re: Quote from Jimmy Smith chat this morning!

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Fine with me.

You want a "wild west" board where you can call Les Miles an idiot without consequence or do you want to land recruits? Because the reality is the paradigm has shifted from even 5 years ago. Message boards are no longer tucked under the bowels of the internet. They are at the forefront where everyone, include recruits and their parents, can read. Add Twitter to that, and we're in an era where fans have more access to recruits/athletes than ever before.

Before this recruits could be insulated from negative fans, but that buffer is now gone. Maybe it's OUR responsibility to police ourselves, not the recruit's responsibility to just shake it off. These are still kids were talking about here. The ones that don't let it bother them are remarkable, but I can't blame the ones that read some of the vile stuff on here and have some degree of reservation about our LSU.

And I'll tell you another thing that hurts us; there are very few fan bases that are constantly crying about winning 10 games a year. I could probably count the schools on 3 fingers. It's very easy to look at our fanbase and call us spoiled as a whole, because we are.

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