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re: Remember when we were the ones looking up???
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:13 pm to mule74
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:13 pm to mule74
I've been following the Tigers since 1956 at age 11. The many peaks and valleys are part of my life's experiences. Worst was the six straight losing seasons under Archer/Hallman. The best, of course, has been the 21st century.
I went to LSU on the middle 60's and again in the early seventies, and have been a season ticket holder since.
The most important lesson learned in all those years surrounds replacing Coach Charlie MacLendon after the 1979 seaso. "Help Mac Pack," and "ABM" (Anybody But MacLendon) read the bumper stickers. He was replaced by Bo Rein, who tragically died without coaching a game. Then came twenty years of mediocrity, with the exception of 3 years of Bill Arnsbarger's brilliance, until the Nick Saban hire in 1979.
More recently, there have more than a few calls for Coach Les Miles head. This is extremely short sighted, counterproductive to intelligent discourse, and, frankly, stupid.
Surely, there will be less productive seasons than we have recently enjoyed. While not welcomed, such is to be expected.
It should be our quest to support the Tigers regardless of any year's record. I have for 55 years and wouldn't have it any other way.
Forever, LSU
I went to LSU on the middle 60's and again in the early seventies, and have been a season ticket holder since.
The most important lesson learned in all those years surrounds replacing Coach Charlie MacLendon after the 1979 seaso. "Help Mac Pack," and "ABM" (Anybody But MacLendon) read the bumper stickers. He was replaced by Bo Rein, who tragically died without coaching a game. Then came twenty years of mediocrity, with the exception of 3 years of Bill Arnsbarger's brilliance, until the Nick Saban hire in 1979.
More recently, there have more than a few calls for Coach Les Miles head. This is extremely short sighted, counterproductive to intelligent discourse, and, frankly, stupid.
Surely, there will be less productive seasons than we have recently enjoyed. While not welcomed, such is to be expected.
It should be our quest to support the Tigers regardless of any year's record. I have for 55 years and wouldn't have it any other way.
Forever, LSU
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Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:58 pm to melonheadla
As a kid growing up watching LSU I thought we had hit the big time if we just made the top 20. I never thought I would see the run we have had over the past 12 years in my lifetime. Here's to 14-0 this year. 
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:58 pm to melonheadla
MelonHeadla
Well said...golf clap.
Well said...golf clap.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 2:12 pm to melonheadla
quote:Miles is the 1st coach since Dietzel to lead a #1 team onto the field in Tiger Stadium. He's done it a bunch. By the end of this season, it's very possible the Tigers will have played as #1 at home in more games under Miles then in all the rest of the school's combined history. That has happened while competing in the strongest division of the football conference in NCAA history. Point being, as much as I loved Cholly Mac, Les has been a great coach.
More recently, there have more than a few calls for Coach Les Miles head.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 6:49 pm to melonheadla
quote:
I've been following the Tigers since 1956 at age 11. The many peaks and valleys are part of my life's experiences. Worst was the six straight losing seasons under Archer/Hallman. The best, of course, has been the 21st century.
I went to LSU on the middle 60's and again in the early seventies, and have been a season ticket holder since.
The most important lesson learned in all those years surrounds replacing Coach Charlie MacLendon after the 1979 seaso. "Help Mac Pack," and "ABM" (Anybody But MacLendon) read the bumper stickers. He was replaced by Bo Rein, who tragically died without coaching a game. Then came twenty years of mediocrity, with the exception of 3 years of Bill Arnsbarger's brilliance, until the Nick Saban hire in 1979.
More recently, there have more than a few calls for Coach Les Miles head. This is extremely short sighted, counterproductive to intelligent discourse, and, frankly, stupid.
Surely, there will be less productive seasons than we have recently enjoyed. While not welcomed, such is to be expected.
It should be our quest to support the Tigers regardless of any year's record. I have for 55 years and wouldn't have it any other way.
Forever, LSU
Hiring a third good HC in a row after Coach Miles departure is going to be a big trick.
Posted on 8/5/12 at 7:20 pm to melonheadla
I d efinitely agree with your response. I graduated from LSU in '72 and I definitely remember the Help Mac Pack bumper stickers. I also remember being in the Dome when Tulane was beating the crap out of LSU and the Tulane fans had signs all over the Dome that said Keep Mac Packed. I was at that '69 Ole Miss game in Jackson. That game cost us the NC and a major bowl. Ignore the idiots on this site that call for Miles head. They are a bunch of kids who are either in high school or wannabe LSU students. The wannabees probably don't know where Allen Hall is and that it has lockers like a high school. GED is probably the school that the posters who blast you, are the alumni of. If you tend to have a speck of intelligence, the GED fan base will attack you. Southeastern is their school of choice because they didn't have the GPA to enter the halls of LSU.
Posted on 8/6/12 at 8:25 am to melonheadla
quote:
I've been following the Tigers since 1956 at age 11. The many peaks and valleys are part of my life's experiences. Worst was the six straight losing seasons under Archer/Hallman. The best, of course, has been the 21st century.
I went to LSU on the middle 60's and again in the early seventies, and have been a season ticket holder since.
The most important lesson learned in all those years surrounds replacing Coach Charlie MacLendon after the 1979 seaso. "Help Mac Pack," and "ABM" (Anybody But MacLendon) read the bumper stickers. He was replaced by Bo Rein, who tragically died without coaching a game. Then came twenty years of mediocrity, with the exception of 3 years of Bill Arnsbarger's brilliance, until the Nick Saban hire in 1979.
More recently, there have more than a few calls for Coach Les Miles head. This is extremely short sighted, counterproductive to intelligent discourse, and, frankly, stupid.
Surely, there will be less productive seasons than we have recently enjoyed. While not welcomed, such is to be expected.
It should be our quest to support the Tigers regardless of any year's record. I have for 55 years and wouldn't have it any other way.
Forever, LSU
I can not claim the same number of years, but there are a number of us that have been around and lived through the 70's and 80's that appreciate what you say. Some really can't understand, because they haven't lived it. Good post.
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