Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
News, Sports, Entertainment, Opinion
Citation preview
Defensive Heisman Trophy candidates are hard to come by.
In 1997 , former Michigan cornerback Charles Woodson became the only one to actually win it. Former Tiger Tyrann Mathieu had arguably the best chance since, as he was set to improve on the 2011 sea-son that saw him make the fi nalist cut before being dismissed from the team.
The ascension of a defender to the top of the Heisman voting is typically an anomaly,
but there may already be a new contender in Mathieu’s wake.
As South Carolina sophomore defensive end Jadeveon Clowney pre-pares to travel to Tiger Sta-dium on Saturday, he’s being heralded by some national
media as a contender for the most prestigious award in college football.
Describing Clowney as highly touted
After spending every day to-gether since they met months ago, the last thing Cera Wollgast ex-pected her newest best friend Ni-cole Boover to do was try to kill her mother.
“ She said she was going to see friends [in New Orleans], and she would be back in the morning for bio,” Wollgast said.
But Boover had different in-tentions, as her trip home ended on Oct. 8 with three bullets in her mother’s apartment door and hand-cuffs binding her wrists.
Wollgast said those close to Boover at the University are still trying to understand why their friend would try to kill her mother.
According to arrest records, Boover was planning to run off with inheritance money after kill-ing her mother and stepfather.
“Assuming reasons why she did it, it’s painful,” Wollgast said.
LSU Police Department in-vestigators also arrested Boover’s alleged accomplice in the murder attempt, University student Nathan Yuhas . Yuhas revealed to police during questioning that Boover of-fered $50,000 for his help, and the two planned to fl ee the state after
the slaying.Wollgast said she had met Yu-
has a few times through Boover , but didn’t think they were anything more than acquaintances. The two girls had a “24/7” relationship, and Wollgast said she would have no-ticed if Yuhas had an increasing presence in Boover’s life.
To Wollgast , nothing seemed different.
“There was no events leading up to this. It’s a complete shock.”
Boover was the “free-spirit-ed one” in their group of friends, exuding peace and happiness,
Fear from the edge
LSU junior defensive end Sam Mont-gomery acts the part of a Louisiana native.
His swagger, smile and charisma seem tailor-made for the spicy south Louisi-ana swampland.
This weekend, his real home comes to him, as No. 3 South Carolina — and several of Montgomery ’s closest friends — visit the place the Greenwood, S.C., native chose to call home for college.
“It’s the biggest thing, seeing my old-time friends,” Montgomery said. “I love
them to death. I feel like it will be the best game I ever play, because there’s going to be so much love and pas-
sion on the fi eld.”South Carolina pride, especially in the
college football world, takes on a different
Reveille� e Daily
Friday, October 12, 2012 • Volume 117, Issue 35www.lsureveille.com
courtesy of CERA WOLLGAST
Cera Wollgast, left, called Nicole Boover, right, “free-spirited.” Of her friend’s recent legal woes, Wollgast said, “If that’s the real Nicole, then I want to remember her as I knew her.”
Brian SibilleNews Editor
Friend of Boover: I know a ‘totally different person’
BOOVER, see page 6
Daily Reveille Exclusive
FOOTBALL: South Carolina game is a battle of the headwear, p. 7
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: VP candidates duke it out, p. 3
CLOWNEY, see page 6MONTGOMERY, see page 5
LSU junior defensive end Sam Montgomery playing his home-state school for the � rst time
Fear from the edge
HOME’S COMINGSouth Carolina sophomore defensive end Jadeveon Clowney garnering Heisman talk, still improving
Chris AbshireSports Writer
Alex CassaraSports Writer
courtesy of RICHARD PEARCE / The Daily Gamecock
CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
LSU junior defensive end Sam Montgomery (99) goes one-on-one during the Tigers’ game on Sept. 8.
Andrea Gallo • Editor-in-ChiefEmily Herrington • Managing Editor
Bryan Stewart • Managing Editor, External MediaBrian Sibille • News Editor
Morgan Searles • Entertainment EditorRachel Warren • News and Entertainment Deputy Editor
Luke Johnson • Sports EditorAlbert Burford • Deputy Sports Editor
Kirsten Romaguera • Production EditorClayton Crockett • Opinion EditorCatherine Threlkeld • Photo EditorAlix Landriault • Multimedia Editor
Olivia Gordon • Radio DirectorAnnabel Mellon • Advertising Sales Manager
�e Daily Reveille
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
In the Oct. 11 article “Council defers alcohol ordinance vote two weeks,” The Daily Reveille incorrectly identi�ed a speaker as “Slater McCoy,” when his name is actually “Slater McKay.” We regret the error. In the Oct. 11 edition of the paper, The Daily Reveille reported the incident occurred on South Stadium Drive multiple times, but it actually occurred on North Stadium Drive. We regret the error.
The Daily Reveille (USPS 145-800) is written, edited and produced solely by students of Louisiana State University. The Daily Reveille is an independent entity within the Manship School of Mass Com-munication. A single issue of The Daily Reveille is free. To purchase additional copies for 25 cents, please contact the Of�ce of Student Media in B-34 Hodges Hall. The Daily Reveille is published daily dur-ing the fall and spring semesters and semi-weekly during the sum-mer semester, except during holidays and �nal exams. Second-class copies postage paid at Baton Rouge, La., 70803. Annual weekly mailed subscriptions are $125, semester weekly mailed subscrip-tions are $75. Non-mailed student rates are $4 each regular semes-ter, $2 during the summer; one copy per person, additional copies 25 cents each. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Daily Reveille, B-39 Hodges Hall, LSU, Baton Rouge, La.,70803.
�e Daily ReveilleB-16 Hodges Hall • Baton Rouge, La. 70803
Newsroom (225)578-4810 • Advertising (225)578-6090
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL STATE/LOCAL
Nation & World Friday, October 12, 2012page 2
Chile’s huge open-pit copper mine goes underground after many years
CHUQUICAMATA, Chile (AP) — From above, it looks like a co-lossal amphitheater carved from rock, or the vast crater from a meteorite that crashed into south-ern Chile’s Atacama desert ages ago.
Inside the world’s largest open-pit copper mine, dump trucks as big as two-story hous-es work around the clock to haul hundreds of tons of rock and minerals 2,790 feet (850 meters) to the surface of this elliptical, seemingly endless, man-made hole.Belfast to open Ireland’s �rst abortion clinic, causing controversy
DUBLIN (AP) — A family plan-ning charity plans to open the first abortion clinic in Ireland, challeng-ing decades of legal confusion over the extremely limited access to preg-nancy terminations in both parts of the island.
Officials at the Marie Stopes fa-cility due to open next week in Bel-fast, capital of the British territory of Northern Ireland, said Thursday they plan to offer non-surgical abor-tions to women whose pregnancies are less than nine weeks in gestation. They expect protests and decline to reveal the clinic’s street address.
Mysterious softball-sized eyeball washes up on Florida beach
MIAMI (AP) — It’s not that body parts never wash ashore on Florida beaches. But usually it’s not an eye the size of a softball.
State wildlife officials are trying to determine the species of a blue eyeball found by a man Wednesday at Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale.
Agency spokeswoman Carli Segelson says the eyeball likely came from a marine animal, since it was found on a beach. Pos-sible candidates include a giant squid, a whale or some type of large fish.
Big baby walrus coming to New York City aquarium after being rescued
NEW YORK (AP) — A 234-pound baby walrus is coming to the Wild-life Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium in Brooklyn.
The 15-week mammal was rescued from the ocean off Alaska in July. The aquarium is set to wel-come the walrus, named Mitik, on Thursday.
The Coney Island aquarium is only one of a few institutions in the country that exhibit walruses.
He will spend the first month in quarantine at the aquarium’s medical facility. He will join the exhibit next spring.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fed-eral scientists and BP say oil ap-pears to have leaked last month from the drilling wreckage lying at the bottom of the Gulf of Mex-ico near where a BP well blew out in 2010, causing the nation’s worst offshore spill.
A probe started after a sheen was discovered Sept. 16 in the waters near the site indicates the oil may have seeped from a mile-long metal tube, called the riser, which connected the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to the Ma-condo well.
