Just when I start feeling sorry for myself I saw a Afghan young girl with a suicide vest, that was apprehended by authorities checking for terrorism.
Some people living in the Middle East are sending their children out to blow up themselves with a suicide vest. Trying to kill their own children because they want to kill other people. Is that a crazy way of behaving, or what?
And I answered myself by all the terror behavior that they can dream up I suppose because the terrorism is not a pathetic myth at all, but in fact very much in the Arab people reality. Terrorism works.
The Arab people have been programed from cradle to grave and use as a tool for someone else ambitions. That is the characteristics of some of the Arabian population living in the Middle East today. Women are especially treated that way by the ruling class of males down through the centuries. They call this Arab behavior traditional Arab culture. Written on the tablets from their desert history, handed down from thousand of years in the Middle East.
The desert romance of Arabia, and the religion of Allah
has been a popular story that is becoming suspect to me about its true
virtue.
The Arab people were for the most part scared people overwhelmed by their own numbers, hungry and shackled to the chains of political corrupt rich men, that they called leader. Used and abused into the light minded masses of what we see today. The end product of the Arab ruling class.
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me,
and Hell"
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Can you imagine that kind of a spirit coming from a cruel
culture of pain and abuse like the Arab culture is. That phoney Arab
politic went on and on through the centuries in Arabia, giving the Arab
people only grief?
The famous Arab love story's that was also passed down through the ages like Layla and Majnun.
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"Majnun fell in love with Layla. He soon began composing poems about his love for her, mentioning her name often. His unself-conscious efforts to woo the girl caused some locals to call him Majnun (madman). When he asked for her hand in marriage, her father refused as it would be a scandal for Layla to marry someone considered mentally unbalanced. Soon after, Layla was married to another man."
And I kiss this wall and that wall
It’s not Love of the houses that has taken my heart
But of the One who dwells in those houses."
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"Majnun fell in love with Layla. He soon began composing poems about his love for her, mentioning her name often. His unself-conscious efforts to woo the girl caused some locals to call him Majnun (madman). When he asked for her hand in marriage, her father refused as it would be a scandal for Layla to marry someone considered mentally unbalanced. Soon after, Layla was married to another man."
"I pass by these walls, the walls of Layla
And I kiss this wall and that wall
It’s not Love of the houses that has taken my heart
But of the One who dwells in those houses."
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Alas!
My friends this is the Arab entertainment that is published in public
as the real obituary of the Arabian people lives was trashed down
through the years, and into their Arab heritage. That they became
obedient to the ruling class of Arab rich men was the true story.
In that regard the Arab people have something in common
with the American people. Entertainment is being used to addict the
population as a convent detraction away from the rich rulers, so they
can keep on with their corruption of wealth and political power over the
rest.
In America case at this place in time the American people
also want to entertain themselves with smoking pot, playing noises that
they are calling music, watching lots and lots of television, As they
use their cell smartphones texting each other all the time.
More and more the American population is given into these
addiction, so the American government don't need to apply direct
torture to make them behave like sheep.
So just how
far is all of this worn out rich mans ruling class fantasy bull talk
going to go anyway. I guess that we are just like the Arab people in
that regards after all, and just as far as we let it, right?
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Is America Going to Pot?
By Pat Buchanan
Smoking Marlboros is now forbidden in Irish bars in New York City.
But buying, selling, and smoking marijuana is legal in Colorado.
It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.
But where are we going?
One certain result of the legalization of marijuana is that there are going to be more potheads, more dropouts, and more deaths on highways from those high or stoned — and more rehab centers.
Scores of thousands of Coloradans may relish the freedom they have voted for themselves. But the costs will be borne by society and the families of future victims of potheads behind the wheel.
So it has been with alcohol. All of us can recall classmates injured and dead in auto accidents, jobs lost by friends, lives destroyed, and families smashed because of booze.
