re: Top Prospects leaving Louisiana

What the people that are panicking over this don't get is that it's normal. Every talent rich state loses players. LSU still keeps a higher percentage of in-state talent than any other school (except maybe U of Texas) and has for years.

No school is winning championships with just home grown players anyway. College Football has reached a point where filling out your roster with kids from just your state is not good enough any more. To compete at the top level, LSU has to go out of state to get some positions in different years.

No school can expect their coaches to go get great kids from other states and keep every great in-state guy. As Pappy O'Daniel said on Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, "We ain't one-at-a-timin' here. We're mass communicatin!"

None of us likes seeing great Louisiana players go anywhere other than LSU but it will happen. LSU is one of the top teams in the country year in and year out. A school that had six double figure seasons in its first 119 years has had six in the last eight. A team that had played for two national championships in it's first 119 years has played for two in the same eight year period. What I'm trying to say is LSU has never been in better shape.

The loss of some good in-state kids may be part of the natural progression of becoming a national program. If you don't believe me, go ask someone from ANY other school.