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re: For those who attended LSU, how was the sports scene when you were there?
Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:06 pm to Chicken
Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:06 pm to Chicken
I was there from '79 through '83. The Tigers went to the Orange bowl once (1982), but lost to Nebraska by a point 21-20. All the other seasons were average at best (two of the four were losing seasons) and baseball and basketball sucked. 1979 was Coach Mac's final season and 1983 was Jerry Stovall's final season. Most of my class thought we would have done much better if Bo Rein hadn't died in the plane crash. Lots of talent, but poor results. I envy you guys. The last decade, and the late 50's, are the golden ages of LSU sports.
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Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:11 pm to HeadSlash
Lol. Section 1
This post was edited on 3/21/11 at 2:31 pm
Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:25 pm to Chicken
1990-95
Those first 2 years of basketball were the most fun. Baseball was good, but I didn't really get into it too much at that time. Football was blah....but we still had fun!
Those first 2 years of basketball were the most fun. Baseball was good, but I didn't really get into it too much at that time. Football was blah....but we still had fun!
Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:27 pm to OTIS2
86’-91’
Began with good times in football and saw the beginning of the bad times.
Watched as SKIP built the baseball program to what it is today-----loved those Sunday Double-Header’s
Enjoyed Dale with Chris Jackson and Shack and Company-----was midcourt for the three home game-stretch of Florida-UNLV and Loyola Marymount
Began with good times in football and saw the beginning of the bad times.
Watched as SKIP built the baseball program to what it is today-----loved those Sunday Double-Header’s
Enjoyed Dale with Chris Jackson and Shack and Company-----was midcourt for the three home game-stretch of Florida-UNLV and Loyola Marymount
Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:53 pm to Chicken
Fall 06 to spring 10. Awesome
Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:55 pm to Srbtiger06
watched Football go from awesome to awful ('87-91), and basketball was coming off a F4, F8, and trending down as well....
but did see LSU's first baseball NC.
oh and tr4ck n feeld,babby!!!
but did see LSU's first baseball NC.
oh and tr4ck n feeld,babby!!!
Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:58 pm to Chicken
Went from '97 to '00. Biggest highlight was LSU beating Florida in '97 and everything went down hill after that night. By '99 I was hoping LSU would lose so DiNardo would get fired and then we could get a new coach.
Baseball was still big, but I think we started getting spoiled with all the national titles.
No one gave a shite about the Saints at that time other than watching for comic relief purposes while recovering from a hangover.
Baseball was still big, but I think we started getting spoiled with all the national titles.
No one gave a shite about the Saints at that time other than watching for comic relief purposes while recovering from a hangover.
Posted on 3/21/11 at 2:59 pm to clamdip
Summer of '67 (summer of Love) and I loved every minute of my time at LSU. Drank more beer than Mac's football team scored points that Fall - almost kept up beer per point with the basketball team too. Was simply the best of times - not that I was sober that much! 5 years later - graduated and Cholly Mac moved on - still was great games.
This post was edited on 3/21/11 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 3/21/11 at 3:06 pm to TexasTiger1228
'94 to '98. Football started out weak, but by the time I graduated, Dinardo had righted the ship. He was just biding his time until Notre Dame came knocking ...
Posted on 3/21/11 at 3:16 pm to Chicken
Fall 74- Spring 79
Not too many highlights in FB except big 6-6 tie with Neb. 76 (yeah Rusty Domainge), beat Fla pretty good 77 (of course Rice 77-0) and couple 8-4 seasons then help mac pac campaign era (never beat Bama that period); Basketball was just heating up and had great game with Kent. 78 I believe; Baseball won something I think 74 but didn't follow it at all. Still in all the FB seasons were pretty fun!
Not too many highlights in FB except big 6-6 tie with Neb. 76 (yeah Rusty Domainge), beat Fla pretty good 77 (of course Rice 77-0) and couple 8-4 seasons then help mac pac campaign era (never beat Bama that period); Basketball was just heating up and had great game with Kent. 78 I believe; Baseball won something I think 74 but didn't follow it at all. Still in all the FB seasons were pretty fun!
