SouthernRabbit

TigerB8, your post may be the best post I've ever seen on Tiger Rant. As a fan base, much of the time you are in sort of the same kind of Catch 22 situation that a coaching staff finds itself in all the time. They look at a "'tweener" ballplayer who has ability but lacks maturity in one way or a...

The cupboard's never been bare in Louisiana. Per capita, it's got more football players than any other state in the union. When LSU won the 1958 national championship -- and I've heard Billy Cannon say something like this on television -- it was a time when LSU had just about every ballplayer of...

Quote: "I wouldn't be investing a lot of money in college football right now." I would be much more passionate about the question of investing money in the Sports Media right now. In my opinion, today's Sports Media is highly politicized, just as the "regular" Media is highly politicized. If...

Several years ago Dave Dixon, who first envisioned building the Superdome, faced the question as to whether Louisiana ought to elect as governor a certain politician from New Orleans. That was about as loaded a question as this one is. I'll step out on the limb and say it (again): The problems a...

If you want to see a special case of this kind of thing, just stay over here in Alabama for about six months. I know that's a daunting thought, but the following will give you an example. When Auburn won the national championship in 2010 with Cam Newton, this family business that I patronize s...

"Full" Disclosure -- I'm just another guy with an opinion, with all the human faults, who "feels" the "elephant" from my particular perspective. (The person who grabs the elephant's tail in the dark "sees" him differently than does the guy who grabs him by the trunk.) UDTiger, I don't know who ...

I have just read this link, and in all honesty I cannot disagree with it "point blank." The writer wants to say that 15% of the Alabama fan base is considered "elitist" by the other 85%. I can't say that I agree that those figures are correct, for the simple reason that I don't see how any such a...

I think I may have looked into the history of the national championships in college football probably more than 95% of the college football fan base has. There are quite a few problems in trying to sort this thing out, and probably the biggest problem is that no professional historian to my knowl...

I say this as an Alabama fan who spent 28 years of my life in Louisiana. I have personally met Billy Cannon. I have a great respect for the LSU tradition. I consider this thread to be the one, out of a great many I have read since 1/9, that gets at the heart of the matter better than any other I h...