Sunday, December 31, 2006

Bring on the Irish..

soon... soon...

Brady Quinn gets to meet Glenn Dorsey and Company....

GEAUX TIGERS!!

Friday, December 29, 2006

11 years ago today...


Dec. 29, 1995--Independence Bowl, Shreveport, Louisiana


Dinardo Beats Saban..

LSU plays in their first bowl game in 6 years. After 6 consecutive seasons, new Coach, Gerry Dinardo, brings the magic back to Baton Rouge temporarily. His Tigers defeat Michigan State, 45-26. The Spartans are coached that day by future LSU coach, Nick Saban. LSU has a kickoff return and long run by Kevin Faulk for scores as well as a fumble return by Gabe Northern. LSU goes to two more bowl ('96 Peach and '97 Indenpendence) before sliding back to their losing ways in 1998 and 1999. Saban comes to Baton Rouge in time for the 2000 season to set the Tigers in place to win the BCS National Championship in 2003.

Charlie Weiss Sighting...

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Coach Charlie Weiss/Jabba the Hut




Separated at Birth?

Okay something has bugged me about Coach over-hyped Weiss for some time now. I think it most likely that he's kin to intergallatic swine Jabba the Hut. Is it just me or do you see a resemblance?

Dangit Bama..hire a coach... Dangit Saban say no..

from the Miami Herald...

SABAN'S NEW RULE

Saban, apparently annoyed at the persistent questions about Alabama's interest in him, said Wednesday he has a new policy on the matter that either shuts the door further on the rumors or fuels the speculation -- depending on one's viewpoint.
''I'm going to put them away right now,'' Saban said of the rumors during a conference call with Indianapolis reporters. ``I'm just making a rule that I'm never going to comment on something like that again because every time you comment, it makes another story. So I'm done. Five years from now, I won't comment on it. Next week, I won't comment on it. I'm done.''
Miami Herald sportswriter Jeff Darlington contributed to this report.

JRs Last Game as a Tiger??


Could this be JRs last game as a Tiger? Maybe so...well JR make it a remarkable one and Kick the Crap out of Notre Dame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

1 WEEK and counting.....


2007 Nokia ...uh??.... Allstate Sugar Bowl!!!!!!!!



You think the Allstate Reps will be out before the game paying their policy holders in the N.O. area?????

Hats off to the N.O. Saints...


yeah I know this is an LSU blog... but gotta give a shout out to Coach Sean Peyton and the N.O. Saints.. great job. Sunday Football is fun again....






Who knew that kid from Malcolm in the middle could coach???

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Gump?

Okay Saban (Sexton's still working on it) has said no for the 1oth time.

Maybe it's time for Bama to do what it always does...Hire one of the Bears' boys...

Forest Gump would be the perfect candidate... he could take care of the field, played for the bear and has that perfect Bama accent...

GUMP! GUMP!! GUMP!!!

Monday, December 18, 2006

Weiss...Yikes!!

Yikes!! Hide the children... he might eat them....

Still .... still...

Yes I know we play ND in about two weeks...but this Bama soap opera is just too fun ....

Hey Bama.... what about Jimbo?? He's interview everywhere else... give him a shot...


for my history on the Bama fiasco..I present to you.... Bama... according to Wikipedia..


from Wikipedia . . .

