Tinker:
Oh the struggle is very hard for the college football teams all over this country, because the competition between men are fierce. When you play a football game against a equally talented football team the outcome for victory is always in doubt.
How many thrills did we get from a flat pass to one of our fastest RB or SE with nothing but the green grass in front of them all the way to the end zone. With the outcome of the close battle in the balance.
Remember the LSU vs Oregon college football game that started the
2011 college football season, also in the Dallas Cowboy stadium
Arlington Texas.Oh the struggle is very hard for the college football teams all over this country, because the competition between men are fierce. When you play a football game against a equally talented football team the outcome for victory is always in doubt.
How many thrills did we get from a flat pass to one of our fastest RB or SE with nothing but the green grass in front of them all the way to the end zone. With the outcome of the close battle in the balance.
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So with the help of god and all the LSU tiger friends everywhere, forced to wait after the long hot summer. The 2013 LSU football team will be on the road again, to go play the first college football game against the TCU Horned Frogs Dallas Cowboy stadium, Arlington, Texas.
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1. Alabama:
Nick Saban is equipped with yet another national championship
contender. Yes, it would be his third straight at Alabama and fourth in
five years. An all-star cast returns on offense, led by veteran
quarterback AJ McCarron and topflight receiver Amari Cooper. The offensive line lost three draft picks but had a good spring, and the defense is still loaded.
2. Texas A&M:
The Aggies lost some important offensive pieces, including offensive
coordinator Kliff Kingsbury and left tackle Luke Joeckel, but there are
still a lot of weapons to use. Johnny Manziel
is still in town, and he'll have a loaded running back stable to work
with as well as a host of talented, young receivers led by Mike Evans. The real worry has to be on defense, where five starters are gone from the front seven.
3. Georgia: We all know that the Bulldogs will score a lot of points this fall. Aaron Murray has his entire offensive line back, the league's top running back duo (Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall) and a slew of receiving targets, led by Malcolm Mitchell.
But the defense is very young. There is talent, but replacing 12
players who started or saw significant time will create early growing
pains.
4. South Carolina: The Gamecocks return good balance on offense, starting with two quality quarterbacks in Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson and running back Mike Davis. The defense also has the luxury of having Jadeveon Clowney
anchor what should be a very solid defensive line. The two-deep at
linebacker is gone and there are holes in the secondary, so youth could
be an issue.
5. Florida:
Nobody will question the talent Florida possesses on defense. The
Gators lost two first-round draft picks there, but Will Muschamp &
Co. should reload with solid younger talent. But how good will the
offense be? Quarterback Jeff Driskel
will be a year older in the offense, the line should be better and the
Gators will be stout running the ball, but there are no consistently
reliable receiving targets.
6. LSU:
Gradation and the NFL draft ravaged LSU's defense. Questions loom at
linebacker and in the secondary, but coach Les Miles left spring pretty
pleased with the defensive line. The offense should be improved with
quarterback Zach Mettenberger's development, a solid line and all the receiving targets returning. But if running back Jeremy Hill's
legal trouble sidelines him (he was suspended indefinitely after being
charged with battery last week), the Tigers could be in trouble.
7. Vanderbilt:
Coach James Franklin has to be pretty excited with the personnel he has
coming back. He has competition at quarterback and running back, but
receivers Jordan Matthews and Chris Boyd,
along with a stout offensive line, will help this offense go. The
defense got stronger up front this spring, and there are quality
starters at linebacker and in the secondary.
8. Ole Miss:
Coach Hugh Freeze wants to make sure expectations are tempered in
Oxford after last season's success and a monster recruiting haul. He
lost just three starters from last season's team, and guys are motivated
to top last year's 7-6 season. But injuries hurt the team this spring,
and depth issues still exist at receiver and along both lines.
9. Auburn:
The return of Gus Malzahn as coach has people on the Plains very
excited. The offensive personnel fits his spread offense, and Ellis
Johnson has instilled a new attitude on defense. The Tigers have to
figure out their quarterback situation, and there are no proven
receiving threats. Auburn will be better, but this team still has a ways
to go.
