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re: Gerry Dinardo still owns my worst LSU moment, not Miles.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 3:30 pm to JETigER
Posted on 12/11/09 at 3:30 pm to JETigER
So you are comparing a game in the middle of the season ON THE ROAD during a rebuilding year coming off how many straight losing seasons?
And for anyone saying UAB. The loss sucked, but it didn't end our season like many thought. That was also a rebuilding year. Hell, we were 3-8 the year before and it was a game before we turned the team around.
In both cases, you are comparing two coaches in their first years in mid season games for teams coming off losing seasons. They are not the same thing.
Miles' blunder was much bigger given our talent edges in those games.
And for anyone saying UAB. The loss sucked, but it didn't end our season like many thought. That was also a rebuilding year. Hell, we were 3-8 the year before and it was a game before we turned the team around.
In both cases, you are comparing two coaches in their first years in mid season games for teams coming off losing seasons. They are not the same thing.
Miles' blunder was much bigger given our talent edges in those games.
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Posted on 12/11/09 at 3:39 pm to LSUMafia
At the time the most dissapointed I was at a game was Arkansas 07. We were #1, playing a team we should beat on Senior day in your own stadium and they weren't prepared to play them. Although it changed when Pitt won the next week. But I was so pissed on how you could not be fired up to play that game.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 4:00 pm to Lacour
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Auburn 1994 is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to LSU football woes.
Damn Curly Hallman
Damn Jamie Howard
Damn Lynn Amadee
Damn you fat boy Terry Bowden
Curley had 27 other worst LSU moments from 1991 to 1995. Many a Jack and Coke were consumed trying to purge those awful memories and still they haunt me.
In 1995, DiNardo seemed like the Messiah after 6 straight losing seasons. DiNardo gave us hope again... the only hopeful moments under Curley were "moral victories" and the Pigs flying over Tuscaloosa in 1993 followed by a win streak that nearly got us into the Carquest Bowl at 6-5. We were like the pre-1987 Saints that year and would have killed just for a winning season. Curley's suckitude was beyond words.
Oh sorry, getting too nostalgic there.. I meant to say I hate Les Miles and LSU can't fire him soon enough. Dammit, WE SUCK! Better?
Posted on 12/11/09 at 4:03 pm to JETigER
I never saw the 94 Auburn game but it sounds aweful.
My single worst moment remains Matt Jones TD pass in 2002. It still makes me sick to my stomach although the team then used that game as motivation to win it all next year.
My single worst moment remains Matt Jones TD pass in 2002. It still makes me sick to my stomach although the team then used that game as motivation to win it all next year.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 4:14 pm to siliconvalleytiger
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I never saw the 94 Auburn game but it sounds awful.
It was awful and you should watch it sometime. But you have to put it in the context of that time. Auburn was THE game that determined LSU's season and to blow a huge lead in such an important game was a collapse of immense proportions. Howard threw 5 4th quarter interceptions... 3 of the pick-six variety.
Think Buffalo/Houston (Frank Reich/Warren Moon) type collapse only much worse psychologically because instead of ending a playoff run this sentenced us to yet another losing season.
Because of that context, DiNardo's 1995 win at home along with the return of white jerseys was a huge psychological victory. After that game, we actually believed DiNardo really did "bring back the magic". After we beat #1 Florida in Tiger Stadium in 1997, we really started to believe. But you had to be there in 1994 to appreciate how low we had been. So to hear anyone say that DiNardo or Miles own their worst LSU moment just tells me that they've got very short memories.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 4:28 pm to Cajunboy19
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At the time the most dissapointed I was at a game was Arkansas 07. We were #1, playing a team we should beat on Senior day in your own stadium and they weren't prepared to play them.
Defense wasn't prepared(They were very banged up though) but the offense was geared up most of that game due to Hester and Flynn's leadership. Doucet's brain fart on what was a great Flynn to Hester hookup actually was huge but mostly overlooked due to Mcfadden's big day.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 4:32 pm to pdxlsufan
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So to hear anyone say that DiNardo or Miles own their worst LSU moment just tells me that they've got very short memories.
+1
Although 1998 was amazing in its ability to frustrate. A great offense that scored about 36 points every game, counterbalanced by Tepper's 39 point per game defense. Just amazing.
The 1998 Alabama game was probably the worst for me until, I dunno, the 2004 Iowa game maybe.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 4:38 pm to pdxlsufan
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Because of that context, DiNardo's 1995 win at home along with the return of white jerseys was a huge psychological victory. After that game, we actually believed DiNardo really did "bring back the magic". After we beat #1 Florida in Tiger Stadium in 1997, we really started to believe. But you had to be there in 1994 to appreciate how low we had been
Yeah, I didn't move to Louisiana/LSU until 1996 but the 'bring back the magic' campaign was definitely succeeding when I got there. I'll try and see if I can get a copy of the game.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 4:42 pm to siliconvalleytiger
Bring Back the Magic game was my 2nd game in TS...the first being some clusterfrick against Texas A&M.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 5:18 pm to biglego
This years Ole Miss game made me ILL, ILL, ILL!!!