Recent history
Following the death of Bear Bryant, the Crimson Tide football program has had its high points and its low points. Since the retirement of Bryant, the team has had seven different head coaches: Ray Perkins, Bill Curry, Gene Stallings, Mike Dubose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Price, and Mike Shula. The Tide won its last national championship in 1992 against the University of Miami Hurricanes during the Stallings tenure.
Following Gene Stallings's retirement in 1996, defensive coordinator Mike Dubose was named head coach. He proved to be an excellent recruiter of defensive linemen, though as a head coach he wasn't as effective. He benefited tremendously from the leadership of Shaun Alexander and Chris Samuels, winning the SEC championship in 1999. Expectations quickly rose for the Tide, which started the season as high as No. 3 in some polls.
The Tide quickly lowered, ending up 3-8 in a season best exemplified by a last-second loss to Central Florida. Dubose was fired and replaced by an up-and-coming coach from TCU, Dennis Franchione.
The media-savvy Franchione gained popularity quickly with his coaching style and media-friendly press conferences. He led Alabama to two winning seasons in 2001 and 2002, going 7-5 and 10-3, respectively.
After NCAA sanctions hit in 2001, Franchione was rumored to be interested in other jobs, including the Kansas opening. One year later, under much media scrutiny, Franchione left for Texas A&M. After the well-documented Mike Price fiasco [3], Miami Dolphins quarterbacks coach Mike Shula was hired after a rushed search. It was his first head coaching job at any level. Shula went through many first-year pains, ending up 4-9 after suffering heartbreaking narrow defeats to Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Slight improvement during his second season sent the Alabama Crimson Tide to a 6-6 record and the Music City Bowl, its first bowl in three years. The season started off with great promise as the Tide rolled to a 3-0 start, but ultimately season ending injuries to the entire st arting backfield doomed the Tide's chances of any great successes. The
2004 recruiting class was Alabama's first "full" recruiting class since
2001 due to the harsh penalties imposed on the program by the NCAA resulting in the loss of 21 total scholarships over 3 years.
The NCAA penalties were caused by questionable recruiting tactics by an Alabama booster. The booster, Logan Young Jr. (an alumnus of Vanderbilt University), was sentenced to three years in prison for paying high school coach Lynn Lang $150,000 to get his Prep All-American defensive lineman Albert Means to go to Alabama. After the investigation was over, in addition to the loss of scholarships, Alabama was banned from bowl games for two years and was put on five years probation. Young later died in his Memphis home. Investigators initially concluded Young was violently murdered. However, the investigators ultimately concluded that Young's death resulted from a fall he sustained while walking up the stairs in his home.
In 2005, Alabama was indeed back. Alabama rolled to a 10-2 record including a thrilling 13-10 win over pass happy Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl. They had a dominating defense that shut down Texas Tech's offense.
The most points they gave up was 28, in a 28-18 loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl. The Tide had trouble scoring at times because of a season-ending injury to Tyrone Prothro, Brodie Croyle's best target and because of poor play on the offensive line. They opened the season with a dominating 9-0 record, including beating the hated SEC rival, the Tennessee Volunteers, and manhandling the Florida Gators by a score of 31-3. A number 3 ranked LSU team ended their streak with a home-defeat in overtime, and the Tide lost to Auburn in the Iron Bowl the next week after the defense surrendered 21 first quarter points.
On November 27, 2006, after a regular-season campaign that ended in a disappointing 6-6 record (including losses of 8 points or less to conference opponents Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi State, and Auburn), head coach Mike Shula was fired and defensive coordinator Joe Kines was announced as Alabama's interim head coach.

Saban..no.... Spurrier..no... DickRod...No...Saban...no... Gump???

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Monday, December 11, 2006

3 Weeks...

3 weeks since Bama canned Shula...

Have they attempted to call him back in???

Have they contacted Dr. Frankenstein to re-animate the bear??

Hey Bama... I'll do the job for 1.5 million... with one condition....

you will lose to LSU every year... just like in the Shula years... but I guarantee I'll won't have a 5 year losing streak to Auburn.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Raise your hand if you've turned down the Bama Job...

WVU Coach (with a Pay Raise) Rich Rodriguez turns down Bama (or Coach DickRod as the Bama fans are calling him today....

So Bama...no Spurrier, no Saban, no Rich,

Who's it gonna be??

Let's see the last three coaches have been Mikes... Dubose/Price/Shula...

Mike Archer??? He's got HC experience in the SEC...

or how bout..

Tommy Tuberville... he knows how to win the Iron Bowl...

or Houston Nutt..... he's nuts... you'll love him... plus I'm sure Agent Jimmy Sexton would love to cut you deal since he couldn't convince his other client Nick Saban to go for your deal...

Call Jimmy Sexton.... (Agent for Tubby and Nutt)

Go to Hell Bama!!!

Hey what about Mike Shula...since you'll be paying him the next two years anyway..... ask him back... like an ex-girlfriend... or a jilted fiance... maybe ... just maybe...

Thursday, December 07, 2006

20/20 Hindsight...

Stewart Mandel's August Prediction for this year's Tigers...

Who is going to be this year's Tennessee, a highly ranked team that falls on its face? -- Aaron, Dacula, Ga. I don't have the cojones to sit here and predict that one of the likely preseason top three teams (as Tennessee was last year) is going to wind up going 5-6, but there is at least one highly ranked squad that has all the makings of a big-time bust. That team, I'm sorry to report, is LSU. It's not hard to see why so many people are falling for the Bayou Bengals. They did go 11-2 last season, after all, and knocked the living bejesus out of Miami in the Peach Bowl. Seemingly their entire roster is made up of former Parade All-Americans (heck, their third-string quarterback was one of the biggest-name recruits in the country two years ago). However, the Tigers are also beset by at least three potential downfalls that most pundits seem to be conveniently overlooking.
1. A quarterback controversy: Matt Flynn's Peach Bowl performance may have been the worst thing that could have happened to the Tigers, because these things almost never end well. JaMarcus Russell is a proven, clutch performer (see last year's Arizona State and Alabama wins), yet the first time he screws up, people are going to be calling for Flynn. That's a huge distraction.
2. Depleted offensive and defensive lines: Besides having a proven quarterback, experience on the two lines is, to me, the most important criteria to consider when assessing a team's preseason prospects. Do people not realize that LSU lost three all-conference O-linemen (Andrew Whitworth, Rudy Niswanger and Nate Livings) and two All-America defensive tackles (Kyle Williams and Claude Wroten)?
3. Running back is a huge question mark: Joseph Addai never got much pub, but he was a first-round draft pick, leaving the Tigers dependent on two tailbacks, Alley Broussard and Justin Vincent, who are both coming off ACL injuries. If Broussard can return to his 2004 form, fantastic, but that's hardly a sure thing.

