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No comparison: Maravich no freshman year allowed, played 3 years, no 3-point FGs allowed yet, and PPG incredible. Congrats to Clark, but Maravich's records remain the greatest except for career points stat which should include an asterisk.

Satisfied with 9-3 regular season although expected 10-2. Believe Heisman should go to Jayden Daniels as joining only 11 others in college football history to pass for 12,000 yards and rush for 3,000 yards plus being on top in every QB category vs. other Heisman QB candidates. As for 2024, much as I hate to see it, believe LSU will be fortunate to be a mid-level SEC team next year without better defensive performance especially with its atrocious tackling from waist to neck vs. knees to ankles (running doesn't fare well when shackled at the knees and feet!), better defensive coaching especially DBs and DLmen, and improving OLine consistency, all plus halftime adjustments. Geaux Tigers!

The defense looks like it doesn't even know how to tackle. Try grabbing the feet or legs, like taught in high school, and that might just improve the result. Players can usually keep moving forward when beging grabbed by the shoulders, but have decidedly more difficulty when their feet or legs have been grasped. It's much more effective.

The reason is he is all about himself. There is no I in TEAM. You're either a member of the TEAM or not. No matter what his reason is, this likely doesn't sit well with students, alums, or the team and coaches. If he has no more respect for others, he ought to just go ahead and leave the team.

If you can't earn much playing time in 3 years, it's probably a good time to move on to someplace else with possibly less talent than you have.

So long, farewell . . . a football team can't have 85 starting players . . . there is no "I" in TEAM . . . patience is a virtue . . . compete hard, share the team experience, and your time will come . . . or you can transfer to someplace with more near-term opportunity . , , and likely--though not always--with another school and another team that perhaps may not be as good but where you can play sooner and maybe be a bigger fish in a small pond. Good luck, young man, and grow with the experience . . . all the best to you, and thanks for being a Bayou Bengal Tiger, at least for a while.

Texas A&M was better prepared, executed much better, and was far and away the better team in the game tonight, regardless of each team's record and fortunes entering the game. That's what makes rivalry games what they are, sometimes what's expected, other times what's not expected. The result is certainly disappointing for Tiger fans, but that's college football. Hope the Bayou Bengals give a better account of themselves in the SEC Championship game against the consensus No. 1 team, the Georgia Bulldogs, next Saturday.

Better coach 'em up for this "trap game" weekend at 9 am on the road against series-pesky Arkansas after LSU's big win against Alabama and Arkansas striving to right the ship after its upset loss at home to Liberty. The reach its goals, LSU will have to be focused on the goals before it and play hard for 4 full quarters to leave with a win on Saturday. Geaux Tigers and don't get distracted by the happy noise from the big victory over Alabama. Beat Arkansas!

What a terrific way to end a phenmenal comeback type season. Talk about incredible storyline: ranked No. 1 in college baseball at season's start, hit some troubles with injuries and play in mid-season, then rise up in last few SEC series and play in the SEC Tournament, and finally play impressively to reach the CWS and win it all for its first ever national championship in baseball. Has there ever been one state that won back to back national championships in baseball? Maybe this is the first time ever. Congrats to our long-time neighboring rival Ole Miss. What an impressive accomplishment!

Charles McClendon told me in a conversation on the LSU practice field in the fall of the year Bradshaw was looking to begin his college career that Terry was not signed by LSU because of academics. That was the way he put it to me in answer to an interview question when I worked in the LSU sports information office at that time.

Gotta love it. Rooting for the Rebels and their head coach--LSU great player and alumnus Mike Bianco--to bring home the national championship to the SEC this year.

College football will, sadly enough, never be the same again with this NIL non-sense. Imagine an outstanding chemistry student changing schools to get an NIL deal with another because of some offer from a chemical manufacturer. Going to college has always been a treasured time in life when "amateur" status as a student, athlete, and other school-related activities allowed us to grown, learn, and enjoy in preparation for adulthood life in jobs, personal and family realms, and the rest of life experiences. Unfortunately, this is just another realm where the chase of money rules and not the valued characteristics of what matters most and endures most in life.

