re: What was the best decade to go to LSU ever?

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Gotta be the 80's. That decade was just non-stop insanity from start to finish. Bernie Moore trophies. Some of the most exciting moments in all 3 major sports. Track dominance. Dekes getting out of control. Murphy's in full effect. Chris Jackson, Tommy Hodson, Joey Belle, Ben McDonald, Jose Vargas. Tito Horford, Bobby Knight, Jimmy Swaggart, Bob Brodhead. Just insanity I tell ya...

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This. Absolutely this.

I was there from '84-'88...and don't forget about RATT in downtown BR, HEART at the PMAC, and RJDio in New Orleans.............

Total fun and good times....plus Reagan was the Prez, not some snivelling pussy leftist, and it was GREAT to be an American, ahem...(OK, will defer that one to another board)

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Fridays beers in the Union, Murphy's, The Bengal, Chi Chi's, Fred's,

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Don't forget the hole in wall bar in downtown BR called "Chris'," and the drink there called the "skylab," of course only ordered after one or two too many "fishbowls."

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Gotta be the 80's. That decade was just non-stop insanity from start to finish. Bernie Moore trophies. Some of the most exciting moments in all 3 major sports. Track dominance. Dekes getting out of control. Murphy's in full effect. Chris Jackson, Tommy Hodson, Joey Belle, Ben McDonald, Jose Vargas. Tito Horford, Bobby Knight, Jimmy Swaggart, Bob Brodhead. Just insanity I tell ya...

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I'd vote the '80's as well.

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Zeppelin.
Floyd.
Stones.
Bowie.
Elton.
Queen.
Dead.
Bruce.
Skynyrd if they didn't crash on the way.

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The Who, with-and-without Keith Moon. The Assembly Center used to host some awesome concerts.

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USC in Tiger Stadium.

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My first game in TS as a student.

I dunno my 5 year plan was pretty sweet

2003-2008

It wasn't the 90's, as far as football is concerned.

Although, baseball and hoops were entertaining...

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I was actually at that show as a freshman in high school. You were the crazy dancing dude he gave his strat to?

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Yeah, I was with a bunch of chicks, and I was in a foul mood because I was missing Ray Charles, Fats Domino, and Dr. John sharing a stage at Jazzfest. One of the chicks told me to get them backstage (like I could just up and do that). Reznik randomly told a security guard to plop me onstage, and after about a 10-second dialogue between us, I was dropped back into the crowd. The chicks with me, all of whom LOVED GGD (I never liked them and never hesitated to voice that view) hated me when Reznik finished the show by handing me that strat. I had to have security help me out of the PMAC because people were trying to yank it from me (thank goodness the strap was still on it). I remember some wuss begging me for the strap, and I just said, "No. Get your own strap, pussy." And then his mom 'ed at me a bit about how that was uncalled for, and I just laughed at her, and she was gone.

I had to get the strat fixed (Reznik apparently had done some damage to it in Ruston two nights before); I still have it and play it every now and then. It sounds great.

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I'm going with the 1970's. Sure, football was on its way down, and basketball hadn't really happened yet, and college baseball was years away from mattering, but....

Zeppelin.
Floyd.
Stones.
Bowie.
Elton.
Queen.
Dead.
Bruce.
Skynyrd if they didn't crash on the way.

The best concert at the PMAC while I was at LSU was the Goo Goo Dolls. Even though Johnny Reznik actually handed me his Strat from the stage at the end of the show, I'd've still preferred to see Pink Floyd rock out with an inflatable pig floating around while I tripped balls.

Damn, I was born 25 years too late.

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And don't forget,Panty Raids, Streaking, Epic Band parties that everyone wanted to attend on Alaska St. The Enchanted Forest!

Football games being on TV were an occassion rather than the norm. Not being on TV made football games much more of an event then they are now. Now people show up to tailgate and party and maybe they go to the game. In the 70's, the only way you saw the game was to be there or use your mind's eye will listening to the radio.

Great places to party within walking distance from LSU - can't remember the name of the Biker Bar which later became the Plasma center, The Library, The White Horse, The Bengal, Shanahan's, and a couple of others that escape me now - way too much partying!

Could buy beer on campus downstairs in Hatcher in The Pub or was it The Keg.

KLSU had a fun audience participation show that got too far out of hand at the end and was canceled. It was great because you could only hear it on campus and that allowed almost anything to be said on air - unless the administration said something.

I went '92-'00, and that was a pretty legit time. Horrible in football, but we had the time of our life at the games. We weren't accepting mediocrity, we were having fun. Drinking age was 18 until it didn't matter to me. Power dorm was in the height of it's debauchery. We were champions of the world in baseball.

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and worried about getting jobs after college

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Guess you didn't see the '92-'00 part. J/K. I've had great jobs since LSU, and I got a great education - but that first semester at Power was a free for all.

We were the last generation of students that didn't have cell phones and the internet. It was around, but personal connectivity was not. Leave a message on the answering machine...

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You had a generation who had more fun than arguably any in history, and then they did everything they possibly could to make sure that their children didn't have near as much fun.

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I am the exception. I never wanted it to end for anybody. That's why I kept dating younger girls until I finally got married. I was trying to do my part for the next generation