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

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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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Excellent, excellent post.

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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.

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Yep. Not to mention, there's enough talent right now in Texas to go around. You bleed out Texas and Oklahoma and the talent becomes more plentiful for LSU and A&M.