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Who is your favorite LSU player all-time, any sport???
Posted on 2/15/10 at 3:03 am
Posted on 2/15/10 at 3:03 am
I had to think about this answer hard, getting to see so many LSU greats. I only wish I would have been old enough to see the Pistol play. But my favorite player of all-time is TODD KINCHEN. Watching LSU as a youngster, this guy brought me so much joy, I thought everytime he received a punt he was going to take it the distance. 5-11 187 fast and all heart!! Let me hear yall's... 
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Posted on 2/15/10 at 3:06 am to Lucky Loper
Hester of people ive seen and cannon of people i a=have not 
Posted on 2/15/10 at 3:08 am to Lucky Loper
1. Shaq
2. Ben MacDonald
3. Jacob Hester
4. Glen dorsey
5. Big Baby
soon to be added...
Jordan Jefferson
2. Ben MacDonald
3. Jacob Hester
4. Glen dorsey
5. Big Baby
soon to be added...
Jordan Jefferson
Posted on 2/15/10 at 3:24 am to Lucky Loper
It is Shaq and no one else is close.
The only other sport personality/slash sports super stars off the top of my head in his league is are Charles Barkley and Jared Allen(not as accomplished as the other two of course).
The only other sport personality/slash sports super stars off the top of my head in his league is are Charles Barkley and Jared Allen(not as accomplished as the other two of course).
Posted on 2/15/10 at 3:27 am to Lucky Loper
Modern day...It would have to be Hester....He had that 'something' that made him even better than what you expected to see. Not the most talented but he had 'heart'.
Back in his day....Billy Cannon. He was a threat anytime he touched the ball......carried a magical feeling with him.
But the most talented player that had 'heart' and 'magic' would have to be my all time favorite, Pete Maravich. I think it was in '64, his freshman year (?) I remember seeing him at the Cow Palace...it was very weird watching the crowd leave after the Freshman Game before the Varsity came on the floor. What made his Freshman year so special was that he did things that no one had even dreamed of doing with the basketball....and did them during the game.
If you blinked you would miss his behind the back passes...he would shoot shots from so far out that many would have been 3 pointers today (No one did that back then)......and the most amazing thing about that was that he made most of them to the crowds enjoyment. Opposing fans would clap for and cheer him as much as the home crowd. On the way out of a game you'd hear a buzz from everyone, reliving the amazing shots and moves they had seen...Everyone!
He was special all thru his LSU career, but by his Senior year you had come to expect the unexpected. His First year....well, it was just pure delight! The crowd would ooohh and aaahhh and then break into wild applause constantly. I have never seen any athlete, in any sport, at any level create the amazement and excitement that Pete did during his first year (especially his first) at LSU!!
Back in his day....Billy Cannon. He was a threat anytime he touched the ball......carried a magical feeling with him.
But the most talented player that had 'heart' and 'magic' would have to be my all time favorite, Pete Maravich. I think it was in '64, his freshman year (?) I remember seeing him at the Cow Palace...it was very weird watching the crowd leave after the Freshman Game before the Varsity came on the floor. What made his Freshman year so special was that he did things that no one had even dreamed of doing with the basketball....and did them during the game.
If you blinked you would miss his behind the back passes...he would shoot shots from so far out that many would have been 3 pointers today (No one did that back then)......and the most amazing thing about that was that he made most of them to the crowds enjoyment. Opposing fans would clap for and cheer him as much as the home crowd. On the way out of a game you'd hear a buzz from everyone, reliving the amazing shots and moves they had seen...Everyone!
He was special all thru his LSU career, but by his Senior year you had come to expect the unexpected. His First year....well, it was just pure delight! The crowd would ooohh and aaahhh and then break into wild applause constantly. I have never seen any athlete, in any sport, at any level create the amazement and excitement that Pete did during his first year (especially his first) at LSU!!
Posted on 2/15/10 at 5:50 am to Lucky Loper
Having witnessed The Pistol was a memory that I will have all my life...to try to describe how he played would be impossible because he was that GOOD...M Jordan was a great player, but in my opinion, The Pistol was more of the greatest player to ever play the game.
