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re: I Miss NLU
Posted on 10/11/19 at 3:44 am to LuckyTiger
Posted on 10/11/19 at 3:44 am to LuckyTiger
quote:
When the name changes occurred they killed part of the soul of that place along with the pride, history, and enthusiasm.
ULM is just dumb.
I agree, i wish native americans were cool with the logo. It's easier to forget they existed when things like this end. The chant was awesome, but i can see how it was offensive.
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Posted on 10/11/19 at 3:50 am to mailman
MTV on the big red/yellow/blue projection tv in the student Union.
Hardee's.
Dr Paul Ohme.
Campus Rec.
Peeing off the top floor of Olin Hall and jamming the elevators so the Domino's Pizza guy couldn't get the pizza to you in 30 minutes.
Hardee's.
Dr Paul Ohme.
Campus Rec.
Peeing off the top floor of Olin Hall and jamming the elevators so the Domino's Pizza guy couldn't get the pizza to you in 30 minutes.
Posted on 10/11/19 at 5:27 am to LuckyTiger
Those football games were the reason that drinking was invented. 
Posted on 10/11/19 at 6:06 am to LuckyTiger
I remember as a kid watching LSU play them in tiger stadium
Posted on 10/11/19 at 6:20 am to CAD703X
Oozeball.
I also had an LSU great, Ebert VanBuren, as an instructor when I went to school there.
I also had an LSU great, Ebert VanBuren, as an instructor when I went to school there.
Posted on 10/11/19 at 7:02 am to northLAgoomba
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The Wigwam
Jackie Harris
Greyhound Jones
Carlos Funchess
China Stuart
Howard Nathan (RIP)
Gene Ponti ("Folks, let me tell ya")
Dr. H.P. Jones' History class
Damn good times. I miss it, too.
Didn’t remember that Howard Nathan passed away. Damn. He had crazy ball handling skills.
I remember playing pick up ball with some of those dudes at the intramural center. The panthers d lineman Shawn King dunked on me pretty good one day
The football players who got kicked off the team lived on the bayou side of sherrouse. Crazy good times in the early 90s there. “Welcome to the big time, NLU” commercials when they went division 1.
This post was edited on 10/11/19 at 7:06 am
Posted on 10/11/19 at 7:06 am to LuckyTiger
Touchdown Northeeeeeeeast!!
Posted on 10/11/19 at 8:16 am to LuckyTiger
Truth be told, things started going to hell when Lawson Swearingen became university president. He was totally out of his element. Faculty objected because he did not have a terminal degree. He had a law degree, but no Ph.D. which takes considerably more effort. There were a few alumni and boosters who knew how to yank his chain. ...and did.
Posted on 10/11/19 at 8:26 am to damnedoldtigah
quote:AKA "Lerch".
Lawson Swearingen
Posted on 10/11/19 at 8:31 am to LuckyTiger
Anyone remember when Heisman Trophy winner John David Crow was NLU's head coach?
<---- Former Olin 312, 534 resident. Such a dump.
<---- Former Olin 312, 534 resident. Such a dump.
Posted on 10/11/19 at 8:41 am to LuckyTiger
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we would go suck on the side of a big pvc pipe that had a bunch of holes punched in it.
We had one of those, too. I hated getting my feet wet from that thing.
Posted on 10/11/19 at 8:46 am to Telecaster
Was John David Crow a coach or the AD?
Posted on 10/11/19 at 9:50 am to Jim Rockford
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Pat Collins was a POS.
All coaches are pieces of shite when they’re coaching. Both Pat and his son Mike are really nice people. Mike may have been different years ago but he’s one of the nicest people you’ll meet. Pat is always at practices and games and is really nice too. Neither of the are POS in my opinion
Posted on 10/11/19 at 10:05 am to sta4ever
Touchdown Northeaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssstttttttttt!
Posted on 10/11/19 at 10:22 am to northLAgoomba
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Dr. H.P. Jones' History class
That guy was amazing. His one-man show of a lecture on the last day of class... damn I wish someone could have recorded that.
His lectures were like listening to an old-time, hellfire-and-damnation Pentecostal or Southern Baptist travelling tent preacher on a hot summer night. He was like a force of nature.
--One story I heard was how he got someone operating a cherry-picker to hoist him up to his class window on the 3rd floor of the Nursing building. He knocked on the window, a student opened it and he just came in like it was an everyday thing and started lecturing.
--Another story was that he couldn't get into an NLU baseball game because the line was too long so he went around to the outfield and climbed the fence, tearing his pants along the way. Didn't care.
