LSU Sports Weekend Recap

The big news of the weekend was Brandon Lafell announcing his decision to return to LSU for his senior season. With Lafell, Scott and Black returning, Miles gets the core senior leadership that the team lacked this past year and which was instrumental to our national title run in 2007.

After Lafell's announcement, speculation quickly turned to how this would affect Rueben Randle's decision. Randle, the highly coveted WR from Bastrop, LA, would undoubtedly benefit from playing along side a seasoned veteran like Lafell. And with the departure of Demetrius Byrd, Randle would have a great opportunity for playing time as a freshman.

In this article on his SEC Riviera Roundup Blog on TD.com, Chris Warner reviews the 2008 football season, grades the finish of each of the twelve teams, and offers bold predictions for the 2009 season, which is already less than nine short months away.

In other recruiting news, looks like Janzen Jackson's father will not be taking any job at Tennessee. Sounds like his father was having second thoughts about his potential hiring being tied to the signing of his son, and it didn't look like he had a real shot at the job. His dad was quotes as saying that LSU is still "way ahead of everybody" and he thinks that his son will be a Tigers.

Also, it appears that Dexter Pratt (RB, Navasota, TX) will not be signing with LSU, and it appears that he will now sign with Oklahoma State. In this thread on our Recruiting Board, there is a long discussion about what happened, which seems to center on Pratt not being cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse to play this fall. But others are speculating that he just changed his mind.

In LSU-related NFL news, Steelers safety Ryan Clark, who played for LSU from 1998-2001, had this crushing hit on Raven's RB Willis McGahee, who had to be carted off the field:



In basketball news, the LSU men's basketball team jumped out to a 12-0 lead and never looked back, defeating short-handed Ole Miss, 83-51, on Saturday afternoon at Tad Smith Coliseum. TD.com resident hoops expert "Stromile Swift" breaks down the game with some very astute observations.

That's all for today...

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Chicken (aka Brian Fiegel) is an LSU alumnus (class of 1994) living in Houston. When he is not posting on TigerDroppings.com, he is solving complex business problems for large multi-national corporations as an SAP software consultant. In his free time, he enjoys visiting the Belle of Baton Rouge Casino while sporting his favorite LSU t-shirt that he purchased from TigerDistrict.com. He can be reached at tigerdroppings@gmail.com.