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I agree, leave politics out. You highlighted, “The view here is that Reid is a brave, but misguided man. Kneeling during the anthem is not the answer to societal problems that concern him and many others. Nonetheless, Reid risks his career by kneeling for a cause that is unpopular.” This shows you’re unfamiliar with the reasoning behind the protest. The protest is to shed light on police brutality and racial inequality. It has nothing to do with veterans, armed forces nor the flag. If some distinguished veterans find the action of Reid unacceptable and unconscionable, then they too are blind to the reasoning behind the protest. I’m a big Tim Tebow fan. I love what he stands for and how he carries himself as a man. No one had anything to say when he protest the American flag and National Anthem and took a knee. Since Kaep, E. Reid and a few other black players are protesting something that deserves attention and change, people like you are calling their decisions misguided. No, kneeling will not solve societal problems but it will shed light on the injustices and bring the conversation to light. People must become uncomfortable before certain changes can take place. Their protest have generated millions of dollars and is sparking conversations all over about these injustices. Saying the protest is unpopular, speaks to your views. You find it unpopular because you can’t relate to the cause. You’ve probably never experienced police brutality, unfair treatment or any other unjust act by police or the criminal justice system. Your “privilege” has afforded you better treatment. As the president of Tiger Rag, you should choose your words wiser. I know a lot of people don’t want to read this and I didn’t want to type it. I read these Tiger Rag columns everyday and I couldn’t sit back and let you call a young, black man misguided when he is clearly working for the better of our nation and people as a whole. Respectfully, Reader who won’t visit this site anymore. –DWAYNE N, via TigerRag.com, on Jim Engster’s column titled “LSU remains in national title picture” What started as a criticism of a ball player turned into and anti-Trump article. I have subscribed to the Rag since it started. Are you nuts…ready to retire…of do you think your now an entertainer and following the Hollywood rants… Anti-Trump folks aren’t in the majority in Tiger Land…Say what you want in your paper but it seems to me going against Trump will not be good for business. Nike makes their money off of young people. You on the other hand I would think are dealing with another demographic group. –GREG HAMER, via email, on Jim Engster’s column titled “LSU remains in national title picture” Just read the article about our just departed Tiger. I have read almost all the articles about Jimmy from Houston and B Rouge newspapers. None took on the flavor or depth Jim Engster’s did. I had no idea he knew or hung around with Wendell or Pete. In my humble opinion, both Jimmy and Jerry S should have their statues and their names on our beloved stadium inside walls. Those four, Taylor, Cannon, Casanova & Stovall are LSU heroes and should be treated that way! Nuf said –TOM WOLTZ, via email, on Jim Engster’s column titled “Jimmy Taylor was one tough Tiger”

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Below are four unattributed quotes from the world of LSU sports — some modern and contemporary; others dated but iconic. See if you can figure out which former or current Tiger said it! Who Said That? “Probably a bit generous. It’s not where you start it’s where you end. It’s not where you start it’s where you end. Just because you have a number next to you doesn’t mean anything except you probably have a bit of a target on your back.” 4 “I think I would have learned a lot more being around professional athletes. Looking at it now, I don’t really know what I learned, financially, or just being a person at LSU. I think I’ve learned a lot more this whole year in Philly, just being a pro, than I did at LSU.” 3 2 “If there was any doubt, the SEC crew in zebra stripes made it clear Saturday night. The league is in cahoots with the Crimson Tide. Yes, it appears there is collusion.” “Someone is going to have to explain the definition of “targeting” to me. From what I know, that wasn’t it.” 1

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AT LAST Last month, Jerry Stovall’s No. 21 jersey took its rightful place among the LSU immortals as the school retired his jersey. The former running back and runner-up in the 1962 Heisman balloting joined Billy Cannon and Tommy Casanova on the Tiger Stadium façade. Photo: Jonathan Mailhes

B y H E R B V I N C E N T Editor’s Note: This story appeared in the Aug. 16, 1980 edition of Tiger Rag, which published a few weeks before Jerry Stovall’s debut as head coach. It was reprinted from the SEC Sports Journal. The only thing harder than living up to a legend is fulfilling a fantasy. And for LSU football coach Jerry Stovall the history of what was and the possibility of what might have been both threaten to cloud his first season as Tiger head coach. No, Jerry Stovall does not have a pair

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of big shoes to fill. He has two pairs of shoes to fill--different sizes, different styles. Ever wear a pair of wing-tipped hard soles while you try on some Nike jogging shoes? It’s not easy. But Jerry Stovall will just wear his own shoes, thank you--the same shoes that have been sitting in his closet some 18 years. He’s not going to put on those old wing-tips and try to be the coach that Charles McClendon was for 18 years, in which time Cholly Mac compiled one of the winningest records in collegiate history. Neither will Stovall don the new Nikes and try to coach like the late Bo Rein would have had he not died in a plane accident early this year. Jerry Stovall is certainly not forgetting the Tiger past, and