Just as beer opens the door for the young to bourbon, scotch, gin and vodka, marijuana is the gateway drug, the escalator drug, to cocaine and heroin.
And if marijuana sales bring in the revenue Colorado envisions, other states will follow suit, and some state will become the first to decriminalize cocaine.
Undeniably, the cultural revolution is gaining converts and picking up speed. The haste with which some Republicans are deep-sixing the social issues to focus on tax cuts testifies to this.
It was half a century ago that pot first began to replace alcohol as the drug of choice for baby boomers arriving on campuses in 1964. Yet not until the boomers began moving onto Social Security rolls did the first state legalize marijuana for personal enjoyment.
It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.
But where are we going?
One certain result of the legalization of marijuana is that there are going to be more potheads, more dropouts, and more deaths on highways from those high or stoned — and more rehab centers.
Scores of thousands of Coloradans may relish the freedom they have voted for themselves. But the costs will be borne by society and the families of future victims of potheads behind the wheel.
So it has been with alcohol. All of us can recall classmates injured and dead in auto accidents, jobs lost by friends, lives destroyed, and families smashed because of booze.
Just as beer opens the door for the young to bourbon, scotch, gin and vodka, marijuana is the gateway drug, the escalator drug, to cocaine and heroin.
And if marijuana sales bring in the revenue Colorado envisions, other states will follow suit, and some state will become the first to decriminalize cocaine.
Undeniably, the cultural revolution is gaining converts and picking up speed. The haste with which some Republicans are deep-sixing the social issues to focus on tax cuts testifies to this.
It was half a century ago that pot first began to replace alcohol as the drug of choice for baby boomers arriving on campuses in 1964. Yet not until the boomers began moving onto Social Security rolls did the first state legalize marijuana for personal enjoyment.
Yet, as with same-sex marriage, now legal in 16 or 17 states, the
legalization of marijuana appears to be an idea whose time has come.
What does this tell us about our country?
America is not only diversifying racially, ethnically and religiously as a result of continuous mass immigration, legal and illegal. We are diversifying, and disuniting morally, culturally, and politically.
Not so very long ago, the U.S. government enforced Prohibition, pronounced smoking a menace to the national health, punished gambling as organized crime, and declared a war on drugs.
Now the government has shouldered aside organized crime to take over, tax, and regulate the rackets. At federal, state and local levels, the government rakes off vast revenues from taxes on booze, bars, cigarettes, casinos and, coming soon, online poker.
Government lotteries have crowded out the old numbers racket.
As the poet Alexander Pope wrote three centuries ago:
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace."
In the 1965 decision Griswold v.
Connecticut, the Warren Court discovered a constitutional right to privacy and overturned a state law prohibiting the sale of contraceptives.
What does this tell us about our country?
America is not only diversifying racially, ethnically and religiously as a result of continuous mass immigration, legal and illegal. We are diversifying, and disuniting morally, culturally, and politically.
Not so very long ago, the U.S. government enforced Prohibition, pronounced smoking a menace to the national health, punished gambling as organized crime, and declared a war on drugs.
Now the government has shouldered aside organized crime to take over, tax, and regulate the rackets. At federal, state and local levels, the government rakes off vast revenues from taxes on booze, bars, cigarettes, casinos and, coming soon, online poker.
Government lotteries have crowded out the old numbers racket.
As the poet Alexander Pope wrote three centuries ago:
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace."
In the 1965 decision Griswold v.
Connecticut, the Warren Court discovered a constitutional right to privacy and overturned a state law prohibiting the sale of contraceptives.
Contraceptives are now handed out to high schoolers and a right to contraception has been written into Obamacare.
Abortion and homosexuality used to be scandalous. Now they are constitutional rights and popular social causes, and same-sex marriage is the civil rights cause of the 21st century.
As Justice Antonin Scalia noted, if tradition, religious beliefs, or a community animus against conduct is insufficient to restrict private behavior, upon what legal ground do we stand upon to outlaw polygamy, adult incest, or prostitution?
