Tinker
How
do you like these television reporters repeating to the American people
what they know to be a flawed incomplete diagnoses of what the U.S.
government is telling the American people?
Did you ever see a more blatant display of bull talk in your
life. Wow! I mean they will say anything that is written on the
teleprompter without hesitation. I am waiting to hear about the
television scripted instructions from, "President Barack Obama and the
U.S. Congress who wants me to go take myself over to the nearest
government building. And to turn over my body if I am over weight
because the poor people are hungry and out of food - for the public
good."Just mindless prattle because they don't care what they are reading, or saying. They just care about what the deal is for doing the TV job. And they are willing to do it that way if it means working in front of a Television Camera getting paid a lot of money.
Fame and money and the thrill that they feel from doing that kind of job. Thrill seekers looking for fame and fortune.
Once upon a time the American News Media would be skeptical about what the U.S. Government were telling them. That the American public could feel reasonably confident that the News Media was investigating the story that the U.S. government was feeding the Media. So the News Media was in truth the fourth estate of the three branches of this American people Government.
The American people could trust that the daily news of what the News Media were reporting to them was when, what, where, and why, it happened. Filtered by reporters, writers, and News department editors that had the professional integrity to make sure that what they were reporting to the American people, was true. In spite of some of that daily news coming from deceitful politicians, or criminals, or corrupt big business interest, and perhaps even worse.
The American News Media was very important to the American people society.
Need I go any further about how our America television Network business is being run today, because what I read and see now on television is truly discussing compared to what was once a very noble profession. That was trusted by the American people to be the freedom of the press News Media.
Our country's TV News Media has long ago lost their professional integrity to big business political corruption, because now anything goes and what they and doing is turning the daily news into entertaining TV sound bites. Controlling the American population with TV Media addiction, and of course it hasn't been very good entertainment. Like this very good Broadway Song and Dance number.
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Gifts for conservatives
By George Will
JewishWorldReview.com |
This report on the State of Conservatism comes at the end of an
annus mirabilis
for conservatives. In 2013, they learned that they may have been wasting much time and effort.
Hitherto, they have thought that the most efficient way to evangelize the unconverted was to write and speak, exhorting those still shrouded in darkness to read conservatism’s most light-shedding texts. Now they know that a quicker, surer method is to have progressives wield power for a few years. This will validate the core conservative insight about the mischiefs that ensue when governments demonstrate their incapacity for supplanting with fiats the spontaneous order of a market society.
It is difficult to recall and hard to believe that just three months ago some conservatives, mirroring progressives’ lack of respect for the public, considered it imperative to shut down the government in order to stop Obamacare in its tracks. They feared that once Americans got a glimpse of the law’s proffered subsidies, they would embrace it. Actually, once they glimpsed the law’s details, they recoiled.
Counterfactual history can illuminate the present, so: Suppose in 2012, Barack Obama had told the truth about the ability of people to keep their health plans. Would he have been reelected? Unlikely. Suppose in 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts, instead of rewriting the health-care law to save it, had been the fifth vote for overturning it. Would Obama be better off today? Probably.
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December 26, 2013
I had hoped to write about "Duck Dynasty" this week, but that will have to wait. I have too much Kwanzaa shopping left to do. (Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa getting way too commercialized?)
Contrary to pundits sniping about Ted Cruz's campaign to repeal Obamacare, even the most boneheaded liberal ideas never "collapse on their own," which is why we still have public schools and President Obama. If nothing is done, Kwanzaa will join these horrors in the firmament of American life.
It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga -- founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. He was also a dupe of the FBI.
In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the '60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better.
By that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.
Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution (although some of their most high-profile leaders were drug dealers and murderers). Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves.
United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a huge help to the black community: Three of the four suspects recently arrested for the fatal carjacking at the Short Hills, N.J., mall were named Basim, Hanif and Karif.)
It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglika," which he based on the philosophy of Mein Kampf -- and clueless public school teachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday. Read More »
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By David D. Kirkpatrick Benghazi, Libya
A boyish-looking American diplomat was meeting for the first time with the Islamist leaders of eastern Libya’s most formidable militias.
It was Sept. 9, 2012. Gathered on folding chairs in a banquet hall by the Mediterranean, the Libyans warned of rising threats against Americans from extremists in Benghazi. One militia leader, with a long beard and mismatched military fatigues, mentioned time in exile in Afghanistan. An American guard discreetly touched his gun.
