Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards spoke to the LSU football team after practice on Tuesday to give them some words of encouragement ahead of Saturday's game vs. Alabama.

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YardEngr11

Funny that he does this right before the election. Wasn't this the same guy, a couple of years ago, who floated the idea to do away with athletics at state colleges because of state budget problems? Just saying . . . .

Reply•47 months

CajunBullet

Shouldn't allow state politics to get involved in football, especially college football @ LSU!

Reply•47 months

CSATiger

weak sauce

Reply•47 months

oline5264

Wasn’t this guy trying to end LSU football when he came into office?

Reply•47 months

tigerMike

what I immediately thought. Not really, but he was using LSU Football as leverage politically which was BS.

47 months

Vernonbrew22

Spoken like a West Point grad. Would like to see him lined across from Bobby

Reply•47 months

rob62

JBE knows President Trump is going to be at the game so he wants to get a little spotlight on himself as well. If there wasn't an election JBE wouldn't even show his face at a practice. Scumbag.

Reply•47 months

Run DMC

Funny how just 4 yrs ago he was publicly saying that he may have to do away with LSU Football. JBE is a clown.

Reply•47 months

KingDaddyRabbit

"Check out what he had to say." No thank you.

Reply•47 months

voodooidotwo

Poor kids lost 10 IQ points listening to this douche

Reply•47 months

tketaco

Governor GobbleCock

Reply•47 months

SirWinston

Better than Piyush and Kathleen but nowhere near as great as the LEGEND Steady Eddie Rispone #BigItaly

Reply•47 months

Pianoman

The man is a liar...he's doing what every other Democrat resorts to by bringing out the race card comparing Rispone and Trump to David Duke, and should be ashamed of himself for stooping to those depths. Unfortunately it keeps working with a certain sector of people.

Reply•47 months

SirWinston

Well said, fellow Patriot! :USA:

47 months

A sector of people the Republicans will NEVER win over, so why even attempt.

47 months

GeauxsomeMeaux

Funny how he does everything right before his re-election! Acting like he cares about this team, and giving teachers a long overdue pay raise... it’s all a big smoke screen!

Reply•47 months

Run DMC

It really wasn’t even a pay raise. The state sent money to each school district yearly to distribute bonuses to the teachers. He did away with that and just gave them a $1000 per year raise, which was about $1500 less than they were getting with their bonus. So technically he didn’t really give anyone a raise. He cut their pay.

47 months

eddieray

Edwards is a fine governor.

Reply•47 months

31TIGERS

Not at all. edwards is a crooked, lying, POS!

47 months

ashman487

Isn’t Louisiana’s budget in the green now? What were we in debt before he became gov?

Reply•47 months

31TIGERS

Uh, we were over taxed thanks to that POS, edwards, threatening in order to get taxes raised. That’s not a budget surplus. That’s theft in the form over overtaxation of the working citizens of Louisiana.

47 months

MNCscripper

You just went full retard

47 months

GeauxLSUGeaux

Hopefully he’s giving them a farewell address

Reply•47 months

elcid

Does the team know he threatened to shut them down? That asshat can suck rat poison

Reply•47 months

alumni95

Shutdown LSU football and end TOPS were 2 ‘threats’ right out of the gate. I haven’t forgotten.

47 months

A75CADDY

Absolutely false. He never threatened to shut the football team down. He said LSU could lose accreditation if any more cuts were made to LSU's funding. If the school lost accreditation none of the football players would be eligible to play. He never once threatened to shut down LSU football.

47 months

CBarkleytruth

Interesting that he chose this season to do this with it being a huge campaign moment right now for him. I don’t remember any other appearances during the last few seasons. I’m SURE it’s just a coincidence and he’s not using LSU football at all just to promote himself.

Reply•47 months

alumni95

Listen, no matter what side I’m on I can still call it fairly. He has been ‘around’ the LSU football team over several of the past few seasons. Try Google.

47 months

Tiger4life5803

frick you edwards. Don’t build up the moment for them you pompous prick. Wait until after the game.

Reply•47 months

BugaBadger

frick him. Geaux Tigahs. Go vote this joke out!

Reply•47 months

cajunguy

Yessss let's geaux vote this joker out of here. Kick some Alabama rear this Saturday in bama country

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