10. Mississippi State: The Bulldogs had a Jekyll and Hyde 2012 but also lost some key parts to last season's squad. Quarterback Tyler Russell
has to work with a new receiving corps, while the secondary has to
replace three starters, including Thorpe Award winner Johnthan Banks. It
sounds as though the defensive line made major strides this spring,
especially ends Denico Autry and Ryan Brown.
11. Missouri:
The Tigers didn't lose a lot from last season's 5-7 squad, but the
offense dealt with a quarterback battle and protection problems from its
offensive line. That's not good for a team that stumbled offensively
all last season. The defense seemed to impress up front, but Mizzou is
replacing two starting linebackers with a gang of inexperienced players.
12. Arkansas:
Under new coach Bret Bielema, the Razorbacks got tougher across the
board this spring. Bielema also found his quarterback in redshirt
sophomore Brandon Allen,
and both lines seemed to progress. But there are still questions at
receiver, running back and with the lack of depth at linebacker. Plus,
that regular-season schedule is just ugly for any first-year coach.
13. Tennessee:
Butch Jones did a good job of supplying some much-needed energy within
this football team, but he sure does have his hands full. Gone are the
starting quarterback and basically all of last season's receiving
production. He has a strong offensive line, and the defense seemed to
adjust to the 4-3 scheme, but these players have to be much more
consistent going forward.
14. Kentucky:
Coach Mark Stoops has received a ton of support from Big Blue Nation,
but he knows that his team has a long way to go. He has to find his
quarterback and offensive playmakers. He has to replace three starters
in the secondary and is thin at linebacker. The good news is that the
defensive line will be the core of this team, which is huge for the
first-year coach.
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By GLENN GUILBEAU Tiger Rag Featured Columnist BATON ROUGE
Pat Forde, the best writer/reporter ESPN has ever had, is smiling. Bruce Feldman, another excellent former ESPN writer, is likely laughing inside, too. The Southeastern Conference and ESPN, or I should say ESPN and the SEC in that order, announced last week a 20-year agreement to create and operate the SEC Network, which will launch in 2014 and air programming on television 24 hours seven days a week along with a digital platform.
There will be 1,000 live events in the first year with 450 on live television and 550 on digital. This is great news for SEC fans, who are truly everywhere.
Unfortunately, this will only make that much more cozy what has already been a very cozy, but objectively challenged relationship between ESPN, the 24-hour conflict of interest network, and the nation’s premier athletic conference, which also has tended to lead the nation in NCAA investigations, penalties and overall corruption. See Auburn’s “spicy” 2010 national championship season. ESPN is the one actually doing the reporting now on Auburn’s synthetic marijuana craze.
But it should be noted that Forde left ESPN for Yahoo Sports late in 2011 for more journalistic freedom to put it nicely. Sports Business Daily put it another way at the time, reporting Forde “has long been unhappy with what he couldn’t report on or look into because of ESPN’s many conflicts of interest.” Eric Crawford, a columnist at the Louisville Courier-Journal, said at the time that Forde was “held in check at times by ESPN and kept from jumping into big stories for whatever reason the network had.” ESPN, for example, did not like what Forde had to say on “Outside the Lines” about the Longhorn Network, which also is in partnership with ESPN and launched in August of 2011 not long before Forde left ESPN. “I’m frankly a little troubled by the Longhorn Network,” Forde said. “What it does to me is it singles out a specific school (Texas) as opposed to collective.
And when you do that, you are essentially playing favorites. If it gets into an uneven playing field, and ESPN is part and parcel of creating an uneven playing field, then I can understand why fans of other teams would have a problem with that. It creates a perception for those of us on the news side covering these teams that we are going to play favorites as well.” It could be argued now that ESPN is essentially playing favorites with the SEC on a larger scale than ever. If other major conferences have a problem, that is understandable.
