Tinker:
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If
we are ever investigated by our government - we are really up the creek
without a paddle. Because they can now retrieve every word we ever said
from our email, and recorded our movements because of our phone.
This government could put all that together into a nice neat little story of how yours truly is a very bad guy...And they will get away with it, because we could not have a real way to fight back.
Is it important to stop the CIA from recording your private life, because in reality we can't record their privet life. A US "Orwellian" society....http://www.youtube.
This government could put all that together into a nice neat little story of how yours truly is a very bad guy...And they will get away with it, because we could not have a real way to fight back.
Is it important to stop the CIA from recording your private life, because in reality we can't record their privet life. A US "Orwellian" society....http://www.youtube.
Tinker:
Making it easy to see them better with, wow this Edward Snowden story is making it easy for us to see who is really plugged in.
We need to be ahead of our time because we are all seeing the ugly underbelly of these guys plugged into the blue blood click running America today...http://www.youtube.
We need to be ahead of our time because we are all seeing the ugly underbelly of these guys plugged into the blue blood click running America today...http://www.youtube.
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Fox News analyst Ralph Peters said Monday that Edward Snowden's leaks constituted "treason" punishable by execution.
Peters was speaking to Brian Kilmeade on "Fox and Friends," and argued that no Americans have been hurt by the secret government surveillance programs that Snowden exposed.
“Now you’ve got this 29-year-old high school dropout whistleblower making foreign policy for our country, our security policy,” he lamented. “It’s sad, Brian. We’ve made treason cool. Betraying your country is kind of a fashion statement. He wants to be the national security Kim Kardashian. He cites Bradley Manning as a hero.”
Peters continued, “I mean, we need to get very, very serious about treason. And oh by the way, for treason — as in the case of Bradley Manning or Edwards Snowden — you bring back the death penalty.”
Glenn Beck, who hailed Snowden as a "hero," said he was "shocked" by the comments on Monday.
Peters has made similar incendiary remarks in the past, once famously declaring that Julian Assange should be assassinated. Read more...http://www.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Sports Boehner calls Snowden a traitor; Rand Paul 'reserving judgment'
Posted by
CNN's Kevin Liptak
(CNN) – Republicans on Capitol
Hill offered differing assessments Tuesday of the ex-CIA employee who
leaked top secret documents detailing the American government's
surveillance activities to the Guardian newspaper.
"He's a traitor," House Speaker John Boehner said bluntly on ABC's "Good Morning America," adding he thought Edward Snowden's leaks had put Americans at risk.
"The president outlined last week that these are important national security programs that help keep Americans safe and give us tools that help fight the terrorist threat we face," Boehner said. "The disclosure of this information puts Americans at risk. It shows our adversaries what our capabilities are. And it's a giant violation of the law."
Boehner's remarks echo the thoughts of Rep. Peter King, a Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee who said on CNN Monday Snowden was a "defector."
"He knows who our intelligence assets are, who our intelligence agents are around the world, and the fact he has allowed our enemy to know what our sources and methods are is extremely dangerous," the New York Republican said on CNN's "Starting Point." "I think he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I consider him right now to be a defector."
But Boehner and King's fellow Republican, Sen. Rand Paul, was milder in his assessment of Snowden, whose last known location was Hong Kong.
"I think it's a complicated issue. I think when people choose civil disobedience they're at their wit's end and think there's no other choice," Paul said on CBS "This Morning," noting he was working to change the laws that permitted the type of snooping Snowden revealed to the Guardian. Paul said Sunday he was considering suing the federal government over the seizure of phone and internet records.
"I'm reserving judgment on Mr. Snowden, but I think he felt like something like this was so wrong – millions of phone records being looked at," Paul said.
The Kentucky Republican was more measured in his stance than his father, former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who issued a statement Monday praising the leaker for exposing details of the U.S. surveillance programs.
Referring to Snowden and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, Ron Paul wrote, "They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret."
Records show Snowden donated $500 to Ron Paul during the former congressman's bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and in an interview with the Guardian said he voted for a third-party candidate in last year's contest.
------------"He's a traitor," House Speaker John Boehner said bluntly on ABC's "Good Morning America," adding he thought Edward Snowden's leaks had put Americans at risk.
"The president outlined last week that these are important national security programs that help keep Americans safe and give us tools that help fight the terrorist threat we face," Boehner said. "The disclosure of this information puts Americans at risk. It shows our adversaries what our capabilities are. And it's a giant violation of the law."
