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| previous lsu coaches: Flip the Script Ed Orgeron, 2020-10-27 The path to success is never easy. In Flip the Script you will learn the life-changing lessons of leadership and determination Coach O discovered on the road to a championship. Ed Orgeron, head coach of the record-breaking national champion LSU Tigers football team, tells the inspiring story of reversing the team's fortunes and culture, as well as his own remarkable leadership journey from disappointment and setback to the apex of college sports. The storybook football season for the LSU Tigers in 2019 was the stuff of legend: a team with recently unmet expectations became the undefeated national champion with a Heisman trophy-winning transfer quarterback under the leadership of a coach whose previous coaching stops had been disappointments. Yet that coach, Ed Orgeron, had turned everything around. He flipped the script, transforming a program that lately had not reached its potential into a team of unprecedented dominance. Flip the Script is the story of how it happened, with lessons for anyone who wants to succeed. Telling the story of his own journey that culminated in the Cinderella season, Orgeron highlights the traits he learned are necessary for success: an ability and willingness to learn from mistakes, the necessity of perseverance, recognizing and focusing on what you’re truly good at, building unity, and overcoming hardship. The road to success is never easy, as Ed Orgeron's life reveals. But his life also shows that with determination and a willingness to learn from experience, your trajectory can change--your script can be flipped--and you can achieve more than you ever dreamed. |
| previous lsu coaches: 100 Things LSU Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die Ross Dellenger, Ron Higgins, Jacob Hester, 2020-10-06 With traditions, records, and Tigers lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Louisiana State University fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, behind-the-scenes tales, memorable moments, and outstanding achievements by players like Y.A. Tittle, Tommy Casanova, Alan Faneca, Odell Beckham Jr., and Leonard Fournette. Covering the championship eras of Paul Dietzel, Nick Saban, Les Miles, and plenty more, this is the ultimate resource guide for all LSU faithful. |
| previous lsu coaches: Basketball Kevin L. Burke, Dale Brown, 2003 Coach Brown one of the most successful coaches in college athletics history and renowned sport consultant from Georgia Southern University Dr. Kevin Burke have teamed up to bring you their combined wisdom and expertise about a vital side of the sport: THE MIND GAME. Together they give players the tools to improve their mental game plan; a way for coaches to teach successful psychology techniques; and a way for parents to be supportive and involved in a player's development. |
| previous lsu coaches: The Fighting Tigers, 1993-2008 Scott Rabalais, 2008-09-15 Magnificent, maddening, thrilling, heartbreaking— over the years, LSU football has been called many things; boring is not among them. But no period in the team’s history exemplifies the extreme highs and lows of sport better than the past fifteen years. In 1993, the Tigers were in the midst of a record six-season losing streak and the program was struggling to dig its way out of its darkest days. By 2008, LSU had emerged as one of the premier college football powers in the nation and the unprecedented two-time winner of the BCS national championship. In The Fighting Tigers, 1993–2008, award-winning sportswriter Scott Rabalais chronicles the Tigers’ fantastic rise to the top of the college football universe, vividly detailing the victories and defeats, the coaches and the players, the tears and the titles of this sometimes frustrating, always fascinating period of LSU football. Game by game, Rabalais recounts the tenures of the four head coaches who led the Tigers during these years—“Curley” Hallman, the strict taskmaster whose mounting losses created dissension and apathy among the Tiger faithful; Gerry DiNardo, the charismatic salesman whose efforts to “Bring Back the Magic” temporarily vaulted the Tigers again into the national polls; Nick Saban, the intense workhorse who steadily rebuilt the program and led the team to its first national championship in almost fifty years; and Les Miles, the engaging wildcard who finally emerged from Saban’s shadow with a championship of his own. Rabalais provides expert analysis of the 2004 and 2008 BCS national championship games and other postseason bowl games as well as the “ordinary” games that have crossed over into legendary status—1993’s “Pigs Will Fly” victory against Alabama, “The Night the Barn Burned” at Auburn in 1996, and 2002’s “Bluegrass Miracle.” Along the way, Rabalais recounts the incredible athletic feats of numerous standout players, including Eddie Kennison, Kevin Faulk, Josh Reed, Michael Clayton, Marcus Spears, Chad Lavalais, and Glenn Dorsey. Throughout, Rabalais interweaves off-the-field events that have affected or enhanced the LSU football legacy: the return of the traditional home white jerseys; the creation of the Bengal