Tinker:
Handling the American
peoples governments problems in a political manner all the time no
matter what happens is becoming very dangerous to the welfare of our
country. Just how feeble minded is Barack Obama at handling our
country's affairs. Hasn't he listen to the common sense advice from his
advisers trying to help him make the best decision for the health of
America?
Just look at how long president Obama has been
forcing his political point of view on the America people instead of doing
what would be the better right thing to do by taking the unpolitical
advice from his advisers outside of the White house.
Now I am afraid that Barack Obama is worse off then
even I think, nothing more then a polished teleprompter reader parroting
a unproven abstract liberal daydream. Unworkable and wrong for America.
I fear this because the American people has made the wrong choice by
electing Barack Obama as the president of the United States twice and that
the United States of America population can recover back to health without permanent damage.
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Dr Brzezinski was on Morning Joe days and criticized the White House response to Syria as “sporadic, chaotic and baffling” and based on “mass propaganda.” Here is the video that will displease many in the West Wing. It will be no more comforting to GOP neocons on the Hill.
See video...http://www.nbcnews.
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Dr Brzezinski: Obama Policy ‘Chaotic’
Posted on June 14, 2013 by Joe Scarborough
Dr Brzezinski was on Morning Joe days and criticized the White House response to Syria as “sporadic, chaotic and baffling” and based on “mass propaganda.” Here is the video that will displease many in the West Wing. It will be no more comforting to GOP neocons on the Hill.
See video...http://www.nbcnews.
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BBC
US flies embassy staff out of Yemen
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threats.
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Yemen Tuesday due to increased security concerns, the Foreign Office
said Tuesday.
The move comes shortly after the U.S. State Department ordered non-essential personnel at its embassy in Yemen to leave the country following the threat by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa.
The Foreign Office said the British embassy staff were "temporarily withdrawn to the U.K." on Tuesday and the embassy will remain closed until staff can return.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office would not confirm if there was evidence of a specific threat, describing the measure as "precautionary."
Speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government policy, the spokeswoman said the Foreign Office has been in contact with the small number of British nationals who have remained in Yemen despite advice for them to leave.
Before the staff evacuation, Britain's Foreign Office had said the embassy would be closed through the end of the Muslim festival of Eid.
The move comes shortly after the U.S. State Department ordered non-essential personnel at its embassy in Yemen to leave the country following the threat by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa.
The Foreign Office said the British embassy staff were "temporarily withdrawn to the U.K." on Tuesday and the embassy will remain closed until staff can return.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office would not confirm if there was evidence of a specific threat, describing the measure as "precautionary."
Speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government policy, the spokeswoman said the Foreign Office has been in contact with the small number of British nationals who have remained in Yemen despite advice for them to leave.
Before the staff evacuation, Britain's Foreign Office had said the embassy would be closed through the end of the Muslim festival of Eid.
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Editor's Choice
Last hurrah of the interventionists?
In what a Washington Post columnist describes as a rout
of Rand Paul isolationism, the Senate just voted overwhelmingly to send
another $1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt.
The House voted 400-20 to impose new sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, two days before Iran’s new president, elected on a pledge to re-engage the West on the nuclear issue, takes his oath.
Do these triumphs of AIPAC and the War Party, of neocons and liberal internationalists, tell us where we are going? Or are they the last hurrahs of the interventionists, as America’s long retreat proceeds apace.
If we take what Richard Nixon called “the long view,” the trend line seems unmistakable. Under President Obama, America has pulled all U.S. forces out of Iraq and has scheduled a full withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014.
Despite his “red line” in Syria having allegedly been crossed, and the cawing of Hill hawks like Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, Obama seems the very portrait of a reluctant warrior in Syria.
A large majority of Americans, too, want no part of that civil war.
On Iran, the Pentagon seems to concur with Obama, in opposition to a new Mideast war. And as Congress votes new sanctions on Iran and new billions for an Egyptian army that just arrested its elected government, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is laying out scenarios for reducing the size, reach and power of the U.S. military.
“Without the controlling principle that the nation must maintain its objectives and its power in equilibrium, its purposes within its means, and its means equal to its purposes, its commitments related to its resources, and its resources adequate to its commitments, it is impossible to think at all about foreign affairs.” So wrote Walter Lippmann in 1943.
That is our situation today.
During World War II, we were united in defeating Germany and Japan. After the war, we became united on a new foreign policy — containment of communism and a Soviet Empire that had spread from the Elbe River to the Bering Sea. Through great sacrifices we ensured that our resources were adequate to our commitments.
Vietnam shattered the Cold War consensus.