ESPN has been down the shifty road of non-bias before. It did not like Feldman’s book on former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, “Swing Your Sword” that came out in the summer of 2011. Feldman told as many ESPN superiors as he could about the book before it came out, but they still acted like children when it came out. “In the last six weeks, I’ve seen what they’re (ESPN’s hierarchy) capable of,” Feldman said as he exited for CBSSports.com. He said he “lost all faith” in those powers that be. ESPN management also ended its best-ever radio show in 2004 when it fired the extremely entertaining Tony Kornheiser after he criticized higher-ups for firing the show’s producer.
The aggravating motor mouth Colin Cowherd, an unknowing clone of Roy Firestone’s announcer character Biff Barnes, replaced Kornheiser, and it is awful. Another problem between ESPN and Forde, a veteran Kentucky basketball writer for the Courier-Journal before he became nationally famous, was what he may have been looking into regarding the Kentucky basketball program and its oft-NCAA penalized coach John Calipari while still at ESPN. ESPN’s coziness with the SEC, particularly now, may not be able to afford an expose by ESPN on the SEC’s and now ESPN’s kingpin basketball school.
Who will be next to leave the “mother ship,” as former SportsCenter host Dan Patrick calls ESPN? Over the next 20 years, can anyone foresee an in depth, unflattering report on ESPN or one of its many spinoffs on, say, the Alabama football program? Over the next few months, can anyone foresee an in depth, unflattering report on ESPN or one of its many spinoffs on, say, how the SEC has allowed Alabama to avoid Georgia in the football bridge scheduling last season and this season? If so, perhaps, there will be another ESPN departure in the future.
I totally agree that absolute power corrupt absolutely, So this SEC ESPN tie up can go sour and stay that way for us college football fans very quickly.
Why tie LSU and the SEC college football program down to only one TV Network like that. I mean seriously - why sell ourselves down the river so cheaply?
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2013 LSU Tigers Football Schedule | ||||
| Date | Opponent | Time/TV | Tickets | |
| Saturday 08/31/13 |  |
TCU Horned Frogs Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX | 8:00 p.m. CT ESPN | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 09/07/13 |  |
UAB Blazers Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 09/1413 |
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Kent State Golden Flashes Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 09/21/13 |
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Auburn Tigers Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 09/28/13 |
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at Georgia Bulldogs Sanford Stadium, Athens, GA | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 10/05/13 |
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at Mississippi State Bulldogs Davis Wade Stadium, Starkville, MS | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 10/12/13 |  |
Florida Gators Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 10/19/13 |
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at Ole Miss Rebels Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 10/26/13 |
 | Furman Paladins Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA |
TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 11/02/13 | --- | Open Date | --- | --- |
| Saturday 11/09/13 |
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at Alabama Crimson Tide Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 11/16/13 |
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| Saturday 11/23/13 |  |
Texas A&M Aggies Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 11/30/13 |
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Arkansas Razorbacks Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA | TBA | Buy Tickets |
| Saturday 12/07/13 |
 | SEC Championship Game Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA | TBA | Buy Tickets |
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1. Alabama:
Nick Saban is equipped with yet another national championship
contender. Yes, it would be his third straight at Alabama and fourth in
five years. An all-star cast returns on offense, led by veteran
quarterback AJ McCarron and topflight receiver Amari Cooper. The offensive line lost three draft picks but had a good spring, and the defense is still loaded.2. Texas A&M:
The Aggies lost some important offensive pieces, including offensive
coordinator Kliff Kingsbury and left tackle Luke Joeckel, but there are
still a lot of weapons to use. Johnny Manziel
is still in town, and he'll have a loaded running back stable to work
with as well as a host of talented, young receivers led by Mike Evans. The real worry has to be on defense, where five starters are gone from the front seven. 3. Georgia: We all know that the Bulldogs will score a lot of points this fall. Aaron Murray has his entire offensive line back, the league's top running back duo (Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall) and a slew of receiving targets, led by Malcolm Mitchell.
