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re: What are your ties to LSU? Any legacy stories?

Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:36 am to
Posted by Koolazzkat
Behind the Tupelo gum tree
Member since May 2021
3644 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:36 am to
SLU dropout here, but both of my wife’s kids graduated from LSU.

Posted by geauxpurple
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2014
17368 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:46 am to
Okay, this is our trivia question for the day.

Played ball in mid 80 s and his dad was the captain of the 58 national champions.

Who is this?
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
26721 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 12:00 pm to
My dad went to LSU. As did my sister.

I applied to multiple universities, but I knew I was only going to LSU.

I spent a summer in Hawaii with my sister after my freshman year - her husband was in the Navy - and she tried to talk me into transferring to the University of Hawaii for a few semesters and I could live with them.

I probably should have done that, looking back.
Posted by GMoney91
Pineville
Member since Nov 2010
443 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 12:21 pm to
Went to undergrad at NSU but got my Masters from LSU in '17
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
92264 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 12:23 pm to
Kinchen ?
This post was edited on 4/7/26 at 12:24 pm
Posted by NorthEndZone
Member since Dec 2008
14298 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 12:33 pm to
quote:

quote:
Submarine watching at the lakes,


Loved to get my young friends looking for those submarines when I was a kid.
Certainly those cars were parked there for some good reason.


Posted by Jaydeaux
Covington
Member since May 2005
19643 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 12:34 pm to
Class of 94 sociology criminology a dead outlaw called that played football there prior to me going
Posted by shifty94
San Antonio, TX
Member since Oct 2010
2891 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 3:01 pm to
Parents are from Missouri and moved to New Orleans to take a job with Shell. Born in New Orleans, moved to Houston and could watch LSU games there. Just grew up a tiger's fan. Moved back to Louisiana to finish up high school and then on to LSU. Didn't apply anywhere else at the time and would only apply if I didn't get accepted.
Posted by JodyPlauche
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2009
9919 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 3:25 pm to
My Uncle was a cheerleader in 1958 and my Grandfather came up with the "Hot Boudin" Cheer.

I sold programs at the football games in High school and graduated in 1997.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
60633 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 3:36 pm to
My mom went to LSU for 6 days and hated it, moved back home, and got her degree from the original LSU-NO.

My dad’s second choice was LSU but he was from a large family and his dad had already passed away, so he went to Texas A&M to stay close to home.

My masters degree is from LSU, my bachelors from UNO (when it was previously under the LSU system)

My brother and my oldest child graduated from LSU. I have two children at LSU right now.

My younger three children may attend LSU, not sure.
Posted by geauxpurple
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2014
17368 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 3:39 pm to
Yes.
That is it.
I remember the Kinchens from the 1980s and their father was a Chinese Bandit.

The thing that stands out in my mind after all these years is Todd’s punt return against Texas A&M.

ETA
Based upon a post below we have it narrowed down to a Kinchen or a Hendrix. So as not to dox anyone ( although this is a friendly crowd) we can leave it at that.
This post was edited on 4/7/26 at 7:00 pm
Posted by GentleJackJones
Member since Mar 2019
5147 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 3:46 pm to
Grandma graduated from LSU

Grandpa graduated from Loyola

Parents went to USL.

I graduated from LSU - class of '04.

Older sister (no pics) graduated from LSU in '01.

The younger brother graduated from LSU in '09 (via BRCC - always like to make that jab).
This post was edited on 4/7/26 at 3:47 pm
Posted by Tiger Ugly
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
18716 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 3:55 pm to
I was born 40 minutes from LSU, my Mom and Dad both graduated from LSU, I graduated from LSU in 1989, and I had a sister and a brother that graduated from LSU.

It's the only school I ever wanted to go to from the time my Dad first sat me on his lap to watch an LSU football game in my earliest memories at about 5. No regrets, I loved every minute of every day I went to school there and I still love it now like I did that day sitting on Dad's lap.
Posted by supatigah
CEO of the Keith Hernandez Fan Club
Member since Mar 2004
90063 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 4:07 pm to
Billy Hendrix was the Team Captain in 1958

Billy Hendrix Jr was a member of the LSU program from 80-84
This post was edited on 4/7/26 at 4:13 pm
Posted by LSUfanatic
25 miles from Death Valley
Member since Nov 2003
9691 posts
Posted on 4/7/26 at 4:30 pm to
My uncle graduated in 1932. Lived in the original barracks next to the capitol.

My father in law sold LSU the lights in Tiger Stadium. He had football tickets from the 50's to 2000.

I have the original 1950 game program featuring Paul Dietzel on the cover. I had it signed by Coach Dietzel about 20 years ago.
Posted by FournetteForEver7
Member since Nov 2015
2531 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:15 am to
My great uncle brought in Mike the III
Posted by Warfox
B.R. Native (now in MA)
Member since Apr 2017
3833 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:50 am to
Father in undergrad then graduate in 1980’s - 1990’ and brought us everywhere on campus as kids back when everyone rode bikes/ walked. My siblings and I attended early 2000’s.

LSU USED to have an “IT” factor, a type of organic “magic of the heart” that has since been replaced over the years by cheap plastic corporate bullsh*t, a crisis of culture, and a price tag that is not sustainable.

As another poster put it: LSU better get their sh*t together if they want my children to even think of attending.

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My father in law sold LSU the lights in Tiger Stadium. He had football tickets from the 50's to 2000.



Seeing those lights lit up in the evening is one of my great childhood flashbulb memories!
This post was edited on 4/8/26 at 12:54 am
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
47504 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:08 pm to
I am not a graduate, but my Freshman year was at LSU in 1980. I am a procrastinator by nature, and so I ended up on the 5th floor of the West Stadium dorms. I ended up getting married and transferring to USL because I had a house in Lafayette, but LSU was always my first love, and one night in the student section in Tiger Stadium ruined Cajuns football for me.

I was an engineering student back when engineering was in CEBA. The old joke was that engineering and business administration were in the same building because that's where all the students who couldn't make it in engineering switched to.

Two of my kids graduated from LSU and were both students there in 2019 for the greatest football team of all time.
Posted by turnpiketiger
Member since May 2020
12264 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:11 pm to
quote:

one night in the student section in Tiger Stadium ruined Cajuns football for me.


It will ruin just about any CFB football for anyone. It’s in a league of its own with a few comrades on that mountain.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
47504 posts
Posted on 4/8/26 at 12:13 pm to
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I have the original 1950 game program featuring Paul Dietzel on the cover.


Did you mistype and mean 1959 (maybe hit the 0 instead of the 9)? Dietzel was coaching the line at Army in 1950, and didn't start coaching LSU until 55.
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