Yet enough of it survived for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush to lead the nation and the West to victory.
Bush I then set out to build his “New World Order.” He invaded Panama, drove Iraq out of Kuwait and put U.S. troops into Somalia. The country sent him packing.
After 9/11, Bush II invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and undertook to nation-build in both. The country removed his party from power in both houses of Congress in 2006 and from the presidency in 2008.
George W. was going to “end tyranny in our world.” Enough said.
Obama began the long retreat of American power that proceeds today despite a bellicosity on Capitol Hill redolent of the Cold War.
Today, as government at all levels consumes nearly 40 percent of gross domestic product, as the deficit is growing three times as fast as the GDP, as China continues to grow at four times the U.S. rate, we need to ask ourselves:
What should we fight for? Whom shall we defend? What can we afford in the way of national defense? What must we afford?
Consider America’s alliances, almost all of which date to a Cold War no American under 25 can even remember.
NATO was formed in 1949 to protect Western Europe from a Soviet Bloc and a Soviet Union that disappeared a generation ago.
U.S. treaties with Japan and the Philippines date to the 1950s, when Chairman Mao was exporting communist revolution. Should these treaties now require us to go to war with China to defend disputed islets and rocks in the East and South China Sea?
Our treaty with South Korea dates to a war against the North that ended in a truce 60 years ago. South Korea today has twice the population of the North and 40 times the GDP.
Must we still deploy a U.S. army on the Korean DMZ?
In 1977 we undertook to give $5 billion in annual foreign aid to Israel and Egypt. After 35 years, how long should the United States, whose middle class has not seen a rise in real income since 1977, borrow from China to pay Egyptians and Israelis $5 billion a year not to fight each other?
Through a mindless adherence to policies that date to a long-dead past, America is forfeiting her future.
Through our abandonment of economic patriotism and embrace of globalism, we have run up $10 trillion in trade deficits since Reagan. We have fought two trillion-dollar wars in 12 years.
Every year we go into world financial markets to borrow tens of billions for the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and foreign aid to send to regimes that routinely vote against the us in the United Nations.
Is Rand Paul really the one living in yesterday?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”
-------------------The House voted 400-20 to impose new sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, two days before Iran’s new president, elected on a pledge to re-engage the West on the nuclear issue, takes his oath.
Do these triumphs of AIPAC and the War Party, of neocons and liberal internationalists, tell us where we are going? Or are they the last hurrahs of the interventionists, as America’s long retreat proceeds apace.
If we take what Richard Nixon called “the long view,” the trend line seems unmistakable. Under President Obama, America has pulled all U.S. forces out of Iraq and has scheduled a full withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014.
Despite his “red line” in Syria having allegedly been crossed, and the cawing of Hill hawks like Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, Obama seems the very portrait of a reluctant warrior in Syria.
A large majority of Americans, too, want no part of that civil war.
On Iran, the Pentagon seems to concur with Obama, in opposition to a new Mideast war. And as Congress votes new sanctions on Iran and new billions for an Egyptian army that just arrested its elected government, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is laying out scenarios for reducing the size, reach and power of the U.S. military.
“Without the controlling principle that the nation must maintain its objectives and its power in equilibrium, its purposes within its means, and its means equal to its purposes, its commitments related to its resources, and its resources adequate to its commitments, it is impossible to think at all about foreign affairs.” So wrote Walter Lippmann in 1943.
That is our situation today.
During World War II, we were united in defeating Germany and Japan. After the war, we became united on a new foreign policy — containment of communism and a Soviet Empire that had spread from the Elbe River to the Bering Sea. Through great sacrifices we ensured that our resources were adequate to our commitments.
Vietnam shattered the Cold War consensus.
Yet enough of it survived for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush to lead the nation and the West to victory.
Bush I then set out to build his “New World Order.” He invaded Panama, drove Iraq out of Kuwait and put U.S. troops into Somalia. The country sent him packing.
After 9/11, Bush II invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and undertook to nation-build in both. The country removed his party from power in both houses of Congress in 2006 and from the presidency in 2008.
George W. was going to “end tyranny in our world.” Enough said.
Obama began the long retreat of American power that proceeds today despite a bellicosity on Capitol Hill redolent of the Cold War.
Today, as government at all levels consumes nearly 40 percent of gross domestic product, as the deficit is growing three times as fast as the GDP, as China continues to grow at four times the U.S. rate, we need to ask ourselves:
What should we fight for? Whom shall we defend? What can we afford in the way of national defense? What must we afford?
Consider America’s alliances, almost all of which date to a Cold War no American under 25 can even remember.
