Black Gallagher

I have a question: how do you BECOME a vampire. Is it being bit by a vampire? Most vamp movies I've seen have you becoming a vamp when bitten by a vamp. This show does not seem to follow that.

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yeah, you're right. harvin was terrible before this year.

what was i thinking?

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I never said he was terrible. I simply pointed out that he has never scored against LSU until covered by McCray or Beckwith. Your comment that he would rape whoever was covering him is refuted by the fact that LSU had never let Harvin score on them in his career until saturday.

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because he'd rape them too

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Really? like he did the past two seasons? Oh wait, Harvin has never scored a TD against LSU in his career until yesterday.

Every one knew going into this game that UF would try to get Harvin matched up against LSU's weakness: McCray or a linebacker. How in the world did the LSU coaching staff allow McCray and Beckwith to cover Harvin on their first 2 touchdown plays when EVERY LSU fan out there knew this was the one thing we could not do defensively?

Seriously. Every freaking LSU fan I know said before the game that we can't have McCray or a Linebacker covering Harvin and our genius coaching staff allowed just that. I have absolutely ZERO faith in the defensive coaching staff that they didn't foresee this or didn't scheme to make sure it would not happen. Its sickening.

I just got back as well. A few thoughts. First, the campus. Campus is very blah. Not very attractive. Lots of spanish moss everywhere was cool, but buildings don't stand out. Tailgating on campus was pretty pathetic as well. We walked around and saw empty parking lots and huge grass areas w/ only a few tailgaters. We only ran into a couple of obnoxious a-hole fans but not as many as I expected.

Now the swamp may look unimpressive from the outside, but inside is badass. Great looking stadium inside. The crowd was loud as hell. By far the loudest of the SEC stadiums (not counting LSU). They get loud on virtually every LSU offensive play. They stay loud the whole game. And heres a novel concept: the fans actually stay for the entire game, unlike many LSU fans.

Their pregame is quite lame. Band doesn't really get the crowd excited. Mr. two bits is just stupid. During the game, I might have heard the UF band play only a couple of times. Most of the time they pump in rock music during every play break. I felt like I was at an AC/DC concert.

I still think Tiger stadium is slightly louder, b/c although the swamp was consistently loud, it never rose to the "holy shite" level loud that I've heard at times in Tiger Stadium. Overall a fun trip. The LSU alumi association put on a ridiculously badass tailgate by the way.

Tillman's comment that "if Jarrett Lee can keep progressing, Les Miles will take one more step out of Saban's shadow b/c he'll be winning w/ his recruits instead of Saban's" is so freaking ridiculous. Seriously. 4 years later and people are still saying he CAN step out of the shadow IF a freshman QB progresses?

section 47 here. Row 70 something. I think it goes as high as row 90.

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One must ask, is it to our teams advantage to play on the road at 1130am or 8pm

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I think avoided the early start is important for LSU. Those early games are dangerous for favored teams. This game is already somewhat of a trap game and then you put LSU in that game sleepwalking and it could be a big problem.

ESPN is clearly waiting to see if Vandy and UGa both win. If both win this weekend, ESPN will definitely pick that game and LSU gets 11:30, whether we beat UF or not. Vandy and UGa will both be around top 10 and ESPN isn't passing that up.

Basically:
LSU loss to UF = 11:30 LSU/USC game
Vandy and UGA & LSU win= 11:30 LSU/USC game
Vandy or UGA loss & LSU win = likely ESPN game for LSU/USC
Vandy or UGa loss & USC loss = who knows

With Vandy and UGa both favored this week, its looking like a 11:30 game for LSU next week

Last time was 1990 regular season. Miami (89 champ) played Notre Dame (88 champ).

Edited to add: It also happened the year before when Miami (87 champ) played Notre Dame (88 champ).