THe March For Les Miles and Louisiana Priorities

Be sure to attend!! Meet outside the stadium/Football Complex at 6 and then its on the Walk Ons for the show. By the way in Louisiana that should easily be heard live on the radio state wide at 7 pm tonight

I thought Revolution-21 had a thought provoking post today on the march and what should be our priorities at Give more for Les. Care less for more? . Let me say I agree. On the Tiger Internet boards I am constantly bringing this subject up. For instance we can't have rich recruiting classes if these areas continued to be threatened by Coastal erosion. The fact that the population exodus from Louisiana if not halted and reversed poses a true long term threat to LSU and its program. Of course my world does not revolve around football. However I do try to point out how the real problems we face touches us in a million ways. Even in places we least expect it. Such as the LSU football team.

He says in part:
BATON ROUGE NEEDS to hang on to a Michigan Man like Les Miles. Baton Rouge needs more men like Les Miles -- disciplined, smart, driven, upright, successful.
Baton Rouge has a funny damn way of trying to do that.
See, to keep men like Miles -- to attract more men and women like Miles -- my hometown needs to quit begging and start doing. Make Baton Rouge someplace that people like Les Miles would be crazy to leave . . . no matter how loud the siren song of home and how full the pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow.

There is much truth in that. Also LSU fans need to take off the purple and gold glasses at times. We might think LSU and Baton Rouge is like Disney World(who wouldn't love it) but there are drawbacks. Baton Rouge since Katrina has a whole new set of problems with such a population increase. I have heard on national sports radio shows that Ann Arbor is much nicer than Baton Rouge in many ways. It is hard to hear but there are some negatives around us that having nothing to do directly with LSU or football but do affect it .

So I say do both. March For Miles and lets get busy making this state a place where people like Miles wish to stay.

NOW as to the March- Bring the kids. We need a good crowd and that is tough because of the timing.School is out and well its the day before Thanksgivng. I saw this posted earlier
For those planning to attend, or even on the fence, come have a good time. Make an evening out of it. Bring the kids. Park in the lots near S. Stadium and the Nicholson Extension, walk to the stadium, walk with the march, and then hit up a local establishment of your choice. Don't forget that in addition to Walk On's, in that same shopping center on Burbank there is a coffee shop, an ice cream shop, and a sushi restaurant. Just a little further down Burbank there is an Arby's, Izzo's Illegal Burrito, Mellow Mushroom pizzaria, Subway, and Nine Dragon (a chinese place that may or may not be open.. that place is never open).
A little further away and on Nicholson there is Plucker's chicken wings, and a little further down from there is the relocated Rotollo's pizzaria. On Highland near E. Boyd, there is the Drunken Fish Vietnamese and Japanese, DeanO's pizza, TCBY, a coffee shop.