Belles; two expansions of Tiger Stadium; the death of Mike V and the introduction of Mike VI; and perhaps most poignant, the Tigers’ volunteer efforts and emotional responses in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. An appendix contains the vital statistics of LSU’s entire football history. Individual and team records in every area, coaching records, All-Americans and Academic All-Americans, year-by-year results, top ten Tiger Stadium crowds, Tigers in pro football— all of this and more will satisfy even the most hardcore LSU sports statistician. Peter Finney, venerable author of the three previous volumes of The Fighting Tigers, passes the official historian’s torch to Rabalais in a compelling foreword that emphasizes the significance of the Tigers’ recent run of success. To many die-hard Tiger fans, LSU football is a religion all its own. With The Fighting Tigers, 1993–2008, Rabalais has written the next book of its bible. |
| previous lsu coaches: Youth League Baseball Skip Bertman, 1993 Skip Bertman, coach of the 1994 NCAA Champion Louisiana State University Tigers, has devoted each chapter of this book to a specific phase of the game. The text includes information on basic skills, such as hitting and catching, as well as on more complex matters such as position-specific abilities. |
| previous lsu coaches: Complete Offensive Line Rick Trickett, 2012-08-21 Developing dominating offensive linemen is Rick Trickett’s specialty. His accomplishments speak for themselves: 4 first-round draft selections, 20 NFL players, 13 All-Americans, and more than 30 all-conference selections. Now with Complete Offensive Line, he’s created the most in-depth guide ever on offensive line play. Today’s linemen must have skill, strength, power, quickness, agility, and intelligence to excel at the position. That is why Complete Offensive Line presents it all—from footwork and hand positioning to pulling and cutbacks. In this one-of-a-kind guide, Trickett takes you onto the practice field and into the trenches to learn these skills, among others: • Pass protection • Run blocking • Man and zone blocking • Combination blocks • Blitz pickup • Recognition of defensive sets such as 4-3, 3-4, and stack • Strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities against any defensive set • Techniques and schemes for formations such as spread, option, and the run and shoot With XX of the most effective drills, skill evaluation, line play assessments, scheme suggestions, and unparalleled coaching advice from one of the best in the game, Complete Offensive Line is simply the definitive book on football’s most demanding position. |
| previous lsu coaches: Meat Market Bruce Feldman, 2014-11-04 One of the most insightful books ever written about college football. —The New York Times Now revised and updated by the author, MEAT MARKET proves that in college football, the game off the field is more brutal than the one on the field. In this shattering expose, Bruce Feldman goes into the war rooms to show who stands to profit when champions get built, and at what cost. A college football program can become a multi-million dollar industry for its school, but only if that program wins. The quest for excellence goes beyond the guts and the glory of the gridiron—it goes into the war rooms where recruiters size up every metric to determine which high-school phenom they want to recruit to the university. Bruce Feldman—FOX Sports College Football Insider—rips the cover off the game’s frenzied pursuit of raw talent, taking you deep inside the SEC war room of recruiting legend Ed Orgeron, the combustible Cajun who helped build national championship teams at the University of Miami and at USC. In a stunning, blow-by-blow account of the year leading up to National Signing Day 2007, the award-winning journalist shadows Orgeron and his Ole Miss assistants as they set about hunting high school students, pleading, plotting, and inventing ways to lure them to their sleepy Oxford campus. Packed with candid confessions and outrageous off-the-field action, Meat Market makes what happens on the field seem almost tame by comparison. MEAT MARKET is a must-read for all college football fans, an eye-opening discovery of what it takes to put their favorite team on the field. |
| previous lsu coaches: Dale Brown's Memoirs from LSU Basketball , 2004-01 Dale Brown's Memoirs from LSU Basketball provides an inside look at Coach Brown's 25 years of coaching at Louisiana State University. In taking an LSU basketball program on life support and turning it into a highly competitive program, Brown was thrown into the national spotlight. His opinions on the NCAA and matter-of-fact voice in the media proved to be a way for the coach to earn the respect of his peers. In this book, Brown remembers his trips to the Final Four, the great teams and coaches he battled through the years, the hundreds of talented players he coached, and the recruiting tactics he employed in luring some of the nation's top recruits to the Bayou. He also devotes a chapter to his memories of LSU legend Shaquille O'Neal, who has always been a vocal supporter of Coach Brown. |