WeatherTODAY
6487
Sunny
8769
SATURDAY
Maine drivers warned of zombie danger by an electronic message
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Driv-ers may have gotten a chuckle out of an electronic message warning of zombies, but city officials were not amused.
The sign at a Portland construc-tion site was hacked to read “Warn-ing Zombies Ahead!” on Wednesday morning. It originally read “Night work 8 pm-6 am. Expect delays.”
City spokeswoman Nicole Clegg says the signs are a safety pre-caution and changing it could have led to driver distraction.
United Nations says world has 6 billion cell phone subscribers
GENEVA (AP) — The world now has nearly as many cell phone subscriptions as inhabitants.
The U.N. telecom agen-cy says there were about 6 billion subscriptions by the end of 2011 — roughly one for 86 of every 100 people.
In a report on Thursday, the International Telecom-munication Union said China alone accounted for 1 billion subscriptions, and India is ex-pected to hit the 1-billion mark this year.
JORGE SAENZ / The Associated Press
In this Sept. 25 photo, a worker from the National Copper Mine Corporation looks where a new tunnel is to be drilled at the Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile.
8667
SUNDAY
8460
MONDAY
8363
TUESDAY
PHOTO OF THE DAY
RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
A bird sits on a birdfeeder Thursday outside of the Edward Gay Apartments. Submit your photo of the day to [email protected].
Council for A Better Louisiana against proposal to limit gun restrictions
(AP) — The nonpartisan Coun-cil for A Better Louisiana is opposing a constitutional amend-ment that would set a tougher standard for restricting the use of weapons and remove a provision that gives the Legislature explicit authority to limit concealed hand-guns.
CABL says the current language in the constitution pro-tects gun rights. The organization says a rewritten provision could open the door to a lawsuit nullify-ing Louisiana’s prohibition of con-cealed handguns at colleges.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Sept. 2012 photo provided by the Alaska SeaLife Center, the baby walrus Mitik sits in a small pool at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska.
Gulf oil sheen blamed on 2010 drilling wreckage, not well
Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan duked it out over foreign and domestic policy at Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate in Danville, Ky.
LSU political science pro-fessor and Director of Graduate Studies James Garand said in an email he thought Thursday night’s debate was the opposite of the first presidential debate, which he thought was one of the best he’d ever seen.
“This debate was as unhelp-ful as the presidential debate was helpful,” Garand said. “It was more like a scrum than a debate. I can easily imagine many Ameri-cans turning off the debate mid-way through out of frustration and disgust.”
The men spent much of the night throwing jabs at each other.
Biden laughed in response to many of Ryan’s answers, and at one point remarked that Ryan’s responses were “a bunch of ma-larkey.”
Ryan told Biden after a dis-cussion about the economy that he would certainly understand “things sometimes don’t come out of your mouth the right way.”
Biden responded with, “At least I always say what I mean.”
The candidates’ comments made it difficult to figure out what each one’s position was, Garand said.
Students watching in the Holliday Forum of the Journal-ism Building disagreed with the professor.
“This debate was much bet-ter than the presidential debate,” said political communication se-nior Lauren Thibault.
Political communication sophomore Camille Stelly said
she thought Martha Raddatz, the vice presidential debate mod-erator, was much more assertive than last week’s presidential de-bate moderator Jim Lehrer.
Stelly said moderator Rad-datz was much more eloquent and poignant than Lehrer, which gave the debate a clear direction.
Interdisciplinary studies se-nior Adria Porch said she thought Raddatz made it more difficult for candidates to get off the hook, and she felt neither Ryan nor Biden insulted her intelligence by dancing around issues.
Biology junior Ty DeLee agreed with Porch, saying the de-baters put more across this time than those in the presidential de-bate.
When talking about Iran’s possible nuclear capabilities, Ryan insisted Iran was four years closer to building a weapon than it was before people voted in the Obama administration.
Biden countered by say-ing Iran does not have a weapon where its people can put the ura-nium they have acquired.
Both Biden and Ryan are Roman Catholic, and each dis-cussed his faith when asked
about abortion.Ryan said he wasn’t sure
how anyone could separate his faith and private life from his public life. He then cited watch-ing the heartbeat of his firstborn, and said he believes life begins with conception.
Biden said his religion de-fines who he is, but he refuses to force it on others.
“I do not believe we have the right to tell other people that women can’t control their body,” Biden said.
Political science junior Da-vid Ambrogio said he believed the debate showed Ryan’s solid rhetoric on fiscal plans, but Biden presented a strong foreign policy.
When asked who he would vote for, Ambrogio said he is strongly in the column of Lib-ertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson.
�e Daily Reveille page 3Friday, October 12, 2012
Multicultural Student Leadership ConferenceSaturday, October 27th, 2012, from 8am-3pm.
LSU Student Union, register at www.lsu.edu/aacc
MLK Committee Meeting Every Monday Beginning October 8th
4:30pm, Union Caddo Room
DO YOU HAVE AN OCCURRENCE?Call Joe at the Student
Media Office578-6090, 9AM- 5PM or
E-mail: [email protected]
Biden, Ryan face off in VP debatePRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Driver of truck in Quad incident named
OCCURRENCE
CHARLIE NEIBERGALL / The Daily Reveille
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan participate in the vice presidential debate at Centre College on Thursday in Danville, Ky.
LSU Police Department spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde has identified Facility Services employee William Earl Bujol, 40, as the man who ran over student Dominic Gulino, 21, in the Quad last week.
Lalonde said Bujol was noted for careless operation on the acci-dent report.
Tammy Millican, manager of communications and grants for Fa-cility Services, did not elaborate on what consequences Bujol may face because the issue is being handled by the Human Resource Manage-ment department, and employee information is confidential.
Bujol was leaving the Quad in a truck around 1:15 p.m. on Oct. 4 and didn’t see Gulino lying on the grass. The driver rolled over part of the student’s upper body, accord-ing to witnesses.
Though the student sustained minor, visible injuries to his face, he was up and walking after the incident. He refused to go to the hospital with police or emergency responders at first, but went on his own later.
Both Gulino and Bujol
declined to comment when ap-proached by Daily Reveille report-ers immediately following the in-cident.
English senior Sam Stevens was one of several students who watched the events unfold.
“The guy rolled over and slammed on the hood of the truck,” Stevens said. “[The driver] yelled, ‘I didn’t see you.’”
Bujol is listed on the Facility Services website as an Electrician Specialist Leader. It is unclear what work he was doing in the Quad at the time.
Millican said the incident has prompted Facility Services to ana-lyze its operations and work to pre-vent similar events in the future.
“The safety of the students, faculty, staff and our employees is a top priority for our organization,” Millican said. “We’re reviewing our procedures to ensure that we’re operating in the safest manner pos-sible as we travel around campus to perform our maintenance work.”
Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected];
Twitter: @TDR_news
Staff ReportsMegan DunbarStaff Writer
Contact Megan Dunbar at [email protected]
Candidates throw jabs, talk religion
The United States will have to lead the world in energy conserva-tion if anything is to improve, pan-elists asserted at an environmental forum Thursday, the fifth in a series of six concerning issues in the presi-dential election.
It’s possible to moderate energy use as a nation, but the United States can’t conserve or drill its way out of it, said Dean of the School of the Coast and Environment Environ-mental Christopher D’Elia.
D’Elia said both sides of the presidential race could benefit from being honest about environmental facts, primarily recognizing that there is no way to generate energy without environmental impact.
“There are always going to be trade-offs,” D’Elia said.
University Coastal Restora-tion and Enhancement through Sci-ence and Technology Director Doug Daigle and Professor Emeritus Ed Overton agreed with D’Elia that there is no simple answer to envi-ronmental safety that keeps costs down.
Daigle said one way govern-ment can help with environmental safety is through regulation.
“Smart environmental regula-tion can be like stop signs and red lights—if you don’t think we need them, that’s naive—but they can be in the wrong place,” Daigle said.
President Barack Obama’s ad-ministration’s environmental poli-cies are a step in the right direction, he said.
“The things Romney pro-poses could reverse much of what Obama has accomplished so far,” Daigle said.
Obama has used a scientific approach, while Romney’s potential policies are based on an assumption that unlocking certain oil-rich areas would bring prices of natural gas down, Daigle said.
