re: Leo Lewis has decommitted from Ole Miss.

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You Mississippi fans kill me. Neither of you have won a SEC Championship in over half a decade, and you have 3 and 4 loss seasons and call it a magical year....and yet you think you guys are on the same level as an Alabama or an LSU. If a kid wants to go to a Mississippi school...it's either one of two things......he is from there and loyal, or $$. It damn sure isn't for tradition or future championships.

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The reality of the whole thing is that Ole Miss has been nationally irrelevant for decades upon decades, and only recently has made a significant push into the SEC arms race. But, that push has been of note, and if you look at the difference between the Boone and Bjork years, the progress has been astounding.

But I don't drink the punch, and know that likely the best Ole Miss will ever be able to do is what essentially Mike Price did at Washington State -- put together a team that makes a run at a conference championship every five to seven years or so. We won't ever be like Alabama, Florida, or Auburn. There will be no dynasties at Ole Miss.

As for LSU, Miles is the Mark Richt of the SEC West, consistently under-performing and bungling up opportunities since he won the national championship with Nick Saban's players. The truth is, LSU is not on the level of Alabama. Their coaching staff -- while excellent recruiters -- aren't as good as Alabama's. Your gameday coaching is atrocious; LSU fans know full-well that Miles will lose one (possibly two) games each year because of inexplicable, boneheaded playcalling.

And to that end, I suspect that the Gus Bus will achieve more at Auburn in a shorter duration than Miles will during his full tenure at LSU. Certainly Saban has at Alabama and Meyer did at Florida before he left. Ole Miss is not an elite program and never will be. But LSU is not an elite program either -- defined as a program that is in title contention every year -- so if we're going to talk about sipping the Kool-Aid, then I suggest you put the cup down as well.