Yet traditional America is not rolling over and playing dead.
"Abortion rights" face new restrictions in state after state, as a new generation appears more pro-life than its parents.
And as the A&E network discovered when it sought to suspend "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson for his biblical reflections, the silent majority remains faithful to the traditional morality.
And while a libertarianism of the left appears ascendant, there is also a rising and militant libertarianism of the right.
We have seen it manifest in the explosion of "stand your ground" and concealed-carry laws, opposition to federal background checks for gun owners, and ferocious resistance to the outlawing of assault rifles and 30-round magazines.
In that Colorado where pot is now legal, state senators have been recalled for insufficient devotion to Second Amendment rights. And there are bubbling secessionist movements in states like Colorado, of folks who would like to separate themselves from places like Denver.
The triumph of the sexual revolution has not been without its casualties, e.g., an endless supply of new HIV/AIDS and STD cases and a national illegitimacy rate of over 40 percent of all births.
And the correlation between that illegitimacy rate and the dropout rate, drug use rate, delinquency rate, crime rate, and incarceration rate is absolute.
Undeniably, the claims of the individual to maximum autonomy and freedom appear triumphant over the claims of community. The clamor of me is prevailing over the claims of us.
But in yielding, America has not only tossed overboard the moral compass that guided us for two centuries. We no longer even agree on what is "True North" anymore.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators webpage at www.creators.com.
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Abortion and homosexuality used to be scandalous. Now they are constitutional rights and popular social causes, and same-sex marriage is the civil rights cause of the 21st century.
As Justice Antonin Scalia noted, if tradition, religious beliefs, or a community animus against conduct is insufficient to restrict private behavior, upon what legal ground do we stand upon to outlaw polygamy, adult incest, or prostitution?
Yet traditional America is not rolling over and playing dead.
"Abortion rights" face new restrictions in state after state, as a new generation appears more pro-life than its parents.
And as the A&E network discovered when it sought to suspend "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson for his biblical reflections, the silent majority remains faithful to the traditional morality.
And while a libertarianism of the left appears ascendant, there is also a rising and militant libertarianism of the right.
We have seen it manifest in the explosion of "stand your ground" and concealed-carry laws, opposition to federal background checks for gun owners, and ferocious resistance to the outlawing of assault rifles and 30-round magazines.
In that Colorado where pot is now legal, state senators have been recalled for insufficient devotion to Second Amendment rights. And there are bubbling secessionist movements in states like Colorado, of folks who would like to separate themselves from places like Denver.
The triumph of the sexual revolution has not been without its casualties, e.g., an endless supply of new HIV/AIDS and STD cases and a national illegitimacy rate of over 40 percent of all births.
And the correlation between that illegitimacy rate and the dropout rate, drug use rate, delinquency rate, crime rate, and incarceration rate is absolute.
Undeniably, the claims of the individual to maximum autonomy and freedom appear triumphant over the claims of community. The clamor of me is prevailing over the claims of us.
But in yielding, America has not only tossed overboard the moral compass that guided us for two centuries. We no longer even agree on what is "True North" anymore.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators webpage at www.creators.com.
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“She was crying…”
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Says Obama, Hillary Opposition to Iraq Surge Was 'Political'...
WASHPOST: Memoir Could Haunt in 2016...
The Quiet Fury...
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107-Minutes-Long Press Conference...
Meticulously Crafted Image Imperiled...
'I am not a bully'...
Top NJ lawmaker: 'Cover-up'...
De Blasio piles on...
Former Port Authority Official Pleads Fifth...
ABCNEWS: PHOTO, CHRISTIE WITH THE MAYOR...
Boehner: Remains Presidential Contender...
Lawsuit filed...
Fort Lee traffic jam caused human debacle...
WSJ: Compared to using IRS against political opponents, closing traffic lanes is jaywalking...
