re: Former LSU and S Carolina Coach Paul Dietzel has passed

Every time you hear Chinese bandits after a 3rd down defensive stop, it is a homage to coach Dietzel

RIP

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SpringBokCock
Former LSU and S Carolina Coach Paul Dietzel has passed


Meant a lot to USC also. Got us our one ACC conference championship in 1969. And he wrote the words to our current fight song -- similar to what he did at LSU.

RIP Coach.

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His late 50s teams defenses may have been the inspiration for the "Chinese Bandits" songs and cheers, but the official LSU fight song: "Fight for LSU" was actually written in the 1930's by either Lloyd Funchess, Castro Carazo, or none other than Governor Huey Long (still played to this day by the way in the LSU Pregame show.)

Now, the new "fight song" that was chosen by the LSU Administration and possibly Dietzel himself in 1958 was "Hey Fighting Tigers" (still played to this day) that was actually adapted from a Broadway show at the time starring Lucille Ball called "Hey Look Me Over".
Now whether Dietzel assisted in writing the words for the new "Hey Fighting Tigers" fight song that year, I don't know - he may have!

We will miss you Coach D !