Guilbeau: LSU making ‘Back to the Present’ BATON ROUGE – Do not go “Back to the Future” or “Back to the Past” because the LSU movie, “Back to the Present,” is being made now. Never in the history of LSU sports has it had perhaps the single best player in each of the big three sports at the same time – tailback Leonard Fournette in football, forward Ben Simmons in basketball and pitcher Alex Lange in baseball. Fournette is running away with the early Heisman prognostication. Simmons has already won the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year before making a layup and may contend for national Player of the Year in the 2015-16 season. And Lange was the SEC Freshman of the Year last season and could be up next season for the Golden Spikes award that goes to the nation’s best college baseball player. In 1988-89, LSU did have Tommy Hodson become an All-SEC first-team quarterback and enter the ’89 season as a Heisman candidate while having Chris Jackson become just the second freshman ever to become a first-team Associated Press All-American while also winning the SEC freshman of the year award. That was followed by pitcher Ben McDonald winning the Golden Spikes award and becoming the first player chosen in the 1989 MLB Draft. But the sports year LSU is reveling in at the moment could become the best ever. Fournette will win the Heisman with No. 5 LSU (6-0, 4-0 SEC) either winning the national championship or coming very close to it just as Simmons begins to show his swagger around the SEC. If he is as good as advertised, LSU could reach or come close to the Final Four. Lange helped take LSU to the College World Series last year at 12-0 with a 1.97 ERA and 131 strikeouts in 114 innings. If he improves and gets help, LSU could be back in Omaha to close out something they could be writing about in Grays Sports Almanac for decades to come. http://sports.usatoday.com/2015/10/23/guilbeau-lsu-making-back-to-the-present/
