Favorite team:LSU 
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Biography:Tiger fan for 55 years
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Registered on:8/31/2022
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re: December 5, 1970

Posted by bigjohnson on 8/12/26 at 5:54 am to
I was eleven . Didn’t they throw oranges and it got foggy in the second half?

re: Arkansas vs LSU

Posted by bigjohnson on 8/11/26 at 7:37 am to
You are spot on Catfish. LSU/Ole Miss the third week of the season is a sacrilege. Halloween weekend was set in stone for years. We used to play A&M early when Jackie Sherrill was the coach. Money has ruined the game. Those poor UCLA fans paid big bucks to go to a game in the, “vaunted” Tiger stadium in September. Kicked off at 11:00 a.m. it was in the mid nineties with extremely high humidity. The powers that be don’t think about the fans. LSU games used to start at 8:00 p.m. so that it would cool off. Media tries to create rivals. First it was Arkansas and then A&M. Noting against those schools, but LSU’s rival have always been Ole Miss Halloween weekend and the last game of the season was TULANE. People would throw green hot dogs on the field. It’s embarrassing but that’s what happened
The one that pops in my head is Cecil Collin’s. He made a big difference, but man did he not achieve his full potential especially in the pros.
That would be great. And hopefully just a different, positive vibe. I can’t wait for the new area.
It’s hard to decide what food to prepare for the game. Definitely something on the smoker, cause it’s too hot to heat up the house. About the game, I think (I hope) we see a team who’s coaching staff has actually prepared instead of mailing it in. I anticipate mistakes and some penalties because of first game jitters. But this year hopefully we see a fired up kids along with coaching that has prepared and has alternate plays and look to replace that which doesn’t work. I believe in my heart we finally have a staff that will do that. Go tigers
I’m just hoping to see a more complete performance for the entire show. Defense, offense, special teams. I don’t expect to set the world on fire. It would be nice to see that everybody is paying attention, that they’re invested, that the coaches have coach and all of the players appear to have absorbed some of that coaching. No more time mismanagement. No more watching the defense looking at their side lines as the opponent snaps the ball. More aptitude, less ineptitude.

re: An Informal Poll

Posted by bigjohnson on 8/8/26 at 8:15 am to
We’ll never see that again. To many believe that it’s cruel and that LSU shouldn’t have a Tiger at all. It is great to watch the old interviews where NFL players say LSU was the hardest venue to play in because of the Tiger and the noise.

re: LSU should win the NC in '26

Posted by bigjohnson on 8/8/26 at 8:10 am to
I didn’t say that. Anything is possible. LSU could win the championship, but there are other teams that have even more talent. So it’s still a team sport, if Kiffin can get his guys to gel they could far, or they could do like Jimbo and not play up to their potential.Having said that, it’s time to play ball, all this speculation leads to nowhere. Geaux tigers

re: The SEC is safe

Posted by bigjohnson on 8/8/26 at 8:03 am to
You’re a gator fan, don’t you want to beat Georgia? You hope they keep that predictable boring coach!
Because Les Miles for whatever reason wouldn’t play Jared Lee. He was scared of Lee throwing interceptions. During that season; when Jefferson was hurt Lee led the conference in some of the quarterback functions, but as soon as Jefferson came back, Miles waited and the interception he yanked Lee who never played another meaningful down until the very end of that game. Not saying it would have changed the outcome, but Lee had more than earned the right to play in that game. Because of this and other rumors surrounding that game the team quit on him

re: LSU should win the NC in '26

Posted by bigjohnson on 8/7/26 at 5:01 pm to
Don’t forget all the whiny after Jimbo face planted with the number one recruited class in the country. And you all try to drive other fans anyway
Thanks getting senile in my old age! He really set the world on fire didn’t he? Did he get the kid from New Orleans (Beinamy). Have no idea how to spell it and Dinardo was a coach there at the same time? Anyway, thanks Geaux tigers!
I think you’re right. Clemson is probably better than most suspect, and it’s the first game.

re: The SEC is safe

Posted by bigjohnson on 8/7/26 at 7:51 am to
Seems like that recipe works when they have good players to make it work. They overpower their opponents. As long as they continue to recruit well, why would they fix it when it’s not broken? Many of us got to watch predictable that didn’t work and was boring.
They struggled with injuries that season. They all got healthy for the A&M game and playoffs. They played pretty good then
The final seventeen points in that game were given up by Pete Goldings defense, right? Just sayin … Also, Kiffen was still on the sidelines right? So that means Pete Golding’s sole purpose was to coach the defense, right? Champions can hang seventeen on an opponent in the fourth quarter. Champions can prevent seventeen in the fourth quarter. Just sayin…
For the first time since Nick Saban (with exception of 2019), LSU has coaches that can identify match up problems and match up advantages in real time and adjust accordingly in real time. Les Miles, Brian Kelly had the fresh fricked look of a totally clueless person. Hopefully we have a real coaching staff that can adjust on the fly. When the Tigers went up against Alabama. Everybody on the planet knew Les Miles was going to run off left tackle. So tigers loose with a third down conversion percentage under twenty percent. Hopefully, we won’t have to ensue that with Kiffen. Even if we loose, at least make in interesting. Call a play that has a chance of working
Wasn’t he the coach at Colorado once upon a time. Or an I thinking of someone else?