Of course, I myself overlooked all these when I ranked LSU No. 5 in my post-spring Top 25. But having had more time to think about it, I can't possibly see the Tigers losing fewer than three times in a schedule that includes road games at Auburn, Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas. The only question is whether there will be an all-out implosion, like last year's Vols. Anyway, sorry to spoil your party, Tigers fans ...


Stewart....You are TIGERBAIT!!!! JACKA$$

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

OK BCS Champs 2003???? I thought it was USC or was it....



from...Maxim....

gotta love the internet....


While we were shooting Miss Maxim last July, I couldn't help but notice a familiar headwear logo popular among the hard-working indigenous peoples of the Dominican Republic. When traveling abroad, it's always comforting to see a recognizable hallmark from the homeland, but these things were everywhere. Dominicans in America don't even like college football—what was the chance that University of Oklahoma football had become this beloved among la gente de la Republica Dominicana?
Closer inspection revealed that these were "Oklahoma 2003 National Champions" hats that go on further to boast of the school's eight-time status as title holders. Only problem here, as most all of you know, is that Oklahoma got pounded 56–21 in its final two games of 2003, losing the BCS National Championship Game to LSU. Evidently, someone slipped a crate or two of these presumptuous caps in one of our air-drop aid shipments to the Caribbean (I'm pretty sure U.S. policy dictates we not touch anything there) and the locals have taken to them like Dominicans to free hats!

Monday, December 04, 2006

Blitz Package for Brady Quinn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R211e6JdVew

LaRon's gonna crush Brady Quinn....

Delusional = Bama


http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/

Nick Saban is not a candidate for the Bama job....

the Notre Dame Series...



From www.dandydon.com

Here is a little history on LSU and Notre Dame: LSU and Notre Dame have played nine times. LSU has won four times and Notre Dame five times. Here is how the series has gone:

November 21, 1970. LSU (#6 with Charlie Mac coaching) at Notre Dame (#4). Notre Dame won 3-0.

November 20, 1971. LSU (#14 with Charlie Mac coaching) hosting #7 Notre Dame. LSU won 28 - 8 with Bert Jones as quarterback.

September 12, 1981. LSU (unranked, Jerry Stovall) visited Notre Dame (ranked 4th) and lost 9 - 27.

October 27, 1984. LSU (#7 with Bill Arnsparger as coach) hosted unranked Notre Dame. Notre Dame won 30 - 22 on ABC television.

November 23, 1985. LSU (#17, Arnsparger) won 10 - 7 at Notre Dame on the USA network.

November 22, 1986. LSU #7 (Arnsparger) hosted Notre Dame and won the game 21 - 19.

November 15, 1997. LSU (#11 with Coach Dinardo) hosted and lost to Notre Dame 24 - 6.

December 28, 1997. Independence Bowl. LSU was then #15 and Notre Dame unranked. LSU won 27 - 9. ( the White Helmet Game, Lou Tepper's first and only defensive stops)

November 21, 1998. Unranked LSU (Dinardo) lost 36 - 39 to #10 Notre Dame at South Bend.

Next Game - #4 LSU vs. #11 Notre Dame....

JANUARY 3rd - Super Dome, Allstate Sugar Bowl

Two weeks...


..and pretty much everyone has turned down the Alabama job...

Raise your hand if you've turned down the job today....

From Wikipedia...the Bama story..


Recent history

Following the death of Bear Bryant, the Crimson Tide football program has had its high points and its low points. Since the retirement of Bryant, the team has had seven different head coaches: Ray Perkins, Bill Curry, Gene Stallings, Mike Dubose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Price, and Mike Shula. The Tide won its last national championship in 1992 against the University of Miami Hurricanes during the Stallings tenure.
Following Gene Stallings's retirement in 1996, defensive coordinator Mike Dubose was named head coach. He proved to be an excellent recruiter of defensive linemen, though as a head coach he wasn't as effective. He benefited tremendously from the leadership of Shaun Alexander and Chris Samuels, winning the SEC championship in 1999. Expectations quickly rose for the Tide, which started the season as high as No. 3 in some polls.

