re: Besides more hardware, what makes a recruit from Louisiana go to a hated rival?

This subject got way off topic to a point where it just doesn't make much sense. I don't believe that recruits spurn LSU because of the reasons claimed in this thread about race. The proof of this is the current football team at LSU that's majority black athletes. Many black athletes have come here and embraced LSU, the fans, and the state of Louisiana. There may be a few negative/ bad attitude recruits out there who truly hate anything that white people adore in the area they grew up in, but I don't believe it is a sizeable number to claim the reason they go to a rival is that. Plenty of white people embrace these young athletes and want them to be successful even after they leave LSU. This is just an attempt to vent out hate for white people on any platform available. There is something that is universal for all races in this world... If you set goals and work hard to achieve them, you will have success. No one can take that away from you. You create your own path. Expecting a perfect world where everyone is the same culturally and morally is foolish so I don't know what blacks really want but no race whether it's white, Latino, or Asian is going bend over backwards to please another race. Screaming and whining about racism to people who just have to live their own lives with their own struggles and stress isn't going to create an easier path to your goals. It just makes people hate you because people don't like to be blamed for other people's problems no matter what their problem might be. Besides, I'd be willing to bet money on Alabama having more actual redneck idiot racists there than Louisiana so this argument is just all around dumb.