Hurricane Katrina, 10 years on. As we mark the 10-year memorial of Hurricane Katrina, our LSU blog, And The Valley Shook, has an incredible piece on what things were like in Baton Rouge during the storm and its aftermath. Les Miles had yet to coach a game for the Tigers, but his presence served as a stabilizing force for people around the program.
When Hurricane Katrina struck LSU football
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Those three have stood by LSU and Miles in the 10 years since, but when they look back on that time, a time when they were still forming their first impressions of a new boss, words like “stoic” and “fixed point” are used to describe Miles.
“He didn’t know anything about hurricanes,” said [Lois Stuckey, LSU football’s long-time administrative coordinator]. “He barely knew anything about Louisiana, and here he is in the middle of all this, and he just kept us going. And it got hard. You saw those helicopters flying in every day, and you didn’t know what was on them -- if the people were living or dead. Sometimes you just had to cry.”
Bad idea! Wednesday night was not one of Virginia Tech assistant Bud Foster’s finer moments, as his announcement that the coaching staff was considering fining players out of their scholarship funds was met with scorn. His AD threw cold water on the idea, but boy, fining players sounds an awful lot like something an employer would do to employees, no?
Tough loss. Ohio State was shaken by the loss of sophomore wide receiver Noah Brown, who suffered a serious leg injury and will miss 2015.
What the Playoff committee would’ve taught us in 2007. And every other year of the BCS era, by Bill Connelly. Basically, that 2014’s controversy was about what we’ll have every year.
Did Art Briles screw up? It’s not worth arguing about based on what we know right now, because the clearer and bigger issue is whether Baylor University did.
Head coach’s son resigns from Arizona State staff, reportedly due to relationship with student.
USC players made Steve Sarkisian do up-downs as punishment for his drunken antics, and there is now footage of those up downs.
HE WORE A CRIMSON MASK! These Holy Cross coaches squared off after practice, WWE-style, and their players went completely berserk.
QB news! Josh Rosen is the new starter at UCLA. The five-star freshman will be surrounded by talent, so if he’s as good as everyone seems to think he is, the Bruins could really hum.
When Good Bull Hunting says “Adidas creates world’s most terrible Texas A&M shirt,” this is what they mean.
Get acquainted. You’re going to stay up really late and watch some bizarre Pac-12 games this year, so why not dig in early and learn to spot whether you’re watching #Pac12AfterDark.
And speaking of the Pac-12, if you’re a DirecTV customer, you may finally be getting Pac-12 Network.
New clothes alert! UConn’s gray alternates are real, and they’re ... well, they’re pretty gray.
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