coaching career has been aimed toward thehead job at LSU. As director of the LSU Varsity Club for the past year, Stovall has been in sort of vice-presidential position. He did not have anything to do with Tiger operations on the football field, but he could be called on at any time to take over. He was finally called on. “Don’t think for a moment that you’re over there in the other office,’’ Stovall said as he motioned toward the Varsity Club headquarters, “and you come in here and you have to start planning to be a head coach. Jerry Stovall bad been plan- ning to be head coach at LSU for a number of years.’’ According to Stovall there are three key steps in starting a successful football program. First is paper organization; a second is “SOMEBODY TOLD ME, ‘YOU’RE AN IDEALIST,’ AND I SAID, ‘THANK GOD.’ WHAT’S WRONG WITH BEING AN IDEALIST? IT’S JUST LIKE WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS, ‘BOY, HE’S FILTHY RICH.’ GREAT! WHAT’S WRONG WITH BEING FILTHY RICH? YOU KNOW, I WISH I WAS A MILLIONAIRE, BUT IT WOULDN’T CHANGE THE QUALITY OF MY LIFE. AS A CHRISTIAN THERE’S NOTHING IN THIS WORLD MONEY CAN BUY ME THAT I DON’T ALREADY HAVE. ” having the right people, or “personalities” as Stovall would say, in the right positions, and the third in motivating these personalities. When he stepped into the head coaching position, Stovall was readily prepared. “People say, ‘Good golly, your organizational structure on paper is pretty extensive. Did you just draw that up?’ Well, heavens no! That comes from visiting with Tom Lan and visiting with quality coaches at the collegiate level and professional levels, watching the good people, going to clinics. You plan all along for your goal.’’ Stovall worked so hard for so long to reach that goal he was not about settle for anything short of it. This is the only coaching job in the world I wanted,’’ he com- mented. ‘’Somebody asked me at a press conference, ‘You mean you would have turned down another head coaching job?’Well, I’ve already turned down five.” Five head coaching opportunities from different universities, though none the caliber of LSU by Stovall’s own admission, is evidence that Stovall is a capable leader. But regardless of his

he’s not afraid of introducing some new concepts, but he plans to coach his team the way he has planned the last 18 years. Jerry Stovall will, as Elvis Presley put it, do it his way. When Stovall does it his way, it’s usually done right. Now 38 years old, he was an All-American halfback for LSU in the early 1960’s and was runner-up on the Heisman Trophy ballot his senior season. A native of West Monroe, La., Stovall was also named to the All-SEC team in1961 and 1962 and was voted SEC Player of the Year in 1962. After his tenure at college, Stovall played strong safety for the St. Louis Cardinals where he was selected all-pro in 1967 and 1968. He played in the 1967, 1968, and 1969 Pro Bowls. Stovall retired from pro football in 1971 and began work as an assistant coach at South Carolina before returning to LSU in 1974. He has been in Tigertown ever since. LSU athletic director Paul Dietzel picked Stovall to be the Tiger coach on the spur of the moment when Rein was suddenly killed in early January, but Stovall’s decision that he wanted to be the Bengal coach was anything but sudden. Stovall’s entire

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credentials there are plenty of skeptics that ask if Stovall will be as good as McClendon was or Rein might have been. That doesn’t bother Jerry. “The only pressure I feel right now is now is self-imposed pressure to succeed. I’m a rookie head coach. In the nine years I played pro football, my attitudes changed and matured from the time I was a rookie. I’m sure I’ll make a lot of rookie mistakes as a head coach. The pressure I feel is the increased responsibility. I like that word-- ‘responsibility’--better than pressure.’’ The only things Stovall does not like about his job are the strict guidelines that others have set down for major college head coaches. “Unfortunately too many people judge a football team’s success on how many games they win or lose, and that’s a poor measuring stick. But I acknowledge the fact that it is THE measuring stick.” Stovall’s key to success is organization. He is a perfectionist when it comes to organizing. So how do you take a bunch of football players, a coaching staff that has never worked with those players and a head coach that has worked with neither the players nor the staff and get organized? The Tigers got that out of the way during spring drills. ‘’After a while the players began to learn our coaches,’’ stated Stovall. “See, this is a whole new staff for them, so it’s been a great learning process. It’s been like a marriage. You may date a girl for six years and all of a sudden you get married and you begin to see her in a different dimension.’’ Most of the staff came to LSU from North Carolina State with Rein. Stovall either worked with, played against or was very familiar with everyone on his staff before they came to LSU. The only one he didn’t know was Bobby Morrison who has turned out to be one of his best recruiters. ‘’The biggest problem with getting a quality staff is keeping

it. That’s a problem . . . but that’s a great problem to have!’’ Stovall is also planning on keeping all the traditions that go along with LSU football. There’s been a lot of talk around Tiger- town about the new era in Tiger football. Stovall isn’t· thinking too much along those lines. ‘’Tradition by its nature will keep itself alive. What success we enjoy will be built on traditions. Our bloodline at LSU is very good: it’s one of a champion. ‘’The new era? I’m just committed to continuing the plateau of excellence that LSU has had over the last 35 years.” There will be few changes in the 1980 Tiger football uniform, only subtle ones. The only noticeable variations from last season will be white shoes and purple facemasks. “Some people asked what changes I would make in the uni- form,’’ Stovall noted. ‘’I don’t want to change it. I wore that uniform. That uniform is one of the most respected in college football.’’ He not only respects LSU for what it is, he respects himself for what he is. “Somebody told me, ‘You’re an idealist,’ and I said, ‘Thank God.’What’s wrong with being an idealist? It’s just like when somebody says, ‘Boy, he’s filthy rich.’ Great! What’s wrong with being filthy rich?’ ‘’You know, I wish I was a millionaire, but it wouldn’t change the quality of my life. As a Christian there’s nothing in this world money can buy me that I don’t already have.’’ Yes, it is hard to find a happier man than Jerry Stovall. Who would not be happy after working toward one goal for 18 years and finally realizing that goal? ‘’Many people have said to me that coaching is a labor of love. To me coaching is NOT a labor of love. “It’s not labor. It’s love.’’

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