re: Great pic of Skip and Evans from last night.

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part of me wonders if some of these young guys completely understand the impact he’s had on LSU?

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I think Paul and Jay both have gone way out of their way to make sure the players understand just how important he is to the program and to college baseball as a whole.

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I think Paul and Jay both have gone way out of their way to make sure the players understand just how important he is to the program and to college baseball as a whole.

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Jay definitely has I can assure.

Skip’s big ole meat hooks!

Evans needs to get this picture signed and framed, quickly

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What about that time Ron Polk invited me and Sandy over for dinner. He was so proud of his new house with a sunken den. I didn't have the heart to tell him that his trailer had a flat tire.

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A hurricane passed through Starkville and did millions of dollars of improvements.

Tough to see Skip in that condition but also nice to see interviews of him where he is still very mentally sharp.

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One aspect of Skip's persona perhaps not usually known and / or talked about openly

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As a student, I was around him a good bit in the late 80's as friends with players and in my student job with LSU media relations. Of course no one knew it at the time, but he was building something, and it consumed him. This is by no means a slam on him, but he could be a brutal foul mouthed dick for all the right reasons. He would dress down SID (at the time) Herb Vincent in one breath and turn around and do the same to the student managers, and follow it up with jumping Belle or McDonalds arse. It got even worse after the first CWS appearance in '86.

He could be very caustic without being petty. To a person though, every player I knew who bitched about him respected him immensely after leaving LSU. Lombardi and Shula had it, Saban had it, and Skip had it. The ability to be feared but respected. Bobby Knight is someone who had the former but struggled mightily with the latter.

It’s hard for me to see Skip like this. That man created a dynasty. I wish nothing but the best for him.

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Will Clark, Rafael Palmeiro, Bobby Thigpen

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We started going to the games in 85. I still remember my dad casually leaning against the dense talking to Will and Rafael. My friend and I would often get our nachos and drink and go sit under the bushes behind the outfield fence to wait for home runs:

For those not old enough to see LSU baseball in the 90's, let me tell you something....you have no idea what a meteoric rise it was. I was a student at LSU from 1984-89 and was only a casual fan initially, but I caught the bug as I was leaving. In fact, my graduation from LSU was about 10 days before LSU went to A&M and stunned them in the regional to get to Omaha.

Imagine being in the middle of six straight losing football seasons from 1989 to 1994. Loss after loss after loss. Getting embarrassed in SEC games by good teams and sometimes BAD teams. It was miserable. The fan base was starving for a winner and Skip was just building his dynasty. That ride from 1991 to 2000 was incredible.