tFearIsReal

Ok. I put my foot in my mouth with Delpit and Stingley about their pro careers, but the real point is it’s been a bad tradition for almost a decade and as a fan it’s hard to watch. It started off so promising with three legendary players, only to see it be an almost certain mark of disappointment. Sure, I guess it’s a player thing but it doesn’t seem like it’s doing them any favors. Sometimes, a coach should step in and say this isn’t serving LSU Football (which is a brand that is inextricable from the fans that watch it) and we should just nix it for now. As a player, I’d feel like shite if the purported best player on the team was constantly hurt or underperforming. Would seem to be harmful to morale.

Also, whoever said Will Campbell was an All-American last year is wrong about that.

And should be eliminated. Ever since Fournette got hurt his Junior year, it’s been a curse. Let’s look at the legacy:

2017:
DJ Chark - decent year, nothing special

2018:
Jonathan Giles - absolutely awful, should have killed the tradition right there

2019:
Grant Delpit - lingering injury all year - never returned to dominance even in the league - we haven’t had a dominant safety since

2020:
Ja’marr Chase - opted out that year - seemingly dodged a bullet - number 7 could have left a mark on his soul but he’s been dominant in the league

2021:
Derek Stingley - played in 6 games - was hurt most of year - still hasn’t returned to dominance in the league

2022:
Kayshon Boutte - I had to look up his name he was such a non factor his final two years here - starting to see a major trend with guys with dominant freshman seasons then fading into irrelevance - played the whole season after a gnarly injury the previous year - remains a shell of his former self

2023:
Will Campbell - couldn’t physically wear number 7 - turned out good for him

2024:
Harold Perkins - we all know this story - can be lumped in with Stingley and Boutte - out for year - will get drafted - will probably never return to dominance


This is all highly superstitious stuff. I don’t know how it all works, but I wouldn’t touch number 7 with a ten foot poll if I were a player, just like I probably wouldn’t take the cover of Madden. If you count Fournette in 2016, that’s nine years of floppage for number seven. I think BK should let this one die and I think there’s empirical evidence not to be ignored, even though the forces at work here are mysterious. What say ye, fair minions of the rant. .

Ole Binks the minx, eh?

Rashard Lawrence. Jacquellin Roy. Smith. None of those guys lived up to the hype. Sucks.

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You probably just heard some other dumbass say that and repeated it

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Am I supposed to write an essay about why my opinion matters? I remember him coming in second a lot for big-time recruits his final years (Surtain being one) and our DB play not being great around that time. Aranda pushing for Bush to be hired wasn’t a great look. And the absolute garbage that was the last two years. I mean, if you blame Steeples partially for the mess we’ve had, why wouldn’t Raymond get some credit for 2020 and 2021.

Man. Our fans are absolutely retarded, aren’t they. At least Ryan Nielsen is a recent name from the Saints. Would be a wtf hire in its own right. Gregg Williams, though?

Will he be perpetually hurt…bring him in.

He did a lot of that, too.

I played right next to him for two years at EA. Got the pleasure of working individual drills with him. It was like wrestling a grizzly bear.

But to back our punter up so he could punt it 32 yards. Did he think our shite punter was in danger of putting it out the back of the end zone? Bramblett sucks.