Boehner's remarks echo the thoughts of Rep. Peter King, a Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee who said on CNN Monday Snowden was a "defector."
"He knows who our intelligence assets are, who our intelligence agents are around the world, and the fact he has allowed our enemy to know what our sources and methods are is extremely dangerous," the New York Republican said on CNN's "Starting Point." "I think he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I consider him right now to be a defector."
But Boehner and King's fellow Republican, Sen. Rand Paul, was milder in his assessment of Snowden, whose last known location was Hong Kong.
"I think it's a complicated issue. I think when people choose civil disobedience they're at their wit's end and think there's no other choice," Paul said on CBS "This Morning," noting he was working to change the laws that permitted the type of snooping Snowden revealed to the Guardian. Paul said Sunday he was considering suing the federal government over the seizure of phone and internet records.
"I'm reserving judgment on Mr. Snowden, but I think he felt like something like this was so wrong – millions of phone records being looked at," Paul said.
The Kentucky Republican was more measured in his stance than his father, former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who issued a statement Monday praising the leaker for exposing details of the U.S. surveillance programs.
Referring to Snowden and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, Ron Paul wrote, "They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret."
Records show Snowden donated $500 to Ron Paul during the former congressman's bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and in an interview with the Guardian said he voted for a third-party candidate in last year's contest.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Fox News' Ralph Peters: 'Bring Back The Death Penalty' For Edward Snowden (VIDEO)
Posted: 06/10/2013 12:48 pm EDT | Updated: 06/10/2013 1:03 pm EDT
Peters was speaking to Brian Kilmeade on "Fox and Friends," and argued that no Americans have been hurt by the secret government surveillance programs that Snowden exposed.
“Now you’ve got this 29-year-old high school dropout whistleblower making foreign policy for our country, our security policy,” he lamented. “It’s sad, Brian. We’ve made treason cool. Betraying your country is kind of a fashion statement. He wants to be the national security Kim Kardashian. He cites Bradley Manning as a hero.”
Peters continued, “I mean, we need to get very, very serious about treason. And oh by the way, for treason — as in the case of Bradley Manning or Edwards Snowden — you bring back the death penalty.”
Glenn Beck, who hailed Snowden as a "hero," said he was "shocked" by the comments on Monday.
Peters has made similar incendiary remarks in the past, once famously declaring that Julian Assange should be assassinated. Read more...http://www.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/
NSA snooping: Obama under pressure as senator denounces 'act of treason'
- The Guardian, Monday 10 June 2013
Officials in European
capitals denounced the practice of secretly gathering digital
information on Europeans as unacceptable. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
Barack Obama
was facing a mounting domestic and international backlash against US
surveillance operations on Monday as his administration struggled to
contain one of the most explosive national security leaks in US history.
Political opinion in the US was split with some members of Congress calling for the immediate extradition from Hong Kong of the whistleblower, Edward Snowden. But other senior politicians in both main parties questioned whether US surveillance practices had gone too far.
Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the national intelligence committee, has ordered the NSA to review how it limits the exposure of Americans to government surveillance. But she made clear her disapproval of Snowden. "What he did was an act of treason," she said.
Officials in European capitals demanded immediate answers from their US counterparts and denounced the practice of secretly gathering digital information on Europeans as unacceptable, illegal and a serious violation of basic rights. The NSA, meanwhile, asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation and said that it was assessing the damage caused by the disclosures.
Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who revealed secrets of the Vietnam war through the Pentagon Papers in 1971, described Snowden's leak as even more important and perhaps the most significant leak in American history.
Snowden disclosed his identity in an explosive interview with the Guardian, published on Sunday, which revealed he was a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden worked at the National Security Agency for the past four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.
In his interview, Snowden revealed himself as the source for a series of articles in the Guardian last week, which included disclosures of a wide-ranging secret court order that demanded Verizon pass to the NSA the details of phone calls related to millions of customers, and a huge NSA intelligence system called Prism, which collects data on intelligence targets from the systems of some of the biggest tech companies.
Snowden said he had become disillusioned with the overarching nature of government surveillance in the US. "The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to," he said.
"My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."
As media interest intensified on Monday, Snowden checked out of the Hong Kong hotel where he had been staying, and moved to an undisclosed location.
Reacting to Snowden's revelations, Paul Ryan, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee, raised questions about whether privacy was being unduly threatened. "I'm sure somebody can come up with a great computer program that says: 'We can do X, Y, and Z,' but that doesn't mean that it's right," he told a radio station in Wisconsin. "I want to learn a lot more about it on behalf of the people I represent," he added.