“Since Benghazi isn’t safe, it is better for you to leave now,” Mohamed al-Gharabi, the leader of the Rafallah al-Sehati Brigade, later recalled telling the Americans. “I specifically told the Americans myself that we hoped that they would leave Benghazi as soon as possible.”
Yet as the militiamen snacked on Twinkie-style cakes with their American guests, they also gushed about their gratitude for President Obama’s support in their uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. They emphasized that they wanted to build a partnership with the United States, especially in the form of more investment. They specifically asked for Benghazi outlets of McDonald’s and KFC.
The diplomat, David McFarland, a former congressional aide who had never before met with a Libyan militia leader, left feeling agitated, according to colleagues. But the meeting did not shake his faith in the prospects for deeper involvement in Libya. Two days later, he summarized the meeting in a cable to Washington, describing a mixed message from the militia leaders.
Despite “growing problems with security,” he wrote, the fighters wanted the United States to become more engaged “by ‘pressuring’ American businesses to invest in Benghazi.”
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LSU underclassmen Jarvis Landry, Odell Beckham Jr., Ego Ferguson, Anthony Johnson and La'El Collins are all leaning toward declaring themselves eligible for the 2014 NFL Draft, according to a Yahoo Sports report.
Where wide receivers Landry and Beckham are concerned, that's nothing new. But it is the first indication that the NFL is more than just a serious consideration for defensive tackles Johnson and Ferguson, and Collins, a left tackle who might merit a first-round evaluation, according to NFL Media analyst Bucky Brooks.
Underclassmen tracker
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Citing league sources, the report indicated Landry and Beckham would merit first-round picks. Both had more than 1,000 receiving yards in what was a resurgent season for the LSU offense and senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger, an NFL prospect himself.
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All five have met with potential agents.
Conspicuously absent from the report is running back Jeremy Hill, a third-year sophomore who is also considering early NFL draft entry. Hill, on probation with legal troubles, has met most of his probation terms and is among the most talented running backs in the nation.
If LSU were to lose five underclassmen, that would mark 15 exiting the Tigers program early over the last two years, a mass exodus by any standard
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By LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Associate Editor
Hope springs eternal on the New Year.
There’s really no difference between December 31, 2013, and January 1, 2014 except for the abundance of that four-letter word. The New Year gives us a reason to think things will be different, that those bad habits we’ve developed will transform into something beneficial, those good habits into something great. The flip of a calendar page gives dreams room to unfold.
So it’s fitting that this particular LSU team will be playing for the final time as one of the first games of a new year. Rather than looking at it as a cap to an inconsistent season, channel the eternal optimist that always finds a way to emerge on that particular day. Look at it for what it very well could be.
What could the Outback Bowl be? Sure, it might be a less than sexy matchup on paper, but your inner optimist seems to think it could be a springboard for a new, exciting era of LSU football.
Obviously a lot of things need to pan out in order for this quasi-premonition to be warranted. But that’s the funny thing about hope, it doesn’t need to be rational – in fact, it’s more powerful when it is guided by something other than logic.
Logic and rationality are what true freshman quarterback Anthony Jennings defied when he led the Tigers on a 99-yard game winning drive against Arkansas in the regular season finale.
I remember seeing the Razorbacks down the ball inside the one-yard line. I thought to myself, more or less in these exact words, "LSU is screwed,” right before Jennings took the inevitable quarterback sneak to start that drive.
There wasn’t really any logical reason for me to think otherwise. After all, Miles had eschewed the opportunity to play Jennings extensively in a number of blowout wins earlier in the season, leaving Jennings almost wholly unprepared for the challenge of leading his team to victory.
But, like I said, logic didn’t really stand a chance on that cold night in Tiger Stadium.
Jennings certainly didn’t look like his last meaningful playing time came on some prep field in Georgia. He calmly led his teammates down the field on a nearly flawless game-winning drive, and he emphatically stamped his arrival with a high-arcing touchdown strike to Travin Dural.
Tony Ballgame.
One minute and 49 seconds of game time was all that was necessary to strip the "Untested” tag off Jennings and replace it flashy new sticker that simply says, "Future.”
That’s important for a number of reasons, but here’s the big one: It’s widely assumed that four of LSU’s standout offensive underclassmen– Jeremy Hill, La’El Collins, Odell Beckham and the incomparable Jarvis Landry – will be making plays in the NFL next season. As we’ve seen this year, it’s not easy to replace that much talent on one side of the ball.
