Opening Fall practice, Coach is talking to reporters. They are going down the roster, when it gets to the DL, as they started asking about the LB’ers, Stovall said, Y’all didn’t ask about Henry Thomas!” A reporter reply’s, what about Thomas. Then Stovall gave the reply, I don’t have anyone that can block him!
Henry was an athlete, out of Eisenhower High School (Houston). Around 6’2” 250#’s. He played a number of positions, TE was one. He was working with Pete Jenkins.
Enjoy the write up!

1980's Tigers!

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Posted by Lsuray70443

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Posted on 8/5/26 at 2:31 pm to LSUDad

It was a good news bad news scenario. Thomas was a beast and our OL wasn’t the best at the time.

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Posted by GetmorewithLes

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Posted on 8/5/26 at 2:36 pm to LSUDad

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1983 First Day Of Practice! Jerry Stovall, “We Don’t Have Anyone That Can Block Him!”

Les Miles said the same thing about Michael Brockers but it was after the season. I think it was in a draft interview maybe.

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Posted by LSUDad

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Posted on 8/5/26 at 2:38 pm to Lsuray70443

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Thomas was a beast and our OL wasn’t the best at the time.

We lost Mack Brown, he was the QB coach and called plays.

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Posted by geauxpurple

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Posted on 8/5/26 at 2:41 pm to LSUDad

I remember big Henry Thomas. He was one of the greats. My days as a student coincided with the Jerry Stovall years.
Basketball was the most exciting sport back then.

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Posted by I-59 Tiger

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Posted on 8/5/26 at 3:09 pm to LSUDad

my years at LSU were the Stovall years. Man,there were high , really high hopes for that 1983 team. Made every game except Ole Miss and Tulane.

Good night, the Rant would have been a mess that year.