Pressure was growing on the White House to explain whether there was effective congressional oversight of the programmes revealed by Snowden. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said in an NBC interview that he had responded in the "least untruthful manner" possible when he denied in congressional hearings last year that the NSA collected data on millions of Americans.
Clapper also confirmed that Feinstein had asked for a review to "refine these NSA processes and limit the exposure to Americans' private communications" and report back "in about a month".
In Europe, the German chancellor Angela Merkel indicated she would press Obama on the revelations at a Berlin summit next week, while deputy European Commission chief Viviane Reding said she would press US officials in Dublin on Friday, adding that "a clear legal framework for the protection of personal data is not a luxury or constraint but a fundamental right".
Peter Schaar, Germany's federal data protection commissioner told the Guardian that it was unacceptable that US authorities have access to the data of European citizens "and the level of protection is lower than what is guaranteed for US citizens." His Italian counterpart, Antonello Soro, said that the data dragnet "would not be legal in Italy" and would be "contrary to the principles of our legislation and would represent a very serious violation".
In London, the British foreign secretary William Hague was forced to defend the UK's use of intelligence gathered by the US. In the House of Commons, Hague told MPs that British laws did not allow for "indiscriminate trawling" for information. "There is no danger of a deep state out of control in some way," he said.
But Hague was reluctant to go into detail on how Britain handled information offered by US intelligence agencies, as opposed to information requested, or whether it was subject to the same ministerial oversight, including warrants.
The Obama administration offered no indication on Monday about what it intended to do about Snowden. The White House did however say he had sparked an "appropriate debate" and hinted it might welcome revision of the Patriot Act, legislation introduced in 2001 which it claims gives legal authority for the programmes carried out by the National Security Agency.
"If [congressional] debate were to build to a consensus around changes [to the Patriot Act] the president would look at that," said spokesman Jay Carney. "Although this is hardly the manner of discussion we hoped for, we would still like to have the debate."
The first polls since the leak stories first broke indicated that the majority of Americans oppose the government scooping up their phone data. According to the Rasmussen poll just 26% of voters are in favour of the government's collection of data from Verizon while 59% are opposed. In total 46% of Americans think that their own data has been monitored. But a poll by the Pew Research Center, asking a more general question, said 56% respondents approved of the NSA surveillance program.
The ACLU and Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Clinic filed a motion on Monday asking for secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions on the Patriot Act to be made public in the light of the Guardian's revelations.
The motion asks for any documents relating to the court's interpretation of the scope, meaning and constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act – which authorises government to obtain "any tangible thing" relevant to foreign intelligence or terrorism investigations – to be published "as quickly as possible" and with only minimal redaction.
"In a democracy, there should be no room for secret law," said Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director. "The public has a right to know what limits apply to the government's surveillance authority, and what safeguards are in place to protect individual privacy."
There was support for Snowden among civil liberty activists. Ellsberg wrote for the Guardian: "In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago".
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an internet rights group, called for a "new Church committee" to investigate potential government infringements on privacy and to write new rules protecting the public. In the wake of the Watergate affair in the mid-1970s, a Senate investigation led by Idaho senator Frank Church uncovered decades of serious abuse by the US government of its eavesdropping powers. The committee report led to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and set up the Fisa courts that today secretly approve surveillance requests.
Both Snowden and the Obama administration appeared to be considering their options on Monday. Hong Kong, which has an extradition treaty with the US, is unlikely to offer Snowden a permanent refuge. But Snowden could buy time by filing an asylum request, thanks to a landmark legal ruling that has thrown the system into disarray.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong said the case could be a "strong test" of the Chinese province's commitment to freedom of expression. "The FCC will watch closely how the SAR [Hong Kong] government handles his case, and in particular how it responds to any pressure from authorities both in Washington and Beijing to restrict his activities or to impede access by the media," it said in a statement.
In New York, the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, cancelled at very short notice a planned photo opportunity with the Hong Kong chief executive, Leung Chun-ying. "It would have been a circus, so we decided to catch up with him another time," a mayoral spokesman told the Guardian.
Additional reporting by Matt Williams and Tom McCarthy in New York.
--------------Political opinion in the US was split with some members of Congress calling for the immediate extradition from Hong Kong of the whistleblower, Edward Snowden. But other senior politicians in both main parties questioned whether US surveillance practices had gone too far.
Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the national intelligence committee, has ordered the NSA to review how it limits the exposure of Americans to government surveillance. But she made clear her disapproval of Snowden. "What he did was an act of treason," she said.
Officials in European capitals demanded immediate answers from their US counterparts and denounced the practice of secretly gathering digital information on Europeans as unacceptable, illegal and a serious violation of basic rights. The NSA, meanwhile, asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation and said that it was assessing the damage caused by the disclosures.
Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who revealed secrets of the Vietnam war through the Pentagon Papers in 1971, described Snowden's leak as even more important and perhaps the most significant leak in American history.
Snowden disclosed his identity in an explosive interview with the Guardian, published on Sunday, which revealed he was a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden worked at the National Security Agency for the past four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.
In his interview, Snowden revealed himself as the source for a series of articles in the Guardian last week, which included disclosures of a wide-ranging secret court order that demanded Verizon pass to the NSA the details of phone calls related to millions of customers, and a huge NSA intelligence system called Prism, which collects data on intelligence targets from the systems of some of the biggest tech companies.
Snowden said he had become disillusioned with the overarching nature of government surveillance in the US. "The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to," he said.
"My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."
As media interest intensified on Monday, Snowden checked out of the Hong Kong hotel where he had been staying, and moved to an undisclosed location.
Reacting to Snowden's revelations, Paul Ryan, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee, raised questions about whether privacy was being unduly threatened. "I'm sure somebody can come up with a great computer program that says: 'We can do X, Y, and Z,' but that doesn't mean that it's right," he told a radio station in Wisconsin. "I want to learn a lot more about it on behalf of the people I represent," he added.
Pressure was growing on the White House to explain whether there was effective congressional oversight of the programmes revealed by Snowden. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said in an NBC interview that he had responded in the "least untruthful manner" possible when he denied in congressional hearings last year that the NSA collected data on millions of Americans.
Clapper also confirmed that Feinstein had asked for a review to "refine these NSA processes and limit the exposure to Americans' private communications" and report back "in about a month".
In Europe, the German chancellor Angela Merkel indicated she would press Obama on the revelations at a Berlin summit next week, while deputy European Commission chief Viviane Reding said she would press US officials in Dublin on Friday, adding that "a clear legal framework for the protection of personal data is not a luxury or constraint but a fundamental right".
Peter Schaar, Germany's federal data protection commissioner told the Guardian that it was unacceptable that US authorities have access to the data of European citizens "and the level of protection is lower than what is guaranteed for US citizens." His Italian counterpart, Antonello Soro, said that the data dragnet "would not be legal in Italy" and would be "contrary to the principles of our legislation and would represent a very serious violation".
In London, the British foreign secretary William Hague was forced to defend the UK's use of intelligence gathered by the US. In the House of Commons, Hague told MPs that British laws did not allow for "indiscriminate trawling" for information. "There is no danger of a deep state out of control in some way," he said.
But Hague was reluctant to go into detail on how Britain handled information offered by US intelligence agencies, as opposed to information requested, or whether it was subject to the same ministerial oversight, including warrants.
Civil liberties groups ask for review of 'secret law'
The Obama administration offered no indication on Monday about what it intended to do about Snowden. The White House did however say he had sparked an "appropriate debate" and hinted it might welcome revision of the Patriot Act, legislation introduced in 2001 which it claims gives legal authority for the programmes carried out by the National Security Agency.
"If [congressional] debate were to build to a consensus around changes [to the Patriot Act] the president would look at that," said spokesman Jay Carney. "Although this is hardly the manner of discussion we hoped for, we would still like to have the debate."
The first polls since the leak stories first broke indicated that the majority of Americans oppose the government scooping up their phone data. According to the Rasmussen poll just 26% of voters are in favour of the government's collection of data from Verizon while 59% are opposed. In total 46% of Americans think that their own data has been monitored. But a poll by the Pew Research Center, asking a more general question, said 56% respondents approved of the NSA surveillance program.
The ACLU and Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Clinic filed a motion on Monday asking for secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions on the Patriot Act to be made public in the light of the Guardian's revelations.
The motion asks for any documents relating to the court's interpretation of the scope, meaning and constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act – which authorises government to obtain "any tangible thing" relevant to foreign intelligence or terrorism investigations – to be published "as quickly as possible" and with only minimal redaction.
"In a democracy, there should be no room for secret law," said Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director. "The public has a right to know what limits apply to the government's surveillance authority, and what safeguards are in place to protect individual privacy."
There was support for Snowden among civil liberty activists. Ellsberg wrote for the Guardian: "In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago".
