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Zachary, La.
Member since Sep 2011
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The saddest day is when Les Miles retires from LSU (Posted on 2/3/13 at 12:02 p.m.)
Played poker at a table just a few feet away from Les Miles's poker table last night, Kathy sat right by his side. They stayed for just a while. I absolutely love Les Miles, so it was a blast sitting so close to the Coach and his wife, they were a joy.
I noticed that Les couldn't help himself from staring at the HD screen several times when ESPN was interviewing NFL players about the Superbowl. Thought that was funny, this man really loves football and loves his wife, for they both had his attention.
The saddest day for me is when Les Miles retires from LSU for I've grown to love everything about our LSU coach. Les is the best thing to ever happen to LSU for many reasons. People across America have become fans of college football due to his coaching style being so entertaining. But Les is much more than that, he consistently recruits the best players and consistently competes with and beats the best teams.
Even the great Saban at Alabama hasn't had to deal with the tough scheduling that Les Miles continuously has to deal with every year. But you hear no complaining from Miles, he shows no fear. I love him for that and for being a great coach to his players, and a great family man. Les remains a solid decent and humble human being, which you seldom see from those making it big in their profession.
As for losing the national title, get over it, it happens. The New England Patriots coach went undefeated but lost in the Superbowl. Fans still appreciate their great coach, LSU fans should definitely learn to appreciate ours. Hope we have you for a while coach, stay healthy, we love you.
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Tinker: Holy smokes!! I can't help but to start humming this love tune, after reading this love letter about Les Miles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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LSU passing game buoyed with 2013 class
Since then, the Tigers have consistently had, at best, mediocre passing numbers, a trend they hope to snap next season in Zach Mettenberger's senior year at quarterback. Whether that happens remains to be seen. One thing that's clear, however, is that the Tigers have invested heavily to try to improve the passing game in the future.
The 2013 class will finish with four receivers, two tight ends and two quarterbacks, nearly a third of the class devoted to an improved ability to pitch and catch.
"It's exciting," said tight end DeSean Smith (Lake Charles, La./Barbe)," the highest-rated of the eight players by ESPN. "When we look at our class, we think we can do a lot with three wide receiver sets and maybe four and we can even get one or two tight ends in as part of that."
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LSU passing game buoyed with 2013 class 
January, 30, 2013
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Gary Laney | ESPN.com
BATON ROUGE, La. -- The last time LSU had anything close to a
high-powered passing offense was back in its last national championship
season, 2007, with Matt Flynn at quarterback.
Since then, the Tigers have consistently had, at best, mediocre passing numbers, a trend they hope to snap next season in Zach Mettenberger's senior year at quarterback. Whether that happens remains to be seen. One thing that's clear, however, is that the Tigers have invested heavily to try to improve the passing game in the future.
The 2013 class will finish with four receivers, two tight ends and two quarterbacks, nearly a third of the class devoted to an improved ability to pitch and catch.
"It's exciting," said tight end DeSean Smith (Lake Charles, La./Barbe)," the highest-rated of the eight players by ESPN. "When we look at our class, we think we can do a lot with three wide receiver sets and maybe four and we can even get one or two tight ends in as part of that."
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Recruiting adds to A&M's budding rivalry with LSU
By Brent Zwerneman | February 4, 2013 | Updated: February 5, 2013 6:36am
Texas A&M and LSU could be developing a rivalry for generations to come.
Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle / © 2012 Houston Chronicle
Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle / © 2012 Houston Chronicle
BATON ROUGE, La. - A feud is budding along the Gulf
Coast, with its two estates perched a couple of hundred miles on either
side of the Sabine River. And Adrian Wintz,
sporting a purple and gold wig and overall eye-popping LSU-enhanced
ensemble at a recent basketball game against Texas A&M, offered a
colorful example of the blossoming rivalry between the Aggies and
Tigers.
"I've always had a loud and obnoxious voice," the LSU junior Wintz explained of heckling the Aggies, "so this works out perfectly for me."
A&M and LSU also are discovering the renewal of a former non-conference rivalry has the makings of working out perfectly as a perpetual Southeastern Conference quarrel.
"We viewed LSU as a rival when I was a student," said A&M president R. Bowen Loftin, who attended A&M in the late 1960s and early '70s. "We played the Tigers every year as a non-conference opponent, always in Baton Rouge. Now, with the proximity of the schools, plenty of commonality and plenty of kids from Louisiana coming to school here and vice versa, it makes sense that this will be viewed as a rivalry."