NATO was formed in 1949 to protect Western Europe from a Soviet Bloc and a Soviet Union that disappeared a generation ago.
U.S. treaties with Japan and the Philippines date to the 1950s, when Chairman Mao was exporting communist revolution. Should these treaties now require us to go to war with China to defend disputed islets and rocks in the East and South China Sea?
Our treaty with South Korea dates to a war against the North that ended in a truce 60 years ago. South Korea today has twice the population of the North and 40 times the GDP.
Must we still deploy a U.S. army on the Korean DMZ?
In 1977 we undertook to give $5 billion in annual foreign aid to Israel and Egypt. After 35 years, how long should the United States, whose middle class has not seen a rise in real income since 1977, borrow from China to pay Egyptians and Israelis $5 billion a year not to fight each other?
Through a mindless adherence to policies that date to a long-dead past, America is forfeiting her future.
Through our abandonment of economic patriotism and embrace of globalism, we have run up $10 trillion in trade deficits since Reagan. We have fought two trillion-dollar wars in 12 years.
Every year we go into world financial markets to borrow tens of billions for the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and foreign aid to send to regimes that routinely vote against the us in the United Nations.
Is Rand Paul really the one living in yesterday?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”
http://www.foxnews.com/
US Urges Americans to Leave Yemen
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Reuters
- State Department orders non-essential personnel at the US Embassy in Yemen to leave the country due to the Al Qaeda threat that has triggered shutdowns of 19 American posts across the world.
- VIDEO: Closures to Last Longer?
- Army Says It Won't Cancel Contracts With Al Qaeda-Tied Companies
- Sources Say Fear of Another Benghazi Driving Rice to Shut US Outposts
- Watchdog: US Spends $772M on Aircraft Afghans 'Cannot Operate'
- Egypt: Jihadists Fired US Missile
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WOODWARD: 'IT'S VERY SAD'
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Tinker:
Is LSU # 90 a man size person oh what! Ha ha ha ha ha lookout TCU here they come.
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By CODY WORSHAM
Tiger Rag Editor
Practice was closed to the media Monday afternoon, because Les Miles was opening the door to a previously suspended player.
Sophomore running back Jeremy Hill rejoined the team Monday afternoon following a 2:15 p.m. team meeting, when the Tigers voted unanimously to reinstate their teammate. Earlier in the day, Hill had his probation from a 2011 charge on misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile extended two years, a direct result of a guilty plea to battery in an April 27 bar fight.
With the possibility of jail time off the table, Miles allowed Hill back in the squad in time for this afternoon’s practice but said a suspension from play could still be on the table.
“I’m a proponent of changing behavior,” Miles said. “I think there’s some positive that comes from this.”
Hill also issued a public apology for his actions.
Response to “Hill back on team”
TigerGumbo on August 5th, 2013 7:15 pm
james c on August 5th, 2013 10:25 pm
TigerGumbo on August 6th, 2013 9:25 am
Also I think that imperfect men can fill up with a powerful big time spirit fighting to win the football game and over the obstacle course of life, who every they are.
90 Anthony Johnson DT 6-3 294 Jr. 2L New Orleans, La. (O.P. Walker HS)
Quote:
Watch out for #90 on the LSU 2013 football team. I heard that he has a cold determination to target bully’s. Man! here he comes, he a man eater…Quick, big and strong… Pop! Boom! Game!
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OFFENSIVE REPORT by Hunt Palmer
The upperclassmen took back to the field Tuesday in helmets and shorts. There were some new faces today.
First of all, Jeremy Hill was practicing this morning. I wouldn’t call him out of shape by any stretch, but he will shed a few pounds this fall. Alfred Blue, Kenny Hilliard and Connor Neighbors joined Hill with the running backs. J.C. Copeland was not at practice.
The running backs worked on read-option plays with the QBs. I like the pistol formation with Hilliard next to the QB as the FB. The QB would take the snap, fake a counter to Hilliard and then run the option out right with Hill. Neighbors and Blue performed the drill as well. I would love to see Anthony Jennings run that play.
It was still Mettenberger, Rivers and Kragthorpe out there. The QBs didn’t do a ton of throwing while we were out there. They worked on the bubble screen fairly extensively.
I liked the ultimatum laid down by Cam Cameron there. He said, “Every bubble we miss, it’s five push ups for everyone. Ok?” When the group said OK, Cameron responded. “No, until you graduate. Every miss until you graduate is five push ups.” Rivers proceeded to guide the next pass very softly which Cameron immediately jumped on. Jarvis Landry got a chuckle out of that. I’ll add that there were no missed bubbles while I was out there.
