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Lay off the man. He has a lot more class than all of you gutless cowards who would pee all over yourself if you got behind the mike. It's easy to criticize him, but you could never do what he has done. Gutless cowards-ALL OF YOU CRITICS..

None of us are paid to do the job he is paid to do. I can't perform surgery either but if a surgeon cut off the wrong leg I can damn sure say he is a shitty surgeon. Hawthorne's job is to convey to a radio listener what the flying frick is happening. He's not good at it. At all. That's not "hating". It's just fact. It's great he loves LSU. So do thousands of other people. It doesnt make them qualified to call games.

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Posted by TIGRLEE

Northeast Louisiana

Member since Nov 2009

31493 posts

Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:01 am to Alatgr

So a man that's been doing this prob longer than you've been alive isn't qualified.

I swear some of you people are a special kind of stupid.

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Posted by b rod lsu

Baton Rouge

Member since Aug 2006

4881 posts

Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:06 am to Alatgr

It doesn't bother me anymore. It's humorous, and part of his charm. He calls it as if he is calling a tv game and it has to be instantaneous with the action rather than taking the benefit of doing a radio broadcast and calling the action a couple seconds after it happens.

My favorite Hawthorne moment was a reg season conference basketball game at Mississippi State about 4 or 5 years back. We we're up 2 with 5 or 6 seconds left and State was inbounding at half court. His call was literally,

"Augustus to inbound for the Bulldogs at midcourt..."

<<8 or so seconds of dead air>>

"TIGERS WIN!! TIGERS WIN!!"

I turned off the radio and laughed for a half hour. It was classic JH.

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