re: Who was around when LSUFreek was active?

Yes - I still have it somewhere.

Yay we are all still alive. I particularly liked this rant of yours about Saban circa 2012.

"I hope that at the end of his storied career, he'll be able to stand in front of that big(ger?) statue of his, surrounded by those crystal footballs and myriad other medals, trophies, and hand-crafted tchotchkes from the fanbase.

He'll look upon them from on high (he'll be on a stage or podium of sorts), and he'll slough out some inane, contrived platitudinous bilge that will be immediately be consumed greedily by the dewy crowd. The adoring porcine mass will applaud heartily, jowls in rhythmic motion. Those current and former colleagues who decide to show will be congenial.

Then a light rain will fall - perhaps just the heavens crying - and the metals in the statue will react with the lead in the crystal, and they will surround ye olde angry hobgoblin with a charged cloud. He'll immediately develop weird but entirely curable lesions as well as embarrassing, rancid discharge.

At the hospital, the orderly in charge of wound dressing will walk with baby bath into the hospital room, looking like a hair-studded nylon full of Yukon Golds. Hobgoblin will think "oh great" and hit the drip button. A foggy muted drawl will begin talking about heroes and heroism and those things heroes do...trying to hob with the goblin.

There will be a wish for it to just be over and maybe even the phrase "white trash" will pass through the goblinmind, and the hunched lump will lean forward smelling of garlic and mediocrity. He'll begin carefully inspecting the pustules he is there to drain, and then he'll look around to ensure he's alone.

Then he'll lift that scrub shirt to reveal what looks like a freckled poached pork loin, and there it will be. A tattoo. Of a tiger eye.

And a wink."