What was campus like when Shaq was here?

A little taller

There was a recent history of winning. Dale was going to the NCAA tournament for at least ten years before Shaq. It takes some time to build a group of fanatics like Duke has. If Wade keeps winning the PMAC will be a madhouse in two years.

Crazy, shaq would slay strange in the quad while crowds would chant him on.

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If Wade keeps winning the PMAC will be a madhouse in two years.

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They sold it out for the Bama game this year. Mind you it was 2 unranked teams.

People sell LSU fans short. We show up but just give us a damn reason to. I will do a permanent ban bet that there are over 10k at the PMAC opening tip in ‘18. I’ll be there to watch Waters, Naz, Days, Sampson, Mays, Williams and Smart.

Hell we go 10K deep for gymnastic meets.

I was able to sit in the student section during Shaq's time at LSU, it was the entire 2 lower sections on the side of the court. A group I would always sit with would have at least one member line up early to get our seats behind the railing separating the lower section from the second level of seats. The student section would always fill up, and the rest of the seats would usually be fairly full.

I remember there being newspaper pages being passed among the student section to be held in front of our faces during introductions of opposing team members, and then thrown at members of the press, sitting along the sideline, when the Tigers line up was about to be introduced.

I was there to see Shaq cause a 20 minute delay in a game when he dunked so hard the support structure holding the backboard failed and the whole assembly had to be replaced. Watching warm ups while Shaq and his team mates where doing shoot arounds was entertaining because it always evolved into a slam dunk contest.

I remember the students harassing Kentucky's coach, Joe Hall, so effectively that he got red faced and flipped off the students.

I could go on for a while but these are just a few of my very found memories of the best years of LSU basketball.

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I partied with Geert Hammink, Shaq’s backup, many times at Sports.

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Geert had hotter babes around him than Shaq believe or not.

I always liked Geert. Does anyone remember his son Shane played here I think for a season or two then transferred to Valparaiso? He plays professionally now for a team in Spain LINK

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Biggest mistake LSU is making is selling the pushing the students into a corner and giving them shitty seating and putting a bunch of old fat guys courtside. Another money grab that’s going to ultimately hurt the product.

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I wish LSU would wake up about this. Do they not watch other schools' games to see how much better the environment is when the the students are courtside? It would make the PMAC a more hostile environment and provide a better fan experience. And the team will feed off it. Screw the few dollars LSU would lose.

It seems that Will Wade is trying to change the culture at LSU. Hopefully, he is in LSU 's ear about this for next season.

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nyone have stories of partying with Shaq in Tigerland

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That was Gert Hamminks role

absolutely we knew that shaq was great and dominant. we knew dale wasn't the greatest coach ever but that's what you have a staff for. shaq had a great supporting cast too with vernell, stanley roberts, etc. it was really super disappointing to not make it further in the tourney but dale's teams could be like that.

true story. we were at the a&m football game, first game of the season, and shaq had just recently committed to lsu. a&m runs the opening kickoff back for a td. my friend and i look at each other and start yelling "shaq, shaq, shaq". just college kids being stupid.

i remember walking past shaq in the quad. my eyes were about the same height as his abdomen.

also, the rumors are true. we camped out for games. sometimes a week and i'm not exaggerating. one sat we played a team and at halftime, we left to get in line for the duke game 7 days later. there was a system where someone from your group had to be present at all times. the ath dept would send someone to go down the list. our group rotated so that we could make classes. dale was so impressed he got permission for facilities to run power cords to the pmac ramp where everyone was camping. the pmac ramp was a scene. people had tv's, refrigerators, sleeping bags, etc. it was a week long party. eventually, we were moved into the pmac concourse to camp for games. one of my best college memories.