D’Elia concurred with Daigle, saying it used to take one barrel of oil to extract 100 barrels. Now, the number is closer to 20 barrels for ev-ery barrel used, and in some cases, the ratio is closer to 1:1, with greater difficulty of natural gas extraction.
The United States’ power grid, however, is set up to run on cheap oil right now, D’Elia said, and the right investments would be helpful.
“The big question is whether the government do that,” he said.
Overton spoke about the poten-tial of oil production not working out in the future.
“How would you like to pay three times more in tuition?”
Overton asked the students, refer-encing the fact that much of the Uni-versity’s money comes from Louisi-ana’s oil production.
Overton also asked what resi-dents would do if Louisiana’s gov-ernment didn’t take steps to diver-sify the economy.
“We could move to Texas. I don’t like Texas,” Overton said, laughing.
Overton also brought up global warming, specifically why the state is building a new hospital in New Orleans if it will be underwater in 50 years.
“I guess we could move to higher ground. Covington or some-where could be the new New Or-leans,” he said.
The Art Advisory Committee hosted a panel discussion on contem-porary tattooing at the Student Union on Thursday, featuring three tattoo artists from New Orleans.
Dale Newkirk, Southeastern University art gallery curator, mod-erated the discussion of the three art-ists in the Union’s Atchafalaya Room with about 15 people in attendance.
Professional tattoo artists Donn Davis, Ed Dieringer and Adam Mon-tegut answered various questions from the moderator and audience members.
“Tattooing is a craft, not an art,” Davis said.
All three of the men emphasized the importance of apprenticeship in the tattoo industry.
Davis said so few people do apprenticeships today, and it shows in the prevalence of amateur
tattooing across the country. He said there are tattoo schools, but he would never get a tattoo from someone who wasn’t an apprentice first. There has to be a one-on-one mentor-and-ap-prentice relationship, he said.
“You can’t learn it by watching YouTube,” Davis said.
When Dieringer was asked how long his apprenticeship was, he re-sponded with “25 years.”
Dieringer said he doesn’t get many people “on the fly” off the streets in his shop, and he never tat-toos anyone who is intoxicated.
“If it is something that is go-ing to impair your judgment and our ability to tattoo you, we will proba-bly manipulate the situation to where we don’t tattoo you,” Dieringer said.
Jon Woodcock, history senior, attended the discussion for an Amer-ican Folklore class project.
Woodcock said he has two tat-toos and plans to get more.
“It’s addicting as hell,”
Woodcock said. “I can’t even de-scribe it. When it is done, it almost feels like you have accomplished something.”
One of Woodcock’s tattoos is an image of horses his grandmother drew before she died. He said people shouldn’t judge others’ tattoos until they know the meaning behind them.
The current exhibit featured in the LSU Student Union Art Gallery features modern and traditional ap-plications of tattoos and conveys the social, symbolic and aesthetic sig-nificance of this art throughout the world, according to the LSU Student Union Art Gallery website.
Judi Stahl, Union Art Collection and Gallery director, said she has heard from students who appreciate the exhibit showing tattooing in a positive light.
�e Daily Reveillepage 4 Friday, October 12, 2012
Girls get in Freebefore 8
Open Bar: 7-10
IN TIGERLAND
Live @ 10 pm“Onion Loaf”
1176 Bob Petit Rd. Must have proper IDDont Drink & Drive
New Orleans tattoo artists discuss their craftART
ALYSSA SIRISOPHON / The Daily Reveille
Tattoo artists Donn David and Ed Dieringer discuss current tattoo inquisitions Thursday in the Atchafalaya Room of the LSU Union.
Energy moderation popular, but not likely to save U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Jacy BaggettContributing Writer
Contact Jacy Baggett at [email protected]
Megan DunbarStaff Writer
CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille
Dean of the School of the Coast and Environment Christopher D’Elia speaks Thursday about the role of environmental issues in the November election.
Contact Megan Dunbar at [email protected]
� e Daily Reveille page 5Friday, October 12, 2012
The LSU Student Media Board is seeking student applications for station managers and editors of the ve media entities that comprise LSU Student Media. These paid positions include:
• Editor of The Daily Reveille for the Spring term.
• Station manager for Tiger TV for the Spring term.
• Station manager for KLSU-fm for the Spring term.• Station manager for KLSU-fm for the Spring term.
• Editor of the Gumbo yearbook for the Spring term.
• Editor of Legacy magazine for the Spring term.
The student head of each medium is solely responsible for The student head of each medium is solely responsible for the selection and management of his or her staff and for the content that is broadcast or published. Incumbent managers are eligible for reappointment for the spring term. Managers must be full-time students (or be in the nal semester before graduation) and be in good standing with the University.
Those students wishing to apply must ll out an application Those students wishing to apply must ll out an application form obtained at the Of ce of Student Media and provide proof of full-time status (12 hours) at the time. Media experience is helpful.
The Student Media Board will inteThe Student Media Board will interview applicants at 1p.m. on October 26 in the Curet Room on the 2nd oor of Hodges Hall. The Spring term managers will be named that day.
To be considered by the board, applications must be submitted by 4 p.m. Friday, October 19th
By next Friday
We’re lookingfor a few
good people.
courtesy of EDDY PEREZ, LSU UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks to University administrators, students and members of the University community Thursday at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly completed Chemistry and Materials Building.
UNIVERSITY OPENS CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS BUILDING
meaning than in most states.Sandwiched within the na-
tion’s richest college football championship corridor and in-fl uenced by two traditional after-thoughts in the Gamecocks and Clemson , the state’s players grow up around a stigma of inevitability, Montgomery said.
“Everybody’s going to South Carolina or Clemson ,” he said. “That’s the way it works, almost always.”
Not for Montgomery. When legendary South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier fi rst visited Green-wood High School for a recruiting visit, Montgomery didn’t even rec-ognize him.
“That story was passed around the state for the longest time,” Montgomery said, with a sheepish grin. “I asked [Greenwood foot-ball] coach [Shell] Dula who that guy was. When he told me, I just said, ‘Coach, I don’t watch ESPN .’ I found out later [Spurrier ] won a Heisman .”
Montgomery may not have recognized Spurrier , but the home-state school almost landed him anyway.
The 6-foot-4, 250-pound gentle giant can still vividly recall every detail of a recruiting trip he took with his friends and current Gamecock starters, D.J. Swearing-er , Kelcy Quarles and Justice Cun-ningham , to the Columbia, S.C., campus.
“I remember the walk onto the fi eld, the tunnel to the locker room and the weight room right off the side of the stadium,” Montgomery said. “Kelcy and DJ and I took pic-tures with the SC jerseys. You walk outside and the trains roll past cam-pus. It’s a great program, a great place.”
But Montgomery felt the pull of the unknown. He didn’t want to settle for the familiar.
“I had to edge my own path,” he said. “I needed to take a risk and step out of my comfort zone, to see if I could survive in the Dirty South. I wanted to show that South Carolina guys can go around the world and play football.”
For LSU, the rest has been un-scripted, unfi ltered Sam Montgom-ery history.
Montgomery’s 2012 campaign has included 18 tackles — 6.5 for a loss — two sacks and a forced safe-ty that was the difference in LSU’s
12-10 win at Auburn last month.Saturday might as well be an
entirely different season for “Sonic Sam.”
“The way he’s preparing, you can see the focus in it,” said junior linebacker Lamin Barrow . “This game means everything to him. He’ll try to die before he loses it.”
Quarles said Montgomery is “like a brother to me,” and Mont-gomery labeled Cunningham “practically my best friend in the world.”
Though the foe may involve familiar faces, Montgomery is in an admittedly unfamiliar position. Last week’s 14-6 loss at Florida was LSU’s fi rst regular-season de-feat when he was on the fi eld.
Montgomery said the “whoop-ing” brought him back to his roots.
“I haven’t been an underdog like this since I was at Greenwood High School ,” he said. “Some-times, you need to get rehumbled and reminded what it means to work hard for every success you get. I learned that in South Caro-lina .”
It’ll be as much a fam-ily reunion as a football game for Montgomery , who said his mother,
sister and about “10 to 12 ” of his closest acquaintances will be in Ti-ger Stadium on Saturday night.