It was the same cast of characters at wide receiver. I was watching them catch the ball and turn up field. I think Dural is the fastest followed by Beckham.
At tight end, it was Travis Dickson, Dillon Gordon and Logan Stokes. No DeSean Smith. They worked on sleds and then seam routes without a quarterback. It was our first look at Stokes since the spring, and he’s still an imposing figure. After two days I have very little concern about the tight end spot. I think all four guys can absolutely play.
Up front there were some rotating parts. Vadal Alexander was not at practice. He is expected to practice this afternoon. Jerald Hawkins was at practice and against worked as the right tackle for the one full-squad rep we saw before individuals. Andy Dodd was there working with the older players. Dodd is a big boy. He’s got a great frame for a guard, and Stud was coaching him up hard. It appeared that Dodd’s second rep was always better than his first. Les Miles mentioned Dodd yesterday when talking abut freshmen who showed up and practiced well. Looks like the freshman is off to a good start. Jonah Austin also worked this morning.
Hopefully we’ll get a look at the rest of the squad this afternoon. I’m anxious to see Quantavious Leslie.
DEFENSIVE REPORT by Cody Worsham
It was a brief two periods for the media at practice today, but there’s plenty to take away from what the defense did in that time.
First and foremost, we saw a few exchanges from yesterday’s work. On the line, Greg Gilmore was gone, and Maquedius Bain participated. Brick Haley was on Bain as hard as he was Gilmore yesterday, but Bain seemed to handle the heat and humidity better. He’s in better shape than his freshman counterpart, and I’d be shocked if Bain isn’t in the rotation at tackle this year.
Christian LaCouture, Lewis Neal and Tashawn Bower were the other freshmen present. Still no Mickey Johnson or Quentin Thomas at tackle, and we’ve yet to see Danielle Hunter or Justin Maclin end.
A funny moment occurred when Ego Ferguson laid out a manager on a tackling drill. Thomas McGaughey then called Ego “the next Josh Downs,” because Downs, apparently, did the same thing quite often. Downs was a good player for LSU, but I think Ferguson would hope to have a better career.
At linebacker, Lamar Louis and Kwon Alexander both worked with the first team today, taking Tahj Jones and D.J. Welter’s places. Louis worked at middle linebacker, Kwon at strong side, with Lamin Barrow again at weak side. Alexander and Louis have such incredibly quick feet. I love the idea of Louis at Mike. He’s a solid tackler and hits the hole hard.
Kendell Beckwith, Melvin Jones and Duke Riley were again working with the veterans. I’m still convinced Beckwith would be better off adding 15 pounds and putting his hand in the dirt at end, but I’ll trust John Chavis to make that call. He just appears a step slower than the rest of his linebacker counterparts, though he’d be pretty quick for a Mike.
No new guys worked in the secondary today. No sight of Dwayne Thomas, Corey Thompson, Tre White, and a few other DBs battling for a spot in the rotation.
In shell drills, the defensive units looked like this:
1st team: Allen, Johnson, Ferguson, Rasco; Barrow, Louis, Alexander; Mills, Martin, Loston, Collins.
The 2nd team featured a few walk-ons to plug holes, but featured Bower, Bain, LaCouture, and Neal on the line; Beckwith, M. Jones, and Riley at LB; Jefferson, Brazil, and Derrick Raymond in the secondary.
I think that first team is pretty accurate for now, with Tahj Jones and D.J. Welter slightly ahead of Alexander and Louis at linebacker, for now.
Hopefully, we’ll get a better look at some new faces this afternoon. It’s interesting to see who the coaches want to work in with the veterans, but I don’t know that it means much right now, other than they want the young guys to learn from the veterans up close and personal.
We’ll see how it plays out.
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OFFENSIVE REPORT by HUNT PALMER
BBI Staff Writer
It was our first look at the younger players on the offensive side of the ball, and it was nice put a body on some of these names. As expected, the pace was a little slower, but these guys have a couple more days to get to speed.
There were five scholarship offensive lineman working with Greg Studrawa. That means some of these positions may be fluid, but they worked as a unit to learn the blocking assignments. Derek Edinburgh worked at left tackle. K.J. Malone at left guard. Ethan Pocic was the center. Fehoko Fanaika was the right guard, and Josh Boutte was the right tackle. Vadal Alexander was not at practice today.
A few things on those guys. Fanaika has clearly lost 30 or so lbs. from the spring. He looks much better and has to be moving at a totally different level. Derek and I had a conversation, and it looks like Boutte is very advanced in terms of technique. I thought Pocic looked very comfortable snapping the ball and firing off.
