Apart from having a "Phil Knight" type of billionaire LU alum and donor who can buy the success in spite of the leadership shortcomings from an athletic standpoint, we just will not get there.  I am not saying that LU does not have overall good "University" level leadership, I think they do.  But that does not make them great at visionary athletic leadership.  I think all prior and present leaders have looked at only what LU does not have that prevents them from moving up in Athletics, and not look at what it would take to move up, the plan how to get there, and then sell that vision and move forward with the execution.   For now, I am hopeful that Rossomando will, through great coaching, exceed what everyone expects can happen in football, and see where that takes us in the short term, and maybe the long term.  

While I have long wanted LU to reach for the stars, I have sadly, after 45 years, come to the conclusion that LU does not have, and has not had, the type of visionary leadership that can develop and sell a plan that would elevate them to be a successful G5 athletic program.  It would take vision, leadership, inspiration, plus the execution ability to pull that off.  Without confidence in the plan and the leadership to execute the plan, the big money LU people are not going to invest to make it happen.  And at this stage of the game, I think we are out of runway with time to be able to get there even if we started now.  The P4 schools will close ranks here soon and we will get down to around 40-60 schools (UT & A&M being leaders here) that will continue to dominate and take even more of the revenue available for college sports, especially football.  

SWT continues to make Lamar look good, now the question is can Lamar make Lamar look good.  A win over Weber State would do that.