re: what is the factor that is keeping us from consistently dominating?

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We are the Texas football program counterpart.

We have a recruiting base that will normally adequately fill all coffers to make its team bigger, faster, and stronger than the majority of its conference counterparts.

Yet, somehow a deep dysfunction pervades the culture of the team translating into several unexpected losses a year.


It took Nick Saban's hiring in 2000 to 'light a fire in the arse' and finally show what this program is capable of.

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We aren't as bad as Texas, but I see where you are going. We darn near could compete for titles year in and year out if we landed all of the stud recruits in Louisiana.

Texas has the same thing going for them....a fertile recruiting bed within their home state. We don't have the volume of recruits within our state as Texas, but we also don't have any other in state colleges that are competing with us to land those vaunted recruits.

Anyway, I think most get frustrated with the conservative, play it close to the vest, play down to your competition, non-innovative offensive ways, goofy personality, and poor game management decisions that Les Miles is famous for.

Miles is a decent coach that lands superior talent. Sometimes we win, in spite of him. With that said, he deserves credit for getting the recruits on campus. I won't deny him that.

I don't know if people truly realize how insanely great the recruiting base is in Louisiana. An innovative, great coach could do wondrous things here.

Most people will translate what I'm saying as a bash on Miles. I'm not bashing, but I don't view him as en elite coach. I will give him credit for the recruits that he is brought into LSU. As I stated above, he is a decent coach (Top 20-15 coach), that wins with superior talent.