LSUFreek

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I thought college was for education?

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I hear you, but what is getting an education for? For employment, right? Or is it just too sound intelligent/well-informed at social events?

This is no different than a vocation school (that nobody has a problem with if they wanna be a nurse, chef, IT guy, mechanic, actor, musician, etc). A college athlete can get on-the-field training/education for a professional sport & get paid (handsomely) like an intern.

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Saints Wire: Predicts 6-11

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Looks like Saints Wire is the closest so far. I hope they are proven wrong next week.

Every cruise I've ever been on seats you for dinner at a table of strangers that you somewhat get to know over the course of 5-to-7 days.

Chef Paul Prudhomme's restaurant (K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen) also used to have communal seating in the 80s & 90s. I don't know about the aughts.

I'm not a big fan of communal seating, but on occasion, it can be interesting/engaging.

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Did she get fat at some point?

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Ozempic.

I learned the folly of compassion pretty quick.

As a young bellman in the French Quarter, a desperate looking guy came up looking for bus fare to Baton Rouge. Feeling sorry, I gave him $5. He immediately walked to the next corner to the grocery store at Bourbon & Conti, and came out drinking a pint of alcohol. I felt like a fool.

The very next day, a priest came up to my belldesk, and was profusely apologetic stating he hated to ask, but he ran out of gas two blocks away on Dauphine St. He asked for $20 and promised he would return asap to pay it back. I gave him $20 and never saw him again. Lesson learned.

Now, I only help out people when I initiate contact & am in the giving-spirit, never when someone begs or tries to guilt me into charity with their hard luck story.

I only saw two games of Miami this year: Notre Dame in the opener & the Aggies today. Both games, Bains shined.

Mock drafts have been dropping him, so I got a feeling he'll fall more after the combine, but so did 5'-11" Elvis Dumervil (to the 4th round). In the two games I watched, the dude is a play-maker. That INT vs Notre Dame was athletic AF, so I don't care what his measurables project for the next level. I didn't see his other games, so maybe his flaws were obvious, but athleticism is not one of them.

Stewart is 6-5, 250, with 4.6 speed.

Against LSU this year, he sacked & pressured/hurried Nuss, made backfield TFLs, blew up short-yardage blocking schemes & even covered receivers. He's a beast. Pay him.


Edit: Here’s a refresher for those who don’t remember (wears #6) :

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Whatever LSU coach that shows up to NOLA with millions of dollars of NIL money to pass out will be the new "Frank Wilson". Relax. It's the NIL era. Money talks, BS walks.

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You do realize Frank was the primary recruiter for Brown, Anderson and Geralds, the diamonds of this current LSU class (in the NIL era, btw) and postponed their signings as a show of his value to a coaching staff, right? It could have easily sabotaged Kiffin's very first signing day at LSU and taken the shine off the seriously good vibes we have now after they did sign. Frank has a mysterious grip on certain recruits in the NIL era (that he won't even coach), that's more than money.

Wilson once had Jarvis Landry, La'el Collins & Freak Johnson, all committed to TN, then when he suddenly got the job here, they all followed him like the pied piper to LSU. If NIL is close to equal, relationships still matter & can be the tie-breaker. I'm not freaking out, but I'm also not casually dismissing Wilson's potential to steal multiple La. bluechips from a future class, to a border state rival (I'm just glad he's not atTexas).

As a NOLA bellman in the 90s, I brought peak-era super-models Christy Turlington & Naomi Campbell up to their room, who were in town for a Vogue shoot. When they came down, all dolled up, for a cab to go to the photo-shoot, they were simply breath-taking.

Even though they were of different races, they looked liked sisters as they were so uncommon to "regular" beauties who I used to think were stunning. Christy & Naomi were both 5-10 (with heels, 6-2), perfectly symmetrical faces, long necks, hourglass figures, long arms & long legs. Just unforgettable gorgeous other-worldly creatures.

Hailey Van Lith went thru a period of overusing “like” prior to her one season at LSU.

It was, like, almost unbearable to listen to. Like, she said it, like, a thousand times in a 10 minute interview (starting, like, around the 11 min mark). I was, like, when did she start doing this? She didn’t, like, do that in older HS interviews (shown, like, in the first 5 mins of the video) before attending Louisville: