now, until you and Missouri can beat us in football. Then call us corn dogs all you want.

But we prefer to be called coonasses. Corn dogs is just stupid, and was coined by a drunk Auburn fan that thought our tailgates smelled like corn dogs. We don't eat corn dogs much in LA. No need for cheap carnie food when there's delicious Cajun food everywhere.

For as much as you guys mock the Longhorns in Austin for their arrogance (and I agree with you, for the most part), there are quite a few arrogant and elitist Aggies as well, at least from what I have seen on TexAgs. Just remember that growing up in a rich area or a poor area, and going to a great school or a crappy school doesn't define who your are or what your potential can be. If it did, people like Ben Carson wouldn't exist. So when people say I should be ashamed of being from a place like Louisiana, it doesn't bother me. Just like Yankees look down on us Southerners as dumb hicks, I feel it's a bit hypocritical when other Southerners look down each other.

We're all on the same team at the end of the day, trying to get through life as best we can.

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Howdy, nice to meet you. Go Eff yourself.

Coonass is so far below sandtard it's almost like unBolivian.

You garner the academic prowess of Texas Tech which is quite possibly the worst insult imaginable for a "university" in the Unite States.

There is a reason y'all were poor during s period when oil was the most expensive it's ever been. It is because of how socialist Louisiana is.

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As a side note, you guys haven't been in the SEC nearly long enough to call us "corn dogs" yet. That privilege is reserved for fans of the original 12 teams for now, until you and Missouri can beat us in football. Then call us corn dogs all you want.

But we prefer to be called coonasses. Corn dogs is just stupid, and was coined by a drunk Auburn fan that thought our tailgates smelled like corn dogs. We don't eat corn dogs much in LA. No need for cheap carnie food when there's delicious Cajun food everywhere.

For as much as you guys mock the Longhorns in Austin for their arrogance (and I agree with you, for the most part), there are quite a few arrogant and elitist Aggies as well, at least from what I have seen on TexAgs. Just remember that growing up in a rich area or a poor area, and going to a great school or a crappy school doesn't define who your are or what your potential can be. If it did, people like Ben Carson wouldn't exist. So when people say I should be ashamed of being from a place like Louisiana, it doesn't bother me. Just like Yankees look down on us Southerners as dumb hicks, I feel it's a bit hypocritical when other Southerners look down each other.

We're all on the same team at the end of the day, trying to get through life as best we can.

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You shoot gators? Dem Florida Gators cost us a national title. *******s.

LSUBaseballFan has always been courteous and insightful on these boards. It's pretty lame to be a tool to him for no reason.

Why even bother having billboards on those freeways? Drivers are too busy looking for potholes.

Yes, let the butthurt flow through you!

LSU Baseball Fan- don't expect any kind of reasonable discourse on this site like you might have received 10 or 15 years ago.

Most here are spoiled, immature, and not deep thinkers. Thanks for the input. Despite all the enormous socioeconomic and geographic challenges of Louisiana, it has a heckuva spirit and culture.

Keep up the good fight!

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LSU Baseball Fan- don't expect any kind of reasonable discourse on this site like you might have received 10 or 15 years ago.

Most here are spoiled, immature, and not deep thinkers. Thanks for the input. Despite all the enormous socioeconomic and geographic challenges of Louisiana, it has a heckuva spirit and culture.

Keep up the good fight!

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Yeah cuz we were all just begging for an LSU fan to get on the texags football forum so we could have a lengthy discourse about louisianas infrastructure and socioeconomic challenges.

You know who else has lots of spirit and culture? India.
Doesn't mean any sane person would want to live there.

You know who you are.

Seems like y'all should think of something at the moment to help in recruiting......

I mean I know y'all don't know what it's like to sign 20 players in the top 300 or have a consensus #1 recruiting class......maybe, just maybe instead of insulting the state of Louisiana y'all could focus y'all efforts on bagmen, new helicopters, and women for cheerleading instead of always talking about next year and money.

Y'all should be ashamed to have a class ranked behind Baylor with a badass stadium and fanbase, the best facilities in the country, and being a member of the SEC!

Maybe if your state concerned itself with more than football it wouldn't be the ****hole of America.

We can call you "corn dogs" all we want until you pay us the $$$ you owe for backing out of the A&M-LSU series bc we were kicking your asses.

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Maybe if your state concerned itself with more than football it wouldn't be the ****hole of America.

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Well, I guess that is one way to rationalize 5 ass kickings in a row.

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Yes, let the butthurt flow through you!

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If I've read this word, "butthurt" a thousand times, I've read it a million times. It's not original. It's not clever. It's not even funny. At best it is middle school level talk. If you are a sixth grader, forgive me. On second thought, if you are a sixth grader, grow up. It's this kind of b.s. language that makes us all look like a bunch of goobers. Dang, and to think I pay good money to read this tripe.

Too bad nobody can see billboards in LA cause the whole time driving you are trying to avoid potholes the size of a crater that will swallow up your entire vehicle

Oh look **** stick is here.

Louisiana HS Player of the Year, QB Lindsey Scott, just committed to LSU over three other schools.

The beat goes on.

Better buckle up, guys.