Rudy Macklin....retiring his jersey ...must see interview!

Ditto.

Love Rudy Toot.

Rudy was a great player and person. I never followed LSU Basketball until those great teams of the early 80's with Rudy, Hi-C, Jordy and The Cookie Man, Duane Scales, Ethan Martin. Great teams and great years of Tiger Basketball! How wonderful it would truly be to see those days return!

my dad's favorite tiger basketball player

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Great memories! Rudy deserves to have his jersey retired!!

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I definitely agree. Dale Brown worked tirelessly in the pre-Macklin days to promote basketball here in BR and to promote LSU basketball everywhere else. Having Rudy Macklin here made it a lot easier for him. Rudy's a class act. No one deserves having his jersey retired more than Rudy Macklin.

I've been saying it for many years, Rudy deserved to be the fourth jersey in those rafters..no doubt about it! And posting it on here too.

Late '70s to early '90s..LSU Basketball on average was easily a national top ten to fifteen program. And at one point had the nation's longest going dancing streak.

If Coach Brown and LSU could've only been a little luckier with Rudy's finger injury in Regional Final..

And even more importantly, the horrible luck of being in some years, easily one of the best four to five teams in the country, yet landing in the same bracket as some of the greatest players and teams over the last fifty years..Dr Dunkenstein and the McCray Bros Louisville..Magic and Kelser's MSU..Knight's '87 Hoosiers..etc..there would be even more Mens Final Four banners in the PMAC.

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LSU's '80-'81 season at the PMAC, was like almost twenty games worth of UF-LSU 2007 Tigerstadium atmosphere..unreal the packed Deaf Dome that year..

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I was lucky enough to have been in the basketball band, as well as TB, in 80 and 81.

The youngsters just don't understand when some of us talk about how the "Atmosphere" in the AC was the equal of any in Tiger Stadium. Hard to believe if you weren't actually there, especially considering what it's like in the PMAC now.....