The running backs were Terrence Magee, Jarrett Fobbs and J.C. Copeland. Fobbs looks like he’s now a full time running back. Clearly he’s behind the four true running backs, but he may be the emergency running back that I though Jeryl Brazil might become. Magee once again looks like he’s in good shape. He’s always going to be a stocky running back on that short frame, but he was moving well.
DeSean Smith was the only scholarship tight end at practice, and he went through the gauntlet drill catching four out of five.
That brings me to the receivers where I spent a lot of time observing. The five scholarship guys out there were Armand Williams, Quantavious Leslie, Avery Peterson, Kevin Spears and John Diarse.
I’ll start with Leslie. He’s still skinny. He’s all of 6′3″, but there isn’t a ton of meat on those bones. When he went through the gauntlet drill he dropped one ball, but he hauled in the other four. He’s a long strider who moves really well. The WRs haven’t done much route running while we’re out there. That’s another part of his game I want to evaluate. Kevin Spears showed some great hands on the gauntlet. He’s a “hands catcher” as opposed to a “pads catcher”, and that’s a great skill to have. He’s got more muscle than I thought he would have. Avery Peterson looked good as well. He caught the ball well. John Diarse is clearly a step slower than the other guys, but he’s also clearly a more physical presence than the rest as well. He looked more comfortable than he did in the spring.
Hayden Rettig, Rob Bolden and Anthony Jennigns were the QBs, but Bolden didn’t throw much. Jennings missed a number of his throws a little behind the receivers. He may be adjusting to the speed of these wide receivers. All of the guys out there sans Diarse are really fast. Rettig’s arm strength is noticeable. His release looked tighter than the spring too.
We were out there a little longer this afternoon, so I got a pretty good look at everyone in this report. If you’ve got questions, fire away.
Defensive report by LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Assistant Editor
We finally got our first glimpse of freshman cornerback Tre’Davious White, and if it weren’t for his No. 16 uniform I might’ve thought former LSU All-American Mo Claiborne came back for a practice on his old stomping grounds.
White, who is related to Claiborne, certainly looked the part. He’s long and lean and showed off a smooth backpedal. He looks like he needs to put a little bit of meat on his frame, but I’m confident Tommy Moffitt and Co. will find a way to make that happen in the coming years.
He got an earful a couple times from defensive backs coach Corey Raymond during a drill that required him, after moving side-to-side, to open his hips, turn and run downfield. White turned his body against his body’s momentum, causing him to be a step behind the other defensive backs and showing he still has a little to learn.
But he showed great acceleration after the turn, making up the ground between him and his teammates quickly. Once he gets the finer points of being a collegiate defensive back down, it’s pretty clear he has the tools to be a stud.
Not lost in the defensive back shuffle were cornerback Dwayne Thomas and safety Corey Thompson, who each look to have made some strides since the spring.
Linebackers D.J. Welter and Tahj Jones both worked with in the afternoon after spending Monday’s practice working with selected veterans. I wouldn’t place too much stock into this, but they were in attendance.
Maybe it was because he wasn’t surrounded by most of LSU’s superb 2012 linebacker class, but redshirt freshman Lorenzo Phillips stood out among the linebackers. I honestly don’t remember much of him from the spring, but he looked good today, earning some praise from assistant coaches as he went through drills.
Also working with the linebackers was sophomore Ronnie Feist. It appears his transition to defensive line this spring was simply for depth purposes.
I didn’t scope too much from the defensive linemen, but there was one interesting note. During individual drills, the defensive linemen practice staying low by moving laterally underneath a platform that stands roughly three feet tall. Freshman Greg Gilmore went through and hit his helmet on the platform.
Before coaches could tell him to go back and do it again, a visibly upset Gilmore stopped, told his teammates he was sorry and went back through the drill. He finished it focused and fast.
Gilmore’s had some rough patches in his first couple days at LSU, like all of the freshmen. But in that one specific instance he showed he was willing to work hard and make the most of his ample potential, and that’s good news for LSU.
It was my first time getting a glimpse of freshman defensive end Frank Herron in the flesh, and he looks like he has the body to play right away.
There wasn’t a single Tiger on the defensive side of the ball wearing a green non-contact jersey at the afternoon practice.
QUOTABLE
“’Zo, you look like you’re going to be a damned football player!” special teams coach Thomas McGaughy to Lorenzo Phillips, after Phillips aced a tackling drill.
McGaughy also called Deion “Debo” Jones a “Tasmanian devil” in the same drill.
”TRAINED KILLERS”
Each positional unit moves on to an ensuing drill by gathering and chanting a phrase on a count, like this, “Defense on three. One, two, three DEFENSE.”