But the defense is very young. There is talent, but replacing 12
players who started or saw significant time will create early growing
pains.4. South Carolina: The Gamecocks return good balance on offense, starting with two quality quarterbacks in Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson and running back Mike Davis. The defense also has the luxury of having Jadeveon Clowney
anchor what should be a very solid defensive line. The two-deep at
linebacker is gone and there are holes in the secondary, so youth could
be an issue.5. Florida:
Nobody will question the talent Florida possesses on defense. The
Gators lost two first-round draft picks there, but Will Muschamp &
Co. should reload with solid younger talent. But how good will the
offense be? Quarterback Jeff Driskel
will be a year older in the offense, the line should be better and the
Gators will be stout running the ball, but there are no consistently
reliable receiving targets.6. LSU:
Gradation and the NFL draft ravaged LSU's defense. Questions loom at
linebacker and in the secondary, but coach Les Miles left spring pretty
pleased with the defensive line. The offense should be improved with
quarterback Zach Mettenberger's development, a solid line and all the receiving targets returning. But if running back Jeremy Hill's
legal trouble sidelines him (he was suspended indefinitely after being
charged with battery last week), the Tigers could be in trouble. 7. Vanderbilt:
Coach James Franklin has to be pretty excited with the personnel he has
coming back. He has competition at quarterback and running back, but
receivers Jordan Matthews and Chris Boyd,
along with a stout offensive line, will help this offense go. The
defense got stronger up front this spring, and there are quality
starters at linebacker and in the secondary.8. Ole Miss:
Coach Hugh Freeze wants to make sure expectations are tempered in
Oxford after last season's success and a monster recruiting haul. He
lost just three starters from last season's team, and guys are motivated
to top last year's 7-6 season. But injuries hurt the team this spring,
and depth issues still exist at receiver and along both lines. 9. Auburn:
The return of Gus Malzahn as coach has people on the Plains very
excited. The offensive personnel fits his spread offense, and Ellis
Johnson has instilled a new attitude on defense. The Tigers have to
figure out their quarterback situation, and there are no proven
receiving threats. Auburn will be better, but this team still has a ways
to go.10. Mississippi State: The Bulldogs had a Jekyll and Hyde 2012 but also lost some key parts to last season's squad. Quarterback Tyler Russell
has to work with a new receiving corps, while the secondary has to
replace three starters, including Thorpe Award winner Johnthan Banks. It
sounds as though the defensive line made major strides this spring,
especially ends Denico Autry and Ryan Brown.11. Missouri:
The Tigers didn't lose a lot from last season's 5-7 squad, but the
offense dealt with a quarterback battle and protection problems from its
offensive line. That's not good for a team that stumbled offensively
all last season. The defense seemed to impress up front, but Mizzou is
replacing two starting linebackers with a gang of inexperienced players.12. Arkansas:
Under new coach Bret Bielema, the Razorbacks got tougher across the
board this spring. Bielema also found his quarterback in redshirt
sophomore Brandon Allen,
and both lines seemed to progress. But there are still questions at
receiver, running back and with the lack of depth at linebacker. Plus,
that regular-season schedule is just ugly for any first-year coach.13. Tennessee:
Butch Jones did a good job of supplying some much-needed energy within
this football team, but he sure does have his hands full. Gone are the
starting quarterback and basically all of last season's receiving
production. He has a strong offensive line, and the defense seemed to
adjust to the 4-3 scheme, but these players have to be much more
consistent going forward.14. Kentucky:
Coach Mark Stoops has received a ton of support from Big Blue Nation,
but he knows that his team has a long way to go. He has to find his
quarterback and offensive playmakers. He has to replace three starters
in the secondary and is thin at linebacker. The good news is that the
defensive line will be the core of this team, which is huge for the
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GUILBEAU: SEC Behind the Scenes
May 5, 2013 - © 2013 Tiger Rag
New SEC Network a giant, 20-year conflict of interest
By GLENN GUILBEAU Tiger Rag Featured Columnist BATON ROUGE
Pat Forde, the best writer/reporter ESPN has ever had, is smiling. Bruce Feldman, another excellent former ESPN writer, is likely laughing inside, too. The Southeastern Conference and ESPN, or I should say ESPN and the SEC in that order, announced last week a 20-year agreement to create and operate the SEC Network, which will launch in 2014 and air programming on television 24 hours seven days a week along with a digital platform.
