re: I think it would be cool if the LSU-Arkansas game...

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So none of yall like what Texas and Oklahoma do every year with the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl? Or what Georgia and Florida do every year in Jacksonville with The World's Largest Cocktail Party?

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This is the wrong question. Those "neutral site" games were created well before the real commercialization of CFB as we have seen in the past 10-15 years. But for the improvements to Cotton Bowl stadium, the Texas-OU game may have moved back to a home-home series in this modern era, as did the Iron Bowl when Legion Field became a dinosaur. Same thing for the Cocktail Party. J'ville made major renovations to the old Gator Bowl in 1994. My point is all of these schools would probably prefer a home-home series, but are stuck in deep tradition. We don't have that tradition and in this era, it's the wrong time to establish something that no major program wants to participate in anymore.

And for this being "good for recruiting", that's just not true in any respects. While a recruit might find it "neat" that a game takes place in or around his hometown, an important focus in deciding to sign is "during the next 4 years, will I like the campus, the place I'll go to school, the town it's located in, the atmosphere of the stadium at home?" ANY major program does its best job of recruiting when they host a kid on campus, when they have all the tools at their disposal, the facilities, the campus, the atmosphere of game day, and for LSU, the majestic feeling of Tiger Stadium. So if I had to balance "neat" for a few kids v. the powerful influence of a home game in Tiger Stadium, I'd pick the latter every time as being best for recruiting.