The cornerbacks used “DBU” and the defensive linemen used “d-line pride,” but the linebackers took the cake, chanting “trained killers.”
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Tinker:
Is LSU # 90 a man size person oh what! Ha ha ha ha ha lookout TCU here they come.
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Hill back on team
August 5, 2013 - © 2013 Tiger Rag
Miles allows troubled sophomore running back back after unanimous team vote
By CODY WORSHAM
Tiger Rag Editor
Practice was closed to the media Monday afternoon, because Les Miles was opening the door to a previously suspended player.
Sophomore running back Jeremy Hill rejoined the team Monday afternoon following a 2:15 p.m. team meeting, when the Tigers voted unanimously to reinstate their teammate. Earlier in the day, Hill had his probation from a 2011 charge on misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile extended two years, a direct result of a guilty plea to battery in an April 27 bar fight.
With the possibility of jail time off the table, Miles allowed Hill back in the squad in time for this afternoon’s practice but said a suspension from play could still be on the table.
“I’m a proponent of changing behavior,” Miles said. “I think there’s some positive that comes from this.”
Hill also issued a public apology for his actions.
Response to “Hill back on team”
TigerGumbo on August 5th, 2013 7:15 pm
Wonderful:
Les Miles and the LSU football team are showing RB Jeremy Hill true friendship and class, lookout TCU here comes the LSU fighting tigers!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
--------------------Les Miles and the LSU football team are showing RB Jeremy Hill true friendship and class, lookout TCU here comes the LSU fighting tigers!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
james c on August 5th, 2013 10:25 pm
JH should have never been recruited by LSU; but I guess character
is not one of the qualifications for players. Just look at the QB’s
track record>
Never gonna win much with irresponsible players who refuse accountability.
Ive loved the tigers for 40 yrs but there is a descending trend; faster than most schools.
Good luck, Ryan Perillous, Tyrann, JJ, and JH.
The jury is still out; but if they can keep JH under wraps for the season; he’ll be gone next year anyways. Its just going to be hard to root for a confessed rapist of children.
--------------Never gonna win much with irresponsible players who refuse accountability.
Ive loved the tigers for 40 yrs but there is a descending trend; faster than most schools.
Good luck, Ryan Perillous, Tyrann, JJ, and JH.
The jury is still out; but if they can keep JH under wraps for the season; he’ll be gone next year anyways. Its just going to be hard to root for a confessed rapist of children.
TigerGumbo on August 6th, 2013 9:25 am
Also I think that imperfect men can fill up with a powerful big time spirit fighting to win the football game and over the obstacle course of life, who every they are.
90 Anthony Johnson DT 6-3 294 Jr. 2L New Orleans, La. (O.P. Walker HS)
Quote:
Watch out for #90 on the LSU 2013 football team. I heard that he has a cold determination to target bully’s. Man! here he comes, he a man eater…Quick, big and strong… Pop! Boom! Game!
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Tuesday morning practice report
August 6, 2013 - © 2013 Tiger Rag
Hill back on the field for LSU
OFFENSIVE REPORT by Hunt Palmer
The upperclassmen took back to the field Tuesday in helmets and shorts. There were some new faces today.
First of all, Jeremy Hill was practicing this morning. I wouldn’t call him out of shape by any stretch, but he will shed a few pounds this fall. Alfred Blue, Kenny Hilliard and Connor Neighbors joined Hill with the running backs. J.C. Copeland was not at practice.
The running backs worked on read-option plays with the QBs. I like the pistol formation with Hilliard next to the QB as the FB. The QB would take the snap, fake a counter to Hilliard and then run the option out right with Hill. Neighbors and Blue performed the drill as well. I would love to see Anthony Jennings run that play.
It was still Mettenberger, Rivers and Kragthorpe out there. The QBs didn’t do a ton of throwing while we were out there. They worked on the bubble screen fairly extensively.
I liked the ultimatum laid down by Cam Cameron there. He said, “Every bubble we miss, it’s five push ups for everyone. Ok?” When the group said OK, Cameron responded. “No, until you graduate. Every miss until you graduate is five push ups.” Rivers proceeded to guide the next pass very softly which Cameron immediately jumped on. Jarvis Landry got a chuckle out of that. I’ll add that there were no missed bubbles while I was out there.
It was the same cast of characters at wide receiver. I was watching them catch the ball and turn up field. I think Dural is the fastest followed by Beckham.
