re: For those who attended LSU, how was the sports scene when you were there?

Started Fall '97 and grad Dec '01

Football: decent team to laughing stock to SEC championship
Baseball: National Championship
Basketball: Sweet 16

Started Summer '88 and finished Spring '95 (undergrad & law school)

One year of good football (1st two student section games were the '88 win over A&M and then the Earthquake Game!), then six years of hell. Basketball was pretty good and awesomely exciting with Chris Jackson, Shaq, and Vernel from my hometown Natchez. Baseball was really good and becoming awesome ('91 and '93 National Championships). Pokey was playing for the Womens team, Volleyball was pretty good, and Track & Field was simply unbelievable (National Championships practically every year in Mens and Womens).

Fairly fun time, better than now in terms of constent across the board success; but nowhere close to as good in reality since Football outweighs everything else by such a wide margin.

Back when the oaks were just saplings, and noone gave a crap about them, we had a pretty damn good football team. The Tigers beat OM 61-17. Lost to Notre Dame 0-3 then beat them 28-8. Beat the Bear 2 years in a row. Pete Maravich was on our basketball team for a couple of those years, We moved the basketball games from the Ag Center, into the Assembly Center, and we didn't know LSU played baseball.

2006-2010

Mixed bag.

Started '86....

Football was good (Arnsbarger, Archer .... Orange, Sugar bowls)

Basketball was good (Shaq, Chris Jackson, Blanton...)

Baseball? (skip was just hired).

Men's and Women's Track was great.

Women's Basketball?

Title IX was killing some successful programs...Wrestling, men's gymnastics, etc.)

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I was at LSU from the fall of 1990 to the summer of 1994.

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Same here Chicken.

I was in the Tigerband, so the football seasons sucked! But I got to travel with the basketball team to SEC and tournament games. We played cards with Vernel Singleton.

The best time was when Daddy Dale went off on the Tenn player for intentionally fouling Shaq at SEC Tourney. LSU/Tiger band was booed thru out the weekend. I was loving it! One Kentucky fan/kid threw at jaw breaker and almost hit my trumpet. I was soo pissed. I know...I was a band nerd!

Rather so-so. I was there from the fall of 1980 through the summer of 1984.

Those four years coincided with the Stovall years -- 22-21-2.One bowl game, the Orange after the '82 season.Should have had a bowl bid after the 7-4 1980 season.

Freshman year the basketball team went to the Final four with the "Midwest Regionals" being in the Superdome. Nothing says "Midwest" like New Orleans. Team was ranked as high as #2 the next to last week of the regular season.NIT in '82 and '83 (home losses to Tulane and New Orleans) and an NCAA bid in '84 and quick loss to Dayton.

Bertman got there the Spring of my SR year and LSU almost made the SEC tournament at the time-- there was a West and East and the top 2 from each division made it. Before Bertman got to LSU, midweek games vs teams like SLU or Nichols would be in front of 100 people with half of them being visting fans.

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85 to 88. Pretty damn good.

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I went to school with Otis?

arrived Fall'78-Spring of'82. Football was good but not great. However the season after I graduated Dalton Hillard and Gary James turned things around. Basketball was doing fairly well and Baseball? Well, if you needed a quite place to study Alex Box was a good place to go!

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so i was there for a Football NC, a basketball final 4, and a baseball NC

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Same here. It was awesome.