The Official LSU Vs TCU Thread

LSU football truck arrives at the stadium:


LSU Football Equip ‏@LSUFBEquipment 3h
LSU1 rolling through @ATTStadium

 

You must work for NSA............where/how do you find all this stuff??? Good pic BTW!

 

I seriously just got excited.

 

pic of one of the early LSU fans who has already gotten himself all set up:

 

The Cowboys Classic is sold out, except for standing room only tickets, the Star-Telegram’s Stefan Stevenson reported Thursday.

 

the TCU and OU blogger for the The Dallas Morning News has issued his prediction:

TCU 16, LSU 14.

 

Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Gil LeBreton (who has been a sportswriter for them for 30 years):

Greatness to cross paths again when Les Miles returns to coach in old boss’ stadium

Les Miles is a smart and thoughtful guy. His players play fiercely for him. Yet, because he followed in the footsteps of Saban, he seems destined to eternally be measured by him. Miles has had to weather the fate of the Biblical prophet in his own land — his miracles sometimes underappreciated and his message often misunderstood. In eight years as a head coach in the nation’s toughest football conference, Miles has an 85-21 record and has twice played for the national championship, winning it all in 2007. That will earn a coach a statue at some schools. At LSU, they want Miles to win it all again.

Funny, isn’t it, how greatness sometimes crosses paths? In 1998, an eager young engineer of football defense came to Fort Worth to help start what became a gridiron renaissance at TCU. Patterson became the Frogs’ head coach three years later.

In February of 1998, Miles (then the OC of Oklahoma State) was hired as the tight ends coach for the Dallas Cowboys. “I went down, interviewed, saw the place and fell in love with it,” Miles said.

When the Cowboy's head coach was fired in 1999, Miles was worried about his future:
“I can remember being in my home in Hackberry Creek in Irving,” Miles said. “We had three children at the time. And I got on my knees at the couch in my living room, about four o’clock in the morning, and said, ‘Lord, if you see fit, I sure would like to stay here.’
“That very next day Mr. (Jerry) Jones kinda leaned into my room at Valley Ranch and said, ‘Just relax, you’re going to be good.’ He took care of me.” (Les was with the the Cowboys until he was named head coach at Oklahoma State for the 2001 season)
Like many of the people who have worked for Jerry Jones, Miles has high praise for the Cowboys owner. In September of his third and final season with the Cowboys, Miles’ father passed away. Jones flew the coach’s family home to Ohio to attend the funeral, and then Les rejoined the team in time for the Monday night game in Washington.
“That’s a special organization,” Miles said. “My time there was very memorable.”
He returns Saturday to again coach in Jones’ palatial stadium. It’s become one of Miles’ — and the Tigers’ — second homes.
If there’s to be another miracle on the bayou, it will have to start here Saturday night.
The coach they call the Mad Hatter knows the rabbit hole that lies ahead.

 

an LSU fan has gotten his yard ready for the game...has the "LSU" on one side of the sidewalk, "TIGERS" on the other: