LSU football Coach Ed Orgeron has hired Carolina Panthers quarterbacks coach Jake Peetz as the Tigers new offensive coordinator and Panthers offensive assistant DJ Mangas is LSU’s new passing game coordinator. Both men worked under former LSU assistant and current Carolina offensive coordinator Joe Brady. In 2019, Brady helped create one of the most prolific offenses in college football history and Tiger Rag Editor Ron Higgins says Orgeron is hoping to re-create that magic, but with different coaches and players…
cut 20 (12) “…in there”
LSU men’s basketball defeated Georgia in overtime 94-92 last night. Javonte Smart hit two big three-pointers at the end of regulation to tie the game and finished with 21 points.
According to an email sent by the Saints to season ticket holders, there will be three-thousand fans in the Superdome for Sunday’s playoff game against the Vikings. So New Orleans will not enjoy a Dome-field advantage with 70-thousand screaming Who Dats. During his conference call with reporters, Coach Sean Payton provided an idea of how to fill up the Dome, jokingly suggesting to quarantine thousands of Saints fans…
cut 18 (17) “….taken off or not”
The Pelicans lost their second straight home game last night as New Orleans fell to the Thunder 111 to 110. New Orleans is now 4-4, 1-2 on its four game homestand that ends Friday with a game against Charlotte.
In the Southland…Northwestern State, Southeastern Louisiana and UNO lost last night, while Nicholls knocked off Lamar 76-69.