There will be 1,000 live events in the first year with 450 on live television and 550 on digital. This is great news for SEC fans, who are truly everywhere.
Unfortunately, this will only make that much more cozy what has already been a very cozy, but objectively challenged relationship between ESPN, the 24-hour conflict of interest network, and the nation’s premier athletic conference, which also has tended to lead the nation in NCAA investigations, penalties and overall corruption. See Auburn’s “spicy” 2010 national championship season. ESPN is the one actually doing the reporting now on Auburn’s synthetic marijuana craze.
But it should be noted that Forde left ESPN for Yahoo Sports late in 2011 for more journalistic freedom to put it nicely. Sports Business Daily put it another way at the time, reporting Forde “has long been unhappy with what he couldn’t report on or look into because of ESPN’s many conflicts of interest.” Eric Crawford, a columnist at the Louisville Courier-Journal, said at the time that Forde was “held in check at times by ESPN and kept from jumping into big stories for whatever reason the network had.” ESPN, for example, did not like what Forde had to say on “Outside the Lines” about the Longhorn Network, which also is in partnership with ESPN and launched in August of 2011 not long before Forde left ESPN. “I’m frankly a little troubled by the Longhorn Network,” Forde said. “What it does to me is it singles out a specific school (Texas) as opposed to collective.
And when you do that, you are essentially playing favorites. If it gets into an uneven playing field, and ESPN is part and parcel of creating an uneven playing field, then I can understand why fans of other teams would have a problem with that. It creates a perception for those of us on the news side covering these teams that we are going to play favorites as well.” It could be argued now that ESPN is essentially playing favorites with the SEC on a larger scale than ever. If other major conferences have a problem, that is understandable.
ESPN has been down the shifty road of non-bias before. It did not like Feldman’s book on former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, “Swing Your Sword” that came out in the summer of 2011. Feldman told as many ESPN superiors as he could about the book before it came out, but they still acted like children when it came out. “In the last six weeks, I’ve seen what they’re (ESPN’s hierarchy) capable of,” Feldman said as he exited for CBSSports.com. He said he “lost all faith” in those powers that be. ESPN management also ended its best-ever radio show in 2004 when it fired the extremely entertaining Tony Kornheiser after he criticized higher-ups for firing the show’s producer.
The aggravating motor mouth Colin Cowherd, an unknowing clone of Roy Firestone’s announcer character Biff Barnes, replaced Kornheiser, and it is awful. Another problem between ESPN and Forde, a veteran Kentucky basketball writer for the Courier-Journal before he became nationally famous, was what he may have been looking into regarding the Kentucky basketball program and its oft-NCAA penalized coach John Calipari while still at ESPN. ESPN’s coziness with the SEC, particularly now, may not be able to afford an expose by ESPN on the SEC’s and now ESPN’s kingpin basketball school.
Who will be next to leave the “mother ship,” as former SportsCenter host Dan Patrick calls ESPN? Over the next 20 years, can anyone foresee an in depth, unflattering report on ESPN or one of its many spinoffs on, say, the Alabama football program? Over the next few months, can anyone foresee an in depth, unflattering report on ESPN or one of its many spinoffs on, say, how the SEC has allowed Alabama to avoid Georgia in the football bridge scheduling last season and this season? If so, perhaps, there will be another ESPN departure in the future.
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TigerGumbo: to “GUILBEAU: SEC Behind the Scenes” May 6th, 2013 4:16 am
I totally agree that absolute power corrupt absolutely, So this SEC ESPN tie up can go sour and stay that way for us college football fans very quickly.
Why tie LSU and the SEC college football program down to only one TV Network like that. I mean seriously - why sell ourselves down the river so cheaply?
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Since there was no baseball game yesterday and won’t be another until Thursday, today I'll lead with LSU football.
