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I remember years ago during signing day for football, the first player to fax in his papers was a tight end named Zach pendarvis.

One poster was quite excited about this and, perhaps dizzy from the rumors, the signing sagas, and all the random decommitments occurring nationally, he said he wanted to have a roster of Zach pendarvis’ who were excited to be tigers and really wanted to be a tiger.

Fair enough, I suppose, but the funny thing was for some reason—probably because he was overshadowed by other talent on the roster—pendarvis never played a single down for LSU.

There are probably lots of people who would die to play for lsu—that doesn’t mean we would be happy to watch them.

In terms of our recent basketball strategy, I believe wade is trying to put the best team in the court; we want to be competitive, right? If this beats the instate talent, then I’m for it if it means we can win.

I also believe wade has mentioned that we won’t be using this heavy international approach for long, but if applied correctly, it can certainly be successful. Look at Illinois—they’ve been nicknamed the ‘Balkan bloc’ for targeting Europe and the balkans.

I think fans just want to see a winning product, and everyone agrees that wade can (and already has) been good at this. We’ll see how things go, but I think we agree this will beat what we’ve seen over the past four years

Isn’t Kevin Thomas still on the team? Nobody is really talking about him, but I suspect he’d be a depth guy at this point who can take a little time to develop in the system.

Wilkinson has shown he can put it into the bucket, but the question is can he keep the opposing team from doing it?

It’s still better than just about anyone we’ve had over the past few years, but we need defensive stoppers as much as we need scorers

He had a great game dishing it tonight. It’s great to see a true freshman develop in the absence of Thomas.
Is it me or do McMahon’s teams seem to play a little better when they have fewer players?

Why not tag close to the bag? You know that’s where the runner will end up. The throw had him

Too soon to say that he doesn’t pitch like Aase?

I think it’s clear that we hired a nice, calm, ‘clean’ personality to try and self-impose restrictions on ourselves before any worse could be done—at least that’s what it looks like looking back.

The joke is on us. We really went out of our way to screw ourselves regardless of if that was our intention. I think initially at least we thought we might be getting a good coach but morant, like Favre in football as previously mentioned, had much to do with any success.

Now I hope we get serious, get ambitious about basketball, and pull off a great hire. We are one good hire (and a major commitment to nil) away from possibly dominating the sec in all major sports, including women’s basketball, which is a subjective call if you want to put it among the likes of men’s basketball, football and baseball.

What is clear is that we shouldn’t screw around any more, nor should we doubt that lsu can be at the top of all major sports.

Is it ok that I’m thinking about football while watching the basketball box score (not even the game)?

If we start to care about hoops, we could be great, much like women’s basketball, football and baseball

There’s no reason we can’t spend some money to get a coach that can motivate, evaluate, maximize talent and develop a roster. It just takes a little money, and it doesn’t seem to be in short supply.

If they don’t do it, it’s not because they can’t; it simply because they don’t care enough. And sadly that might be where we find ourselves

We’re seeing the difference between an effective coach (vandy’s) and one that, well, hasn’t been so effective.

The difference is clear and could be changed easily. And that change could have a quick and dramatic effect on the product on the floor. I hope lsu brass is learning… I don’t know what’s hindering them

Did gulkner visit? I believe he was scheduled to come in but instead committed to msu.

What sense does it make to commit without testing all the waters? Unless we rescinded the offer, which I doubt based on his tape… I was excited about this kid actually. Kinda sucks but I suppose we must move on