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an internet rights group, called for a "new Church committee" to investigate potential government infringements on privacy and to write new rules protecting the public. In the wake of the Watergate affair in the mid-1970s, a Senate investigation led by Idaho senator Frank Church uncovered decades of serious abuse by the US government of its eavesdropping powers. The committee report led to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and set up the Fisa courts that today secretly approve surveillance requests.
Both Snowden and the Obama administration appeared to be considering their options on Monday. Hong Kong, which has an extradition treaty with the US, is unlikely to offer Snowden a permanent refuge. But Snowden could buy time by filing an asylum request, thanks to a landmark legal ruling that has thrown the system into disarray.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong said the case could be a "strong test" of the Chinese province's commitment to freedom of expression. "The FCC will watch closely how the SAR [Hong Kong] government handles his case, and in particular how it responds to any pressure from authorities both in Washington and Beijing to restrict his activities or to impede access by the media," it said in a statement.
In New York, the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, cancelled at very short notice a planned photo opportunity with the Hong Kong chief executive, Leung Chun-ying. "It would have been a circus, so we decided to catch up with him another time," a mayoral spokesman told the Guardian.
Additional reporting by Matt Williams and Tom McCarthy in New York.
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Sandy Don's LSU Sports Report
Late last night, the game times for the College World Series
were announced and LSU will be playing UCLA on Sunday, June 16 at 7 p.m.
CT. The first round of games was originally scheduled for
Friday and Saturday but was pushed back because of the Super Regionals
taking longer than expected to complete. The extra day of rest should be
beneficial to Sean McMullen who is still not 100% reccovered from his
hamstring injury but should be by then.Below are the game times for the first round of action. You'll notice that there’s still one question mark as Game 3 of the Chapel Hill Super Regional between North Carolina and South Carolina was postponed until today at 11 a.m. CT. For a look at all the CWS game times in bracket format, click here.
Saturday
Game 1: Mississippi State (48-18) vs. Oregon State, 2 p.m. (ESPN2)
Game 2: Indiana (48-14) vs. Louisville (51-12), 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Sunday
Game 3: N.C. State (49-14) vs. N. Carolina or S. Carolina, 2 p.m. (ESPN2)
Game 4: LSU (57-9) vs. UCLA (44-17), 7 p.m. (ESPN2)
Yesterday I began taking a closer look at UCLA and compiled the following chart of stats comparing the Tigers and the Bruins. As suspected, the stats show LSU having an advantage in every category except for sacrifice bunts. What the stats don’t show is that UCLA is a very opportunistic team that does a good job of capitalizing on mistakes and any opportunities given them. The good news is that LSU doesn't make many mistakes, and Aaron Nola (whom Coach Mainieri confirmed will start against UCLA) doesn’t issue many freebies. The other thing it doesn’t show is that UCLA's bullpen pitching is outstanding, especially their closing combo of Zack Weiss and David Berg who make it very hard for opponents to come from behind in the late innings.
As promised, I've started putting together this “crowd sourced" page of Things to Do in Omaha. In my previous report, I solicited your help and received a few emails with suggestions for those of you planning on making the trip. Check out the page-in-progress here, and if you have suggestions to add, be sure to send them my way.
Now for some football recruiting news, Coach Miles picked up his 10th commitment for the class of 2014 yesterday in D.J. Chark (WR. 6'1", 175, Alexandria Senior High). Chark is the kid I wrote about last week who had a very impressive showing at LSU's camp and left with an offer. Since then, Chark has gone on to highly impress at an Oklahoma State camp and received offers from Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. Chark is rated as a three-star by most recruiting services and is at No. 49 on my list of Top LA Prospects for the Class of 2014, but let me make one thing clear. Coach Miles and his staff are much, much better at evaluating talent than I am, and if he he's good enough for them, he's good enough for me. Here's Chark's highlight video. From what I understand, LSU is looking at Chark not only as a wide receiver but as a versatile athlete who could also contribute on special teams. It'll be interesring to see how his commitment affects LSU’s pursuit of the state's elite wide receiver targets like Trey Quinn, Malachi Dupre, Speedy Noil and D’haquille Williams, or New Jersey's Saeed Blacknall. It appears that since Coach Cameron has come to town, LSU has stepped up its recruitment of receivers, but just how many they will take in this class is the big question.
