April 15, 2004

2004 Louisiana State Tigers Schedule

2004 Louisiana State Tigers Football Schedule

9-4-04 OREGON STATE
9-11-04 ARKANSAS STATE
9-18-04 at Auburn
9-25-04 MISSISSIPPI STATE
10-2-04 at Georgia
10-9-04 at Florida
10-23-04 TROY STATE
10-30-04 VANDERBILT
11-13-04 ALABAMA
11-20-04 MISSISSIPPI
11-27-04 at Arkansas

Posted by Kevin Donahue

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1. Kevin Donahue says:

   posted on April 20, 2004 04:27 PM — link

   Talk about "free steak with diesel". At first I thought 'what a cupcake schedule' as LSU plays just four road dates this year. Then I looked to see who they were playing on the road. Ouch! The Tigers have their cupcakes at home and the meat of their schedule on the road. I'm not going to suggest that LSU won't be up for the challenge (they are the defending National Champs, after all), but...wow! All that on the road?!

2. dave frey says:

   posted on April 20, 2004 06:57 PM — link

   Georgia & Florida back-to-back AND on the road. Yikes! I'll be real happy if we just break even on that deal. I'll go on record with a 8-3 prediction for LSU this year. I think it's going to be tougher than many people think to fill that hole at QB.

3. Sean says:

   posted on April 21, 2004 12:59 AM — link

   Well, we WERE supposed to have Virginia Tech this year but they backed out of coming to Tiger Stadium to play USC instead. We just drew a really crappy bunch of home SEC games this year in MSU, Vandy and Eli-less Ole Miss and there's not much you can do about that.

   I also seem to remember ASU being a replacement for someone else but I can't remember who.

4. jessi says:

   posted on April 21, 2004 11:19 PM — link

   they'll be in the sec championship game i think but the east will nock em off this year , probably georgia.

5. TigerEducated says:

   posted on April 23, 2004 01:14 AM — link

   No one is talking about repeating (that is, not until 2005, hehe) because we've got greenhorns at quarterback vying to fill Matt Mauck's shoes this year...

   All indications are that Marcus Randall (a guy that I have really loved since he signed with LSU out of Baton Rouge's Glen Oaks High School), a fifth year senior who actually steered LSU two busted defensive back plays away from going to Atlanta three straight years, will end spring as the solid number one and actually lead LSU into battle against Oregan State next fall.

   In 2002, after Mauck went down with injury, you may remember some of Randall's work. The most notable would have to be the Bluegrass Miracle, in which you guys probably got sick of seeing that hail-mary to beat the Wildcats in Lexington. He also put up heroic efforts against Ole Miss (Winning SEC Offensive Player of the Week honors for his performance), and Arkansas (albeit in a bile gurgling, losing effort), where the Louisiana and Capital City native was actually the CBS Player of the Game in spite of our defensive backs deciding they wanted to take two plays off-and resulting in Matt Jones looking like Joe Montana in the last 2:00 of our game against them (when in reality he looked more like Ryan Leaf for 58:00).

   In the Cotton Bowl against Tejas, Randall was being compared to none other than Michael Vick in the 1st half by the Fox NFL crew calling the game. Ron Pitts and others were raving over his dual threat abilities, and LSU actually went into the half ahead, while the Bonghorns struggled to get untracked.

   Alas, it was a game of two halves. There is some scuttlebut around Tigertown that Randall suffered a sprained ankle late in the 2nd quarter. A replay of the game actually confirms this. The other bit seems a bit harder to confirm thanks to Saban's tight lipped media strategy.

   It seems that Randall was actually suffering from the flu leading up to the game, and was given intravenous fluids at halftime. The problem was, they were inserted into his throwing arm. I have spoken to a few nursing students (ahem), and I have also talked to a few trainers at LSU who confirmed this (I'm not naming names).

   Anytime you pull something like that, you have a sensation of numbness in the extremity into which you had the IV inserted.

   As the Tigers flowed back out onto the field, what followed was quite possibly the closest personification of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the collegiate football world has ever witnessed.