| previous lsu coaches: Tales from the LSU Tigers Sideline Lee Feinswog, 2013-10-01 LSU football, a program steeped in tradition, where the fan really does come from the word “fanatic,” has a rich history, including 11 SEC championships and three national championships, the most recent of which came in 2003 and 2007. Award-winning sportswriter and Baton Rouge television personality Lee Feinswog captures the Louisiana flavor of why they say, “There’s nothing like Saturday night in Tiger Stadium,” with a book filled with stories and anecdotes about football on the Bayou. Feinswog includes tales of legendary coaches Cholly Mac (Charles McClendon), Paul Dietzel, and Nick Saban. Catch up with on-campus mascot Mike the Tiger, a real live Bengal tiger, and relive Gerry DiNardo’s best moments as head coach through these pages. Tales from the LSU Tigers Sidelines offers a unique look at the game they play in one of the largest on-campus stadiums in the country. From the spiciest tailgating to the loudest fans, LSU football is a culture unto itself, and this book is the perfect addition to any LSU fan’s bookshelf. |
| previous lsu coaches: Tiger Beat Sam King, 2013 Tiger Beat is a 240-page hardcover book by a veteran sportswriter who covered LSU football and basketball for Baton Rouge, La., newspapers for 35 years. It features the head coaches over a 50 year span, starting in the mid-1950s, as well as big games and top athletes, including the Chinese Bandits, Billy Cannon, Pistol Pete Maravich, Chris Jackson and Shaquille O'Neal. |
| previous lsu coaches: Won't Back Down Kim Mulkey, Peter May, 2008-10-20 Whether on a baseball field as the only girl on an all-boys team in Hammond, Louisiana, or on a basketball court where her play-making ability was compared to Louisiana legend Pistol Pete Maravich, Kim Mulkey was a young athlete so gifted she was named to Parade magazine's 1980 All-America High School Girls Basketball team. Mulkey went on to win two national championships at Louisiana Tech, as well as a gold medal with the 1984 U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team. She served as an assistant coach on Louisiana Tech's 1988 national championship, then turned around Baylor University's women's basketball program by coaching them to a national championship in a mere five years. In Won't Back Down, Mulkey reveals the many trials she has overcome, and how her children and her coaching have sustained her in her most difficult moments. |
| previous lsu coaches: Breaking the Line Samuel G. Freedman, 2013 Looks at the 1967 football season leading up to that year's black college championship between Grambling College and Florida A & M, and how it fit into the civil rights struggles of the time. |
| previous lsu coaches: Louisiana State University Barry Cowan, 2013-11-04 Louisiana State University began in 1860 as a small, all-male military school near Pineville. The institution survived the Civil War, Reconstruction politics, and budgetary difficulties to become a nationally and internationally recognized leader in research and teaching. A devastating fire destroyed the campus in 1869, and the school moved to Baton Rouge, where it has remained. Successive moves to larger campuses in 1887 and 1925 created greater opportunities in academics, student life, and athletics. Academics began with classical and engineering courses. New majors in the arts, literature, engineering, agriculture, and the sciences evolved, along with research in those fields. Student life changed from military regimentation to coeducation and students freedom to live off campus and make their own decisions. Intercollegiate athletics began in 1893 with baseball and football games against Tulane, and the LSU Tigers have since won numerous championships. These evolutionary steps all helped to create Louisianas flagship university. |
| previous lsu coaches: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football, 2nd Edition Brian Tarcy, Joe Theismann, 2001-07-01 The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Football, Second Edition, provides new and intermediate football fans with all the information they need to understand and enjoy football. From high school to the NFL, coverage includes the basics of offense and defense, players, rules, strategies and even what to wear! New coverage for this edition includes: the draft—how it works for teams and players including parity, new technology on the field including instant replay, dangerous referee flags and rules changes for college and pro ball, XFL, arena league, expansion teams and NFL Europe, and the changing business and team strategy for professional football today. |