In other recruiting news, Coach Johnny Jones has reportedly added a preferred walk-on to the LSU basketball roster with the addition of Henry Shortess of U-High. Shortess (G, 5'9") was instrumental in leading his team to the class 2A semifinals last season and his strength is said to be perimeter shooting. FYI: A preferred walk-on has the same benefits as a scholarship player except that he is not on scholarship and has to pay his own way. A regular walk-on, on the other hand, does not enjoy any special benefits such as eating with the players, living in the players' dorm, etc.
With 81 days remaining ’till the start of LSU's football season, today we’ll continue our jersey countdown by paying tribute to a couple of class act Tigers with jersey number 81. Tight End Mit Cole wore 81 from 2004-07 and Armand Williams currently wears the number. Cole hailed from Picayune, Mississippi and played on both offense and defense in high school. As a tight end at LSU, he played alongside Richard Dickson and Keith Zinger in short yardage situations. He played in 32 games during his time as a Tiger and scored one touchdown. Cole lettered all four years and made SEC Academic Honor Roll three years. As for Armand Williams, he’s a standup Tiger currently active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes who overcame tremendous obstacles once Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans and then earned a scholarship with the Tigers. If you aren’t familiar with his remarkable story of overcoming adversity, I invite you to read this excellent article written by Jim Kleinpeter of the Times Picayune back in August of 2010 entitled “LSU's Armand Williams had an incredible journey after Hurricane Katrina.” I suspect that after reading this story you'll have a new appreciation of Williams, and will pull for him as a Tiger. Williams is entering his fifth season (redshirted in 2010) and is a big target at 6'3" - 200. Unfortunately for Williams, he hasn’t been able to climb very high on the depth chart with the Tigers having such a deep cast of wide receivers. After this year's Spring Camp, Williams was a recipient for the Alvin Roy Fourth Quarter Award given for outstanding performance in LSU's off-season program.
In closing, I'll leave you with this video of former Tigers Mikie Mahtook making an incredible catch Sunday night to rob the Huntsville Stars of a homer. Mahtook is currently playing for the Tampa Bay Rays’ farm team, the Montgomery Biscuits.
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Back Home in Omaha! Baseball Gets Super Sweep-
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Member since May 2007
25127 posts
There are some people that seem to be underwhelmed by guys that we offer when they earn an offer at one of our camps.
Sure, every kid can be seen on tape, at their practice, or at their games, but evaluations have to go further than that. These camps are an opportunity for guys that may have the talent to play at LSU to prove that they have the other intangibles to be an asset to the team.
LSU coaches are able to eliminate all the variables they have to work around when doing off site evals. Camps let them control the level of competition. Camps allow the coaches to put prospects through specific drills and evaluate from there. They can see how coachable a kid is and what kind of attitude he displays when he's being taught. They can evaluate the competitive nature of a kid in person, under pressure.
While the camps are huge for evaluating skills, they provide an even bigger opportunity for the coaches to evaluate the things that take place on the practice field from week to week that determine whether or not a player can be successful.
So, when a little thought of kid jumps onto the radar and earns an offer at camp, it's because he's shown that he meets several qualifications that the coaches look for in a player. Camp offers generally don't have anything to do with any other prospects situation, only the kid that earned the offer. It means that he's proved himself worthy, not that our coaches are scared we're going to lose out on another kid.
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Cameron Robinson (Photo courtesy of 247Sports)
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- It's down to two SEC West schools for five-star offensive tackle Cameron Robinson, and Alabama has made the cut.
The 6-foot-6, 330-pound prospect from West Monroe, La., sent out
multiple Tweets on Monday that laid out his plans for the coming months.
He'll be choosing between LSU and Alabama and hopes to enroll early at
whichever school he picks.
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Cameron D. Robinson @crobinson_68
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According to 247Sports.com, Alabama wide receivers coach Billy Napier and offensive line coach Mario Cristobal are leading the charge on Robinson's recruitment. He took unofficial visits to Alabama on April 6 for the Crimson Tide's first spring scrimmage and April 20 for A-Day. He was at LSU's Bayou Picnic earlier this month. Robinson has said he would announce his college decision at January's Under Armour All-American game, but that apparently could be changing.
Scout.com, Rivals.com and 247Sports.com all consider Robinson to be the top-rated offensive tackle in the 2014 class with Scout.com ranking him as the No. 3 overall prospect.
Check out Robinson's interview with AL.com's Mike Herndon from April 18
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ProjectP2294
Indiana Fan
NOLA
Member since May 2007
25127 posts
The Importance of Camp Evaluations and Offers (Posted on 6/10/13 at 6:45 pm)
There are some people that seem to be underwhelmed by guys that we offer when they earn an offer at one of our camps.