Yesterday I posted a link to an article by RantSports that expressed some concern with LSU's defensive line, and while I agree that losing Barkevious Mingo, Sam Montgomery and Lavar Edwards is very significant, I'm not overly concerned about the defensive end position. Jermauria Rasco (6'3" 255, JR) is set to have a big year manning one of the end spots, and at this point Danielle Hunter (6'5", 235, SO) and Jordan Allen (6'6" 253, JR) are the leading candidates to man the other spot. However, the Tigers have several very talented incoming freshmen will also challenge for playing time including Frank Herron (6'5", 235, FR) and Louisiana's own Kendal Beckwith (6'3", 235, FR) and Michael Patterson (6'3", 240).
The two positions that I'm more concerned with than defensive end are middle linebacker and placekicker. I've written before about the big challenge it will be to fill the shoes of Kevin Minter who had an outstanding junior season and was highly under-appreciated on a national level. Junior D.J. Welter ended the spring No. 1 on my depth chart at MLB, but I'm not so sure that he'll hold on to that role with several talented underclassmen from last year's signing class in the mix, plus senior Lamin Barrow who is currently No. 1 at outside linebacker.
As for placekickers, I have all the confidence in the world in James Hairston kicking off, but I'm a little concerned about field goal and PAT duties. Redshirt freshmen Colby Delahoussaye and Trent Domingue seem to be battling it out there, and both have great legs but little experience. Hairston has the strongest leg of the three, but has very little experience in that role. Quite frankly, I'm concerned that any of them would have a hard time filling the shoes of Drew Alleman who was Mr. Dependable on PATs and pretty darn strong in field goal kicking. Alleman finished his career 37-for-47 (.787) in field goal attempts and 106-for-107 in PATs.
Another position that I know a lot of Tiger Fans are now concerned with, in light of the Jeremy Hill mess, is running back. There's no doubt that if Hill does not play that will be a major blow to the offense as he was set to be one of the premier backs in the country, but LSU is fortunate to have three quality backs in Alfred Blue, Kenney Hilliard, and Terrance Magee. Hilliard has slimmed down a bit and is in his best physical shape since arriving at LSU, and I suspect we’ll see a revival of the nicknames "Shake and Bake," which Coach Miles used when referring to Blue and Hilliard after last year's season opener against North Texas when the two became the first pair of backs since 1982 to each gain 100+ yards in a game. Of course, that was against North Texas, but still, the two make a formidable pair as their strengths compliment each other well. I also look for LSU to give speedster Jeryl Brazil some looks at running back. Heck, it might not even be a bad idea to give John Diarse some looks there, although after the outstanding spring he had at receiver this is probably unlikely. With all that said, I sure would feel a better about the Tigers’ depth at running back if LSU had of pursued Adam Taylor of Katy, Texas, who really wanted to be a Tiger but ended signing with Nebraska. As they say, hindsight is 20-20. The Tigers will surely need to sign a few running backs in this year's recruiting class and as you know Louisiana has some outstanding ones including Leonard Fournette (6'2", 220, St. Augustine) who is the highest ranked prospect in the nation and No. 1 on my list of Top LA Football Prospects for 2014, and Darrell Williams (6'1", 213, John Ehret) who is No. 13 on my list.
In softball news, LSU lost to Georgia yesterday 10-5 in their regular season finale. The two teams were set to play a double yesterday since Saturday's game was rained out, but was only able to get one game in. With the loss, the Tigers ended the regular season a very respectable 40-13 overall and 15-8 in the SEC. LSU and Georgia will meet again Thursday at 12:30 p.m. CT in Lexington, Kentucky, for the quarterfinal round of the SEC Tournament and the game will be televised by ESPNU.
Moving on to baseball news, LSU will return to action Thursday when they begin a big road series against Texas A&M. The Tigers (43-6, 19-5) have a theoretical chance of winning a historic 50 games in the regular season this year if they win out, but that will be very challenging with three road games at Texas A&M, a midweek home game against New Orleans, and a home series against Ole Miss remaining on the schedule.
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