| previous lsu coaches: The 100-Yard Journey Gary Pinkel, Dave Matter, 2017 Very few college football coaches earn the distinction of becoming their programs' winningest, but Gary Pinkel has done it twice. From his nine-year tenure at the University of Toledo to his career at the University of Missouri from 2001 to 2015, Pinkel has shown he has the talent and meddle to take his teams to the top. These remarkable achievements have been met by challenges along the way in Pinkel's personal and professional life, including a DUI and a divorce, a threatened team boycott at Mizzou which dominated national news headlines, and ultimately, a decision to step away from it all following a diagnosis of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. In The 100-Yard Journey, Pinkel offers a glimpse into the mind of a winner as well as an honest reflection on meeting and overcoming the unexpected. Follow along from the start of Pinkel's coaching career at Kent State, the same program for which he played as a tight end, through stops at Washington and Toledo, and finally, taking over at the helm of Missouri, a program he guided to 10 bowl games in 15 years, a No. 1 AP ranking at the end of the 2007 season, and SEC Coach of the Year honors in 2014. Whether you're a Tigers fan or just interested in what makes a successful head coach tick, anyone can find something to relate to in Pinkel's personal memoirs. |
| previous lsu coaches: The Game Before the Money Jackson Michael, 2014-09-01 Oral history from players and coaches detailing the NFL from the late 1930s through the 1970s-- |
| previous lsu coaches: Dale Brown's Basketball Coaches Organizational Handbook Dale Brown, 2003 In this practical, easy-to-read and apply book, LSU's coach of 25 years shows coaches at all competitive levels how they can become more productive and effective with less time through better organizational skills. Coach Brown covers practically every aspect of the coaching profession as he allows you to learn from his mistakes and his successes. Includes chapters on managers duties and guidelines, team meetings, motivation, practice organization, scouting, road trips, media relations, recruiting. Even includes a chapter on organizing Summer youth basketball camps! A must-have for coaches at any level of play. |
| previous lsu coaches: Season of Life Jeffrey Marx, 2007-11-01 The bestselling inspirational book in which the author reunites with a childhood football hero, now a minister and coach, and witnesses a revelatory demonstration of the true meaning of manhood—Season of Life is a book that “should be required reading for every high school student in America and every parent as well” (Carl Lewis, Olympic champion). Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann. Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard. Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he’d ever seen, where players say “I love you” to each other and coaches profess their love for their players. Off the field Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamine his own unresolved relationship with his father. Season of Life is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving story that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents—anyone struggling to make the right choices in life. |
| previous lsu coaches: The Fighting Tigers, 1893-1993 Peter Finney, 1993 |
| previous lsu coaches: Read and Shoot Dan Gonzalez, 2019-03-05 Taking advantage of the vast informational resources available to him, Dan Gonzalez developed a passing system that combined ideas from some of the most vaunted offenses in pro and college football. He later enhanced that system so that youth players could learn and execute the same concepts and techniques. Further, the same concepts have been used to aid high schools in not only developing school record holders, but perennial playoff contenders and state champions as well. Gonzalez now delves into the theory and teaching that goes beyond the playbook and into the coaching behind the X's and O's. |
| previous lsu coaches: Getting Over the Four Hurdles of Life Dale Brown, 2011-11 Introduction: On true success and peace of mind; Prologue: Preparing to take on lifes adversities; Letters to Shaq; In search of a positive vision of life; Genesis of The 4 Hurdles metaphor; The 4 Hurdles of Life; The First Hurdle: I cant/You cant; Second Hurdle: Past failures/Fear of failure; The Third Hurdle: Handicaps; The Fourth Hurdle: Lack of Self-knowledge; Epilogue: Choosing the right road; Sources; References; Index; About the Author. |
| previous lsu coaches: Swing Your Sword Mike Leach, 2012-08-07 Recounts the former Texas Tech coach's life and accomplishments, reflecting on pivotal moments and discussing his unorthodox approach to coaching. |
| previous lsu coaches: The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010 Bob Boyles, Paul Guido, 2009-08 The most comprehensive resource on college football ever published. |
| previous lsu coaches: LSU Tigers Tessa Miller, 2019-08-01 Did you know that the LSU Tigers’ official mascot is a live tiger? Mike the Tiger is a Bengal-mix tiger that lives on campus. Learn more about this college team’s history, traditions, uniforms, team records, coaches, and legendary players in LSU Tigers, part of the Inside College Football series. |
| previous lsu coaches: Stay This Way Forever Linsey Davis, 2021-02-23 Stay This Way Forever, written by bestselling author and ABC News correspondent, Linsey Davis, is a heartwarming celebration of all the endearing qualities found in children and the hope that those special traits will stay with them forever. |
| previous lsu coaches: Tiger Turnaround Nick Saban, 2002-04 |