Sure, every kid can be seen on tape, at their practice, or at their games, but evaluations have to go further than that. These camps are an opportunity for guys that may have the talent to play at LSU to prove that they have the other intangibles to be an asset to the team.
LSU coaches are able to eliminate all the variables they have to work around when doing off site evals. Camps let them control the level of competition. Camps allow the coaches to put prospects through specific drills and evaluate from there. They can see how coachable a kid is and what kind of attitude he displays when he's being taught. They can evaluate the competitive nature of a kid in person, under pressure.
While the camps are huge for evaluating skills, they provide an even bigger opportunity for the coaches to evaluate the things that take place on the practice field from week to week that determine whether or not a player can be successful.
So, when a little thought of kid jumps onto the radar and earns an offer at camp, it's because he's shown that he meets several qualifications that the coaches look for in a player. Camp offers generally don't have anything to do with any other prospects situation, only the kid that earned the offer. It means that he's proved himself worthy, not that our coaches are scared we're going to lose out on another kid.
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Nation's top-rated offensive tackle Cameron Robinson says he's only considering Alabama, LSU
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According to 247Sports.com, Alabama wide receivers coach Billy Napier and offensive line coach Mario Cristobal are leading the charge on Robinson's recruitment. He took unofficial visits to Alabama on April 6 for the Crimson Tide's first spring scrimmage and April 20 for A-Day. He was at LSU's Bayou Picnic earlier this month. Robinson has said he would announce his college decision at January's Under Armour All-American game, but that apparently could be changing.
Scout.com, Rivals.com and 247Sports.com all consider Robinson to be the top-rated offensive tackle in the 2014 class with Scout.com ranking him as the No. 3 overall prospect.
Check out Robinson's interview with AL.com's Mike Herndon from April 18
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re: Cameron Robinson Only considering Us(LSU) & BAMA (Posted on 5/27/13 at 7:20 pm to jamal)
he's gonna be a tiger. I'd bet my entire life savings on it   |
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LSU Grabs WR Clark
William Weathers
TigerBait.com Managing Editor
There was no other way in the mind of Alexandria Senior High wide receiver D.J. Chark then to seal his commitment to LSU than with a handshake.
In
what has been nothing short of a whirlwind recruiting process the past
month Chark - a 6-foot-1 ?, 176-pounder - brought everything to an
abrupt halt Monday afternoon following an unofficial visit to LSU that
ended with a firm handshake with LSU football coach Les Miles.
"He talked about being a native of Louisiana and all the opportunities that would be presented even after football because you can't play football forever," Chark said. "He said to enjoy yourself while you're playing football but you have to start planning for your future after football. I plan on being a resident of Louisiana after my football career."
The decision by Chark (pronounced Shark) gave LSU its second commitment from a wide receiver, joining Tony Upchurch of Pearland, Texas, and 10th overall in the Class of 2014.
Chark said he was in the process of making a decision by week's end, starting with a visit to LSU followed by a scheduled trip to Texas A&M later this week. Oklahoma State, Memphis, Southern Mississippi, UL-Lafayette and Tulane were other schools that offered as well.
"I was just coming to get one last look at the campus before I made my decision," Chark said. "I met the coaches again and talked to all of them individually and went on a tour of the campus, including academic center, and talked to some professors and students.
"After that I went with my family and met with Coach Miles," Chark said. "During conversation he assured me he wanted me to come and play for him and this being home. I felt good about the decision and we shook on the commitment."
Chark said Miles also agreed to allow him to wear his high school jersey No. 21.
"We shook on it and I have my number secured to play for LSU," Chark said.
Chark was a high school teammate of LSU freshman M.J. Patterson at Winnfield during the 2011 season when he started at wide receiver for the Class 2A state runner-up Tigers but was regarded as more of a runner in the team's spread offense.
Chark moved to Alexandria and started last season for the Trojans and amassed more than 1,000 yards of offense and approximately 11 touchdowns with 20 catches for 500 yards and nearly 500 rushing yards.
This season Chark expects to start at receiver, play cornerback and return both kickoffs and punts.
Chark acknowleged growing up a fan of LSU but with his under-the-radar status (he's a two-star prospect) he never envisioned being able to play for the Tigers.
That all changed last month when LSU special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey went by for a look at Chark during the spring evaluation period which sparked some interest from the Tigers perspective.
Chark took part in the first session of Miles' summer camp last week where he earned an offer and plenty of ammunition for a decision about his future.
