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How does La. have so much talent year after year?
Posted on 1/15/11 at 8:56 pm
Posted on 1/15/11 at 8:56 pm
Must be the water... 
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Posted on 1/15/11 at 9:05 pm to FtBelvoirTiger
It's the gumbo bruh
Posted on 1/15/11 at 9:06 pm to FtBelvoirTiger
Well in a nice way to put it...in this area back in the 1800's the biggest and strongest usually had kids together on purpose...great athletic genes have been passed down..
Posted on 1/15/11 at 9:17 pm to JJ27
Wait a minute, a lot of Black familys moved from the south to the north during the hard times when the south had not too many jobs, only the real poor were left behind because they could not afford to leave. I really don't know if that is the real reason? maybe only a lot of the hard core blacks remained?
Posted on 1/15/11 at 9:23 pm to FtBelvoirTiger
Louisiana and Mississippi are always the top 2 suppliers of NFL players per capita.
Posted on 1/15/11 at 9:37 pm to JJ27
It is not just the black's that are good in sports in Louisiana, we have hardcore white players as well. 
Posted on 1/15/11 at 9:42 pm to FtBelvoirTiger
Im pretty sure ohio, mi, ia and those states put more white boys in 1a schools than la
Posted on 1/15/11 at 10:11 pm to LSUfoosball
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Im pretty sure ohio, mi, ia and those states put more white boys in 1a schools than la
About as many blacks in Michigan as in Louisiana.
Posted on 1/15/11 at 10:30 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:i still don't think that what they have up there can compare to what we have down here.
About as many blacks in Michigan as in Louisiana.
quality over quanity
Posted on 1/15/11 at 11:22 pm to dreaux
If that's the case then why did LSU have good/very good teams in the 50's and 60's before integration, particularly in the late 50's and 60's?
Some of the posts here sound like LSU became a power only after it started playing LA black athletes.
Some of the posts here sound like LSU became a power only after it started playing LA black athletes.
Posted on 1/15/11 at 11:50 pm to JJ27
how has utah, boise st, and byu been able to put a good product on the field?
Posted on 1/16/11 at 5:09 am to Rebel
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how has utah, boise st, and byu been able to put a good product on the field?
have u seen their schedules?
Posted on 1/16/11 at 6:00 am to LSUfoosball
Selective breeding worked
Posted on 1/16/11 at 6:57 am to Rebel
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how has utah, boise st, and byu been able to put a good product on the field?
By playing other teams with a lot of white boys on the roster just like they have. Put any of the above in the SEC and their record would be middle-of-the-road.
Posted on 1/16/11 at 7:01 am to souldog
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before integration,
White boys vs white boys
Posted on 1/16/11 at 7:39 am to JJ27
Regional weather has some to do with it also. Kids here can play year around. Racial breakdown would have to be #1. States with more rural population then city, seem to have more talent for obvious reasons.
Posted on 1/16/11 at 8:07 am to FtBelvoirTiger
Sportsman Paradise - Louisiana's heritage of hands-on, outdoor recreation is a way of life
Posted on 1/16/11 at 8:23 am to Rockerbraves
Can we acknowledge that this is a once in a decade crop of talent in 2011? When the state has 1-2 in the top 100 we don't see these threads.
Posted on 1/16/11 at 9:40 am to AtlantaLSUfan
Never read a study on it but it's my casual observation over the years that La. talent is more with skill position players. Not so much with linemen.
Posted on 1/16/11 at 10:00 am to souldog
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If that's the case then why did LSU have good/very good teams in the 50's and 60's before integration
If you really believe that the teams of the 50's and 60's could compete with teams today, you are kidding yourself.
You also have to understand that the composition of the teams during the 50's and 60's had the same demographic makeup. So they were competitive.
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