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(CNN) -- Early in her career as a learning
specialist, Mary Willingham was in her office when a basketball player
at the University of North Carolina walked in looking for help with his
classwork.
He couldn't read or write.
"And I kind of panicked. What do you do with that?" she said, recalling the meeting.
Willingham's job was to help athletes who weren't quite ready academically for the work required at UNC at Chapel Hill, one of the country's top public universities.
But she was shocked that one couldn't read. And then she found he was not an anomaly.
Soon, she'd meet a student-athlete who couldn't read multisyllabic words. She had to teach him to sound out Wis-con-sin, as kids do in elementary school.
And then another came with this request: "If I could teach him to read well enough so he could read about himself in the news, because that was something really important to him," Willingham said.
Student-athletes who can't read well, but play in the money-making collegiate sports of football and basketball, are not a new phenomenon, and they certainly aren't found only at UNC-Chapel Hill.
A CNN investigation found public universities across the country where many students in the basketball and football programs could read only up to an eighth-grade level. The data obtained through open records requests also showed a staggering achievement gap between college athletes and their peers at the same institution.
This is not an exhaustive survey of all universities with major sports programs; CNN chose a sampling of public universities where open records laws apply. We sought data from a total of 37 institutions, of which 21 schools responded. The others denied our request for entrance exam or aptitude test scores, some saying the information did not exist and others citing privacy rules. Some simply did not provide it in time.
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Meticulously Crafted Image Imperiled...
'I am not a bully'...
Top NJ lawmaker: 'Cover-up'...
De Blasio piles on...
Former Port Authority Official Pleads Fifth...
ABCNEWS: PHOTO, CHRISTIE WITH THE MAYOR...
Boehner: Remains Presidential Contender...
Lawsuit filed...
Fort Lee traffic jam caused human debacle...
WSJ: Compared to using IRS against political opponents, closing traffic lanes is jaywalking...
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Rush Limbaugh Noticed a Key Detail About Chris Christie’s Speech That You Might Find Interesting
“Why can’t he sleep two nights ago if he only learned about this one day ago?”
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CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders
By Sara Ganim, CNN
updated 6:06 PM EST, Tue January 7, 2014
Illiterates in big time college sports
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Specialist Mary Willingham was shocked by the number of UNC athletes who struggled to read
- CNN found 7%-18% of basketball, football students in many schools read poorly
- Experts say it's hard for a busy college athlete to improve reading ability in just four years
- NCAA: Number of poor readers is small percentage of overall total of its athletes
He couldn't read or write.
"And I kind of panicked. What do you do with that?" she said, recalling the meeting.
Willingham's job was to help athletes who weren't quite ready academically for the work required at UNC at Chapel Hill, one of the country's top public universities.
But she was shocked that one couldn't read. And then she found he was not an anomaly.
Soon, she'd meet a student-athlete who couldn't read multisyllabic words. She had to teach him to sound out Wis-con-sin, as kids do in elementary school.
And then another came with this request: "If I could teach him to read well enough so he could read about himself in the news, because that was something really important to him," Willingham said.
Student-athletes who can't read well, but play in the money-making collegiate sports of football and basketball, are not a new phenomenon, and they certainly aren't found only at UNC-Chapel Hill.
A CNN investigation found public universities across the country where many students in the basketball and football programs could read only up to an eighth-grade level. The data obtained through open records requests also showed a staggering achievement gap between college athletes and their peers at the same institution.
This is not an exhaustive survey of all universities with major sports programs; CNN chose a sampling of public universities where open records laws apply. We sought data from a total of 37 institutions, of which 21 schools responded. The others denied our request for entrance exam or aptitude test scores, some saying the information did not exist and others citing privacy rules. Some simply did not provide it in time.
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Good morning, Tiger Fans,
Lots to report today as there were a couple of major developments in LSU football news yesterday. Early in the day, more reports surfaced of Jeremy Hill deciding to stay at LSU rather than enter the NFL draft, and then came the news of offensive line coach Greg Studrawa leaving LSU. We’ll touch on both of those topics today, starting with the later.