How very sad to see such a young life with so much promise be ended like this one. It brings memories of the death by brain hemorrhage in 1970 with LSU sophomore quarterback Butch Duhe of New Orleans.

McMahon has already performed better than "good," more like "phenomenal" considering all the factors at play. With patience and continued results like he's had so far, LSU could return to the top tier in the SEC and nationally. Gotta love it; Geaux Tigers!

I like your thinking there, GatorPhil. Go SEC!

Goodness gracious! No matter what else may happen, LSU's new hoops coach has totally--TOTALLY--rebuilt a fully depleted roster in less than 3 months and with quite an impressive collection of signees, transfers, and a few returnees. No matter what restrictions the program will possibly face early on, Matt McMahon should have a pretty competitive team on the court.

What great, sensible commentary, AFan. Good on you.

It had to be an extra special accomplishment for Mike Bianco in sweeping LSU in Baton Rouge less than a year after interviewing for the Tigers head coaching position and getting rejected as an LSU alumnus and former star catcher for LSU's successful baseball program. And he accomplished this in a head-to-head matchup with the man LSU selected in his stead, Jay Johnson. Wonder what the LSU AD may have been thinking about after this weekend's results as Ole Miss dominated LSU.

One of the better results of this limited phases spring scrimmage was the number of rushing yards, 214, put up against one of the more promising defensive fronts in the conference, albeit with the limited phase approach today. No matter how it's viewed, 214 vs. meager, mixed results the past 2 years bodes at least some promise of a running game this year.

News such as this is always terrible to learn of and twinges at all our hearts in the SEC family of fans, players, coaches, students, and alumni. We all feel a sense of loss shared with the wives, children, and family members left behind. May good memories of a life well-lived sustain those who survive. In his memory, "War Eagle." RIP.

Why? Focus on team and not any individual. Every player's number is equally important to a total team contribution. On the other hand, if the practice of making those 2 numbers exceptionally treated over the last 2 decades or so, Kelly is letting the team decide rather than him making such a decision. Good for him.

This has to easily be an all-time record for a team to lose every one of its roster from one season to the next. Days and Eason declared for the NBA, and all 11 remaining players entered the transfer portal making a complete emptying of the season's 13-player roster. In all my years of following basketball, I have never heard of any time when anyone came even close to losing a complete roster. Wow!

Thank you, Will Wade . . . good riddance! We will make it back, but this is going to be a monumental climb.

Good move by our new coach. Keep a good player like this from the home state at home where, after his playing days are done, this will help him in relationships business and personal throughout. Hope he does well at LSU.

Probably right on with that assessment. Let's see: year 1 signed with Arizona; year 2 switched to UCLA; year 3 his dad likely got him on at LSU; now he's looking again . . . not so good for picking and sticking with something. Wish him the best for the sake of Shaq's big heart and commitment to LSU, and the Bayou Bengal Tigers will do just fine.

I believe that Matt McMahon will likely do as well or better than can be expected under the circumstances he has taken on. I look for his first team of Bayou Bengal Tigers to do well and build the foundation for meeting high expectations that will follow the suspected 3-year period of severe penalties. With his 7-year contract, I look for him to have LSU back in the top 6 in the conference within 4-5 years at most.

There are a number of good coaches available for consideration, and LSU will have the means and support for anyone accepting the challenge under duress from NCAA sanctions anticipated to be in the 3-year duration range. I like the Chattanooga coach, but believe Scott Woodward will make a good selection to lead the Tigers out from under the Will Wade-induced cloud.

Ditto on JerseyHawg comments. Great accomplishment for Tennessee and remarkable for first SEC Tournament title in 43 years! Wow! And congrats to the Aggies for surprising many with a great run to the title game that hopefully will put Texas A&M into the big dance.

Spring practice begins at LSU March 24. Let's see how things stand about May 1. That is will likely be when things will come into focus after the spring game. Let's not rush to judgment on this new Tiger QB just yet.

Right, you are...sad, but true. As the old saying goes, "be careful what you ask for!" Now we have it, and it's increasingly becoming an NFL mirrored image.