SI "Cole Tracy's kicking heroics have made him the toast of three coasts"

SI - "Cole Tracy's kicking heroics have made him the toast of three coasts: The west, where he grew up; the east, where he starred at tiny Assumption College in Massachusetts; and the Gulf, where his clutch field goal lifted LSU into the top 10."




"Tracy says he sits here in silence, sometimes muttering to “the man above,” other times visualizing a 50-yard game-winner splitting the uprights. Every other second is spent ruminating over his situation—the journey from southern California to a tiny Division II school in Massachusetts and now to Tiger Stadium. “You’re in here and it’s like, ‘Holy s---,’” he says, and you’ll have to excuse his vocabulary because after all, a reporter isn’t usually around. “I’m the D-II small-arse kid that is making a dream become a reality."




"As of Tuesday night, Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., had received 116 gifts totaling nearly $6,000, says Stanton, the school’s vice president for advancement who oversees fundraising. Tracy broke multiple school records in three seasons kicking at the Division II school before he arrived at LSU this summer as a graduate transfer. He won the Tigers’ starting job in camp, then got off to a 7-for-8 start on field goals, then knocked in an eighth with a game-winner at Auburn, the first regulation walk-off field goal in program history that moved LSU to 3–0, No. 6 in the AP Poll and the center of the SEC West race."




"At the center of the chatter: its kicker, whom LSU fans are so excited about that they’re giving to his previous college. “It’s absolutely insane seeing this,” says Brendan Tobey, Tracy’s holder for three years at Assumption. “He’s blown up in three weeks. The LSU fan base in Massachusetts has grown a lot. He’s putting little Assumption College on the map.” People more than 1,500 miles from Tiger Stadium and at opposite reaches of the mainland United States are celebrating Tracy, throwing watch parties in his hometown of Camarillo, Calif., and gathering in bars around Boston. “We’re all rooting for the Tigers,” says Drew Canan, Tracy’s former special teams coordinator at Assumption. One of Tracy’s friends Monday received a phone call from a reporter at The Boston Globe, his dad got air time Tuesday on a south Louisiana radio show that broadcasts to New Orleans and local newspapers, like The Advocate in Baton Rouge, are plastering catchy headlines on their front pages. “Cole as Ice”, the latest read."


Include the entire state of Ohio, and Joe Burrow and Cole Tracy's popularity combined could grow into something massive for LSU! Thank You Coach O!





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