But there will be one person missing from that inner circle. Montgomery’s fellow Sonic afi -cionado and older brother, John Darrel Adams , was killed outside a Columbia night club in 2007 .
Montgomery said their rela-tionship was never about sports — “We played video games. We never watched football.”
Montgomery said Adams hasn’t been on his mind most of this week. But he’s part of those South Carolina memories, which will serve as Montgomery’s inspi-ration when he hits his black-and-garnet clad opponents.
“I never play for myself, so this game’s not about me,” Mont-gomery said. “It’s for South Caro-lina — they deserve that respect. And when you talk about the state, he’s a major part of that for me. I guess I’ll unleash that passion, too.”
MONTGOMERY, from page 1
Contact Chris Abshire at [email protected];
Twitter: @AbshireTDR
� e Daily Reveillepage 6 Friday, October 12, 2012
Wollgast said. “From the few months I knew
her— it sucks that most people will learn who she is through headlines and mugshots. It’s a to-tally different person. If that’s the real Nicole, then I want to remem-ber her as I knew her.”
Boover , charged with attempt-ed fi rst-degree murder, appeared before a New Orleans judge who set a $500,000 bond Wednesday . Yuhas faces charges for principal to attempted fi rst-degree murder, after he and Boover bought duct tape, gloves and “Scream” masks modeled from the horror movie franchise. Yuhas’ bond was set at $100,000 on Thursday night, ac-cording to NOLA.com.
Arrest records provide a clearer idea of Boover’s alleged encounter with her mother the morning of Oct. 8 . Hearing taps on the door, her mother peered through the peephole to fi nd her daughter waiting outside. As she opened the door, Boover raised a silver handgun as a smile appeared on her face. She fi red three shots after her mother slammed the door shut.
Boover’s step-father noti-fi ed LSUPD that Boover was returning to campus, and she was later arrested in her room at Evangeline Hall .
coming into his freshman year is an understatement.
Every major recruiting web-site had Clowney as the No. 1 pros-pect for the 2011 class. In his fi nal two seasons at South Pointe High School in Rock Hill , S.C., Clowney totaled 306 tackles and 52.5 sacks according to the offi cial Gamecock website, earning South Carolina’s Mr. Football award as a senior .
LSU was one of many schools, including Alabama and Florida State, to throw offers at Clowney . But out of all of them, his home-state university stood out.
South Carolina had signed the state’s Mr. Football both years prior to Clowney in running back Mar-cus Lattimore and former Game-cock cornerback Stephon Gilmore . Gilmore , who was drafted No. 10 in the 2012 NFL Draft, was a high school teammate of Clowney’s and helped convince him to stay home.
“I said, ‘I just want to go in there and help them win,’” Clowney said. “They were on the rise, and I wanted to be a part of that.”
He was expected to make an immediate impact, and that he did. With Clowney starting from his fi rst collegiate snap, the Game-cocks’ defense went from seventh to third in SEC total defense from 2010 to 2011. He ranked No. 7 with eight sacks and No. 4 with fi ve forced fumbles as a freshman, helping to improve South Caro-lina’s record of 9-5 from the previ-ous season to 11-2 .
Clowney put together his SEC Freshman of the Year season play-ing free-form football. Instead of looking at the offensive tackle in front of him like the Gamecocks’ scheme demands, he watched the ball every play.
South Carolina defensive line coach Brad Lawing often had to have a veteran lineman spoon-feed Clowney his assignment between plays.
He hasn’t had to do that this season.
“His knowledge of the game is at a much higher level than what it has been,” Lawing said.
Clowney made sure he had the scheme memorized in the offsea-son, allowing him to play faster. Also fi nding he could no longer just throw his shoulder into an op-ponent to get off blocks against collegiate competition, he worked on using his hands to gain separa-tion.
Halfway through his sopho-more season, Clowney is 1.5 sacks and .5 tackles for loss off his fi rst-year totals.
“He’s always been blessed with the ability to rush the passer,” said defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward after the Gamecocks’ 35-7 drubbing of Georgia. “He’s buying into what Coach Lawing’s teach-ing.”
But the case Yahoo! Sports columnist Dan Wetzel makes for Clowney’s Heisman hopes is that his effectiveness transcends sta-tistics. He cited Clowney , who re-peatedly leapt over and ran through Georgia’s offensive line, as the tone-setter in a defensive effort that forced prolifi c Bulldog passer Aaron Murray to go 11-of-31 from the pocket.
That kind of talk can make
a young player crumble, as Ma-thieu’s situation has shown. As the Heisman grumbling has begun, starting defensive end Devin Tay-lor said his counterpart is the same person.
When he arrived on campus, Clowney met with coach Steve Spurrier who told him the media would eventually make him a big shot and to not let it get to his head.
His response?“Yes, sir,” Clowney said.His reaction to the Heisman
talk?“It doesn’t matter,” Clowney
said. “I’ve just been laughing about it.”
The Tigers know what they’re up against with Clowney , how-ever humble he is; considering Clowney’s combination of speed, agility and power, senior offensive lineman Alex Hurst, compared him to Colts Pro-Bowler Dwight Free-ney . Clowney knows what he’s up against as well, claiming he’s ready to brave Tiger Stadium and com-pete with his fellow NFL defensive end prospects, juniors Sam Mont-gomery and Barkevious Mingo , for bragging rights.
“I want to do my part as much as possible,” Clowney said. “I want to be better than them.”
Isabelle Khurshudyan , Sports Edi-tor of The Daily Gamecock, con-tributed to this report.
CLOWNEY, from page 1 BOOVER, from page 1
Contact Alex Cassara at [email protected];
Twitter: @cassaraTDR
Contact Brian Sibille at [email protected];
Twitter: @TDR_news
The last time LSU lost back-to-back games, George W. Bush held offi ce in the White House and Ole Miss was a relevant force in college football.
The No. 9 Tigers (5-1) will attempt to stave off consecutive losses for the fi rst time since 2008 when No. 3 South Carolina (6-0) barrels into Baton Rouge fresh off a dominat-ing performance against then-No. 5 Georgia.
“Hopefully we come in with a bit of a chip on our shoulder,” said LSU junior line-backer Kevin Minter . “We have to win this one. We can’t lose any more or those national
championship hopes are gone. We just have to buckle down and get to it.”
LSU fi nds itself in unfamiliar territory, having to prepare for a game the week fol-lowing a loss — something they haven’t done since playing Arkansas after losing to Ole Miss in 2009 .
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier may be best known for his championship days in Gainesville , Fla., but the Ol’ Ball Coach has produced the fi rst top-three team to come out of Gamecock Country since 1984 and only the second 6-0 team since 1988 .
Spurrier has posted an 11-3 record against the Tigers dating back to his days with the Gators, but he has lost to LSU both times
since taking over for the Gamecocks.“South Carolina is a tremendous team,”
said LSU coach Les Miles . “They have a good defense to go with a quality offense. ... It is going to take a great effort from us to play well.”
A pair of unmovable forces are on a crash course for destruction Saturday when two of the Southeastern Conference’s top defenses meet under the lights of Tiger Stadium.
The Gamecocks and Tigers rank in the top fi ve of the SEC in almost every defensive category, including pass defense , turnovers
Saturday night is going to be rowdy.
Not because it may be the fi rst close game played in Tiger Stadium since the 2010 season. Not even be-cause it’s a matchup of two top-10 teams, including one in LSU that seems to be in a free fall brought on by injuries, drama and putrid offense. And certainly it’s not be-cause it’s that silly “tradition” we call the Gold Game.
Saturday night in Tiger Sta-dium, fans will witness a meeting of two of the most talented, ec-centric and off-the-cuff coaches to ever grace the sidelines of a college
football fi eld.It’s The Hat versus The Visor
in the fi rst Southeastern Confer-ence night game in Tiger Stadium since the Tigers faced Mississippi State in 2010 .
Whether they’re going on seemingly pointless, long-winded rants at press conferences, taking digs at recruits and conference op-ponents or di-aling up trick plays fi t more for your bud-dy’s NCAA Football 13 game than an SEC showdown, the Mad Hatter and the Ol’ Ball Coach are never short on entertainment.