At tight end, it was Travis Dickson, Dillon Gordon and Logan Stokes. No DeSean Smith. They worked on sleds and then seam routes without a quarterback. It was our first look at Stokes since the spring, and he’s still an imposing figure. After two days I have very little concern about the tight end spot. I think all four guys can absolutely play.
Up front there were some rotating parts. Vadal Alexander was not at practice. He is expected to practice this afternoon. Jerald Hawkins was at practice and against worked as the right tackle for the one full-squad rep we saw before individuals. Andy Dodd was there working with the older players. Dodd is a big boy. He’s got a great frame for a guard, and Stud was coaching him up hard. It appeared that Dodd’s second rep was always better than his first. Les Miles mentioned Dodd yesterday when talking abut freshmen who showed up and practiced well. Looks like the freshman is off to a good start. Jonah Austin also worked this morning.
Hopefully we’ll get a look at the rest of the squad this afternoon. I’m anxious to see Quantavious Leslie.
DEFENSIVE REPORT by Cody Worsham
It was a brief two periods for the media at practice today, but there’s plenty to take away from what the defense did in that time.
First and foremost, we saw a few exchanges from yesterday’s work. On the line, Greg Gilmore was gone, and Maquedius Bain participated. Brick Haley was on Bain as hard as he was Gilmore yesterday, but Bain seemed to handle the heat and humidity better. He’s in better shape than his freshman counterpart, and I’d be shocked if Bain isn’t in the rotation at tackle this year.
Christian LaCouture, Lewis Neal and Tashawn Bower were the other freshmen present. Still no Mickey Johnson or Quentin Thomas at tackle, and we’ve yet to see Danielle Hunter or Justin Maclin end.
A funny moment occurred when Ego Ferguson laid out a manager on a tackling drill. Thomas McGaughey then called Ego “the next Josh Downs,” because Downs, apparently, did the same thing quite often. Downs was a good player for LSU, but I think Ferguson would hope to have a better career.
At linebacker, Lamar Louis and Kwon Alexander both worked with the first team today, taking Tahj Jones and D.J. Welter’s places. Louis worked at middle linebacker, Kwon at strong side, with Lamin Barrow again at weak side. Alexander and Louis have such incredibly quick feet. I love the idea of Louis at Mike. He’s a solid tackler and hits the hole hard.
Kendell Beckwith, Melvin Jones and Duke Riley were again working with the veterans. I’m still convinced Beckwith would be better off adding 15 pounds and putting his hand in the dirt at end, but I’ll trust John Chavis to make that call. He just appears a step slower than the rest of his linebacker counterparts, though he’d be pretty quick for a Mike.
No new guys worked in the secondary today. No sight of Dwayne Thomas, Corey Thompson, Tre White, and a few other DBs battling for a spot in the rotation.
In shell drills, the defensive units looked like this:
1st team: Allen, Johnson, Ferguson, Rasco; Barrow, Louis, Alexander; Mills, Martin, Loston, Collins.
The 2nd team featured a few walk-ons to plug holes, but featured Bower, Bain, LaCouture, and Neal on the line; Beckwith, M. Jones, and Riley at LB; Jefferson, Brazil, and Derrick Raymond in the secondary.
I think that first team is pretty accurate for now, with Tahj Jones and D.J. Welter slightly ahead of Alexander and Louis at linebacker, for now.
Hopefully, we’ll get a better look at some new faces this afternoon. It’s interesting to see who the coaches want to work in with the veterans, but I don’t know that it means much right now, other than they want the young guys to learn from the veterans up close and personal.
We’ll see how it plays out.
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First glimpse at several newcomers
OFFENSIVE REPORT by HUNT PALMER
BBI Staff Writer
It was our first look at the younger players on the offensive side of the ball, and it was nice put a body on some of these names. As expected, the pace was a little slower, but these guys have a couple more days to get to speed.
There were five scholarship offensive lineman working with Greg Studrawa. That means some of these positions may be fluid, but they worked as a unit to learn the blocking assignments. Derek Edinburgh worked at left tackle. K.J. Malone at left guard. Ethan Pocic was the center. Fehoko Fanaika was the right guard, and Josh Boutte was the right tackle. Vadal Alexander was not at practice today.
A few things on those guys. Fanaika has clearly lost 30 or so lbs. from the spring. He looks much better and has to be moving at a totally different level. Derek and I had a conversation, and it looks like Boutte is very advanced in terms of technique. I thought Pocic looked very comfortable snapping the ball and firing off.
The running backs were Terrence Magee, Jarrett Fobbs and J.C. Copeland. Fobbs looks like he’s now a full time running back. Clearly he’s behind the four true running backs, but he may be the emergency running back that I though Jeryl Brazil might become. Magee once again looks like he’s in good shape. He’s always going to be a stocky running back on that short frame, but he was moving well.