The Aggies, with Loftin serving as catalyst, joined the SEC last July. National signing day is Wednesday, and the recharged rivalry also has played out in living rooms across southeast Texas and the entire state of Louisiana.
A&M women's basketball coach Gary Blair, whose 14th-ranked squad beat LSU 74-57 on Monday night, said he was impressed that A&M football coach Kevin Sumlin is creating recruiting inroads in places like New Orleans.
"That's generally LSU's or Alabama's territory," said Blair, who coached in the SEC at Arkansas.
LSU, as usual, has pieced together a strong recruiting class under coach Les Miles, but the Tigers don't have any verbal pledges from Texas for the first time in at least the past decade. Compare that to the past three seasons, when LSU signed three Texans each year. According to Rival.com's Jeff Tarpley, LSU made offers to 21 Texas prospects in the 2013 class, and the Aggies beat out the Tigers for receiver Kyrion Parker and defensive back Tavares Garner from Manvel.
As for Houston, while the nation's fourth-largest city is closer to College Station than Baton Rouge (100 miles versus 260), it's still situated between both college towns and a recruiting hotbed for both schools.
"This is a natural rivalry in the SEC more than any other team we play because of the (schools') location," said A&M basketball coach Billy Kennedy, who grew up in New Orleans. "I've got friends who went to LSU who live in Houston."
More than 11,500 former LSU students live within a 100-mile radius of Houston, according to Tracy Jones of the LSU Alumni Association. Meanwhile, about 3,000 former A&M students live in Louisiana, according to Scot Walker of the A&M Association of Former Students.
"There are a number of factors that make this a natural rivalry," said Herb Vincent, an LSU associate athletic director. "We've already had a history of playing each other, we both have a military history - the old-time fans really relate to that - and the Houston area is one of our largest alumni bases."
A&M and LSU are expected to begin playing football on Thanksgiving weekend in 2014 in place of LSU-Arkansas, although officials from both sides point out the SEC has yet to approve that move.
"We would certainly welcome that as a possibility," Loftin said.
--------------------------- "I've always had a loud and obnoxious voice," the LSU junior Wintz explained of heckling the Aggies, "so this works out perfectly for me."
A&M and LSU also are discovering the renewal of a former non-conference rivalry has the makings of working out perfectly as a perpetual Southeastern Conference quarrel.
"We viewed LSU as a rival when I was a student," said A&M president R. Bowen Loftin, who attended A&M in the late 1960s and early '70s. "We played the Tigers every year as a non-conference opponent, always in Baton Rouge. Now, with the proximity of the schools, plenty of commonality and plenty of kids from Louisiana coming to school here and vice versa, it makes sense that this will be viewed as a rivalry."
The Aggies, with Loftin serving as catalyst, joined the SEC last July. National signing day is Wednesday, and the recharged rivalry also has played out in living rooms across southeast Texas and the entire state of Louisiana.
A&M women's basketball coach Gary Blair, whose 14th-ranked squad beat LSU 74-57 on Monday night, said he was impressed that A&M football coach Kevin Sumlin is creating recruiting inroads in places like New Orleans.
"That's generally LSU's or Alabama's territory," said Blair, who coached in the SEC at Arkansas.
LSU, as usual, has pieced together a strong recruiting class under coach Les Miles, but the Tigers don't have any verbal pledges from Texas for the first time in at least the past decade. Compare that to the past three seasons, when LSU signed three Texans each year. According to Rival.com's Jeff Tarpley, LSU made offers to 21 Texas prospects in the 2013 class, and the Aggies beat out the Tigers for receiver Kyrion Parker and defensive back Tavares Garner from Manvel.
As for Houston, while the nation's fourth-largest city is closer to College Station than Baton Rouge (100 miles versus 260), it's still situated between both college towns and a recruiting hotbed for both schools.
"This is a natural rivalry in the SEC more than any other team we play because of the (schools') location," said A&M basketball coach Billy Kennedy, who grew up in New Orleans. "I've got friends who went to LSU who live in Houston."
More than 11,500 former LSU students live within a 100-mile radius of Houston, according to Tracy Jones of the LSU Alumni Association. Meanwhile, about 3,000 former A&M students live in Louisiana, according to Scot Walker of the A&M Association of Former Students.
"There are a number of factors that make this a natural rivalry," said Herb Vincent, an LSU associate athletic director. "We've already had a history of playing each other, we both have a military history - the old-time fans really relate to that - and the Houston area is one of our largest alumni bases."
