re: What if LSU not been screwed on that last play?

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How does LSU being good help A&M?

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Because of where we are as a program.

When we went to the SEC we made a bet that we could take with us a great percentage of the Texan mindshare to the SEC despite being blackballed by the Texas Big 12 programs and losing our biggest game in the state. We entered a battle to improve the brand of our program not at LSU's expense (or at the expense of any SEC program) but at the expense of Texas and (moreso) Oklahoma. We replaced the Texas game with the LSU game and put it on the same night for a reason- we are out to prove we can be relevant in the state without them and DESPITE them and their efforts to stop us.

In that way the better LSU is and the bigger that rivalry game gets the more we can steal the hearts and minds of Texans which eventually means their kids. Right now Nick Saban owns the SEC so our priority is building for a future where maybe, just maybe, we are the FSU of Texas. A good LSU (seeing as how its the closest SEC state) is the fastest way to get there outside of finding a way to beat Nick (a fool's game).

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There is very little opportunity for both LSU and A&M to be great.

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bullshite. If we recruited the top Texas kids and you recruited the top LA kids and got their full potential we could both be top 10 teams when we meet at the end of the year. There is plenty to go around, we just need to make gains at the expense of Big 12 teams to get there. Making them irrelevant by having a monopoly on the best games in the state is how we get there.

This year the Red River Shootout (frick PC bullshite) is on Fox Sports 1. If LSU can get back to a high ranking by the time we play this could be the year that for the first time our big game blows the biggest game in the state for a century off the map. And the great part is those frickers are locked into that death trap thanks to a very expensive Big 12 GOR, so if we can steal that mindshare and they can't do anything to get it back for most of a decade.

People say I am scared of Herman to LSU, but I would welcome it. I am scared of Herman to OU because that is the program we need to continue to suffocate if we are going to be the program we want to be. LSU is a partner in that crime (with the rest of the SEC), not an adversary.