Posted on 12/11/09 at 5:34 pm to JETigER
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In 1995 (when overtime had not yet come) Gerry Dinardo decided to kick an extra point in the back end of the game against South Carolina instead of going for two and the win. That decision resulted in a tie game and cost LSU the West Championship. Scenario's in 1995 in South Carolina game. Get a two point conversion = West Champs Fail on two point conversion = 2nd place Kick an extra point = 2nd place Gerry Dinardo not choosing to go for the west championship still hurts more than Miles not calling time out in the Ole Miss game.
You realize that Arkansas won the west w/ just 2 losses. So we would have had to get the 2 point conversion and win another game that we lost.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 5:45 pm to JETigER
I may have to agree...I have 2 Kevin Faulk SI magazines from the 97 Florida game and a mini helmet that I got Faulk to sign, and freaking Dinardo got in there a signed them too ruining my memorabilia!!!! 
Posted on 12/11/09 at 5:49 pm to JETigER
How about DiNardo trying to kick a 64 yard field goal to tie it up at the end of the Auburn game in 1997?
Oh wait, Miles tried that, too. But Miles only tried from 63 yards out.
Oh wait, Miles tried that, too. But Miles only tried from 63 yards out.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 5:51 pm to choupiquesushi
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Texas A&M won the toss and elected to defer and kick off. Hallman insisted that the defense was on the field first and wouldn't accecpt the deferment and A&M got the ball to start the game and the 2nd half.
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Virginia Tech Game 2002
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beat me too it... saban went freaking ballistic on whomever was the "captain" that made that call
It happened during Mississippi State 2002, FWIW. Bradie James did it.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 5:53 pm to JETigER
A bowl game was on the line that year,
i was just proud he brought us to a bowl for the first time since I was like 8 y/o
raised as a devout, crazy Tiger fan, as an 8th grader at the time I was proud of my Tigers for the first time since I was very young, simply for making to a bowl.
It meant a lot to me to see Herb Tyler grab the LSU flag and run around that shitty stadium in Shreveport.
i was just proud he brought us to a bowl for the first time since I was like 8 y/o
raised as a devout, crazy Tiger fan, as an 8th grader at the time I was proud of my Tigers for the first time since I was very young, simply for making to a bowl.
It meant a lot to me to see Herb Tyler grab the LSU flag and run around that shitty stadium in Shreveport.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 7:20 pm to JETigER
'98 and '99 against Bama
'98 because we were in Tiger Stadium with a chance to win for the first time (there)since I was in the band in '69.
'99 because we sat in a stunned crowd as Booty threw what should have been a TD pass to a lone receiver in the end zone, but threw it so low that he had to kneel on the one yard line to catch it, setting up Booty's ill-fated goal line dive.
Quietest home stadium after win I have ever seen in Tuscaloosa....everyone was stunned.
'98 because we were in Tiger Stadium with a chance to win for the first time (there)since I was in the band in '69.
'99 because we sat in a stunned crowd as Booty threw what should have been a TD pass to a lone receiver in the end zone, but threw it so low that he had to kneel on the one yard line to catch it, setting up Booty's ill-fated goal line dive.
Quietest home stadium after win I have ever seen in Tuscaloosa....everyone was stunned.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 8:23 pm to kjacksonp
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The 1998 Alabama game was probably the worst for me until, I dunno, the 2004 Iowa game maybe.
The 1998 game was the worst by far. We have a twelve point lead in the fourth quarter and Bama gets a touchdown with about two minutes left, recover an onside kick and score again. Two long touchdown passes. I sit stunned.
Thirty years with only a tie to Bama at home. I am sitting next to a man from Mobile who was torn between the teams. I sold him the ticket on the forty. His daughter was coming to LSU to play in the band the next year.
I said to him, "We are jinxed." A Bama fan leaving looked at me and said, "Yeah, we own this place." No better pleasure comes when LSU beats Bama at Baton Rouge.
i would have to wait two years as we finally do it, with a close call that a ref had to look at the replay screens to see that we recovered our muffed punt.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 9:12 pm to craignettles
The worst LSU moment for me - The day Joe Dean was named AD.
Posted on 12/11/09 at 9:26 pm to los angeles tiger
worst moment for me is..... weell ther is seveeral....2005 tenn, this year olemiss, saban losing to UAB, carter neeling at the one(and that entire game), and loosing to ar-kansas in 07 i cryed after that game lol
Posted on 12/11/09 at 9:40 pm to JETigER
Apart from being at OM this year and being the angriest a football game has ever made me,... USCe joined the conference (after FSU and Bobby Bowdens gutless turn down(hated them for no spine ever since)of the SEC invite)and my team is coming here. My wife (S.Carolina Grad.) and my Buddy (S.Carolina Grad.) and I go and LSU is top 10(?). A TIE!!!! F**K ME RUNNING!!! And as mentioned in a post earlier, on a late decision to not WIN the game on the road. I wouldn't have been more embarrased if we had taken a beatdown. Even though I don't care for the overtime scenario now, I am thankful that ties are no longer part of our season.
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