It becomes a lot easier if you’re not relying on an unproven commodity at quarterback. A strong performance from Jennings in the Outback Bowl will create some great vibes around LSU’s campus heading into the 2014 season even if all that talent leaves.
There’s that four-letter word again. Hope, young sir Jennings, it’s in your hands. It’s in yours, it’s in offensive coordinator Cam Cameron’s, and it’s potentially in the hands of some reinforcements.
While a load of resolutions and New Year’s goals will be forgotten or abandoned already by January 2, LSU’s figure to get a shot in the arm. That’s the day a number of high-profile recruits are expected to declare their intention to join Jennings as the future at LSU.
The Tigers could pull a major coup on that day, especially if they are able to nab five-star Louisiana products Leonard Fournette, Gerald Willis, Speedy Noil and Malachi Dupre – all of whom are making their decisions at the Under Armour All-American game and are considered leans to LSU.
They could be joined by out of state products like five-star Texas safety Jamal Adams, five-star California cornerback Adoree Jackson and five-star Texas cornerback Tony Brown (who will also be making his commitment at the Under Armour game).
That’s a lot of stars, y’all. Those stars mean nothing until those players get on the field and produce like they’re projected to, but they would certainly develop a warm and fuzzy feeling in the guts of LSU fans if they chose to sign here.
Hope, in addition to being abundant this time of year, is contagious. For every pristine play by LSU’s precocious signal caller, for every recruiting domino to fall, hope should be ripping through Baton Rouge like a wild fire this New Year.
Maybe, like a wild fire, hope is dangerous. Perhaps it puts too much on unknown variables. There’s always a chance Jennings could flop and recruits wouldn’t measure up to their various star ratings.
But with the way LSU has developed talent in recent years (and for those who wish to argue that fact, look at how many players drafted from LSU since 2000 and kindly stop arguing), the Tigers should be setting themselves up for a period of sustained success that hasn’t ever been seen around these parts.
At least, that’s what hope would have you believe, and there’s going to be a lot of that going around in the next few weeks.
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By George Will
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Hitherto, they have thought that the most efficient way to evangelize the unconverted was to write and speak, exhorting those still shrouded in darkness to read conservatism’s most light-shedding texts. Now they know that a quicker, surer method is to have progressives wield power for a few years. This will validate the core conservative insight about the mischiefs that ensue when governments demonstrate their incapacity for supplanting with fiats the spontaneous order of a market society.
It is difficult to recall and hard to believe that just three months ago some conservatives, mirroring progressives’ lack of respect for the public, considered it imperative to shut down the government in order to stop Obamacare in its tracks. They feared that once Americans got a glimpse of the law’s proffered subsidies, they would embrace it. Actually, once they glimpsed the law’s details, they recoiled.
Counterfactual history can illuminate the present, so: Suppose in 2012, Barack Obama had told the truth about the ability of people to keep their health plans. Would he have been reelected? Unlikely. Suppose in 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts, instead of rewriting the health-care law to save it, had been the fifth vote for overturning it. Would Obama be better off today? Probably.
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KWANZAA: THE HOLIDAY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FBI
December 26, 2013
I had hoped to write about "Duck Dynasty" this week, but that will have to wait. I have too much Kwanzaa shopping left to do. (Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa getting way too commercialized?)
Contrary to pundits sniping about Ted Cruz's campaign to repeal Obamacare, even the most boneheaded liberal ideas never "collapse on their own," which is why we still have public schools and President Obama. If nothing is done, Kwanzaa will join these horrors in the firmament of American life.
It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga -- founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. He was also a dupe of the FBI.
In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the '60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better.
By that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.
Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution (although some of their most high-profile leaders were drug dealers and murderers). Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves.
United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a huge help to the black community: Three of the four suspects recently arrested for the fatal carjacking at the Short Hills, N.J., mall were named Basim, Hanif and Karif.)
It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglika," which he based on the philosophy of Mein Kampf -- and clueless public school teachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday. Read More »
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Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters
A Deadly Mix in Benghazi
By David D. Kirkpatrick Benghazi, Libya
A boyish-looking American diplomat was meeting for the first time with the Islamist leaders of eastern Libya’s most formidable militias.
