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Dr Andrew's grew up in Homer LA. His mother was choir director of the Methodist church. He played on high school football team, many of whom would go to play for LSU.

He served as team doctor for Auburn. Also gave much time to Eddie Robinson and Gambling football team. That is a great story someone needs to write. Many will want to claim Jimmy but he will always be a LA Tiger.

Both players and fans perform better in positive climates. Mistakes corrected, new challenges embraced, acknowledgement and repetition of the good performances (there have been many) all happen better in a positive environment. Positivity allows for the most constructive criticism and fastest learning. Our very young and talented players will rise to the challenges before them. They will do so faster and more completely in a positive, even hope-filled environment as opposed to one full of fear of making mistakes and being publicly humiliated.

There is no place quite like Tiger Stadium. It's the fans, however, that make it so great.

I like that we have high expectations and find such a loss unacceptable. I know the players feel the same way. The boo birds were few in number. That is a good thing. The crowd was amazing at times. My ears are still ringing from the volume. But like many others on here, I did not expect so many missed assignments on our part. Nor did I expect Miss State to be quite that good. I bet there will be some "quality" practices this week.

It always hurts to lose. But this loss felt much better than some. I never expected we would dominate like that. I thought only by luck or by BAMA's choking (like last year) would we win. Now my perspective has changed. We were without a doubt the best team on that field last night. And we were by far the youngest. I doubt we have ever had as many freshmen on any starting team, yet we dominated the #1 ranked team in the nation. I want to feel worse than I feel, but I cant.

Who is quitting? I see some undergrads leaving early for the pros. But how do you improve on a perfect regular season? It's a great way to leave. Bama, on the other hand, had a blemish. They were convinced they were number one, yet got beat on their own home field. Had LSU won the BCSNC, most of those same players would have headed.

There does seem to be a lot of smoke surrounding certain not-so-well-described events before and immediately after the game which only provides a contagious environment for conspiracy viruses to spread. The criticisms of the offensive game plan seem legit, not just for this game, but for the whole year. As frustrating as that may be, it does not make people quit, especially following the only undefeated season of the year.

The only thing that makes people quit is when deep down inside they believe they are losers. Such a belief can be disguised when we have a winning season. But let us lose a game, and the mask comes off the non well differentiated few, and they are right back where they were. All the blaming in the world will not remove the irrational shame they carry believing themselves to be a loser. And what is worse, neither will a BCSNC.

LSU has a history of playing like we are underdogs. By conjuring up lots of emotion we might be able to pull off a few great upsets. But the pressure of being on the top has been too much for our low self worth to handle. That is, until Nick Saban came to coach.

Saban helped LSU see that they could win it all with Louisiana recruits. The belief that we could win it all became the greatest recruiting tool of all. Louisiana produces some of the best players in the country, and only second to Mississippi with per capita of players in the pros.

Superstitious people contribute too much power to Nick Saban. He is a great coach. He has a method that works, and he usually out works most everyone around him. But he is beatable. He lost to LSU this year. As sweet as crystal is, it cannot finally remove the sour taste of the loss at home.

The sooner LSU fans can release this loser mentality and embrace the good people that we really are, the sooner we will improve our attractiveness to the many talented recruits. When we do bring home the crystal, we will know it was not luck, nor because the other team "beat themselves." We will know that deep inside we are winners.

Greatest "old time" not all time. There is a new king in Egypt. :geauxtigers:

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Fred Miller, Karl Malone, James Andrews MD

The only way to fully explain the passion and money involved in college football, particularly in SEC, is with theological language. When one considers all that had to happen for LSU to win in 2007, nothing short of divine intervention can explain. Indeed, church attendance had not been that high in Louisiana since the days following Katrina and 9-11.

When Nick Saban left LSU, many thought it was a sign of the end times. When he showed up at Alabama a few years later, one young Alabama fan talked like it was the second coming. With Nick and a chammionship to stand on, good faith logic showed them to be the "chosen." That is why so many BAMA fans think of Auburn's championship as something of the devil, an evil force moving over the planet. And who knows?

When immature faith collides with polytheism (practice of worshipping more than one God; ie, money, sex, power, and football) weird things happen. And those weird things get expressed in even more weird language. And God must have a crick in his neck from all the fans trying to drag him over to win for their team.

My dog is still howling.