DeSean Smith was the only scholarship tight end at practice, and he went through the gauntlet drill catching four out of five.
That brings me to the receivers where I spent a lot of time observing. The five scholarship guys out there were Armand Williams, Quantavious Leslie, Avery Peterson, Kevin Spears and John Diarse.
I’ll start with Leslie. He’s still skinny. He’s all of 6′3″, but there isn’t a ton of meat on those bones. When he went through the gauntlet drill he dropped one ball, but he hauled in the other four. He’s a long strider who moves really well. The WRs haven’t done much route running while we’re out there. That’s another part of his game I want to evaluate. Kevin Spears showed some great hands on the gauntlet. He’s a “hands catcher” as opposed to a “pads catcher”, and that’s a great skill to have. He’s got more muscle than I thought he would have. Avery Peterson looked good as well. He caught the ball well. John Diarse is clearly a step slower than the other guys, but he’s also clearly a more physical presence than the rest as well. He looked more comfortable than he did in the spring.
Hayden Rettig, Rob Bolden and Anthony Jennigns were the QBs, but Bolden didn’t throw much. Jennings missed a number of his throws a little behind the receivers. He may be adjusting to the speed of these wide receivers. All of the guys out there sans Diarse are really fast. Rettig’s arm strength is noticeable. His release looked tighter than the spring too.
We were out there a little longer this afternoon, so I got a pretty good look at everyone in this report. If you’ve got questions, fire away.
Defensive report by LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Assistant Editor
We finally got our first glimpse of freshman cornerback Tre’Davious White, and if it weren’t for his No. 16 uniform I might’ve thought former LSU All-American Mo Claiborne came back for a practice on his old stomping grounds.
White, who is related to Claiborne, certainly looked the part. He’s long and lean and showed off a smooth backpedal. He looks like he needs to put a little bit of meat on his frame, but I’m confident Tommy Moffitt and Co. will find a way to make that happen in the coming years.
He got an earful a couple times from defensive backs coach Corey Raymond during a drill that required him, after moving side-to-side, to open his hips, turn and run downfield. White turned his body against his body’s momentum, causing him to be a step behind the other defensive backs and showing he still has a little to learn.
But he showed great acceleration after the turn, making up the ground between him and his teammates quickly. Once he gets the finer points of being a collegiate defensive back down, it’s pretty clear he has the tools to be a stud.
Not lost in the defensive back shuffle were cornerback Dwayne Thomas and safety Corey Thompson, who each look to have made some strides since the spring.
Linebackers D.J. Welter and Tahj Jones both worked with in the afternoon after spending Monday’s practice working with selected veterans. I wouldn’t place too much stock into this, but they were in attendance.
Maybe it was because he wasn’t surrounded by most of LSU’s superb 2012 linebacker class, but redshirt freshman Lorenzo Phillips stood out among the linebackers. I honestly don’t remember much of him from the spring, but he looked good today, earning some praise from assistant coaches as he went through drills.
Also working with the linebackers was sophomore Ronnie Feist. It appears his transition to defensive line this spring was simply for depth purposes.
I didn’t scope too much from the defensive linemen, but there was one interesting note. During individual drills, the defensive linemen practice staying low by moving laterally underneath a platform that stands roughly three feet tall. Freshman Greg Gilmore went through and hit his helmet on the platform.
Before coaches could tell him to go back and do it again, a visibly upset Gilmore stopped, told his teammates he was sorry and went back through the drill. He finished it focused and fast.
Gilmore’s had some rough patches in his first couple days at LSU, like all of the freshmen. But in that one specific instance he showed he was willing to work hard and make the most of his ample potential, and that’s good news for LSU.
It was my first time getting a glimpse of freshman defensive end Frank Herron in the flesh, and he looks like he has the body to play right away.
There wasn’t a single Tiger on the defensive side of the ball wearing a green non-contact jersey at the afternoon practice.
QUOTABLE
“’Zo, you look like you’re going to be a damned football player!” special teams coach Thomas McGaughy to Lorenzo Phillips, after Phillips aced a tackling drill.
McGaughy also called Deion “Debo” Jones a “Tasmanian devil” in the same drill.
”TRAINED KILLERS”
Each positional unit moves on to an ensuing drill by gathering and chanting a phrase on a count, like this, “Defense on three. One, two, three DEFENSE.”
The cornerbacks used “DBU” and the defensive linemen used “d-line pride,” but the linebackers took the cake, chanting “trained killers.”
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