re: In 1998, at 12, I wrote a letter to the Advocate defending Gerry Dinardo. ARTICLE FOUND

Back in 1958-59, I wrote three letters to Coach Paul Dietzel and he responded to each letter with a type written response. I was an eleven year old girl who loved the LSU team and now at 77 I still love my Tigers!

Why did the advocate publish the name of a 12 yr old?

Yup.

I got one published once and yes, they included the address as was standard practice them.

Nice getting a letter at home from an inmate at Angola.

awesome, I wrote a letter to him and he replied with a letter and signed it and everything, I think he included some stickers or something like that too. Great guy. That was the coolest thing in the world to me at 12 years old.

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One guy left a VM threatening to fight me. 12 yr old me

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Offer still stands, DD

Surely the letter could be found on some archived micro film at the library.

Someone needs to find it a publish it in the thread.

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Offer still stands, DD

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on sight brotha.

People were just as stupid back then I see meaning the idiots that called you names and called you. That’s good stuff.

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In 1998, at 12, I wrote a letter to the Advocate defending Gerry Dinardo

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Did you ride the short bus?

I found the article. Oh its a beaut:


It's time for some housecleaning in Baton Rouge and around Louisiana concerning LSU football. It is usually called "spring cleaning," but in this case it's "fall cleaning."For some reason the last two years I have been hearing an ungrateful cry from so-called LSU fans. It goes something like this: "Them Tigers ain't no good, just like the Saints always losing. They need to fire all those coaches over at LSU and get some new ones. Especially coach Gerry DiNardo and that defensive coordinator LouTepper. They should have been out of here last year."These were the same LSU fans who were tearing down the goalpost at the Florida game two years ago. By the way, these are the same fans who were always talking about LSU saying, "How 'bout them Tigers?" Now you cannot hear one positive comment about LSU football. They are all negative right now, and I am sick and tired of it. People like that disgrace football as a whole. When their team starts losing, it seems that all the support goes away; and thenall of a sudden, the support reappears when they start winning. This happens with just about all teams, not just LSU.

Also, let me inform you on DiNardo and Tepper. DiNardo is trying all that he can to get LSU back on the right track. I give him all of my support in trying to rebuild this team from losing most of its important players to graduation. Concerning Lou Tepper, I believe that he can turn this defense around for LSU in three years, as he said.

Their defense has already improved vastly this year from a year ago. Give the man some credit. But I can feel it coming on, just as in the past. As usual, the people at LSU will not give them a chance. Four years and it's the boot. But if they do get a chance over the next year or two their skills in coaching will emerge as the new players who are coming in get used to the offense and/or defense.

They will emerge again into an SEC power. But when they do the so-called LSU fans will be jumping up and hollering saying, "Go LSU" and all the rest of the phrases. I guess they are just off-and-on fans. As I have said all this for one thing, maybe it's not the lack of talent or the coach's problem that is "killing" the team. Maybe it's the fans' attitude that is.