SportsFriday, October 12, 2012 page 7
Game Week NotebookLSU SCHEDULE
GAMECOCKS STATISTICS
TEAM STATISTICS
VS.No. 9 LSU No. 3 South
Carolina
Sept. 1Sept. 8Sept. 15Sept. 22Sept. 29Oct. 6Oct. 13Oct. 20Nov. 3Nov. 10Nov. 17Nov. 23
LSU 41, UNT 14LSU 41, Wash. 3LSU 63, Idaho 14LSU 12, Auburn 10LSU 38, Towson 22LSU 6, Florida 14South Carolina@ Texas A&M AlabamaMississippi St. Ole Miss@ Arkansas
PASSING· Zach Mettenberger: 1174 yards, 6 TD, 3 INT
RUSHING· Kenny Hilliard: 382 yards, 58 carries, 6 TD· Michael Ford: 238 yards, 42 carries, 2 TD· Spencer Ware: 185 yards, 40 carries, 0 TD
RECEIVING· Jarvis Landry: 164 yards, 18 catches, 1 TD· Odell Beckham, Jr.: 364 yards, 20 catches, 2 TD· Kadron Boone: 177 yards, 10 catches, 3 TD
PASSING · Connor Shaw: 733 yards, 7 TD, 2 INT
RUSHING· Marcus Lattimore: 549 yards, 116 carries, 9 TD· Connor Shaw: 281 yards, 64 carries, 1 TD· Mike Davis: 118 yards, 13 carries, 1 TD
RECEIVING· Marcus Lattimore: 133 yards, 18 catches, 0 TD· Bruce Ellington: 227 yards, 13 catches, 1 TD· Ace Sanders: 110 yards, 12 catches, 3 TD
TOTAL AND SCORING OFFENSELSU: 201 points, 33.5 points per game S.C.: 218 points, 36.3 points per game
Rushing offenseLSU: 1190 yards, 198.3 yards per game, 16 TD S.C.: 1089 yards, 181.5 YPG, 13 TD
Passing offenseLSU: 1174 yards, 195.7 YPG, 6 TD, 3 INTS.C.: 1348 yards, 224.7 YPG, 14 TD, 2 INT
TOTAL AND SCORING DEFENSELSU: 77 points, 12.8 points per gameS.C.: 63 points, 10.5 points per game
Rushing defenseLSU: 591 yards, 98.5 YPG, 5 TDS.C.: 503 yards, 83.8 YPG, 3 TD
Passing defenseLSU: 735 yards, 122.5 YPG, 5 TD, 8 INTS.C.: 1165 yards, 194.2 YPG, 3 TD, 8 INT
LUKE JOHNSON / The Daily Reveille
TIGERS STATISTICS
THE BERT LOCKERALBERT BURFORDDeputy Sports Editor
CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
LSU head coach Les Miles cheers on the Tigers on Oct. 6 during their 14-6 loss to the Gators in Ben Hill Grif� n Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. HAT VS. VISOR, see page 15
Choose your headgear: The Hat vs. The Visor
Who is the better coach, Les Miles or
Steve Spurrier? Vote at
lsureveille.com.
Who is the
KEYS TO THE GAME:Find a way to stop sophomore defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, who has 6.5 sacks and 11.5 tackles for loss to his credit this season.
Don’t let Marcus Lattimore get free. The all-purpose back has 9 touchdowns and 549 yards to his credit this season.
Make Connor Shaw stay in the pocket and throw the ball. The elusive quarterback is the Gamecocks’ second leading rusher this season.
Hold on to the ball. LSU has lost eight fumbles this season, the second worst number in the SEC.
Top-10 ShowdownNo. 9 Tigers look to bounce back from loss to Florida
CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille
LSU junior running back Michael Ford is stopped by a Florida player Saturday during the Tigers’ 14-6 loss to the Gators in Ben Hill Grif� n Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.
SHOWDOWN, see page 15
Mike Gegenheimer Sports Contributor
The Lady Tigers will look to bounce back at the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill, N.C. , at 8 a.m. Friday, con-cluding the three-round tourna-ment Sunday .
LSU hasn’t gotten much rest since it tied for 14th place at the Liz Murphey Fall Preview last weekend , where the lineup shot a 39-over-par 903 to end the tour-nament.
Even with the poor overall fi nish at the Fall Preview , a bright spot lit the path for potential success at the squad’s upcoming competition.
“I feel like last week we got better every round,” LSU Coach Karen Bahnsen said. “That’s the goal, to continue to get better. We’re just trying to build every-thing when we compete so we can be stronger in April and May . Everything we do to this point is to build us up and make us stron-ger for later this season.”
Junior Lindsay Gahm fi n-ished at a career-best even-par for the tournament, fi nishing tied for fi fth place overall .
Regardless of the outcome, Bahnsen was impressed with what she saw on the course.
Though Bahnsen is confi dent in her team’s chances this week-end, she said it still has room for improvement.
“Three of our fi ve starters are new girls,” Bahnsen said.
“They’ve moved up every single day. We wanted to work on our short game and on making more putts. We wanted to start having confi dence and believing in our-selves.”
The Lady Tigers will send juniors Gahm and Ali Lucas, sophomore Madelene Sagstrom and freshmen Nadine Dreher and Elise Bradley to the course this weekend.
Bahnsen has confi dence in her two top performers, Gahm and Sagstrom . Sagstrom played well at the Fall Preview , where she shot a 3-over 219 for the tour-nament.
Bahnsen is looking for better performances from her younger players.
“Lindsay Gahm and Made-lene Sagstrom are the two leaders on our team,” Bahnsen said. “I’m expecting big things out of them, and now we’re just looking for the younger [golfers] to step up.”
What a difference a year makes.
This appears to be the case for the Tigers’ sophomores over the last fi ve seasons , as they morph from mediocre freshmen into dominant golfers in their second year of play.
The most recent example of this phenomenon has taken place this season, as sophomores Stew-art Jolly , Curtis Thompson and Myles Lewis have all performed well in their fi rst three tourna-ments .
To say they have improved from last season would be an un-derstatement.
Jolly , Thompson and Lewis combined to shoot under par for a tournament twice as freshmen . They’ve already shot below par four times this season, includ-ing a shared individual title from Jolly and Thompson during the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate in September .
This type of improvement isn’t unheard of for men’s golf, though.
“We have seen this type of trend in the past,” said LSU coach Chuck Winstead . “We have a way that we go about de-veloping our players. The ones that really work hard on the ar-eas that we defi ne for them have been able to see a nice increase in their ability and thus a lower scoring average.”
Looking back at the previous fi ve seasons , several players im-proved immensely from their fi rst to second year s.
Before Jolly , Thompson and Lewis made the jump, current ju-nior Andrew Presley experienced a similar pattern of improved scores during his sophomore sea-son.
Presley shot under par once during his freshman campaign, and his scoring average of 74.1 left room to improve. In his sec-ond year , he lowered his average to 72.5 , shot under par four times , compiled three top-fi ve fi nishes and was a Second-Team All-SEC player .
Prior to Presley , John Peter-son saw his performance sky-rocket during his sophomore sea-son in 2008 .
Peterson shot under par once as a freshman , but he ended his
second year with four perfor-mances where he shot under par , with fi ve top-fi ve fi nishes and as the fi rst Tiger since 2003 to earn All-American status .
Former Tigers Sang Yi and Andrew Loupe both saw their scoring averages decrease to 73.7 from 74.3 and 74.1, respectively during their second seasons be-fore going on to become First-Team All-SEC members later in their careers.
What makes Jolly , Thomp-son and Lewis so intriguing is that they’re undergoing such a progression at the same time.
Winstead said he believes in his talented second-year play-ers, but he attributed two of the sophomores’ success to being better mentally prepared on the course.
“Stewart has made his big-gest improvement in his ability to handle disappointment, which you have a lot of in golf,” Win-stead said. “It has helped him stay in the moment and continue to play well.”
The same goes for Thomp-son .
“The No. 1 thing for Curtis to continue to improve is to not put such big expectations on him-self, so when he falls short of his goal, he doesn’t beat himself up,” Winstead said. “He’s made baby steps along the way, and we’ve seen him grow exponentially.”
