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re: What coach was at the helm when you first started following the Tigers?

Posted on 10/7/24 at 11:50 am to
Posted by GeorgeWest
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 10/7/24 at 11:50 am to
Paul Dietzel
Posted by jflsufan
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 10/7/24 at 11:52 am to
Cholly Mac when I was I very young and you had to listen to games on the radio if you didn't go in person. Then came Jerry Stovall and the Tiger Vision days.
Posted by ecb
Member since Jul 2010
9736 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 11:57 am to
Mac
Posted by Bryno1960
Off River Road
Member since Aug 2013
2933 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:02 pm to
Cholly Mac
Posted by Mike da Tigah
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Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:08 pm to
quote:

Cholly Mac when I was I very young and you had to listen to games on the radio if you didn't go in person. Then came Jerry Stovall and the Tiger Vision days.


I can remember many a games sitting around our old stereo console furniture thing listening to the game. One in particular involved my dad punching the fish aquarium and my cousin reminding him that when my mom got home he’d had it.
Posted by swamp74
Member since Oct 2011
256 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:10 pm to
Cholly Mac, great defensive teams, I always said if he would have hired a top notch offensive coordinator he would have won a couple of national championships.
Posted by HaloWarriors
Murfreesboro, TN
Member since Feb 2010
3364 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:13 pm to

Paul Dietzel. I was 11 months old when I went to my first game.
Posted by HattiesburgTiger5439
Hattiesburg ms
Member since Sep 2023
710 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:13 pm to
Archer
This post was edited on 10/7/24 at 12:16 pm
Posted by MMauler
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Member since Jun 2013
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Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:15 pm to
The most popular bumper sticker in Louisiana in the late 70s...

Help Mac Pack
Posted by Tigerinasia
Natchitoches
Member since Jan 2008
1886 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:28 pm to
Cholly Mac
Posted by RichJ
The Land of the CoonAss
Member since Nov 2016
4216 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:32 pm to
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For me it was Cholly Mac


Ditto…
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
35283 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:32 pm to
Even though I had been to games earlier, Bill Arnsparger is the earliest coach I recall being mentioned. I started watching and following LSU football by 1987, so really it was Mike Archer.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
83431 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:33 pm to
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The most popular bumper sticker in Louisiana in the late 70s...



wouldn't go that far but I heard it chanted at a few games
Posted by Garnertigah
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:38 pm to
Paul Dietzel
Posted by JackTig318
Member since Dec 2023
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Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:41 pm to
Coach McClendon was the coach but I never felt like we had the kind of success we should have had while he was the coach!
Posted by Tiger Ugly
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
16594 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:42 pm to
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I like the story Casanova tells when he was with the Bengals, he said he was talking with Paul Brown and other Bengals coaches about how close they were to a national championship if not for a bad break or two and they all started laughing, he asked what was so funny and the consensus reply was LSU rarely has any big, fast,


Yes, I've heard that story before as well....Mac was a good coach. Almost all coaches were conservative in his era and Mac certainly was as well, but it drew the ire of fans like my Dad. Hell we'd run the option with Bert Jones!

Posted by blueridgeTiger
Granbury, TX
Member since Jun 2004
21729 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:42 pm to
My first game at Tiger Stadium in 1949, Tinsley was coach. He was a great player and well liked, but not so great as a coach.

Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
92580 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:42 pm to
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For me it was Cholly Mac


Posted by uftiger
Citrus County
Member since Jan 2008
729 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:42 pm to
Mac. He was a great guy.

After I moved to Florida, he was attending games when LSU played. Tailgated with him in Gainesville once about 30 years ago.
Posted by Tiger Ugly
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
16594 posts
Posted on 10/7/24 at 12:43 pm to
Yes it does C-Money.
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