Posted on 2/15/10 at 6:58 am to Lucky Loper
Neboisha Bukumirovich
Posted on 2/15/10 at 7:17 am to Lucky Loper
Pistol
Shaq
Mcdonald
Dean
Shaq
Mcdonald
Dean
Posted on 2/15/10 at 7:32 am to Lucky Loper
Chris Jackson
(too young to have watched Maravich, or would probably be him)
Posted on 2/15/10 at 7:37 am to Lucky Loper
It's tough to pick one. As far as a LSU player, who is also a personality, larger-than-life, and/or just reminds me of a place and time -
Y.A. Tittle, Jimmy Taylor and Billy Cannon (because they represent old school football in the finest tradition)
Bert Jones and Tommy Casanova, because they were the leaders of the first LSU football teams I watched.
Pistol Pete Maravich and Shaquille O'Neal because they are LSU basketball
Chris Williams, Dalton Hilliard, Sammy Martin, Eddie Kennison, Kevin Faulk, Booger McFarland, Bradie James, Joseph Addai, Jacob Hester, and Trindon Holliday, for various reasons. Football players get added to and taken away from this list all the time - but that's a snapshot of right now.
Warren Morris is the only baseball player that makes my list, for whatever reason.
If I have to pick one - Shaq.
Y.A. Tittle, Jimmy Taylor and Billy Cannon (because they represent old school football in the finest tradition)
Bert Jones and Tommy Casanova, because they were the leaders of the first LSU football teams I watched.
Pistol Pete Maravich and Shaquille O'Neal because they are LSU basketball
Chris Williams, Dalton Hilliard, Sammy Martin, Eddie Kennison, Kevin Faulk, Booger McFarland, Bradie James, Joseph Addai, Jacob Hester, and Trindon Holliday, for various reasons. Football players get added to and taken away from this list all the time - but that's a snapshot of right now.
Warren Morris is the only baseball player that makes my list, for whatever reason.
If I have to pick one - Shaq.
Posted on 2/15/10 at 7:44 am to Lucky Loper
The Pistol
Posted on 2/15/10 at 8:03 am to Lucky Loper
Laron Landry
Hardest hitter. Intimidating.
He takes this spot for the safety blitz every year against Bama
Hardest hitter. Intimidating.
He takes this spot for the safety blitz every year against Bama
Posted on 2/15/10 at 8:13 am to Lucky Loper
Shaq
Posted on 2/15/10 at 8:24 am to Lucky Loper
The Pistol - Basketball
(The best of all in any sport)
Jacob Hester & Dalton Hilliard - Football
(What a backfield this would have been if they would have played together)
Chris Jackson & Shaq - Basketball
(Can not name one without the other because when they where together they where great will never forget the Loyolla Marymount & Houston games the greatest games I have ever watched in my intire life was at both.)
Brandon Larson - Baseball
(LSU won the NC in 1997 because of his 40 HR hitting frenzie that year, never seen anything like it before or after. waiting for it to happen again because of him and that team they hit 188 HR's that year which by the way is an NCAA record that still stands and I believe will never be broken. Also it was something to keep up with him and Lance Berkman whom Brandon beat out that year for the National HR hitting champion)
(The best of all in any sport)
Jacob Hester & Dalton Hilliard - Football
(What a backfield this would have been if they would have played together)
Chris Jackson & Shaq - Basketball
(Can not name one without the other because when they where together they where great will never forget the Loyolla Marymount & Houston games the greatest games I have ever watched in my intire life was at both.)
Brandon Larson - Baseball
(LSU won the NC in 1997 because of his 40 HR hitting frenzie that year, never seen anything like it before or after. waiting for it to happen again because of him and that team they hit 188 HR's that year which by the way is an NCAA record that still stands and I believe will never be broken. Also it was something to keep up with him and Lance Berkman whom Brandon beat out that year for the National HR hitting champion)
This post was edited on 2/15/10 at 8:28 am
Posted on 2/15/10 at 8:27 am to Lucky Loper
Dalton Hilliard.
Posted on 2/15/10 at 8:34 am to Lucky Loper
Eddy Furniss
Posted on 2/15/10 at 8:40 am to Lucky Loper
Darrel Mitchell
Posted on 2/15/10 at 9:11 am to Lucky Loper
Bert Jones
Posted on 2/15/10 at 9:15 am to Lucky Loper
Pete Maravich
Posted on 2/15/10 at 9:16 am to Lucky Loper
Pistol Pete; Harvey Williams; DeWayne "Astronaut" Scales; Kevin Faulk.
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