For the past several days there have been rumblings of changes coming to the Tiger coaching staff, and yesterday the first came as offensive line coach Greg Studrawa parted ways with LSU. According to FootballScoop.com (@footballscoop), more changes could be on the way, although that is far from certain at this time. Yesterday morning’s initial reports of Coach Studrawa’s departure stated that he was let go by Les Miles, but the official statement by LSU is a little more vague, stating simply that Studrawa has left the LSU football program and will pursue other opportunities. What I find particularly interesting is the timing of the news. With the January 15th deadline for declaring for the NFL six days away, and with almost a month to go before National Signing Day on February 5th, I suspect that one or both of those dates is significant. Then again, the timing could have more to do with the availability of potential replacements. The next few days should be very interesting as we see how this story unravels.
I learned long ago that it’s never wise to rejoice in someone losing his job, but I do think this was a good business decision by Coach Miles. Coach Studrawa did a lot of good at LSU and was an integral part of seven successful seasons, two of which found him in the dual-role as offensive line coach and offensive coordinator after Coach Steve Kragthorpe was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and reassigned to an administrative role. But, as Mike Detillier stated in our last interview, it was time for LSU to bring in someone to help further develop the offensive line, particularly in pass blocking. Hopefully that person will also be a solid recruiter who can help mend the proverbial fence around Louisiana that appears to have weakened recently. With that said, I wish Coach Studrawa and his family nothing but the best in whatever lies ahead.
Many of you have asked about potential replacements. In monitoring the internet and speaking to various sources, several names have surfaced. Of the many I’ve heard so far, the ones I think are most likely include Todd Washington, Andy Moeller, Rob Sale, and Kevin Mawae. Stay tuned, Tiger Fans, as I suspect Miles will act swiftly to make the hire in time to help with this year’s recruiting class, and maybe even in time to help stem early departures. At this point, two LSU offensive lineman - Trai Turner and La’el Collins - are considering entering the NFL draft, and it will be very interesting to see if this news has any bearing on their decisions.
Speaking of the NFL draft leads us to our next hot topic of discussion, the news of Jeremy Hill. According to several reports, Hill has decided to stay at LSU and is expected to announce that decision Monday. Of course, there’s still a lot of time for him to ponder this monumental decision. I would love to see Hill return and in doing so make a statement about there being much more than money to consider (like setting an example, leaving a legacy, and getting a college degree), but I would certainly understand if the opportunity is too great to pass up, especially considering the higher than normal risk of injury faced by running backs. There have also been reports of offensive tackle La’el Collins and offensive guard Trai Turner strongly considering returning to LSU. If they do, and if Hill does in fact stay, the Tigers would return their entire starting offensive line to open lanes for a running back corps led by Hill, Terrance Magee and Leonard Fournette. That would be quite a force to reckon with, and would take a lot of pressure off whichever inexperienced quarterback assumes the starting role.
In football recruiting news, LSU picked up a commitment last night from 2015 DT/TE Hanner Shipley (6’5”, 260) of Marble Falls, TX. Shipley plays on both sides of the ball in high school, but is being recruited by LSU as a tight end. With Shipley’s verbal, LSU’s 2015 class is of to a great start with six commitments.
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Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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on January 08, 2014 at 8:54 PM, updated January 09, 2014 at 10:26 AM
LSU is in the market for a new offensive line coach to replace Greg Studrawa. The Tigers next assistant could be coming from the NFL.
Two names affiliated with the Baltimore Ravens, offensive line coach Andy Moeller and offensive line assistant Todd Washington, were mentioned in a story by Chris Vannini of Coachingsearch.com.
Both have worked with LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, who just finished his first season in the job at LSU. Cameron was the Ravens' offensive coordinator for five seasons before that.
LSU announced Wednesday that Studrawa was leaving to pursue ofter opportunities.