--On the first day of my Western Civ class an assistant came in, set a boom box down on the desk, hit Play then walked out. The Rocky theme started and Dr. Jones comes out of an adjoining room dancing to it while wearing his graduation cap/gown and a big smiley-face pin pinned on the gown.
--On the day of our final in Western Civ some assistants wheeled an old pine-box coffin into the room and announced that Dr. Jones had passed away but his dying wish was that his students were lined up to pass by the coffin and pay their final respects. He was in the coffin and handed you your final as you passed by.
RIP, Dr. H. Perry Jones.
Posted on 10/11/19 at 10:39 am to gumbo1964
quote:
Which Podunk? I went to basketball camps there and at LaTech.
Mer Rouge. And you?
Posted on 10/11/19 at 10:40 am to bulldog95
quote:
Really me to. Which town ?
Mer Rouge. You?
Posted on 10/11/19 at 10:44 am to Bard
quote:
I started NLU in the Fall of 1987. Attendance was up, the school was financially in the black, men's and women's were strong (men's would eventually make it to multiple first-rounds in the NCAA tourny, women's team was at the end of its tourny runs but still strong), baseball was hit-n-miss and the football team would win the 1-AA Division Championship. I lived in Olin Hall and called Johnny's Pizza so often they knew me by my order. My best friend lived on the back side of Olin, we would watch the ski team practice on their ramp. Flash-forward to the coming of Lawson Swearingen in 1991. By the time he left in 2001 the school was financially in the red, attendance was dropping, the sports teams were generally impaired (some more than others) by his ridiculous push to Division 1-A, morale was down among the employees due to his divide-and-conquer method of management (along with the financial woes) and it was down among the student body due to the recent name change as well as the constant stream of negative news coming out about the university (due to Swearingen's crappy job). James Cofer had more than enough to deal with then he took over. He did a remarkable job in reversing as much of the utter shitstorm Lawson created.
Lawson's desire to carry water for USL on the naming issue (USL wanted the University of Louisiana name but the Board of Regents wanted to duplicate the LSU system with a UL one so they mandated that another university had to go in with USL on the deal) was due to his delusions of grandeur in wanting to be President of a more prestigious sounding "state" university rather than just some podunk regionally named one. This also drove him in the disastrous move of taking the college from 1-AA to 1-A.
It didn't lead him to raiding various funds to use as his slush funds though, he did that all on his own.
All true. He nearly destroyed the university. They have been digging themselves out of a black hole ever since his tenure and the damage, although stabilized, is still being felt today.
Posted on 10/11/19 at 10:52 am to LuckyTiger
Ray's PG.
Electric Circus, Dynasty, Red Dog Ballroom.
Gus' Coney Island and the Boarding House ($2 - all you could eat) in W. Monroe.
Clyde's Seafood ($2 all you could eat).
One old instructor, Dr. Ferguson (history) walked like he had a board up his arse, all stiff. Fingernails looked like they were a fungus experiment. Everyone made fun of him until we learned from another instructor that he was captured and tortured by the Japs in WWII. They broke his back and drove bamboo under his fingernails and lit it. From then on we almost bowed down when he'd walk by.
Bob Groseclose. Lenny Fant.
And I can't remember exactly the year, maybe '68 or '69 Northeast lost in the finals of maybe the NAIA baseball world series 1-0 when Tom Brown went the distance. Almost had a national championship.
Pit Grill across from campus, formerly owned by Ray of Ray's PG. Burger, fries, salad, and drink: 99 cents.
Electric Circus, Dynasty, Red Dog Ballroom.
Gus' Coney Island and the Boarding House ($2 - all you could eat) in W. Monroe.
Clyde's Seafood ($2 all you could eat).
One old instructor, Dr. Ferguson (history) walked like he had a board up his arse, all stiff. Fingernails looked like they were a fungus experiment. Everyone made fun of him until we learned from another instructor that he was captured and tortured by the Japs in WWII. They broke his back and drove bamboo under his fingernails and lit it. From then on we almost bowed down when he'd walk by.
Bob Groseclose. Lenny Fant.
And I can't remember exactly the year, maybe '68 or '69 Northeast lost in the finals of maybe the NAIA baseball world series 1-0 when Tom Brown went the distance. Almost had a national championship.
Pit Grill across from campus, formerly owned by Ray of Ray's PG. Burger, fries, salad, and drink: 99 cents.
Posted on 10/11/19 at 10:44 pm to CAD703X
The best part of the top floor of Olin was the night crew with decent quality field glasses or telescopes. A number of girls in a couple of the old dorms on the other side of the Bayou were not bashful to pulling drapes or blinds and putting on a decent skin show.
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