It was Sept. 9, 2012. Gathered on folding chairs in a banquet hall by the Mediterranean, the Libyans warned of rising threats against Americans from extremists in Benghazi. One militia leader, with a long beard and mismatched military fatigues, mentioned time in exile in Afghanistan. An American guard discreetly touched his gun.
“Since Benghazi isn’t safe, it is better for you to leave now,” Mohamed al-Gharabi, the leader of the Rafallah al-Sehati Brigade, later recalled telling the Americans. “I specifically told the Americans myself that we hoped that they would leave Benghazi as soon as possible.”
Yet as the militiamen snacked on Twinkie-style cakes with their American guests, they also gushed about their gratitude for President Obama’s support in their uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. They emphasized that they wanted to build a partnership with the United States, especially in the form of more investment. They specifically asked for Benghazi outlets of McDonald’s and KFC.
The diplomat, David McFarland, a former congressional aide who had never before met with a Libyan militia leader, left feeling agitated, according to colleagues. But the meeting did not shake his faith in the prospects for deeper involvement in Libya. Two days later, he summarized the meeting in a cable to Washington, describing a mixed message from the militia leaders.
Despite “growing problems with security,” he wrote, the fighters wanted the United States to become more engaged “by ‘pressuring’ American businesses to invest in Benghazi.”
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1. College football will be a lot duller Tuesday because Nick Aliotti
will have coached his last game as the Oregon defensive coordinator.
Aliotti has done a terrific job under Rich Brooks, Mike Bellotti, Chip
Kelly and Mark Helfrich. Last spring, newly a grandfather, Aliotti
sounded like a guy who could live without the game. “Football doesn’t
define me. It’s what I do for a living,” Aliotti said. “I just happen to
be a football coach. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t need people
to interview me. To be honest with you, I’d be perfectly happy to be on
the golf course, just being with my wife and my kids.”
2. The difference between a winning season and a losing season? It will be hard to find one snap more important in any bowl than Syracuse freshman Brisly Estime's 70-yard punt return to the Minnesota 14. Estime’s return with 2:00 to play set up the Orange’s winning touchdown in a thrilling 21-17 victory in the Texas Bowl. The Golden Gophers dominated the fourth quarter to that point, fighting back from a 14-3 deficit to take the lead. The best part? It was only Estime’s fourth punt return this season.
3. Miami had a 6-0 record and a No. 7 ranking when the NCAA announced in October that the Hurricanes’ sanctions would include no more bowl bans. Without that NCAA sword hanging above the Canes, they could realize their ambitions, right? Not with this defense. Miami lost four of its last six games, bookending 27-point losses to Florida State and Louisville around 18-point losses to Virginia Tech and Duke. Al Golden can now recruit without having to worry about what the NCAA will do. He needs to.
2. The difference between a winning season and a losing season? It will be hard to find one snap more important in any bowl than Syracuse freshman Brisly Estime's 70-yard punt return to the Minnesota 14. Estime’s return with 2:00 to play set up the Orange’s winning touchdown in a thrilling 21-17 victory in the Texas Bowl. The Golden Gophers dominated the fourth quarter to that point, fighting back from a 14-3 deficit to take the lead. The best part? It was only Estime’s fourth punt return this season.
3. Miami had a 6-0 record and a No. 7 ranking when the NCAA announced in October that the Hurricanes’ sanctions would include no more bowl bans. Without that NCAA sword hanging above the Canes, they could realize their ambitions, right? Not with this defense. Miami lost four of its last six games, bookending 27-point losses to Florida State and Louisville around 18-point losses to Virginia Tech and Duke. Al Golden can now recruit without having to worry about what the NCAA will do. He needs to.
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Thomas Williams: Top Commenter ·
Well
of course sports reporters can write whatever they want, and it is no
surprise to me that I am reading a lot of glossy stories about the
college football coaches that the today's sports reporters write about.
The News Media professional integrity has been stomped on so badly lately by the anything goes crowd of today's sports writers, that I really don't believe anything about what personal opinion is written by sports writers now.
All I know about Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti is that on September 3, 2011, 7:00 PM Oregon played LSU in Arlington Dallas Cowboy Stadium, and Lost 40-27. And on Nove.19 USC Trojans, Auzten Stadium Eugene, Or... Lost 38-35
On Jan 10 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game BCS National Championship - #2 Oregon vs #1 Auburn. Auburn won the Crystal football... Just for your information.