Posted on 3/21/11 at 3:23 pm to BACONisMEATcandy
quote:
I went from the Fall of 03 to 08
It was AWESOME
Posted on 3/21/11 at 3:28 pm to Chicken
I was there from 2002-2006 for undergrad and 2007-2009 for grad school. I got to see 2 FB National Championships, and a Final Four. The baseball team wasn't terrible, but it was during our short lived Omaha drought. Women's basketball was dominant with Seimone and Big Syl, but never got all the way. Womens track was excellent and the men were very competitive as well.
I would go so far as to say it was arguably a Golden Era in Tiger athletics.
I would go so far as to say it was arguably a Golden Era in Tiger athletics.
Posted on 3/21/11 at 3:28 pm to Chicken
2000-2009 pretty good for sports
Posted on 3/21/11 at 3:34 pm to Chicken
I was enrolled on & off from Fall, 1977 until Spring, 1985. Yes, I had a lot of fun in college!
Football:
Football was good, so-so, bad, pretty good, not-so good, pretty good again, then bad. Highlights/Lowlights:
LSU vs. USC in Tiger Stadium
Carlos Carson catches 5 passes for 5 touchdowns and 201 yds against Rice. Woodley/Ensminger was the two-headed QB monster, then.
The way Charlie Mac was treated at the end
Charlie Alexander's career
Bo Rein's death
Jerry Stovall's rise & fall
The Dalton & James Gang
Doin' the Dalton
Two Sugar Bowls (both losses)
Road Trips to Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Houston, and NO twice for the Sugar Bowls
Other shite I was too drunk to remember & too lazy to look up
Basketball:
I got to experience the rise of the greatest period in LSU basketball history. Coach Brown, Ethan, Rudy, The Astronaut, Cookie Man, Hi-C, Jordy (Hultbeeeerrrrggg - TWO), Willie Sims, Al Green, Redden, Blanton, John Williams, Ice Reynolds, Swat Mitchell, Derrick Taylor, Nikita Wilson.
The Assembly Center was rockin'. The Front Row Lunatics. Yelling at Andy Leopold, the obnoxious WBRZ reporter. "Who Dat" was famous here before the Saints claimed it for their own. Getting Silly in Philly.
The SEC had great teams & coaches with character & who were characters themselves; Wimp Sanderson, Hugh Durham, Joe B. Hall, Sonny Smith, & Norm Sloan to name a few.
Highlights & Lowlights:
1981 - 31-5, 17-1, SEC Champs, National Coach of the Year, SEC Player of the Year (Rudy), Winning the Regional in the SuperDome, First Final Four appearance since 1954 (my Dad was a trainer for that team working for Dr. Broussard)
1981 - Losing to Isiah Thomas & Indiana after going like 12 straight minutes without scoring to open the 2nd half. Losing the last Final Four consolation game ever played to Ralph Sampson & the Virginia Cavaliers
Beating UK with five starters fouled out.
M-A-C-Y, Macy's a fig!
Bitching about the Ref's not starting the clock until Macy crossed midcourt, then he buried us with a last second shot that he never should have gotten off.
The Round Mound of Rebound
Watching Walk-on Ethan Martin make fools out of every point guard in the SEC with his quick hands and deft touch from the top of the key.
Seeing Ethan grow from a seventh-grade Wonderkind (Where he kicked my arse) to a Baton Rouge high school legend at McKinley to a Pell Grant LSU walk-on and finally to an All-SEC 1st Team selection
40 point / 40 rebound night for Rudy
Hi-C from the corner falling away against Georgia.
Hi-C always money in the bank from the corner
Watching The Astronaut Fly
Leonard "Swat" Mitchell in the paint
Cookie Man cleaning the boards with a timely placed elbow or two
Wondering if Al Green could dribble the length of the court faster than he could run it.
Losing to the eventual National Champion like 3-4 years in a row; Michigan State (Magic Johnson), Louisville (Darrell Griffith), & Indiana (Isiah Thomas), and maybe one more.
Redden & Blanton's heart
Some early NCAA Tournament exits with teams that should have made it deep.
Beating Kentucky at Rupp (anytime!)
Being an LSU Basketball fan during the time of the greatest coach in the school's history, Dale D. Brown.
The other sports were not as prominent, although track may have been getting cranked up. Baseball was a few years away. The Ben-Gals Women's BB team was OK, but not great; couldn't compete with La Tech. We had Men's Wrestling (anybody remember George Atiyeh & his brother), before Title 9 killed it. Swimming was periodically good; the Randy Meador era (as swimmer, before he coached). Golf was not good. Men's & Women's Gymnastics was pretty good. Yes we had Men's Gymnastics before Title 9 killed that too.
