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re: Why didn't Jerry Stovall work out as LSU's coach?
Posted on 10/29/15 at 10:59 pm to CarrolltonTiger
Posted on 10/29/15 at 10:59 pm to CarrolltonTiger
Remember the sign: "Jerry's kids haven't won since Labor Day" 
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Posted on 10/29/15 at 11:02 pm to tarzana
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In 1982 were the Tigers wearing purples for the Miss. State and Tulane games? I can't figure out why they lost to those two lowly teams, when LSU had already beaten good teams like Alabama, Florida and Florida State.
At one point the NCAA made a rule that the home team had to wear dark jerseys, no exceptions, so LSU wore purple at all home games for a few years. Dinardo made a point of lobbying for the LSU white jersey exemption, which initally endeared him to the fans.
Posted on 10/29/15 at 11:52 pm to GA Tiger
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Disagree. He won the SEC and went to the Orange Bowl!
How many people in here would stand for a winless SEC campaign? Even Hallman managed an sec win when we went 2-9.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 12:38 am to GA Tiger
Brodhead was a great AD.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 12:59 am to prplhze2000
Stovall could Recruit with the best of them. When he left the Cupboard was running over. Arnsparger came in thinking he was going to have a Rebuilding Job but found out the team was loaded and all he had to do was coach.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 1:16 am to BayouBlogger
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Disagree. He won the SEC and went to the Orange Bowl!
I think Georgia and Hershel Walker may have something to say about that.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 2:01 am to TheBaker
Yeah, I think he meant in different years. Won the SEC one year because he played in the Sugar Bowl, and in a different year, played in the Orange Bowl.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 3:51 am to cypressbrake3
Tulane 48
LSU 7
LSU 7
Posted on 10/30/15 at 3:53 am to CarrolltonTiger
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it was tied up with the dismissal of Dietzel as AD and the hiring of Broadhead who wanted his own hire as I recall.
Wrong.
Brodhead would have been fine with Stovall as HC, had he been able to win consistently. BB said Stovall was a "promoter's dream."
BB was hired specifically to fire Stovall. The BOS and the good ole boys who ran LSU athletics at the time wanted an "outsider" to do the firing. The plan was, BB would then be jettisoned, but his good performance as AD prevented that.
Of course, eventually he was fired in favor of Joe Dean and thus was ushered in the darkest period in LSU athletics in modern history.
I admit I don't like this big impersonal "corporate" feel to LSU athletics these days, but it's much better than when it was run out of the back of Phil's Oyster Bar in New Orleans.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 4:02 am to timlan2057
quote:That would be Phil's Oyster Bar in Baton Rouge. Other than that, have an upvote.
I admit I don't like this big impersonal "corporate" feel to LSU athletics these days, but it's much better than when it was run out of the back of Phil's Oyster Bar in New Orleans.
Dalton Hillard's coming out game was not at Alabama that year, but at Florida. Remember, true freshmen didn't play nearly as much as they do now and when he tore the Gators a new one that year, it made national news.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 4:28 am to cypressbrake3
Lost to Tulane
Posted on 10/30/15 at 7:01 am to Draconian Sanctions
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Why didn't Jerry Stovall work out as LSU's coach? by Draconian Sanctionshe went to 2 major bowls actually
Negative, only bowl in four years he went to was the Orange after the 1982 season.
He wasn't ready to be head coach. Went from being a position coach to head coach.
I liked him because his passion for LSU was real not manufactured. And he was a good recruiter, Uncle Bill benefitted greatly from the talent Stovall left him.
But he just wasn't ready.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 7:34 am to TheBaker
1983 Orange Bowl LSU lost to Nebraska 21-20 I believe... Since it was played New Years Day, that was 1/1/83 and it was in the 1982 Football season.
I didn't have to look all this up, and maybe I have the score wrong, but I do remember us hurling oranges onto the field after beating Florida State.
(Sorry ... Didn't Google any of this, just memories. If I'm wrong, will apologize and edit. I'm getting old)
I didn't have to look all this up, and maybe I have the score wrong, but I do remember us hurling oranges onto the field after beating Florida State.
(Sorry ... Didn't Google any of this, just memories. If I'm wrong, will apologize and edit. I'm getting old)
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:01 am to cypressbrake3
I was at LSU during the Stovall years. Awesome years followed by bad years. It was inconsistency that did him in! The 82 season was unreal!!!
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:05 am to cypressbrake3
Losing to Tulane twice in a row didn't help his cause. 
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:06 am to Waterboy1972
I remember riding up Nicholson and people selling bags of oranges.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:16 am to fatboydave
What i don't understand is how one man can almost win a Heisman, and his offspring can't even catch a football much less look athletic.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 8:20 am to TeddyPadillac
Stovall wearing a purple jersey. You don't see many old pictures of the purple jerseys.
Posted on 10/30/15 at 9:38 am to TigerNlc
I went to a football camp back in his time. Very likable coach!!
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