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re: How do y'all remember DiNardo?
Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:12 am to TigerTreyjpg
Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:12 am to TigerTreyjpg
Bring Back the Magic Game, Cecil Collins, 28-21, Purple Pants, Tepper - out.
The Indy Bowls whipping Saban and ND (after they spanked us at home) were also very memorable.
The Indy Bowls whipping Saban and ND (after they spanked us at home) were also very memorable.
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Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:14 am to TigerTreyjpg
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How do y'all remember DiNardo?
He had the hair of a ferret, and did Ford Truck and Bank One commercials.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:24 am to TigerTreyjpg
I forgot to add that DiNardo is responsible for us wearing the white jerseys at home. He had to petition the NCAA and stuff. He grabbed ahold of the LSU history real fast.
I have to say, the Chinese Bandit package his staff implemented to beat #1 Florida was awesome.
I have to say, the Chinese Bandit package his staff implemented to beat #1 Florida was awesome.
This post was edited on 10/11/13 at 11:29 am
Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:32 am to TigerTreyjpg
Very good coach. Not as good at hiring assistants. Best achievement: brought the white jerseys back to LSU home games! 
Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:48 am to TigerTreyjpg
Good coach who understood what LSU needed to start doing to get back to National prominence. Saban was very much the beneficiary of DiNardo's recruiting and the groundwork he laid.
Too loyal to his coaches and could not make the hard call to get rid of some when it needed to be done. In the end, this led to his downfall. He still has bad feelings about being fired from LSU, which is a shame....I would love to see him back on campus being honored for his work
Too loyal to his coaches and could not make the hard call to get rid of some when it needed to be done. In the end, this led to his downfall. He still has bad feelings about being fired from LSU, which is a shame....I would love to see him back on campus being honored for his work
Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:49 am to TigerTreyjpg
1-0 vs Saban.
GD was also the first coach at LSU to win 3 bowl games in consecutive years.
GD was also the first coach at LSU to win 3 bowl games in consecutive years.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 11:53 am to TigerTreyjpg
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remember DiNardo for the good times,
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When I think about his guy, I remember the 97 FL game, beating Auburn in like a 12 - 6
Posted on 10/11/13 at 12:00 pm to TigerTreyjpg
i always like gerry dinardo. he is the one that turned LSU around and nick saban was the first beneficiary of that. he really had poor hires as assts and refused to correct his mistakes. lou tepper is the worst defensive coordinator in the history of LSU and possibly college football. if chief had been the DC, dinardo wouldn't have been fired; the talent was there.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 12:17 pm to TigerTreyjpg
when we were number 6 in the country, I held a sign that said "dinardo for president'.
the very next year, there were "fire dinardo" signs everywhere.
the very next year, there were "fire dinardo" signs everywhere.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 12:37 pm to TigerTreyjpg
Wasn't great, but I remember him with much better regards than the previous 2 coaches-Hallman & Archer. Now those were some painful times. Thanks goodness for baseball back then.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 12:42 pm to TigerTreyjpg
Coach DiNardo was a great guy. He was very supportive of the entire LSU experience. That means that he got involved in the campus activities and really tried to create community around the football program. He and Terry were really caring people.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 12:42 pm to TigerTreyjpg
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When I think about his guy, I remember the 97 FL game
same here. That game is the 2nd earliest game I can remember (I was 10)and I was hooked after it.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 12:45 pm to TigerTreyjpg
I try not to think about him too much. He was better than Hallman, and he did some good things, but his paranoia and micromanagement got the better of him.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 12:55 pm to TigerTreyjpg
Like him, always reminds me of '97 Florida game.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 1:33 pm to TigerTreyjpg
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If you do like him, why?
He did a legitimate "man's job" in stopping the bleeding (immediately) and put LSU's program back on solid footing.
His loyalty to his coordinators (particularly Tepper) was his downfall and I hate to see an admirable trait result in somebody failing.
He was not the long-term answer for LSU, but the little angry man from West Virginia gets, perhaps, more credit for the rebuilding job than he should, because Dinardo brought us between 1/2 and 2/3 of the way back from the pits of Archer/Hallman.
Just my $0.02 - opinions do vary, particularly among the Sabanistas.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 2:23 pm to TigerTreyjpg
Stubborn (or loyal, depending on how you look at it), to his detriment.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 2:28 pm to TigerTreyjpg
I remember going to see Titanic, in BR, while dating my now-wife (she wanted to see it).
Packed theater. Gerry and his wife walk in. The place erupts into a standing ovation. He seemed embarrassed and sat down in the front row.
I won't forget that nor will I forget the games you mentioned especially FL 1997. Or the week after getting drunk at the Law School hats/canes party, then attending that shitshow of a game, drunk off my arse from cheap keg beer and no carry-in booze that day.
Packed theater. Gerry and his wife walk in. The place erupts into a standing ovation. He seemed embarrassed and sat down in the front row.
I won't forget that nor will I forget the games you mentioned especially FL 1997. Or the week after getting drunk at the Law School hats/canes party, then attending that shitshow of a game, drunk off my arse from cheap keg beer and no carry-in booze that day.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 2:36 pm to TigerTreyjpg
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How do y'all remember DiNardo?
As a fricktard.
Stubborn arse that let Tepper cost him his job.
Being blown the frick out by UT in his last game at Vandy
Not running Collins on 4th down against auburn, when he had a 2000 yard game.
Posted on 10/11/13 at 2:38 pm to TigerTreyjpg
brought back the magic i.e Kevin Faulk, stubbornness with keeping coaches that were ineffective i.e. lou tepper
Posted on 10/11/13 at 2:47 pm to TigerTreyjpg
I remember Dinardo as a delusional paranoid coach who couldn't improve the "kick" game for 4 years, who excelled at delay of game penalties, whose teams could compete with top 10 opponents one week & lose to bottom feeders the next, who thought watching game film of 1985 Colorado was an excellent way to prepare for 1999 SEC opponents, who once ran a fake punt on 4 & 18 to the upback against one of Spurrier's best Florida teams (at which Spurrier turned his back in laughter), who took substitution strategy's from Idaho, who simply could not hire competent coordinators, who won with Curly's recruits but lost with his own, who complained incessantly about having to recruit students that were academically challenged and left us with roughly 65 scholarship player.
Other than that he was a great coach. I mean he did get Kevin Faulk & beat Florida.
Other than that he was a great coach. I mean he did get Kevin Faulk & beat Florida.
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