Sunday, April 27, 2014

Can you really see the future?




Tinker

Did you know that they were that good to win the championship before the football season?

Could you see LSU winning the BCS National Champion in 2007 in the summer of that same year?
Strangely enough the word going around tiger town back then was that the LSU football fans were telling each other. That the LSU football team has put together a very strong offensive line with depth. And also everyplace else on the 2007 football team was strong.

That this could be the year?
The point of that talk within the fighting tiger faithful was that if LSU had the right stuff up front on the line of scrimmage. Than the 2007 LSU team had a great chance to win them all. The reaction back then to that insider tiger talk was ok, so let's just wait and see.

Because the LSU tiger football fans have heard that kind of talk before about the LSU line.  Only to see the other college football team out shine the Purple and Gold. As LSU would then need to go play in the second best college Bowl game at the end of the college football season. And 10 - 2 was a good college football season but still no SEC Championship cigar.
The big men up front were the backbone of the football team, and if your team had it up front then you were really into something very good. But dreaming and hoping was not the same as truly having that ability in truth on the college football field.
Nick Saban went to coach for the Miami Dolphins and then over to Alabama Crimson Tide. And all of the LSU tiger nation were feeling frustrated from a long line of bad breaks that seemed to keep the SEC championship just away from the LSU family fingertips since Saban left LSU.

LSU did win the 2007 BCS National Championship and all was once again heaven on earth in tiger town Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Now in 2014 I am hearing the same kind of talk from the LSU tiger insiders that really know a thing or two about what a championship college football team look like. Could in fact the LSU fighting tiger football fan be on the threshold of another SEC Championship for this LSU college football team in 2014, and don't know it?
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LSU 2014 offense lineman
Roster/Depth Chart
55 Elliot Porter (Sr.)
6-4, 300
Started 12/13 games at center.
70 La'El Collins (Sr.)
6-5, 315
Started 12/13 games in at left tackle.
65 Jerald Hawkins (Soph.)
6-6, 301
Started all 13 games - 12 at right tackle, one at left.
74 Vadal Alexander (Jr.)
6-6, 342
Started all 13 games at left guard.
69 Fehoko Fanaika (Sr.)
6-6, 348
Appeared in 12 games as a reserve guard.
75 Evan Washington (Sr.)
6-6, 334
Appeared in all 13 games with one start at right tackle.
71 Jonah Austin (Jr.)
6-6, 324
Appeared in 7 games as a reserve tackle/guard.
76 Josh Boutte (Soph.)
6-4, 333
Appeared in 8 games.
77 Ethan Pocic (Soph.)
6-7, 301
Appeared in six games and started one game at center.
72 Andy Dodd (RS-Fr.)
6-4, 322
Four-star recruit, redshirted.
63 K.J. Malone (RS-Fr.)
6-3, 290
Three-star recruit, redshirted.
LSU signee Travonte Valentine gets test score needed to qualify

LSU signee Travonte Valentine runs a drill at practice for the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. (Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Travonte Valentine earned the test score needed for the 6-foot-3, 335-pound defensive tackle from Hialeah, Fla., to play at LSU.
Valentine had selected LSU over Miami before he signed a national letter of intent in February.

Buthis status remained uncertain until he recently scored a 19 on the ACT.

"When I got my score I was so excited," said Valentine, a senior at Champagnat Catholic. "This was the last big hurdle for me. Now I can focus on achieving my dream, playing at LSU. Everyone has been so supportive and I'm glad I came through for them."
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And the rest of the 2014 LSU tiger football freshman.

http://lsu.247sports.com/Season/2014-Football/Commits
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