The News Media professional integrity has been stomped on so badly lately by the anything goes crowd of today's sports writers, that I really don't believe anything about what personal opinion is written by sports writers now.
All I know about Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti is that on September 3, 2011, 7:00 PM Oregon played LSU in Arlington Dallas Cowboy Stadium, and Lost 40-27. And on Nove.19 USC Trojans, Auzten Stadium Eugene, Or... Lost 38-35
On Jan 10 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game BCS National Championship - #2 Oregon vs #1 Auburn. Auburn won the Crystal football... Just for your information.
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Robert Pedrotti · NATTC Pensacola
And on the other 11 weeks of those seasons Oregon won their games....yup pretty earth shattering stuff
Robert
Pedrotti: That sports reporters are just writing sound bites and don't
much care about the substance of what they are writing any more. That
Oregon offense was winning all of the Ducks college football game, and
not because of the defense. "comprende"
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- Oregon rolls Texas in Brown's finale
| Olson - Texas AD wants new coach by mid-January
- OSU's Spence doesn't travel, uncertain for bowl
- Tebow joins ESPN as SEC Network analyst
- Wash.'s Petersen reveals coordinator hires
- Wilcox, Tuiasosopo rejoin Sarkisian at USC
- TTU to start QB Webb; Brewer will also play
- Ole Miss claims Music City Bowl win
| Reax - Reynolds, Navy cruise past MTSU | Jennings
- Washington RB Sankey to enter NFL draft
- Source: Texas Tech TE Amaro to enter draft
- Army introduces Monken: Best fitted for job
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LSU Football - Geaux!!!
| Monday, December 30, 2013 | |
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| Quad-City Times, IA | Freshman QB presents plenty of unknowns for Iowa |
| Tiger Sports Digest | Scouting Report: Iowa offense |
| Quad-City Times, IA | Outback Bowl notebook |
| Tampa Bay Times | Notes: Les Miles not fretting over likely early entries |
| Times Picayune | Under Armour All-America Game: Day 1 practice analysis |
| Hawkeye Sports | Hawkeyes battled through the rain to prep for LSU |
| USA Today | When bowl tickets go on Groupon, colleges pay the price |
| NCAA News | .pdf NCAA student-athlete gambling behaviors and attitudes |
| Tuesday, December 31, 2013 | |
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| WBRZ Sports | Video (2 min, 48 sec): Jennings new leader for LSU |
| WBRZ Sports | Video (2 min, 52 sec): LSU Juniors weighing NFL decision after bowl |
| WBRZ Sports | Video (2 min, 47 sec): LSU hits the beach ahead of the Outback Bowl |
| Quad-City Times, IA | Outback Bowl notebook: Hawkeyes push the tempo |
| Tampa Bay Times | Turnaround no surprise to Iowa players |
| Quad-City Times, IA | Alvis cherishes chance to suit up one last time for Hawkeyes |
| Hawkeye Sports | Hawkeye fans enjoy rays, white sand at Clearwater Beach Day | Video |
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Five LSU juniors reportedly leaning toward early draft entry (Posted on 12/22/13 at 2:54 pm)
LSU underclassmen Jarvis Landry, Odell Beckham Jr., Ego Ferguson, Anthony Johnson and La'El Collins are all leaning toward declaring themselves eligible for the 2014 NFL Draft, according to a Yahoo Sports report.
Where wide receivers Landry and Beckham are concerned, that's nothing new. But it is the first indication that the NFL is more than just a serious consideration for defensive tackles Johnson and Ferguson, and Collins, a left tackle who might merit a first-round evaluation, according to NFL Media analyst Bucky Brooks.
Underclassmen tracker
NFL.com's College Football 24/7 is tracking reports of the intentions of college football underclassmen in anticipation for the 2014 NFL Draft. More ...
Citing league sources, the report indicated Landry and Beckham would merit first-round picks. Both had more than 1,000 receiving yards in what was a resurgent season for the LSU offense and senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger, an NFL prospect himself.
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Conspicuously absent from the report is running back Jeremy Hill, a third-year sophomore who is also considering early NFL draft entry. Hill, on probation with legal troubles, has met most of his probation terms and is among the most talented running backs in the nation.
If LSU were to lose five underclassmen, that would mark 15 exiting the Tigers program early over the last two years, a mass exodus by any standard
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JOHNSON: New Year should inspire LSU and its fans
12/30/2013 12:42:36 AM
By LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Associate Editor
Hope springs eternal on the New Year.
