LongTime Tiger

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If LSU wants to be known as a 1st class university with a Top 5 athletics program, LSU should always do a bonafide national search for key positions!! The current chaos at LSU demonstrates a complete lack of leadership!!

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I have no idea what was lacking in President Tate's leadership that would cause Gov Landry to send him packing. So I can't have an informed decision on whether that move was merited or not. But I do feel that had Tate still been in place without limitations on his scope of decision making, he would have required a comprehensive national search for a new AD and football coach. Might have ended up with the exact same outcome but I think Tiger Nation would feel much more confident in both hires it that had been executed.

You might not care and may think Woodward has been horrible. But he did a great job hiring Kim Mulkey and especially Jay Johnson. Gotta give credit if you are going to criticize.
Yes, the BK hire turned out poorly. But at the time, most who were objective and didn't immediately condemn him to hell for being a yankee, thought that it was a great improvement over a very disinterested at that time, Ed Orgeron.
But Stephen A Smith's take, as well as many fans, on Scott's failure(??) at aTm as well as the BK hire, have the story wrong.
Scott signed Jimbo to a 10 year $75M contract in December 2017. After the 2021 season and in response to the rumor that LSU was going to bring Jimbo home to be LSU's head coach, the new aTm AD increased and extended Jimbo's contract to a full 10 years again for $100M.
Scott Woodward had left aTm and become LSU's AD in 2019 and had fired Ed O in 2021.
Jimbo was never considered or vetted by Scott's office for the LSU job in 2021 but the rumor that LSU was going to offer him the job was leaked from LSU AD office and started by Scott.
So he leveraged the open job to get aTm to spend more and commit longer to Jimbo while he was pointed at hiring Brian Kelley.
Call him out if you want but he broke it off in aTm in 2021 & they paid for it dearly.
So, Stephen A., get the story right please! BTW, if LSU doesn't settle with BK for a lump sum, the $54M payout will be mitigated substantially by BK's new job, which his ego and recent failure will REQUIRE him to take next year.

Back in days when people actually respected authority and the rules most of the time, fans were explicitly told by Sid Crocker to not enter the field after the game. To be sure of that, on the floor of the stadium was a ring of law enforcement officers in uniform with to prevent fans from entering the field. I saw several times as a child/adolescent some overserved fan run out onto the field after the game and immediately be taken down and cuffed. Of course these were isolated incidents and the most doing it at one time was only a dozen or so but if was effective. At the risk of spending $500K for a fine I would think that LSU would go back to some show of LEO presence in the N EZ to prevent any more occurrences.

Should have at least 6 possessions in 1H, with scoring TD's on 5 = 35 pts.
BK will begin 2H with starters and if they score will take them out. = 7 pts.
Backups will score 2 TD's and 2 FGs in 2H = 20
Total should be 65 to 7.

Wifi would be nice in all the venues. You would think that a sponsorship with the Official Cellular provider of LSU would include some service across campus.

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If Ryan Clark was White I would still shite on his shitty takes…

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If RC was white and spewed his shitty takes about white people being discriminated against in pro sports, his arse would be immediately labelled racist, hate speech, and be fired summarily from all his platforms. Sorry he continues to try to rep LSU and wish he was relegated to his podcast so fewer people would associated him with LSU.

To many of us his faith in God, family, and then football approach is refreshing and a throwback to a more sensible and responsible life. That part attracts many players and parents who believe that he will make them better men, and future husbands and fathers, and successful in their vocations.
I get that. What I don't get is his snarkiness and goofy, nerdiness that makes it difficult to fit into professional settings. Gosh, dang it!
But then if you remember he came from abject poverty in a small suburb in Alabama, and grew up through the lowly coaching position ranks, you begin to better understand his chip on the shoulder attitude.

For the price of about 4 stadium beers you can celebrate your birthday, or your divorce, or a kid's birthday or wish your ex a crappy day. Sounds like a bargain to me!

Not purple

would expect it’s the opposite way around… like Chris Blair should be professional and unbiased because national people pick up the radio broadcast clips

Never been a member of the association that governs and trains PByP guys but many have Mass Comm degrees and some schools who have a dedicated Sports Broadcasting degree (LSU does not) train PByP announcers. But I just gave you above the exact wording from PA announcer association.

Blair is a "home team employed" PBYP guy even if he gets picked up by someone else. When Lyn Rollins is contracted with a non-LSU network to call LSU games his commentary is different than when he and Ronnie Rantz would do the TV for LSU baseball.

But in-house PA announcers are not to be "cheerleaders" and the extra enthusiasm shown by Borne or others borders on going over the line, although I love Dan and will miss his calls. But he never provided additional commentary, or urged the fans to "be loud" or other home team oriented verbiage. Blair and Doug Thompson can say "come on we need a hit" or any other use of "we" meaning the home team without violating their mission since they are defined as the home broadcasting crew and can be partisan.