re: The Intimidator?

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Negative. Just don't want to live in the past (like a school a couple states to our east).

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That is not possible, unless LSU puts up a Bertman statue..23 years after he's dead.

How in the hell did we sign any good players before the billboard?

Better yet, how did we stop signing good players after we had the billboard?

yea good one john or robert would make a lot of sense

well damn man i thought it was all about intimidating your opponents? TIGERS....intimidating, Gators.....inimidating, you get where im going with this...

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You guys forget.... There's a scary tiger on it. RAWR!

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So that's 1 vote for putting Mike's cage in the other teams dugout.

When we win a national championship again in the next few years, we could just add it to the board. I love the Intimindator. It adds something to the park. Maybe it won't fit in the new park, but I would love if they could bring it over. 2000 is not that far off. People know this program's past. We are still getting top tier recruits. They know that LSU screwed up by hiring Smoke Laval. They also saw what Mainieri did last year in his second year and that we are preseason #1 this year. They know this program is headed back in the right direction. It will only be a short time before we are adding another championship to the billboard. If I was a player, I would still find it intimidating.

we should get a huge billboard in right field with bigfoot and a t-rex holding AK-47's and pointing them at the opposing dug out, thats fricking intimidating. I for one thought the intimidator was bad arse. It looks way cooler than some flag just sitting there in the outfield. Might not be "scary" but it a damn good way to show the national titles your program has won even if it was in the 90's.

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I'm 20 now.

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"I'M A MAN, I'M 20, I'M NOT A KID!!!"

Mike Gundy

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So that's 1 vote for putting Mike's cage in the other teams dugout.

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I like this idea but tiger is so damn spoiled we cant even get him out of his cage for football games.. He would probably roll over and let them pet his stomach in there. We got to toughen Mike up.. That old crappy cage sure make Mike V pissy.

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But that's besides the point. I'm 20 now. Championships from (soon to be) 2 decades ago are hardly intimidating. They definitely need to be displayed somehow (flags, something on the outfield wall, etc) but keep it understated.

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It's humorous that your point is that because opposing players truly aren't intimidated by the billboard, that it shouldn't be up.

I think you are taking things a little too literally.

Having said that, Alex Box certainly is intimidating...and the billboard is a small part of that. Hell, in our last series, a super regional, in the 9th freaking inning, in a series in which our opponent held a 1 game lead and a 3 run lead, their head coach was on the mound actually commenting to his team that he hated this fricking place and that they needed to get out of here. He was feeling the heat and so was his team. They couldn't get out of it. And they totally self destructed from there on out.

The billboard is a small part of the intimidation that is Alex Box and it just reminds opponents that LSU and Alex Box is a place that is different that where they come from.

Now, if your argument is that it's tacky, and just doesn't fit the style of the new stadium, then you may have a better point.

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And to think, that thing’s visible to WAY more people than the intimidator.

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nothing in any of LSU's sports arenas stands out and is more in your face than the giant LAMAR advertisement in right field.