| previous lsu coaches: Historical Dictionary of Football John Grasso, 2013-06-13 The Historical Dictionary of Football covers the history of American football through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on both amateur (collegiate) and professional players, coaches, teams and executives from all eras. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of football. |
| previous lsu coaches: Return to Glory Mike Eisenbath, 2003-07 This new title celebrates LSU's 2004 Championship season! Packed with full-color photos and stories from The Times Picayune, Return To Glory: LSU's Championship Season is a must-have for any LSU fan and makes a great gift! Available in both hardcover and Trade Paper versions. |
| previous lsu coaches: Death to the BCS Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, Jeff Passan, 2010-10-14 A team of award-winning sports reporters takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series. Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Division I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical rankings that results in just two teams playing for the championship. It is, without a doubt, the most hated institution in all of sports. A recent Sports Illustrated poll found that more than 90 percent of sports fans oppose the BCS, yet this system has remained in place for more than a decade. Built upon top-notch investigative reporting, Death to the BCS at last reveals the truth about this monstrous entity and offers a simple solution for fixing it. Death to the BCS includes findings from interviews with power players, as well as research into federal tax records, Congressional testimony, and private contracts, revealing: ?The truth behind the Cartel-the anonymous suits who run the BCS and who profit handsomely by protecting it ?The flawed math and corruption that determine which teams participate in the national championship ?How the system hurts competition by perpetuating cupcake schedules ?How mid-major teams are systematically denied a chance to play for the championship ?How a comprehensive sixteen-team playoff plan can solve the problem while enhancing profitability The first book to lay out the unseemly inner workings of the BCS in full detail, Death to the BCS is a rousing manifesto for bringing fairness back to one of our most beloved sports. |
| previous lsu coaches: Baseball Playbook Ron Polk, 1982 In The Baseball Playbook, Coach Ron Polk provides a complete, holistic approach to the game of the baseball and it's many intricacies. |
| previous lsu coaches: Death to the BCS: Totally Revised and Updated Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, Jeff Passan, 2011-10-13 With all-new reporting, a completely revised and updated second edition of the bestseller that takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Divsiion I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical rankings that results in just two teams playing for the championship. It is, without a doubt, the most hated institution in all of sports. A recent Sports Illustrated poll found that more than 90% of sports fans oppose the BCS, yet this system has remained in place for more than a decade. Building upon top-notch investigative reporting, Wetzel, Peter, and Passan at last reveal the truth about this monstrous entity and offer a simple solution for fixing it. Death to the BCS: Totally Revised and Updated is brought up to date to cover the 2010-2011 season, listing which teams were screwed by the BCS (such as TCU), how much money college football left on the table by not having a playoff (based on 2011 tax filings), and how the calls for the abolition of the BCS grew even louder this past year. The book also includes findings from interviews with power players, as well as research into federal tax records, congressional testimony, and private contracts. The first book to lay out the unseemly inner workings of the BCS in full detail, Death to the BCS is a rousing manifesto for bringing fairness back to one of our most beloved sports. |
| previous lsu coaches: Return to Glory Times Picayune, 2004 |
| previous lsu coaches: Greatest Moments in Lsu Football History , 2002 This epic tale recounts the 40 greatest games in LSU's legendary history with amazing game stories and photos. Also included are feature stories reliving the battles of Alabama, Notre Dame, Florida State, and Texas; the passing duels with Archie Manning; Billy Cannon and more! |
| previous lsu coaches: LSU Football Vault Herb Vincent, 2008-06 This history of LSU football includes pockets at various pages with replicas of memorabilia such as tickets, postcards, fliers. There are also photographs with corner holders as in a scrapbook. |
