re: Florida 58 LSU 3 - How could this happen?

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We were really, really bad and they were really, really good

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Not that bad thou. A number of Florida players were quoted when asked. How did the game get so out of hand, they said LSU quit.

thanks for posting the link.

bastage! worst LSU football memory ever.

Went to get a coke at start of the game. Came back to my seat with 14:07 in the first quarter and we were down by 14.

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my first LSU game

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Mine too Rouge. I remember nothing from the game except the score and that feeling of getting your arse handed to you.

That was pretty much the norm when I was growing up and I'm only 27. Florida and Spurrier were bad. Peyton couldn't even beat them.

My first LSU game was the one versus Tennessee in 1990, I think Dale Carter or Alvin Harper returned a kickoff for 100 yards, we lost 20-0, I think?

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Nobody remembers the 20001 game because everyone had left by the 3rd quarter.

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Not me. Sat in the EU all game. It had rained that day. Heard the "it's great to be a fla gator" chant all game long. But you're right Tiger Stadium was mostly empty. I bet yall miss how the OBC used to make Tiger Stadium into a graveyard. I still got the gameday tshirt for that game somewhere in my closet. It had mike the tiger on the back holding a gator visor in his mouth. By far the coolest looking gameday tshirt I have ever seen. Which ended being his last game to ever coach Fla in BR. Too bad we lost in that sloppy fashion. I know. I know.
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It was clearly because we wore purple jerseys

I was at that game. LSU actually led 3-O against Florida. Up untill that time, the most points LSU had ever surrendered was 42 when Archer was the coach.

While LSU was very bad that year, what is amazing is LSU rose like a phoenix from the ashes a month later and defeated Alabama at their place 17-13 and broke Alabama's thirty-one game winning streak.

Pigs flew over Alabama that day.

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Curley Hallman must have been clinically retarded.

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I must assume you are either too young to remember, or are an adult convert to LSU from another team/sport/activity. In either event, I consider myself (whatever that's worth) to be reasonably rational in discussion coaching ability, so I do not make the following statement lightly:

Hallman literally made things worse than if there had been no head coach at all - just OC and DC - or even let the QB, RBs and WRs draw up plays in the huddle - THAT would have been better.

He had some level of recruiting ability, although the method to his madness in that area was never quite clear.

Charges of mental incompetence is probably sarcasm or worse. However, I would be shocked if his IQ scores were anything but average. Couple that with a below average ability to communicate and he appeared to all observers to be completely overwhelmed by the job, from the first day to the last. The only reasonably exciting moment in the whole tenure was the defeat of the defending national champion Alabama team in 1993.

After all of that, he was still 3-1 against Miss State, 2-2 against Ole Miss and beat Tulane 4 straight times. Those account for 9 of his 16 wins - Arky, the aforementioned Bama game, Kentucky(x2), Vandy, Arky State, Utah State made up the balance of his wins.

He had eleven (11) losses of 3 TDs or worse. In 4 years.

This is why I have to chastise youngsters who complain about winning "ugly".