"I went to camp and started talking to the coaches and I liked them and they liked me," said Chark, who ran a sub-4.5 at the camp. "I just became an even bigger fan of LSU again and it felt like the right decision.
"I was mainly talking to ULL and Tulane before spring ball," Chark said. "I had a lot of coaches coming through that were interested and watched tape. A lot told of them told me if I went to camp I would be offered, but LSU was different and felt they saw what they needed at camp and offered me."
Chark said he plans to compete at the wide receiver position at LSU and work at all three of the (X, Y Z) spots in order to find a home.
"I'll play that coming in but I'm going to learn all the positions so I'll be interchangable at each one of them," Chark said.
Chark said Monday's choice of LSU brings closure on a recruiting process that barely got off the ground but turned fulfilling in the end.
"I'm finished for now and I'm going to put all of that behind me and start focusing on high school football," Chark said. "Growing up LSU was a dream school and now they're one of the premier schools in the nation.
"I haven't gotten a lot of exposure as a lot of other players that are rated higher and players from Central Louisiana don't get recruited as much because of a lack of exposure," Chark said. "I still liked them as a team but I didn't have my sights set on LSU until now."
Discuss this recruiting news with other LSU fans on the Tiger Den recruiting message board HERE.
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"He talked about being a native of Louisiana and all the opportunities that would be presented even after football because you can't play football forever," Chark said. "He said to enjoy yourself while you're playing football but you have to start planning for your future after football. I plan on being a resident of Louisiana after my football career."
The decision by Chark (pronounced Shark) gave LSU its second commitment from a wide receiver, joining Tony Upchurch of Pearland, Texas, and 10th overall in the Class of 2014.
Chark said he was in the process of making a decision by week's end, starting with a visit to LSU followed by a scheduled trip to Texas A&M later this week. Oklahoma State, Memphis, Southern Mississippi, UL-Lafayette and Tulane were other schools that offered as well.
"I was just coming to get one last look at the campus before I made my decision," Chark said. "I met the coaches again and talked to all of them individually and went on a tour of the campus, including academic center, and talked to some professors and students.
"After that I went with my family and met with Coach Miles," Chark said. "During conversation he assured me he wanted me to come and play for him and this being home. I felt good about the decision and we shook on the commitment."
Chark said Miles also agreed to allow him to wear his high school jersey No. 21.
"We shook on it and I have my number secured to play for LSU," Chark said.
Chark was a high school teammate of LSU freshman M.J. Patterson at Winnfield during the 2011 season when he started at wide receiver for the Class 2A state runner-up Tigers but was regarded as more of a runner in the team's spread offense.
Chark moved to Alexandria and started last season for the Trojans and amassed more than 1,000 yards of offense and approximately 11 touchdowns with 20 catches for 500 yards and nearly 500 rushing yards.
This season Chark expects to start at receiver, play cornerback and return both kickoffs and punts.
Chark acknowleged growing up a fan of LSU but with his under-the-radar status (he's a two-star prospect) he never envisioned being able to play for the Tigers.
That all changed last month when LSU special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey went by for a look at Chark during the spring evaluation period which sparked some interest from the Tigers perspective.
Chark took part in the first session of Miles' summer camp last week where he earned an offer and plenty of ammunition for a decision about his future.
"I went to camp and started talking to the coaches and I liked them and they liked me," said Chark, who ran a sub-4.5 at the camp. "I just became an even bigger fan of LSU again and it felt like the right decision.
"I was mainly talking to ULL and Tulane before spring ball," Chark said. "I had a lot of coaches coming through that were interested and watched tape. A lot told of them told me if I went to camp I would be offered, but LSU was different and felt they saw what they needed at camp and offered me."
Chark said he plans to compete at the wide receiver position at LSU and work at all three of the (X, Y Z) spots in order to find a home.
"I'll play that coming in but I'm going to learn all the positions so I'll be interchangable at each one of them," Chark said.
Chark said Monday's choice of LSU brings closure on a recruiting process that barely got off the ground but turned fulfilling in the end.
"I'm finished for now and I'm going to put all of that behind me and start focusing on high school football," Chark said. "Growing up LSU was a dream school and now they're one of the premier schools in the nation.
"I haven't gotten a lot of exposure as a lot of other players that are rated higher and players from Central Louisiana don't get recruited as much because of a lack of exposure," Chark said. "I still liked them as a team but I didn't have my sights set on LSU until now."
Discuss this recruiting news with other LSU fans on the Tiger Den recruiting message board HERE.
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