re: Huey Long's influence on LSU football

Whether it was virtuous or not prior to Long is not the point. For whatever political corruption there was prior, he compounded it and that legacy lives on. A simple and brief review of the last 90 years of political history in your state makes that very apparent if you bother to read it and to care. It seems that you are all in on defending this piece of shite, simply because he built a few roads and bridges. The other fact that you don't realize is that he did not support or provide states funds to any type of relief program. In fact, 98% of all social relief programs in the state were runs by churches and private organizations. That would have been fine with me, but the money ran out and Long would do nothing to support, except to continue is massive taxing of oil interests in order continue his infrastructure program which, at most, only decreased the unemployment in the state by about 4%. If you want to call that progress...then I question your definition of progress.

Oh, and yes, he was evil. He hurt a lot of families in that state out of greed and deceit.