| previous lsu coaches: Inside the Eye of the Tiger Jerry Simmons, Chris E Warner, 2020-10-15 Synopsis (JACKET) In the South, Southerners don’t think, they feel; and there’s nothing they feel more passionately about than sports—especially college football. In recent years America’s media-driven, sports-crazed culture has whetted the fan’s appetite and thereby catapulted Division I college athletics into a multibillion-dollar entertainment business that rivals the professional ranks. Today, no place is this trend more evident than at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, home of the LSU Fighting Tiger football team. Louisiana State University is part of the nation’s toughest athletic subdivision—the mighty Southeastern Conference, and as a large public institution, it is a microcosm of major competitive college football and sports across the Deep South, a region where overall athletic success is not only encouraged, but expected. Since 2005, LSU has won nearly 80 percent of its football games, three conference championships, a BCS National Championship (2007) and a College Football Playoff Naional Championship (2019). But LSU has not always been atop the college football world. Why did LSU have six straight losing seasons in football? How did LSU Athletics survive the losing years? Who is responsible? How did LSU rise from the fall? What is it that LSU and other competitive schools have done that has made them so successful in sports so fast? What sets LSU and some of the larger SEC schools apart from other football-playing schools in terms of competitiveness? Answers to these important questions can be found inside the pages of this must-read book. Written for the serious observer, alumni or fan struggling to realize how the system works, or often fails to work, Inside the Eye of the Tiger is an introspective snapshot of what it’s like to coach in a big-time athletic department where campus politics and winning are regularly at odds. Often what you see from the outside looking in to the athletic department is not always a true picture of what actually happens. Inside the Eye of the Tiger is the story of what really went on behind the scenes of the LSU Athletic Department over two tumultuous decades in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. *** Hall of Fame LSU Tennis Coach Jerry Simmons’ memoirs of 26 years of coaching is an engaging and sometimes startling read that will once and for all set the record straight on how business was conducted inside the LSU Athletic Department during its roller coaster ride from 1981 to 1998, and beyond. As told to author Chris Warner by Jerry Simmons in a straightforward, provocative style characteristic of his maverick personality, this is a must-read for anyone hoping to enter the big business of college athletics, whether coaching or administratively; as it is the tell-all sports book that will for the better forever alter the stereotype of the modern, big-time Southern athletic department. This is a politically-correct book. Jerry Simmons A native of West Texas, and a former LSU tennis player, Simmons coached LSU Men’s Tennis for 15 years. A 1964 Palo Duro High School graduate from Amarillo, he was the 1965 Globe News Male Tennis Player of the Year. Simmons played college tennis at LSU for a year and at West Texas State (Now West Texas A&M) University in Canyon, Texas from 1967-69, where he maintained the No. 1 singles position and was the Buffaloes' team captain. A self-proclaimed blend of the lives and philosophies of U.S. Army General George S. Patton, UCLA Coach John Wooden and 6th-century B.C. Chinese General Sun Tzu, before coaching LSU Tennis, he was the Men’s Head Tennis Coach at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette for 11 years. At LSU, six years after his hiring, he was named National Tennis Coach of the Year, in 1988. Having won over 70 percent of his college matches (492–197 .714), he remains the youngest coach inducted into the United States Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame (1998) at 52. He is a member of the West Texas State (West Texas A&M) Hall of Fame (2017) and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (2018). At LSU he had 13 NCAA Tournament appearances, going 278-105 in that span. Simmons reached the prestigious Elite Eight in the NCAA Tourney five times and won the SEC in 1985, while earning SEC Coach of the Year honors in 1988 and 1997. Simmons coached 37 All-SEC honorees, 24 All-Americans, 19 Academic All-Americans, one NCAA singles champion (1989) and notched a 128-42 record in NCAA play. Chris Warner is the author of over 20 books, including “A Tailgater’s Guide to SEC Football Vol. V,” the Bible of SEC Football, “The Wagon to Disaster,” with HealthSouth CFO Aaron Beam, “The Ulysses Long Story,” about Dale Brown getting four-term Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards to pardon a black man from Angola State Penitentiary, “Bushwhacked at the Flora-Bama,” the history of the iconic beachside haunt, with patriarch Joe Gilchrist, as well as six novels, “The Tiger Among Us,” a fictional story on international terrorism with Recon Marine/Air Force Pararescue Daniel Waghelstein, set at LSU in 1990, “Professional Bone,” a novel based on the HealthSouth scandal, a campy series: “Saved at the Alabama-Florida Line”(Nominated, Best Piece of Fiction by an Alabama author, Alabama Library Association 2017), “They Met at the Alabama-Florida Line,” “Trouble at the Alabama-Florida Line,” and a novella, “Santa & Sam,“ among other titles. He has completed but not published, “The Principal of Influence,” the story of Richard Scott Rogers, a British con man and vicious pedophile hiding in plain sight as a Baton Rouge scion and talk show host for over a dozen years, whose demise in the viper pit of Louisiana politics was the Media Story of the Year in Louisiana in 2014. Chris holds a doctorate from the University of New Orleans and is a double graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. A New Iberia, Louisiana native, he lives in Perdido Key, Florida. |
