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Hi Bandit 58. Member that '58 season? One of our victories was Hardin-Simmons! Finished the season at the old Tulane stadium against Clemson. What a year to start school - 10 and 0! Amazing I graduated, got a job, stayed gainfully employed, stayed out of jail and eventually owned my own business. I owe a lot of that to Jesuit High in New Orleans. That background kept my grade point average in the Bs until I was a Senior and "saw the light." I began to study and realized what it was to be in college besides partying. Great years punctuated with great football memories and great friends I met there during my six years on campus. Loved every minute of my time at LSU.
Grew up near Broadway and Claiborne; my Dad owned a drugstore on that corner. I could here the lions roaring from Audubon Park when the wind was coming off the river. I'm going back to the late 40s, early 50s when my neighbor gang of buddies was playing football, baseball on the neutral grounds, dodging streetcars. This was before "helicopter moms". Ride our bikes to Mr. Williams Snow Ball stand on Plum before going to the movies at the Popular Theater on Willow. Good Times.
In the stands from '58 to '65 (stayed for my Master's degree). Watched football evolve from "3 yards and a cloud of dust" back then and, unfortunately, during the Miles years. Today we see an inspired Louisiana Larose Coonass install a progressive offense topped off by a Ohio Bayou Transition named Burreaux and what a sight it is to behold. I'll be 80 in April and my sweet wife tells me "LSU football is gonna kill you!!" (My blood pressure goes off the scale during games like last night and last week). "What a way to geaux!!", I tell her. Geaux Tigers!!
Joe Dean hired Curley. Brodhead said, "Hire a cheap coach, get a cheap coach." Those four years were Dean's fault and why I enjoyed Skip and his baseball program so much. Football became an afterthought. Don't blame Curley; he just came in way over his head. Had that one Southern Miss win against FSU. Hence the hire.
Not me. His analysis is right on. I hear no bias in his call and praise for the LSU players and Tiger's game plan. When replays of controversial plays are shown with multiple camera views, I find his interpretations right on. Where is all this hate coming from?

re: Who was your “first” LSU QB?

Posted by mjfog on 2/8/19 at 5:44 pm to
Warren Rabb. I started school at LSU 1958.

re: Thoughts on Alleva now?

Posted by mjfog on 1/28/19 at 5:34 pm to
Worst AD was the sneaker guy we had who hired Curley. Cheap salary and a cheap performance. Tigers did beat Bama during his tenure back in '93 but lost that same season to Tulane! Go figure. Seems like that was back in the "good old boys days" when we had an excellent chance at Spurrier but blew it because of their influence and in-fighting.
Any body know the dollar amount LSU athletics is out for a "full ride" for football? I don't know and I would like to incorporate this number into my response to the "sitting out" situation. See where Will Grier is letting West Virginia down.
Their roads are built over a substantial substrate; our roads are built over a delta soup. But I love those roads because they take me from Florida to raw oysters, properly seasoned boiled crabs and yummy po-boys at Parasol's on Third off Magazine.
My 20 pounds was due to the main courses (liquid) served at Tony Drago's Tiger Lounge and those from the Cotton Club, both were on Highland Road. Also tipped a few Jax beers at the Pastime out Nicholson. Late 50s early 60s. Those were the days. Still left LSU with two degrees and lots of memories. Geaux Burreaux and Brennan and Tigers.
Yes. I think Coach O should hire him as Offensive Coordinator. Wade could brush up on football and do that gig on his off season. Wade has the juice.
Got to do with keeping Louisiana's best players in their home state. We always lose a few, but let's keep the crème.
Get there early! I drove over from South Florida for the "Lightening" game and asked locals about where to be stationed so as best to experience the DA-DA-DA-DA opening of the Tiger Rag. They said I was already too late! Check the Saturday schedule on Dandy Don and be early.
Let's hope the "big improvement" from the first to second game pays off in the reduced number of penalties. Not for those last Saturday, I doubt our defense would have been gassed in the 4th quarter.
Penalties. Could have been up 35-14 instead of 21-6. Still would have had to suffer the talents of Dak; truly a great quarterback. State had no running game.