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For the past couple months, I have been buying Matt Flynn autographed rookie cards in anticipation of this game...

They just tripled in value today! Easy money. :lol: :nana:

For those Gumps....I would not recommend doing the same for McElroy anytime soon. :lol: :moon:

Upon the fields of friendly strife
Are sown the seeds
That, upon other fields, on other days
Will bear the fruits of victory.
ATTRIBUTION: General DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, Reminiscences, p. 82 (1964).

MacArthur wrote these lines while superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, 1919–1922, and had them engraved over the entrance to the gymnasium.

He was speaking of Army Football so, yes, having been to war myself, I would say football is a form of war...

1958 - Billy Cannon 3rd
1959 - Billy Cannon 1st
1962 - Jerry Stoval 2nd
1972 - Bert Jones 4th
1977 - Charles Alexander 9th
1978 - Charles Alexander 5th
2007 - Glenn Dorsey 9th
2011 - Tyrann Mathieu ???

That is all the LSU players who have ever finished in the top 10 on the ballots...

I am shocked Kevin Faulk and JaMarcus Russell weren't ever in the top 10. Who do you feel was most deserving and never made the list?

on the SEC.

Watching the ESPN broadcast from his home you see 6 helmets in the background.

Ohio St
OU
LSU
Bama
Auburn
Arkansas

Those are helmets displayed in his home during the holidays. Or are they just props for the broadcast? :lol:

After the Oregon game

quote:

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We'll see how Driskell turns out.

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This

Nebraska - they own the head to head vs LSU and this would be a good way to get even

Wisconsin

Boise - but no one wants to risk losing to them in a championship game; but everyone wants to be the one to silence their supporters with a win.

Stanford

Oklahoma - already beat them for a MNC

IN my opinion, no other school outside the SEC has a really strong chance to go undefeated by years end.

I'm a West Point grad and Navy is obviously our most storied rival. I am also an LSU fanatic. But if Navy was playing LSU, I root for Navy.

That's because I respect what those players have acheived and what they will do as officers.

I feel sorry for those people who choose to boo a service academy.

If the legal process takes several months and JJ is cleared in the offseason (or gets a misdemeanor), could he use a redshirt and play next year...technically speaking?

Of course Les may not welcome him back, when you have Mett waiting in the wings.

I wrote this in September 2009 during a rough time for CLM. I maintain my opinion that he may not be the best coach, but he is the right coach for LSU. I feel it's time to finally post what I wrote 2 years ago...

I was a Captain in the Army, a blackawk pilot, and I served two tours in Iraq and two in Kosovo. LSU football was my link to the world back home.

“On December 1st, 2007, I sat on an Air Force C-130, waiting 3-hours for a thunderstorm to pass through Balad, Iraq before we were cleared for departure. I was upset that we boarded the plane 2 minutes before kickoff of the SEC Championship game with Tennessee, and the one and a half hour flight would mean I would miss the first half. With the weather delay, now I would miss the entire game. My consolation: I knew I was leaving Iraq for the last time and would never endure a year without the opportunity to see LSU play football at Tiger Stadium.
Still, I had a smile on my face (for another reason) as I sat on that plane in the Thunderstorm.
This was my second deployment to Iraq and the last four months were perhaps the most enjoyable of my 26 I spent in Iraq. You see, I had the joy of watching the roller coaster ride all LSU fans took enroute to a 10-2 regular season. A season with big wins over, Florida, Auburn, and Alabama. A season with heart wrenching losses to Kentucky and Arkansas. My emotions took over when I watched LSU play, because it was MY link back to Louisiana, where I should have been. It was my bond with the real world back home.
And I displayed that emotion to my fellow Soldiers. In a unit filled with men and women from all corners of the United States, our common bond far away in Iraq was our love of college football. Everyone had a team, rooted passionately for that team, cherished their victories, and trash talked daily. It got so bad, we had to enact rules for trash talking. (If your team lost the week before, you had no voice. Not in top 25, no voice. Misquote a statistic, no voice) It was a good year to that point for our guy from Ohio St, USC, OU, and UWV. A quiet one for out TENN and Nebraska faithful. But, I was perhaps the most lambasted.
As LSU received tons of media attention for their endless talent, I watched the #1 LSU team fall twice in suspenseful defeat. The last defeat, seemed to extinguish all hope of the BCS Championship. So I put my four BCS Championship tickets on EBay, and had to comfort myself with the consolation…four tickets to the Sugar Bowl (should we get past Tennessee).
There I sat, deflated by my team’s loss to Arkansas, ridiculed by my fellow Soldiers for trash talking my “overrated team.” No BCS, possibly no Sugar Bowl. And to add salt to the wound, the venerable, all knowing, Kirk Herbstriet, said our Coach wanted to leave us for Michigan. Rock Bottom. Was my team so overrated, so bad, that even the coach wanted out?
Then, Coach Les Miles, did something no one expected. He called his press conference, announced his intention to stay at LSU, and proclaimed his the tigers a “DAMN STRONG FOOTBALL TEAM.”
Then I boarded the plane with a huge smile DAMN SMILE on my face.
The rest is history. But I wouldn’t find out until I landed 5 hours later when my Soldiers sought me out at the baggage pickup in Kuwait to tell me the news.
LSU, behind Perrilloux, crushed the Volunteers.
Missouri collapsed.
West Virginia got beat down in the backyard brawl.
LSU is in the BCS game!
Never doubting LSU could beat Tennessee, but who could have predicted the craziness of the collapses and LSU’s accent from 7 to 2.
The next 24 hours was a frantic search for a reliable phone to call back to the states, pull my BCS tickets off Ebay, sell my Sugar Bowl tickets to a grateful Georgia fan, and thank Karma for rewarding Les Miles’ loyalty.
A month later, I watched inside the Superdome as LSU defeated “The” Ohio State. Not only did they have a Damn Strong Football team, but they had a Damn Strong Football Coach as well.
Les Miles the man:
I month later, I stood in a bar on Canal Street watching another Louisiana native, Eli Manning, make the greatest play in Superbowl history to defeat the undefeated Patriots in another improbable occurrence of events. After the game I walked outside where my sister stood near the parade barricades. The parade had just started and the first few floats were just passing.
One float stopped briefly in front of us and the man in the front of the float, leaned over, singled out my sister, spoke in a very fatherly tone, “You’re a very beautiful young lady,” then tossed her a large strand of beads. She looked back with a very surprised, yet satisfied look, and asked “Who was that?”
I had to laugh! I said, “Les Miles, the Head coach at LSU! He just told my sister she was beautiful”.
What a class act.
The man complemented my sister, chose loyalty to LSU over his dream job at his Alma matter, and consistently chose the harder right over the easier wrong when it came to is players (reference Perrilloux – and in my opinion the reason for an 8-5 ’08.)
I think he’s a Damn Strong Coach and an even better man. I welcome him as for as long as he would like to stay at LSU, and I hope it’s for a long time, because he’s proven to me he belongs."

Forget fotball for a moment. The guy is a great man... Did you see the way he took Mathieu under his wing at the end of the game. You can tell he loves those players and they work their tails off for him.

I'm excited for this season. That D is nasty and the O will be better as the season progresses. I won't need to put my BCS tickets on EBAY this year!