| previous lsu coaches: Seth Jackson Horne, 2006-03-01 Lifelong friends, Bob Callaway and Doug Jennings amassed an oil and gas fortune under what some perceived as very strange circumstances. Some thought they were just lucky, while others believed it was fate that led them to greatness. Bob and Doug's friendship began on the first day of college at Louisiana State University when they were assigned the same room in the athletic dormitory. Events in their lives continued to link them together like a chain. If a single link had been missing, there would have been no life long friendship or the establishment of their company, LIO & SAG, Inc. The two men's personalities resembled sandpaper-one side was smooth but the other was coarse. If you were lucky, you never experienced the coarse side. Through out college, they struggle to build their business and maintain their unique friendship, and finally, they reach success in nearly every aspect of their lives. Bob and Doug share a magical quality that keeps them grounded in reality and loyal to each other. |
| previous lsu coaches: Bear Paul Bear Bryant, Paul W. Bryant, John Underwood, 2007 A reissue of Paul Bear Bryant's autobiography, this edition features a completely new introduction and an accompanying audio CD of Bryant himself, in his own voice, talking about his life and football. It's all here, in his own inimitable words and with a candor that is both remarkable and eminently revealing. From his hardscrabble youth as the third youngest of 13 children of a dirt-poor farmer in Moro Bottom, Arkansas, to his playing days at the University of Alabama and fortuitous marriage to the remarkable Mary Harmon Black, to his first stabs at coaching as an assistant coach, to his 38 years as a head coach, coaching marquis names like Namath and Crow and Parilli, to his 323 victories and a record six National Championships. |
| previous lsu coaches: Coach: The Greatest Teachers in Sports and Their Lessons for Us All Justin Spizman, 2022-02-08 Every great sports coach is a life coach. This book identifies 168 outstanding coaches who have much to teach us about optimizing our performance, our character, and our lives. Coaches build winning teams and enable each athlete they mentor, guide, cajole, and nurture to achieve top performance. More than this, every great sports coach is first and last a life coach. Sportswriter Justin Spizman identifies and profiles 168 of the greatest coaches and managers of all time. They have much to teach us about optimizing our performance, our character, and our lives. Coach: The Greatest Teachers in Sports and Their Lessons for Us All profiles coaches in every significant sport, from football, basketball, baseball, and hockey to gymnastics, skating, rowing, rugby, soccer, and more. From field to court, diamond, rink, and pitch, the big leagues to the Olympics, college, and high school, Coach delivers the most teachable moments and methods—for play, for competition, and for life. Rich in quotations, each profile ends with lessons for top performance on and off the field, in and beyond the arena. Justin Spizman tracks all the relevant stats—for every sport keeps score—but he seeks first and last to disclose the mind, the heart, and the force of character that drive each of the indispensable men and women behind the world’s most envied and admired athletes. His profiles range from the likes of Cardinals manager Tony La Russa (already an MLB legend), to Aimee Boorman and Cecile Canqueteau-Landi (who both coached gymnastics phenom Simone Biles), Bill Belichick (the take-no-prisoners field general of the New England Patriots), Pat Summitt (who racked up 1,098 wins as coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012), Marián Vajda (the coach behind tennis titan Novak Djokovic), and David Leadbetter (golf guru to champions Kathy Baker, Nick Faldo, and Michelle Wie). |
| previous lsu coaches: All the Campus Lawyers Louis H. Guard, Joyce P. Jacobsen, 2024 In the age of tenure-denial lawsuits and free speech battles, colleges and universities face more intense legal pressures than ever before. Louis Guard and Joyce Jacobsen, two longtime higher education leaders, provide both a comprehensive overview and practical guidance regarding current campus legal issues. |
| previous lsu coaches: Essays of Old Grinnell Dave Adkins, 2013-12-30 I have written these articles and essays which are mainly historical-nostalgic and also on the topic of aging. They were published on the Grinnell, Iowa website ourgrinnell.com under the heading of Readers Share Thoughts. I was born in Grinnell, graduated from Grinnell High School in 1957 and Cornell College in 1962. I have a Master's Degree from Iowa State University and the University of Leon and a Doctorate from Middle Tennessee State University. I have lived and worked on Okinawa, in Mozambique and in Australia. Dave Adkins, author |
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