A&M and LSU are expected to begin playing football on Thanksgiving weekend in 2014 in place of LSU-Arkansas, although officials from both sides point out the SEC has yet to approve that move.
"We would certainly welcome that as a possibility," Loftin said.
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU football coach Les Miles has a new seven-year contract that pays him a $4.3 million annual salary and keeps him in Tiger Stadium through the 2019 season.
Everything LSU, from recruiting to news to game coverage, is available at ESPN.com's GeauxTigerNation.
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The university system's Board of Supervisors backed the
contract extension Friday, giving Miles a $549,000 -- or 15 percent --
increase.
"When you study the body of work that the man has done over the last eight years, I believe that he has run a quality program, one of the top programs in the country. And in my evaluation, all indications look like we're still going to be there, we're going to stay on that track," athletics director Joe Alleva told the board.
Since becoming LSU's coach in 2005, Miles has lodged the second highest number of wins in university history, with a record of 85-21. LSU finished No. 14 for the 2012 season, going 10-3 and losing to Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Miles, who didn't attend Friday's meeting, and Alleva agreed to the new deal in December after Arkansas contacted Miles about its then-vacant head coaching job.
The board approved the pay raise and contract extension with little discussion and no objections.
LSU board approves Les Miles' raise
Updated: February 1, 2013, 8:07 PM ET
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU football coach Les Miles has a new seven-year contract that pays him a $4.3 million annual salary and keeps him in Tiger Stadium through the 2019 season.
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"When you study the body of work that the man has done over the last eight years, I believe that he has run a quality program, one of the top programs in the country. And in my evaluation, all indications look like we're still going to be there, we're going to stay on that track," athletics director Joe Alleva told the board.
Since becoming LSU's coach in 2005, Miles has lodged the second highest number of wins in university history, with a record of 85-21. LSU finished No. 14 for the 2012 season, going 10-3 and losing to Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Miles, who didn't attend Friday's meeting, and Alleva agreed to the new deal in December after Arkansas contacted Miles about its then-vacant head coaching job.
The board approved the pay raise and contract extension with little discussion and no objections.
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RecruitingNation: Top two make final visits
Tom
Luginbill joins "College Football Live" to discuss the final official
visits of No. 1 overall recruit Robert Nkemdiche and No. 2 recruit Carl
Lawson. Nkemdiche visited LSU and Lawson went to Auburn, the school to
which he's currently committed.
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Photo gallery and video: LSU's football recruiting Class of 2013
A photo look at some of Louisiana State's incoming football recruits.
By: Staff Report | MaxPreps.com
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After playing for the national championship in the 2011 season, Les Miles and LSU put together another solid season in 2012.
The Tigers went 10-3 (6-2 in the SEC) and finished No. 8 in the BCS standings, but in Baton Rouge it's championship or bust.
With that in mind, LSU has put together another stellar recruiting class led by some of the best young athletes in the country. Take a look at some of the players that will become Tigers next season.
As of Feb. 4
Maquedius Bain, DT, 6-3, 308
University (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Photo by Stuart Browning
Maquedius Bain was selected to play in the Under Armour All-American game.
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Several bowls preparing for playoff bid process
By Jeremy Fowler | College Football Insider
February 4, 2013 4:08 pm ET
Bowl executives from several cities
nationwide are expecting an RFP (Request for Proposal) from the BCS
folks some time this month.
An RFP is the green light to bid for the college football playoff rotation, the chance to join the Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowls in the 12-year, high-payout format starting in the 2014 season.
The BCS is starting the all-are-welcome stage -- if you're interested, you can bid. The only catch, BCS director Bill Hancock says, is that a bidding bowl's stadium must hold “in the neighborhood” of 65,000 or more.
That rules out Hawaii, unfortunately.
More than 10 cities have expressed interest in the formal RFP process, according to a source.
There are prime contenders: Atlanta (Chick-fil-A), Dallas (Cotton Bowl) and Phoenix (Fiesta).
“There'd be a lot of surprise if it didn't end up being Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix,” said one high-ranking official from a BCS conference.
This makes sense since the BCS is leaning toward an East-West balance for semifinal games. Dallas is widely expected to earn the 2015 title game.
Also consider Orlando (Capital One), with a new stadium looming and its tourism prowess, as an East Coast darkhorse.
Houston (Meineke Car Care), San Antonio (Alamo), San Diego (Holiday), San Francisco (Fight Hunger), Tampa (Outback), Jacksonville (Gator) are other potential candidates.
Should be room for at least one wild card here (Charlotte, anyone?) but it has to be somewhere reasonably warm.