� e Daily Reveillepage 8 Friday, October 12, 2012
FLORES MBA PROGRAM
LSU Flores MBA = Success
Invest in Your Future!Info Session Thursday, October 18
Business Education Complex — The CommonsNicholson Drive Extension5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Visit mba.lsu.edu for more information. Facebook.com/LSUFloresMBAProgram Twitter: @LSUFloresMBA
WWW.UBSKI.COM 1-800-SKI-WILD • 1-800-754-9453
COLLEGE SKI & BOARD WEEK
plus t/s
Vail • Beaver Creek • Keystone • Arapahoe Basin20 Mountains. 5 Resorts. 1 Price.
breckenridge
FROMONLY
MEN’S GOLF WOMEN’S GOLF
Contact Lawrence Barreca at [email protected]
Lawrence BarrecaSports Contributor
Lawrence BarrecaSports Contributor
TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille
LSU sophomore golfer Curtis Thompson chips the ball onto the green Saturday morning at the fourth annual David Toms Intercollegiate.
Contact Lawrence Barreca at [email protected]
Lady Tigers head to Tar Heel Invitational
LSU sophomore trio shows progress from last seasonPattern continues from past seasons
Team optimistic, seeing improvement
The LSU soccer team heads to Columbia, S.C., to improve its post-season hopes with a Friday night matchup against South Carolina.
The Tigers (6-5-4) and Game-cocks (4-6-4) both go into the game following 1-0 Southeastern Con-ference wins, but each team is still pushing to qualify for the 2012 SEC Women’s Soccer Tournament.
Neither team is foreign to over-time games. LSU competed in sev-en and South Carolina played in six , but South Carolina has not won an overtime game in 2012.
With a win, LSU head coach Brian Lee said the Tigers have the opportunity to move up six spots in the rankings if other SEC games play out in their favor.
“We’ll go down to the wire, but it’ll certainly be a big win,” Lee said.
The Tigers are led by freshman forwards Fernanda Piña and Colby Maffei with seven and six points , respectively. Junior goalkeeper Me-gan Kinneman has saved 85 shots , and her opposing goalkeepers have saved 66 .
South Carolina is coming off its fi rst SEC win of 2012 with a 1-0 shutout against Georgia as junior forward/defender Gabrielle Gilbert scored her second goal of the sea-son .
South Carolina is led by junior forward/midfi elder Danielle Au and freshman forward/midfi elder Courtney Angotti-Smith with eight points each. The Gamecocks also have tallied 12 yellow cards, while their opponents have totaled three .
During practices this week, Lee and the team continued to work on consistency and cohesiveness be-cause of the large number of young players this season.
“Even though it’s late in the season, we’re still growing and get-ting better,” Lee said.
Away games have been friend-ly to LSU this season. The Tigers are 2-0-1 on the road, compared to a
4-5-3 record at home . The team was 7-1-1 at home in 2011 and 6-6 away .
Against Vanderbilt on Sunday, Lee moved the benches to the other side of the fi eld and tweaked pre-game procedures to give the feel of an away environment.
“For the fi rst time since I’ve been here, the team played better away than at home,” Lee said. “It worked. We played great.”
The LSU volleyball team will look to bounce back from its fi ve-set loss to Tennessee when it takes on the Crimson Tide on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the PMAC.
The Crimson Tide thrashed LSU in three sets in its Southeastern Conference opener.
The Tigers were without senior defen-sive specialist Meghan Mannari, who suffered a high ankle sprain in the match’s pregame warm-ups.
Mannari looked like she was near full strength against the Vol-unteers on Wednesday night, post-ing a season-high 29 digs.
“We want a rematch.” Man-nari said. “... We just have to re-group and come back on Sunday; play a great match, play our side and hopefully we’ll take care of business and get another win.”
Alabama will come to Baton Rouge seeking its fi rst win in the PMAC since 2003.
Despite a strong start to its season, winning 12 of its fi rst 13 matches, the Crimson Tide has
struggled since defeating LSU, winning just one other SEC match and falling to 10th place in the conference.
But LSU coach Fran Flory made it clear that she knows better than to take any team in the SEC lightly.
“[Alabama is] an awfully im-proved team,” Flory said. “They are coming here with a point to prove. They haven’t won here in a
while.”In addition to the
strong blocking the Ti-gers have displayed this season, their attacking game has seen recent improvements.
Junior middle blocker Desiree Elliott , senior outside hitter Madie Jones and soph-
omore outside hitter Helen Boyle combined for 52 of LSU’s 66 kills against Tennessee.
“I know we can achieve any goal we set at the beginning of the season,” Jones said. “It starts Sunday, and we’re going to bring some revenge against Alabama.”
� e Daily Reveille page 9Friday, October 12, 2012
VOLLEYBALL
Tyler NunezSports Contributor
Next up for LSU:Who: LSU (7-11) vs. Alabama (13-6)When: 1 p.m. SundayWhere: The PMAC
Contact Tyler Nunez at [email protected]
SOCCER
Bria TurnerSports Contributor
BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille
LSU freshman mid� elder Tori Sample advances the ball Friday, Oct. 5 at the LSU Soccer Stadium. The Florida Gators went on to defeat the Tigers, 2-0.
Contact Bria Turner at [email protected]
Tigers look to exact revenge against Alabama Crimson Tide
TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille
Junior middle blocker Desiree Elliot spikes the ball between two Tennessee defenders during a game against the Volunteers on Wednesday at the PMAC.
LSU attempts to turn season around
LSU seeks to improve playoff chances in S.C.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Not just any comeback would get San Francisco back to playing for a pennant. It would take one of Giant proportions.
And Buster Posey believed it could happen. Even after the Giants left the West Coast down two games, the National League batting champi-on insisted his team could pull it off, despite the long odds.
With one swing, he got every-one else believing it, too.
Posey hit the third grand slam in Giants’ postseason history Thursday, and San Francisco pulled off an un-precedented revival, moving into the championship series with a 6-4 vic-tory over the Cincinnati Reds.
“You don’t want to be in a lose-and-you’re-out scenario,” reliever Jeremy Affeldt said, wearing a brace on his left wrist so he didn’t hurt it in the champagne-fl avored clubhouse celebration. “We’ve been in that
situation for three days. We’re prob-ably going to sleep well tonight.”
They’ll play either Washington or St. Louis for the NL pennant Sun-day, not caring at all who they face.
“We could go up against any-body at any time,” shortstop Bran-don Crawford said. “Being down 2-0 and coming back and win-ning three at their place, it’s an
unbelievable feeling.”Game 1 of the NL champion-
ship series will be Sunday, either in Washington against the Nationals or in San Francisco against the Car-dinals. In the meantime, the Giants will stay in Cincinnati until their next opponent is determined Friday night when the Cards and Nats play Game 5.
The Giants became the fi rst NL team to overcome a 2-0 defi cit in the division series, which began in 1995. Major League Baseball’s changed playoff format this season allowed them to become the fi rst to take a best-of-fi ve by winning the last three on the road.
Posey’s second career grand slam off Mat Latos put the Giants up 6-0 in the fi fth and sparked a joyous scrum in the San Francisco dugout. The ball smacked off the front of the upper deck in left fi eld, just above Latos’ name on the video board.
For the fi rst time in the series, the Giants could exhale.
“I don’t think anybody gave up,” Posey said.
Will Clark, in the 1989 NLCS, and Chuck Hiller, in the 1962 World Series, hit the other Giants slams in the postseason.
Matt Cain and the bullpen held on, with more help from Posey. The All-Star catcher threw out Jay Bruce at third base to snuff out a sixth-in-ning rally that cut it to 6-3. The Gi-ants had a pair of diving catches that preserved the lead in the eighth.
There was more drama in the ninth. Ryan Ludwick singled home a run off Sergio Romo. With two run-ners aboard, Romo fanned Scott Ro-len to end it.
The Giants raised their arms, hugged and huddled by the side of the mound, bouncing in unison.
“It was a spectacular moment,” outfi elder Hunter Pence said.
The LSU cross country teams will run their fi nal regular-season race at the Chile Pepper Festival in Fayetteville, Ark ., on Saturday .