The Tide quickly lowered, ending up 3-8 in a season best exemplified by a last-second loss to Central Florida. Dubose was fired and replaced by an up-and-coming coach from TCU, Dennis Franchione.
The media-savvy Franchione gained popularity quickly with his coaching style and media-friendly press conferences. He led Alabama to two winning seasons in 2001 and 2002, going 7-5 and 10-3, respectively.
After NCAA sanctions hit in 2001, Franchione was rumored to be interested in other jobs, including the Kansas opening. One year later, under much media scrutiny, Franchione left for Texas A&M.

After the well-documented Mike Price fiasco [3], Miami Dolphins quarterbacks coach Mike Shula was hired after a rushed search. It was his first head coaching job at any level. Shula went through many first-year pains, ending up 4-9 after suffering heartbreaking narrow defeats to Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Slight improvement during his second season sent the Alabama Crimson Tide to a 6-6 record and the Music City Bowl, its first bowl in three years. The season started off with great promise as the Tide rolled to a 3-0 start, but ultimately season ending injuries to the entire st arting backfield doomed the Tide's chances of any great successes.

The
2004 recruiting class was Alabama's first "full" recruiting class since
2001 due to the harsh penalties imposed on the program by the NCAA resulting in the loss of 21 total scholarships over 3 years.

The NCAA penalties were caused by questionable recruiting tactics by an Alabama booster. The booster, Logan Young Jr. (an alumnus of Vanderbilt University), was sentenced to three years in prison for paying high school coach Lynn Lang $150,000 to get his Prep All-American defensive lineman Albert Means to go to Alabama. After the investigation was over, in addition to the loss of scholarships, Alabama was banned from bowl games for two years and was put on five years probation. Young later died in his Memphis home. Investigators initially concluded Young was violently murdered. However, the investigators ultimately concluded that Young's death resulted from a fall he sustained while walking up the stairs in his home.
In 2005, Alabama was indeed back. Alabama rolled to a 10-2 record including a thrilling 13-10 win over pass happy Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl. They had a dominating defense that shut down Texas Tech's offense.
The most points they gave up was 28, in a 28-18 loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl. The Tide had trouble scoring at times because of a season-ending injury to Tyrone Prothro, Brodie Croyle's best target and because of poor play on the offensive line. They opened the season with a dominating 9-0 record, including beating the hated SEC rival, the Tennessee Volunteers, and manhandling the Florida Gators by a score of 31-3. A number 3 ranked LSU team ended their streak with a home-defeat in overtime, and the Tide lost to Auburn in the Iron Bowl the next week after the defense surrendered 21 first quarter points.
On November 27, 2006, after a regular-season campaign that ended in a disappointing 6-6 record (including losses of 8 points or less to conference opponents Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi State, and Auburn), head coach Mike Shula was fired and defensive coordinator Joe Kines was announced as Alabama's interim head coach.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

sweet

LSU to the Sugar Bowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Going Bowling...

But where?

USC loses ...messes everything up...but dang fun to watch

UF wins... hard to pull for anyone in that defensive struggle...sad..LSU when on is the best team in the SEC if not the country...

Fact ..LSU is 5 refs away from being mentioned as the team to take on Ohio State in all this mess...

Fact... LSU would give anyone in the top ten an incredible game

Big East... H.S. ball

Pac-10.... funny ... USC was the best team ever..... til... they lost to 7-5 UCLA... haha......

So what's ahead.... tomorro night..BCS selection show..

If UF gets the OSU matchup... Tigers to Sugar...unless Sugar decides to fill up some N.O. hotel rooms... then it's Orange or Crapital One

If Meechigan gets OSU again..death to BCS... UF to Sugar Bowl and LSU vs. USC in the Rose Bowl... BEEDLUM (sp?) will ensue......

STAY TUNED!!!!

...will Blanco call the Sugar and plead our case???????

By the way... off subject... University of Louisiana beat University of Louisiana today in Lafayette...

LSUal's Recommendation for Bama Coach

Hey Bama fans look no further than ESPN Radio for your next coach. LSUal recommends ESPNs Gerry (with a G) Dinardo. He has SEC experience... he can bring back the magic, heck he may have even one a game or two in Tuscalosa... he's got skills, he's not quite the bear but he may fit the houndstooth hat. Hey went to Notre Dame... ABC/ESPN would love you for that hire. He even thinks Dreamland ribs are good!!!

HIRE HIM!!! BRING BACK THE TIDE MAGIC!!!

HIRE GERRY "BEAR" DINARDO!!

..heck and you may have enough money left over to pay off Dubose's Contract, Price's Contract, Shula's Contract and have some left over to pay some recruits!!!

SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't screw this one up... PLEASE SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!

Friday, December 01, 2006

Alabama coaching search....

Looks like the Auburn fans have a suggestion...and it looks like it's who the Bama fans really want to hire.....

Rose Bowl...in or out????