The cities will pitch why they are deserving, then the BCS folks will decide who makes the cut, probably by late spring. Conference commissioners will be involved.
The access bowls are expected to host at least one semifinal every three years. (See Dennis Dodd's story from early January on the subject.)
The access bowls outside of the semifinal don't affect the actual playoff but are still under the high-dollar playoff umbrella (think BCS, without the Big East's automatic bid).
The Rose, Sugar and Orange are “contract” bowls that cater to their affiliations when not in the semifinal -- Big 12 vs. SEC in the Sugar, Big Ten vs. Pac-12 in Rose and ACC vs. SEC/Big Ten/Notre Dame in Orange.
If the highest-rated small-conference school doesn't make the top four, it still has a guaranteed spot in a host bowl.
Tags: ACC, Atlantic Coast Conference, BCS, Big 12, Big Ten Conference, Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Southeastern Conference, Sugar Bowl, NCAAF
An RFP is the green light to bid for the college football playoff rotation, the chance to join the Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowls in the 12-year, high-payout format starting in the 2014 season.
The BCS is starting the all-are-welcome stage -- if you're interested, you can bid. The only catch, BCS director Bill Hancock says, is that a bidding bowl's stadium must hold “in the neighborhood” of 65,000 or more.
That rules out Hawaii, unfortunately.
More than 10 cities have expressed interest in the formal RFP process, according to a source.
There are prime contenders: Atlanta (Chick-fil-A), Dallas (Cotton Bowl) and Phoenix (Fiesta).
“There'd be a lot of surprise if it didn't end up being Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix,” said one high-ranking official from a BCS conference.
This makes sense since the BCS is leaning toward an East-West balance for semifinal games. Dallas is widely expected to earn the 2015 title game.
Also consider Orlando (Capital One), with a new stadium looming and its tourism prowess, as an East Coast darkhorse.
Houston (Meineke Car Care), San Antonio (Alamo), San Diego (Holiday), San Francisco (Fight Hunger), Tampa (Outback), Jacksonville (Gator) are other potential candidates.
Should be room for at least one wild card here (Charlotte, anyone?) but it has to be somewhere reasonably warm.
The cities will pitch why they are deserving, then the BCS folks will decide who makes the cut, probably by late spring. Conference commissioners will be involved.
The access bowls are expected to host at least one semifinal every three years. (See Dennis Dodd's story from early January on the subject.)
The access bowls outside of the semifinal don't affect the actual playoff but are still under the high-dollar playoff umbrella (think BCS, without the Big East's automatic bid).
The Rose, Sugar and Orange are “contract” bowls that cater to their affiliations when not in the semifinal -- Big 12 vs. SEC in the Sugar, Big Ten vs. Pac-12 in Rose and ACC vs. SEC/Big Ten/Notre Dame in Orange.
If the highest-rated small-conference school doesn't make the top four, it still has a guaranteed spot in a host bowl.
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2013 Football Class Ranking
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| Player | Grade | Pos | School |
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| 1 Robert Nkemdiche | DE | Undeclared | |
| 2 Carl Lawson | DE | Auburn | |
| 3 Vernon Hargreaves III | CB | Florida | |
| 4 Mackensie Alexander | CB | Undeclared | |
| 5 Laremy Tunsil | OT | Undeclared | |
| 6 Matthew Thomas | OLB | Undeclared | |
| 7 Jaylon Smith | OLB | Notre Dame | |
| 8 Kelvin Taylor | RB | Florida | |
| 9 Derrick Henry | ATH | Alabama | |
| 10 Eddie Vanderdoes | DT | Undeclared | |
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Mystery Man
Five-star CB Mackensie Alexander is the exception to rule in recruiting, and you only need to look to his hometown to see how he got this way. Mitch Sherman » Hot Board
Class ranks » More » ESPN.com Illustration
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- ESPN 150 ATH switches commitment to Ohio St.
- AG taps ex-prosecutor to lead Sandusky probe
- Cal, Tedford seal $5.55M settlement on contract
- Texas regents plan to review relationship policy
- Ohio State ex-star pleads not guilty in shooting
- Famed Auburn trees coming down after last roll
- Top recruit Nkemdiche meets Shaq on LSU visit
- Trojans' Barkley: I'm no less a QB this year
- Two Boise State players suspended from school
- Recruiting: UCLA, Ole Miss rise in class ranks
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Tom Luginbill discusses the final official visits of Robert Nkemdiche and Carl Lawson.
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