LSU may also be considering a pair of former Tiger offensive linemen. Pete Roussel of Coachingsearch.com said former Tiger Rob Sale will interview for the job. Sale is the McNeese State offensive line coach, a job he's held for one season after spending five years on Nick Saban's staff at Alabama.
Also former Tiger Kevin Mawae, an eight-time All-Pro center with Seattle, the New York Jets and Tennessee could be a candidate. Mawae played 14 seasons in the NFL and currently lives in Baton Rouge. He retired after the 2009 season and has expressed interest in coaching at LSU.
Todd Washington is the offensive line assistant for the Baltimore Ravens.BaltimoreRavens.com photo
Moeller's
father, Gary, worked with both Miles and Cameron at Michigan. Andy
Moeller has spent the past three seasons as the Ravens' offensive line
coach but on Wednesday the Ravens named running game coordinator Juan
Castillo offensive line coach.
Moeller has 20 years of experience as a college assistant, including eight at Michigan, and has spent the last six with the Ravens, the first three as offensive line assistant. He was promoted to offensive line coach in 2011 but was arrested for DUI, his third alcohol related arrest, in the spring of 2011.
Washington played eight seasons in the NFL as a center/guard with Tampa Bay (1998-02) and Houston (2003-05). He was a fourth round draft pick by Tampa Bay out of Virginia Tech.
He coached the offensive line at University of San Diego (2007-08) and then became offensive coordinator there in 2009. He coached one season with the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League, before joining the Ravens in 2011.
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Dandy Don's Sports Report
Good morning, Tiger Fans,
Lots to report today as there were a couple of major developments in LSU football news yesterday. Early in the day, more reports surfaced of Jeremy Hill deciding to stay at LSU rather than enter the NFL draft, and then came the news of offensive line coach Greg Studrawa leaving LSU. We’ll touch on both of those topics today, starting with the later.
For the past several days there have been rumblings of changes coming to the Tiger coaching staff, and yesterday the first came as offensive line coach Greg Studrawa parted ways with LSU. According to FootballScoop.com (@footballscoop), more changes could be on the way, although that is far from certain at this time. Yesterday morning’s initial reports of Coach Studrawa’s departure stated that he was let go by Les Miles, but the official statement by LSU is a little more vague, stating simply that Studrawa has left the LSU football program and will pursue other opportunities. What I find particularly interesting is the timing of the news. With the January 15th deadline for declaring for the NFL six days away, and with almost a month to go before National Signing Day on February 5th, I suspect that one or both of those dates is significant. Then again, the timing could have more to do with the availability of potential replacements. The next few days should be very interesting as we see how this story unravels.
I learned long ago that it’s never wise to rejoice in someone losing his job, but I do think this was a good business decision by Coach Miles. Coach Studrawa did a lot of good at LSU and was an integral part of seven successful seasons, two of which found him in the dual-role as offensive line coach and offensive coordinator after Coach Steve Kragthorpe was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and reassigned to an administrative role. But, as Mike Detillier stated in our last interview, it was time for LSU to bring in someone to help further develop the offensive line, particularly in pass blocking. Hopefully that person will also be a solid recruiter who can help mend the proverbial fence around Louisiana that appears to have weakened recently. With that said, I wish Coach Studrawa and his family nothing but the best in whatever lies ahead.
Many of you have asked about potential replacements. In monitoring the internet and speaking to various sources, several names have surfaced. Of the many I’ve heard so far, the ones I think are most likely include Todd Washington, Andy Moeller, Rob Sale, and Kevin Mawae. Stay tuned, Tiger Fans, as I suspect Miles will act swiftly to make the hire in time to help with this year’s recruiting class, and maybe even in time to help stem early departures. At this point, two LSU offensive lineman - Trai Turner and La’el Collins - are considering entering the NFL draft, and it will be very interesting to see if this news has any bearing on their decisions.