On a side note, I was also fortunate to see a lot of historic games from 1969 - 1977 before I matriculated to the Stately Oaks & Broad Magnolias.
I got to see:
Pete Maravich play in the Cow Palace & specifically the game that he broke the college scoring record.
Arguably the greatest defense to ever play for LSU, 1969 with Mike Anderson & George Bevan
Tommy Casanova & Craig Burns running back 3 punts for TD's in the 61-17 drubbing of Ole Miss.
28-8 vs. Notre Dame. Primetime TV game, but I was in the stands.
Being in the South End Zone & seeing Bert Jones' pass to Brad Davis to beat Ole Miss 17-16. Three plays in 10 seconds, 2 plays in 4 seconds. My friend had left the game disgusted and had to hear the roar of the victory from outside the stadium
Beating Alabama & Johnny Musso 15-10 for the last LSU victory over Bear Bryant for awhile.
Watching Archie Manning play college football. "Archie Who?" Go to Hell Ole Miss, Go to Hell!
The "Hustlers" with Eddie Palubinskas beating Top Ten Memphis State in Dale Brown's first game as LSU Head Coach. Dale went 14-10 that year.
Well, that's about it. Was it the Golden Age of LSU Sports....No. But it WAS the Golden Age of LSU Basketball. The worst & then the best in LSU Football was yet to come.....
Football:
Football was good, so-so, bad, pretty good, not-so good, pretty good again, then bad. Highlights/Lowlights:
LSU vs. USC in Tiger Stadium
Carlos Carson catches 5 passes for 5 touchdowns and 201 yds against Rice. Woodley/Ensminger was the two-headed QB monster, then.
The way Charlie Mac was treated at the end
Charlie Alexander's career
Bo Rein's death
Jerry Stovall's rise & fall
The Dalton & James Gang
Doin' the Dalton
Two Sugar Bowls (both losses)
Road Trips to Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Houston, and NO twice for the Sugar Bowls
Other shite I was too drunk to remember & too lazy to look up
Basketball:
I got to experience the rise of the greatest period in LSU basketball history. Coach Brown, Ethan, Rudy, The Astronaut, Cookie Man, Hi-C, Jordy (Hultbeeeerrrrggg - TWO), Willie Sims, Al Green, Redden, Blanton, John Williams, Ice Reynolds, Swat Mitchell, Derrick Taylor, Nikita Wilson.
The Assembly Center was rockin'. The Front Row Lunatics. Yelling at Andy Leopold, the obnoxious WBRZ reporter. "Who Dat" was famous here before the Saints claimed it for their own. Getting Silly in Philly.
The SEC had great teams & coaches with character & who were characters themselves; Wimp Sanderson, Hugh Durham, Joe B. Hall, Sonny Smith, & Norm Sloan to name a few.
Highlights & Lowlights:
1981 - 31-5, 17-1, SEC Champs, National Coach of the Year, SEC Player of the Year (Rudy), Winning the Regional in the SuperDome, First Final Four appearance since 1954 (my Dad was a trainer for that team working for Dr. Broussard)
1981 - Losing to Isiah Thomas & Indiana after going like 12 straight minutes without scoring to open the 2nd half. Losing the last Final Four consolation game ever played to Ralph Sampson & the Virginia Cavaliers
Beating UK with five starters fouled out.
M-A-C-Y, Macy's a fig!
Bitching about the Ref's not starting the clock until Macy crossed midcourt, then he buried us with a last second shot that he never should have gotten off.
The Round Mound of Rebound
Watching Walk-on Ethan Martin make fools out of every point guard in the SEC with his quick hands and deft touch from the top of the key.
Seeing Ethan grow from a seventh-grade Wonderkind (Where he kicked my arse) to a Baton Rouge high school legend at McKinley to a Pell Grant LSU walk-on and finally to an All-SEC 1st Team selection
40 point / 40 rebound night for Rudy
Hi-C from the corner falling away against Georgia.