   Randall was hampered with a sudden loss of touch and accuracy. He was still a threat on the ground, but also seemed slower by a step or two. Some will credit former LSU Defensive Coordinator Carl Reese with an excellent plan to take away the intermediate passing routes from Randall, and to flood the 5 yard area form scrimmage with Texas defenders to limit his running lanes in case he broke containment, but I will remember an absolute debacle at the Cotton Bowl.

   Texas, on the strength of a second half superhuman performance by Roy Williams, throttled LSU by a 35-20 count, ending what was once a promosing 5-1 top 10 ranked team's season with a pronounced 8-5 thud.

   Behind Randall-by the way-are two absolute wunderkids. Their names are Matt Flynn and JaMarcus Russell.

   Russell is an absolute freak. He can run a 4.7, but that's not his forte. JaMarcus is a freak of nature. 6-5, 240 pounds, scary athletic, and with an absolute rifle for an arm. Witness the usually stonefaced Saban gush in fall camp before this season about the "53 yard frozen rope" that Russell threw-on a line-to a tight end for a touchdown during a scrimmage last August.

   Or perhaps the discussions about how Kenderick Allen-now a New Orleans Saint and teammate of the strongest armed quarterback in the league, Aaron Brooks-says that Russell looks to actually have more velocity and a stronger arm overall than #2 in Nawlins...

   Or another friend of mine (Don't know how seriously you can take this one, as he's prone to exaggerate) who told me at practice this year, he spoke with a Buffalo Bills scout there to look at Clayton who nearly swallowed the pen he was chewing as he ran to take notes on Russell. According to my friend, his comment was, "This kid's got a stronger arm, better release point, and quicker delivery than our starter-right now."

   Heady praise, indeed.

   The other man is Matt Flynn, a 5A All-Stater in Texas two years ago who was considered by every recruiting service in the book the best schoolboy quarterback in the Lone Star State.

   He spurned Tejas (knowing they had Vince Young) and signed with LSU in the face of a Robert Lane commitment (Lane of Neville HS in North Louisiana, who was so deathly afraid of JaMarcus Russell's commitment late on signing day, that the son of a former LSU football player and lifelong Tiger fan turned tail and reneged on a months old commitment and signed with arch rival Ole Mrs.) and the continuation of the recruitment of JaMarcus Russell.

   Flynn is a faster version of the pre-injury Matt Mauck (Mauck ran a 4.6 at the LSU Pro Day recently in preparation for the NFL Draft), who also possesses a much stronger arm. He also has a nose for the playbook. Flynn spent the last two years signaling in the plays from Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach Jimbo Fisher down to the LSU Huddle. His knowledge of the system is on par with 5th year senior Randall's, which a statement in and of itself.

   Of the two redshirt freshman, Russell has the edge on sheer physical talent. Flynn has the knowledge. I give the slight advantage to Russell, because while Flynn spent time in the playbook and meetings, Russell spent time bonding with his teammates.

   The chemistry between Russell and the wideouts-both the current ones who saw action last year and the few who redshirted, as well as other members of the team-is noticeable. I also think that's very important.

   Just ask the 2000 LSU Football team, who rallied behind Rohan Davey while recovering from a torn ACL to beat Tennessee in overtime a week after much maligned (and later 1st team All-SEC) quarterback Josh Booty made a brain fart of all brainfarts and handed a debacle of a loss to Tiger fans at the hands of UAB at home...Or also when that same 2000 Tiger team went into the half in the Peach Bowl against George Godsey and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets stagnant on offense and down 14-3, only to come back to win by a final of 28-14 behind the strength of the reinsertion of Rohan and a triumphant breakout performance of sophomore wideout Josh Reed.

   Chemistry counts as much as a feel for the offense. Randall will begin the trek back to the mountaintop leading the way, but here's guessing that LSU's future lies with JaMarcus Russell...

6. TigerEducated says:

   posted on June 27, 2004 11:15 PM — link

   Can we get this stuff off the site? Someone's spammed with adult site crapola...