The University of Arkansas hosts the race, which will feature mostly Southeastern Conference competition.
This is LSU’s last chance to run heading into the Southeastern
Conference Championship meet at Vanderbilt on Oct. 26.
“It is the stiffest competition we will face this year,” said LSU coach Mark Elliott . “We will fi nd out this weekend what kind of team we have on both sides.”
The Lady Tigers enter the race coming off victories at the McNeese Cowboy Stampede on Sept. 29 and the LSU Invitational on Sept. 22 .
Senior Laura Carleton fi n-ished fi rst individually in both races and fi nished fi fth against mostly SEC competition in the season-opening Commodore Classic at Vanderbilt .
The last two races were against mostly smaller local op-ponents, but Elliott said the rac-es were important as a “speed boost” heading into tougher com-petition.
“You can’t base that much off it because of the competition, but winning is a big ego boost going into these next races,” said LSU senior Dakota Goodman . “I think we are running strong and confi dently as a team.”
The Tigers are coming into this weekend after second and third -place fi nishes in their last two races.
Elliott said he has preached
improvement to his team all sea-son and he hopes it will show against a tough SEC fi eld on Sat-urday .
“I am a realistic coach,” El-liott said. “I believe that you have the talent level you have, and as long as the team is improving within that level, I am happy. That being said, this week will be a tougher hurdle against good teams in a longer distance.”
The Chile Pepper Festival will be the teams’ fi rst 10 kilo-meter race of the season. Each previous race was either an 8K or a 5K . The NCAA regional meet will also be a 10K .
“We have been preparing for the 10K for the last two weeks,” said senior Roger Cooke . “I like to get my mileage up the week before and then taper off heading into the race.”
Both teams will look to im-prove their last season perfor-mances at the festival, when the Tigers fi nished No. 17 out of 32 teams while the Lady Tigers came in No. 20 .
� e Daily Reveillepage 10 Friday, October 12, 2012
CROSS COUNTRY
LSU travels to Arkansas for Chile Pepper FestivalRace marks � rst 10K of the seasonJames Moran Sports Contributor
Contact James Moran at [email protected]
MLB
Posey’s grand slam sends Giants into NLCSJoe KayThe Associated Press
DAVID KOHL / The Associated Press
San Francisco Giants’ Buster Posey celebrates with pitcher and LSU alum Brian Wilson Thursday after they defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 6-4, in Game 5 of the series.
Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at [email protected];
Twitter: @TDR_sports
� e Daily Reveille page 11Friday, October 12, 2012
Reasons to attend �ger Bites
Try newFOOD!Try newFOOD!#2
October 17 | 5pm - 8pm | LSU UREC
�e Daily Reveille
Opinionpage 12 Friday, October 12, 2012
�e Daily ReveilleThe Daily Reveille (USPS 145-800) is written, edited and produced solely by students of Louisiana State University. The Daily Reveille is an independent entity within the Manship School of Mass Communication. Signed opinions are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the editor, paper or University. Letters submitted for publication should be sent via e-mail to [email protected] or delivered to B-26 Hodges Hall. They must be 400 words or less. Letters must have a contact phone number so the opinion editor can verify the author. The phone number won’t be printed. The Daily Reveille reserves the right to edit letters and guest columns for space consider-ation without changing the original intent. The Daily Reveille also reserves the right to reject any letter without noti-�cation of the author. Writers must include their full names and phone numbers. The Daily Reveille’s editor-in-chief, hired every semester by the Louisiana State University Media Board, has �nal authority on all editorial decisions.
Editorial Policies & Procedures Quote of the Day“Affirmative action is a very
nice term for racial discrimination against
better-qualified white people.”
David Dukeformer KKK Grand Wizard and La. politician
July 1, 1950 — Present
Editorial BoardAndrea Gallo
Emily HerringtonBryan Stewart
Brian SibilleClayton Crockett
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
Managing Editor, External Media
News Editor
Opinion Editor
Abigail Fisher, the not so proud Tiger.
Fisher, an LSU alumna and Texas native, was denied admission into the University of Texas at Austin because of her race — or so she says.
The fact of the matter is Fish-er was denied on the basis of her academic performance, not her race.
Fisher is now 22 years old, liv-ing and working in Austin and has made a Supreme Court case out of the matter, the ruling of which could seriously affect future affirmative ac-tion legislation.
As for myself, also being a Tex-as native and from the Houston met-ro area, I am well aware of the Uni-versity of Texas’ admissions policy.
Let me break it down for you.By law, if a person graduates
from a Texas high school in the top 10 percent of his or her graduating class, he or she is automatically ad-mitted into any Texas public univer-sity.
Fisher was not in the top 10 per-cent of her graduating class, thus, she was not automatically admitted into the University of Texas.
Recently, the University of Texas has raised the bar, allowing automatic admission for only the top 8 percent of each class and eventu-ally the top 6 percent.
However, Fisher being 22 an myself being 21, at the time of our graduations, the standard was top 10.
This was not by any means and unspoken rule — everyone knew about the top 10 standard. We were familiar with the rewards and fearful of the consequences that came with not meeting the cutoff.
The top 10 rule, by design, allows for top students from lesser performing high schools to have a chance at attending the state’s largest and arguably best university.
It just so happens that under-performing high schools tend to be majority non-white, populated pri-marily by African-Americans and Latinos.
I’ve heard this argument a thou-sand times from different people who all share the same grievance as Fisher — why are minority students who aren’t as smart as me getting
into the University of Texas and I am not?
All I have to say is, tough shit.There was a system in place,
we all knew about it and some of us worked the system better than others.
I graduated in the top 10 percent of my high school class. By law, had I applied, the University of Texas had to admit me. Short of wiping my ass with the application, I was guar-anteed a spot.
Fisher stood a better chance than I did of being admitted because, despite our shared ethnicity, she is female and affirmative action would have worked in her favor.
There is also the chance that Fisher went to a high-performing high school, perhaps a private school with a small number of students, making the top 10 percent only the top two or three students in the grad-uating class.
Admissions boards take this into account, and plenty of intelligent students from small private schools are admitted each year, despite graduating in the 50th percentile of their classes.
Fisher also could have trans-ferred to a different school. There are plenty of terrible schools in the Houston area. She wouldn’t have had to look far to find a school where she would not have just been in the top 10 percent, but possibly valedic-torian.
But Fisher remained in her comfort zone of white-washed Sugar Land, an upper-middle-class Hous-ton suburb.
This is not a race issue. Fisher made it a race issue.
She was not in the top 10 per-cent, so she was not admitted. Why this case has made it all the way to the highest court in the United States is beyond me.
However, I am confident she will not win.
While the top 10 rule may be an affirmative action program, it’s not without reason. The University of Texas is vastly Caucasian and was in desperate need of diversifying the student body.
Coming from someone who worked to make the top 10, I can confidently say without shame that
Fisher needs to let this go.The end result for her was the
same. She’s now working in Aus-tin, living among UT alumni — she just had to work a little harder to get there.
For those who oppose affirma-tive action, think about the period from 1776 until 1961 as affirmative action for white people, because that’s exactly what it was.
The law was written to ensure the success of whites over everyone else. Is it possible that we’ve leveled the playing field after 200 years of inequality in a mere half century?
I’m sorry you didn’t get to go to your dream school, Ms. Fisher, but if you’re reading this, the only person you can blame is yourself — not the black kid next door.
Parker Cramer is a 21-year-old po-litical science senior from Houston.
Contact Parker Cramer at [email protected];Twitter: @TDR_pcramer
SCUM OF THE GIRTHPARKER CRAMERChief Columnist
SUSAN WALSH / The Associated Press
Abigail Fisher, the LSU alumna involved in the af�rmative action case, talks to reporters with her attorney Bert Rein (right) outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday.
Should race factor into college admission?
Total votes: 179
WHAT’S
Participate in today’s poll at lsureveille.com.
BUZZ? THE
15%Yes
85%No
Af�rmative ReactionRace has nothing to do with the University of Texas case
�e Daily Reveille
OpinionFriday, October 12, 2012 page 13
GTL has found a new mean-ing: Gym, Tan, Last Season.
Since the show blew up af-ter its December 2009 premiere, “Jersey Shore” has seen its share of controversial moments, but on Aug. 30, MTV announced the se-ries would be airing its sixth and final season this fall.