There’s really no difference between December 31, 2013, and January 1, 2014 except for the abundance of that four-letter word. The New Year gives us a reason to think things will be different, that those bad habits we’ve developed will transform into something beneficial, those good habits into something great. The flip of a calendar page gives dreams room to unfold.
So it’s fitting that this particular LSU team will be playing for the final time as one of the first games of a new year. Rather than looking at it as a cap to an inconsistent season, channel the eternal optimist that always finds a way to emerge on that particular day. Look at it for what it very well could be.
What could the Outback Bowl be? Sure, it might be a less than sexy matchup on paper, but your inner optimist seems to think it could be a springboard for a new, exciting era of LSU football.
Obviously a lot of things need to pan out in order for this quasi-premonition to be warranted. But that’s the funny thing about hope, it doesn’t need to be rational – in fact, it’s more powerful when it is guided by something other than logic.
Logic and rationality are what true freshman quarterback Anthony Jennings defied when he led the Tigers on a 99-yard game winning drive against Arkansas in the regular season finale.
I remember seeing the Razorbacks down the ball inside the one-yard line. I thought to myself, more or less in these exact words, "LSU is screwed,” right before Jennings took the inevitable quarterback sneak to start that drive.
There wasn’t really any logical reason for me to think otherwise. After all, Miles had eschewed the opportunity to play Jennings extensively in a number of blowout wins earlier in the season, leaving Jennings almost wholly unprepared for the challenge of leading his team to victory.
But, like I said, logic didn’t really stand a chance on that cold night in Tiger Stadium.
Jennings certainly didn’t look like his last meaningful playing time came on some prep field in Georgia. He calmly led his teammates down the field on a nearly flawless game-winning drive, and he emphatically stamped his arrival with a high-arcing touchdown strike to Travin Dural.
Tony Ballgame.
One minute and 49 seconds of game time was all that was necessary to strip the "Untested” tag off Jennings and replace it flashy new sticker that simply says, "Future.”
That’s important for a number of reasons, but here’s the big one: It’s widely assumed that four of LSU’s standout offensive underclassmen– Jeremy Hill, La’El Collins, Odell Beckham and the incomparable Jarvis Landry – will be making plays in the NFL next season. As we’ve seen this year, it’s not easy to replace that much talent on one side of the ball.
It becomes a lot easier if you’re not relying on an unproven commodity at quarterback. A strong performance from Jennings in the Outback Bowl will create some great vibes around LSU’s campus heading into the 2014 season even if all that talent leaves.
There’s that four-letter word again. Hope, young sir Jennings, it’s in your hands. It’s in yours, it’s in offensive coordinator Cam Cameron’s, and it’s potentially in the hands of some reinforcements.
While a load of resolutions and New Year’s goals will be forgotten or abandoned already by January 2, LSU’s figure to get a shot in the arm. That’s the day a number of high-profile recruits are expected to declare their intention to join Jennings as the future at LSU.
The Tigers could pull a major coup on that day, especially if they are able to nab five-star Louisiana products Leonard Fournette, Gerald Willis, Speedy Noil and Malachi Dupre – all of whom are making their decisions at the Under Armour All-American game and are considered leans to LSU.
They could be joined by out of state products like five-star Texas safety Jamal Adams, five-star California cornerback Adoree Jackson and five-star Texas cornerback Tony Brown (who will also be making his commitment at the Under Armour game).
That’s a lot of stars, y’all. Those stars mean nothing until those players get on the field and produce like they’re projected to, but they would certainly develop a warm and fuzzy feeling in the guts of LSU fans if they chose to sign here.
Hope, in addition to being abundant this time of year, is contagious. For every pristine play by LSU’s precocious signal caller, for every recruiting domino to fall, hope should be ripping through Baton Rouge like a wild fire this New Year.
Maybe, like a wild fire, hope is dangerous. Perhaps it puts too much on unknown variables. There’s always a chance Jennings could flop and recruits wouldn’t measure up to their various star ratings.
But with the way LSU has developed talent in recent years (and for those who wish to argue that fact, look at how many players drafted from LSU since 2000 and kindly stop arguing), the Tigers should be setting themselves up for a period of sustained success that hasn’t ever been seen around these parts.
At least, that’s what hope would have you believe, and there’s going to be a lot of that going around in the next few weeks.
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