Hi-C always money in the bank from the corner
Watching The Astronaut Fly
Leonard "Swat" Mitchell in the paint
Cookie Man cleaning the boards with a timely placed elbow or two
Wondering if Al Green could dribble the length of the court faster than he could run it.
Losing to the eventual National Champion like 3-4 years in a row; Michigan State (Magic Johnson), Louisville (Darrell Griffith), & Indiana (Isiah Thomas), and maybe one more.
Redden & Blanton's heart
Some early NCAA Tournament exits with teams that should have made it deep.
Beating Kentucky at Rupp (anytime!)
Being an LSU Basketball fan during the time of the greatest coach in the school's history, Dale D. Brown.
The other sports were not as prominent, although track may have been getting cranked up. Baseball was a few years away. The Ben-Gals Women's BB team was OK, but not great; couldn't compete with La Tech. We had Men's Wrestling (anybody remember George Atiyeh & his brother), before Title 9 killed it. Swimming was periodically good; the Randy Meador era (as swimmer, before he coached). Golf was not good. Men's & Women's Gymnastics was pretty good. Yes we had Men's Gymnastics before Title 9 killed that too.
On a side note, I was also fortunate to see a lot of historic games from 1969 - 1977 before I matriculated to the Stately Oaks & Broad Magnolias.
I got to see:
Pete Maravich play in the Cow Palace & specifically the game that he broke the college scoring record.
Arguably the greatest defense to ever play for LSU, 1969 with Mike Anderson & George Bevan
Tommy Casanova & Craig Burns running back 3 punts for TD's in the 61-17 drubbing of Ole Miss.
28-8 vs. Notre Dame. Primetime TV game, but I was in the stands.
Being in the South End Zone & seeing Bert Jones' pass to Brad Davis to beat Ole Miss 17-16. Three plays in 10 seconds, 2 plays in 4 seconds. My friend had left the game disgusted and had to hear the roar of the victory from outside the stadium
Beating Alabama & Johnny Musso 15-10 for the last LSU victory over Bear Bryant for awhile.
Watching Archie Manning play college football. "Archie Who?" Go to Hell Ole Miss, Go to Hell!
The "Hustlers" with Eddie Palubinskas beating Top Ten Memphis State in Dale Brown's first game as LSU Head Coach. Dale went 14-10 that year.
Well, that's about it. Was it the Golden Age of LSU Sports....No. But it WAS the Golden Age of LSU Basketball. The worst & then the best in LSU Football was yet to come.....
This post was edited on 3/22/11 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 3/21/11 at 3:41 pm to vjp819
quote:
Back when the oaks were just saplings, and noone gave a crap about them, we had a pretty damn good football team.
And the Indian Mounds were just anthills and Mike the Tiger was a Sabre-tooth cat....j/k!
Saw LSU beak Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl on TV and Wyoming in the Sugar Bowl in person. (WYO was the only undefeated 1-A team that year.)
Pete Maravitch put LSU on the college basketball map. No one had ever seen moves like he had. His freshman year, there was a traffic jam away from the Parker Ag Center when the freshman game ended. That year, the varsity was about as bad as this year's team.
You could walk into the old Alex Box at anytime during a game and sit anywhere. Only about 100 persons or so in the stands.
Didn't really know LSU played any other sports (except freshman football and freshman basketball).
Posted on 3/21/11 at 3:41 pm to ELVIS U
quote:
ELVIS U
quote:
I was there from '79 through '83...... and baseball and basketball sucked.
Yeah, basketball really sucked from 1979 - 83.
See above, sir.
Posted on 3/21/11 at 4:15 pm to Chicken
I was there from 1981 - 1983 and it was the shite. Everything about LSU was fun and glorious. Of course I was dating my future wife during those years so that made it even more special.
Posted on 3/21/11 at 4:23 pm to Raparooot
I refuse to be the oldest poster in this thread – therefore, I am not going to post until another old fart posts first.
Posted on 3/21/11 at 4:25 pm to Pietra
2005-2009
Got to see an NCAA Basketball Final Four, a Football National Championship, and a Baseball National Championship
Got to see an NCAA Basketball Final Four, a Football National Championship, and a Baseball National Championship
Posted on 3/21/11 at 5:16 pm to saintsfan92612
2005-2009
Ditto
quote:
Got to see an NCAA Basketball Final Four, a Football National Championship, and a Baseball National Championship
Ditto
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