Speaking of the NFL draft leads us to our next hot topic of discussion, the news of Jeremy Hill. According to several reports, Hill has decided to stay at LSU and is expected to announce that decision Monday. Of course, there’s still a lot of time for him to ponder this monumental decision. I would love to see Hill return and in doing so make a statement about there being much more than money to consider (like setting an example, leaving a legacy, and getting a college degree), but I would certainly understand if the opportunity is too great to pass up, especially considering the higher than normal risk of injury faced by running backs. There have also been reports of offensive tackle La’el Collins and offensive guard Trai Turner strongly considering returning to LSU. If they do, and if Hill does in fact stay, the Tigers would return their entire starting offensive line to open lanes for a running back corps led by Hill, Terrance Magee and Leonard Fournette. That would be quite a force to reckon with, and would take a lot of pressure off whichever inexperienced quarterback assumes the starting role.
In football recruiting news, LSU picked up a commitment last night from 2015 DT/TE Hanner Shipley (6’5”, 260) of Marble Falls, TX. Shipley plays on both sides of the ball in high school, but is being recruited by LSU as a tight end. With Shipley’s verbal, LSU’s 2015 class is of to a great start with six commitments.
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LSU Flootball - Geaux Tigers!!!
| Thursday, January 9, 2014 | |
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| Times Picayune | LSU commitment Will Clapp 'still firm' with Tigers despite coaching shakeup |
| LSU Sports | Baseball: Tickets to 'First Pitch Banquet' on sale |
| Tiger Rag | Loston and the LSU defense finally come through after tough season |
| College Football 24/7 | Jeremy Hill recruiting La'El Collins and Trai Turner to stay at LSU |
| The Advocate | Notes: Studrawa's tenure with LSU ends |
| The Advocate | Rabalais: Hammer falls on 'Coach Stud' |
| The Advocate | Source: La'el Collins 'wrestling' with decision; Report: Hill to return |
| The Advocate | Report: McNeese's Rob Sale to interview for LSU O-line job, others mentioned |
| Times Picayune | LSU may be considering Baltimore Ravens assistants for O-Line job |
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LSU may be considering Baltimore Ravens assistants for offensive line job
Baltimore Ravens offensive line coach Andy Moeller worked under LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron.
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By
Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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on January 08, 2014 at 8:54 PM, updated January 09, 2014 at 10:26 AM
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Two names affiliated with the Baltimore Ravens, offensive line coach Andy Moeller and offensive line assistant Todd Washington, were mentioned in a story by Chris Vannini of Coachingsearch.com.
Both have worked with LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, who just finished his first season in the job at LSU. Cameron was the Ravens' offensive coordinator for five seasons before that.
LSU announced Wednesday that Studrawa was leaving to pursue ofter opportunities.
LSU may also be considering a pair of former Tiger offensive linemen. Pete Roussel of Coachingsearch.com said former Tiger Rob Sale will interview for the job. Sale is the McNeese State offensive line coach, a job he's held for one season after spending five years on Nick Saban's staff at Alabama.
Also former Tiger Kevin Mawae, an eight-time All-Pro center with Seattle, the New York Jets and Tennessee could be a candidate. Mawae played 14 seasons in the NFL and currently lives in Baton Rouge. He retired after the 2009 season and has expressed interest in coaching at LSU.
Todd Washington is the offensive line assistant for the Baltimore Ravens.BaltimoreRavens.com photo Moeller has 20 years of experience as a college assistant, including eight at Michigan, and has spent the last six with the Ravens, the first three as offensive line assistant. He was promoted to offensive line coach in 2011 but was arrested for DUI, his third alcohol related arrest, in the spring of 2011.
Washington played eight seasons in the NFL as a center/guard with Tampa Bay (1998-02) and Houston (2003-05). He was a fourth round draft pick by Tampa Bay out of Virginia Tech.
He coached the offensive line at University of San Diego (2007-08) and then became offensive coordinator there in 2009. He coached one season with the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League, before joining the Ravens in 2011.
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