“Jersey Shore” may soon be ending, but the world will be seeing its effects — for better or worse — for a long time to come. Impacts vary from heightened stereotypes of New Jersey resi-dents to the bandwagon effect, which followed in the series’ success.
“Let’s just keep it real, we’ve made a lasting effect,” Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino told LA Times. “It will take a number of years to try to forget what we’ve done. We changed the way people view reality TV. We helped changed how reality TV is done.”
During the first season, the show raked in about 2.7 million viewers but climbed to more than 8 million viewers during the third season in Italy, according to the LA Times.
The show’s success then sparked a number of similar tele-vision shows based on life in New Jersey.
“Jerseylicious,” a show on the Style Network that follows the staff of a New Jersey salon, aired in March 2010, and spinoff of the show, “Glam Fairy,” ex-plores a former “Jerseylicious”
cast member’s mission to make-over women in her own New Jer-sey fashion.
But it didn’t stop there. “Jer-sey Couture,” a show on Oxygen about a New Jersey dress bou-tique, premiered in June 2010.
While these shows exploited television viewers’ newfound in-terest in the Garden State, “Jersey Shore” influence’s one outlet far from the shore. “Geordie Shore”, a British adaptation of the series, premiered in May 2011 and will be airing its fourth season next month. On Sept. 24, the newest adaption, “Gandia Shore,” aired in Spain.
Although the bandwagon has thankfully slowed, the film-ing of reality shows in New Jer-sey remains to be an issue in the minds of politicians.
On Sept. 24, New Jersey lawmaker Ronald Dancer intro-duced the “Snooki Law,” which would regulate the “filming of reality television shows within their boundaries before a Situa-tion develops,” according to The Huffington Post.
If approved, the law would allow individual towns to create their own conditions on filming. After three years of drunken face plants on the beach and street brawls with locals, public safety has proved to be a major con-cern. One condition from the law could demand that TV crews pay for additional police officers dur-ing filming.
This season’s premiere showed a tame house, but as we’ve seen in the season’s pre-views, more arrests will follow.
Fortunately for them but unfortunately for viewers, many of the cast members have begun
to grow up. Last Thursday, we saw a sober Mike after his return from rehab as well as an unusu-ally sober Snooki, who is now pregnant and engaged. Now that the duo is above the influence, I doubt we’ll be seeing any more trips to the hospital or vicious at-tacks with wine bottles.
They may have cleaned up their acts since season one, but the impressions left with viewers will continue to reinforce nega-tive stereotypes of New Jersey residents.
Psychology senior Colleen Prejean said the show’s expo-sure to “the guido and guidette lifestyle” may have brought the underground trend to the
mainstream media. “I hadn’t heard of ‘guido’ as
anything more than a joke [be-fore the show],” she said. “I think it affected a small number of people who now think it’s more socially acceptable to fulfill that guido stereotype.”
Prior to “Jersey Shore,” gui-do and guidette were not com-monly used words, but the show also introduced a slew of new terms spanning from GTL and grenades to kookah and meat-balls.
Whether you’re a fan or not, “Jersey Shore” has changed the face of reality TV. So you can boycott the show or troll the cast members’ Facebook pages, but
as the series ends, we’re still go-ing to have a Situation for many years to come.
Kate Mabry is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from New Orleans.
LA SEULE FEMMEKATE MABRYColumnist
Contact Kate Mabry at [email protected];
Twitter: @KateMabry1
‘Jersey Shore’ �nal season airs, but in�uence will remain
ROLAND PARKER / The Daily Reveille
As a child, did you dislike when your parents made family decisions without your consent?
For example, after a religious awakening, my mother decided we would no longer celebrate Christmas. Thus, my childhood suffered.
Students may have a similar feeling toward the Faculty Senate regarding the proposed grading scale change and the alteration of class start times implemented this fall.
Should students have more of a say in policies affecting them? I think so.
The Faculty Senate recently voted 26-14-4 in favor of a plus-minus grading scale that would change how students’ GPAs are calculated. Professors will have
the option of adding a plus or mi-nus sign to letter grades if Aca-demic Affairs approves the sys-tem. Thus, a student who earns a B would receive 3.3 quality points toward his or her GPA in-stead of 3. But sorry over-achiev-ers, there is no A plus.
In a recent meeting, finance professor and the bill’s author Don Chance said the time is per-fect to implement the resolution as the school transfers to a new PAWS system. The bill could be applied within two years, he added.
The University also imple-mented a new class start time policy for the fall and spring se-mester. This change resulted in classes starting on the hour and half hour, as opposed to the pre-vious way of starting 10 minutes after the hour. Classes now end ten minutes prior to the next hour.
How are students reacting to these changes?
The resounding argument
against implementation of the bill is, “If it isn’t broken, why fix it?”
An online poll conducted by The Daily Reveille shows 81 percent of voters oppose the plus-minus grading scale. The majority of students I spoke with said they feared the new system would affect their GPAs. Stu-dents also said they are appalled by the lack of influence they have in a policy that directly affects them.
“I would not be for it, I al-ways manage to barely scrape by with the grades that I get,” said Dexter Ellis, biochemistry soph-omore. Ellis noted that he sees no problem with the new class time change.
But Catherine Joseph, biol-ogy freshman, is one of few stu-dents who welcomes idea of a plus-minus grading scale.
“We used the scale at my high school,” Joseph said.
The plus-minus grading
scale, in theory, gives students an added incentive to work harder. It also gives professors flexibil-ity when dealing with borderline grades. But, as suggested by a professor, what if we did away with the outdated alphabetical scale altogether?
Instead of using alphabets, wouldn’t it be simpler to use percentages? Grades are already listed on Moodle as percentages. It would save instructors valu-able time if they didn’t have to convert points to percentages and then to a corresponding alphabet.
I grew up using a grading system in the Caribbean and it worked quite effectively. Class-rooms are quite competitive and a high percentage looks much better on paper than an A letter grade with a plus or minus at-tached.
This would solve the di-lemma of students getting by on only the effort needed to achieve a desired letter grade. It is unfair
for a student who earns a high A to receive the same letter grade as another who did just enough to get into the percent range. A percentage-based scale would help solve that dilemma.
Whatever the outcome, the plus-minus scale is sure to face some opposition from Student Government.
“We are going to fight that it isn’t passed,” said Student Body President Taylor Cox. “The stu-dent voice needs to be heard.”
Tesalon Felicien is a 22-year-old mass communication junior from the island of St Lucia.
Students should have a voice in LSU policiesIN-LOOKING OUTSIDERTESALON FELICIENColumnist
Contact Tesalon Felicien at [email protected];
Twitter: @Tessfel
� e Daily Reveillepage 14 Friday, October 12, 2012
PART TIME HELP WANTED Lo-cal skin care manufacturing compa-ny looking for a part-time R&D lab assistant. Flexible schedule. Email resume to [email protected]
LOCAL APPAREL COMPANY Seeking a customer service coordi-nator. Must be self motivated, com-fortable working on computers and posse strong communication, time management and follow up skills.
Flexible schedule. Email resumes to [email protected]
EVENT STAFF NEEDEDAward winning catering company
looking for responsible holiday staff. Valid drivers licence, and ability to pass drug and background checks.
Check us out on Facebook
Culinary Productions
Email us at:
CHILD CARE CENTER off Perkins is now hiring for young
toddler caregiver. Must be able to work 2:30-5:30 M-F. Please email
resumes to [email protected]
STUDENTPAYOUTS. COMPaid Survey Takers Needed In Baton
Rogue. 100% Free To Join! Click On Surveys.
$BARTENDING$ $300/Day Potential
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.Training Available
AGE 18+ OK 1-800-965-6520 ext127
ACCOUNTING Part-time account-ing clerk. $12.50 hr.
Contact Walter Brock for more details and an interview
[email protected] 225.926.5520
DUNKIN DONUTSNow, Hiring Bakers, Shift Leaders,
and Crew Members for the Bluebon-
net/Burbank location. Send Resume to
COOKS, BUSSERS AND HOST-ESS at Ruth’s Chris Steak House
Baton RougeCome fi ll out an application between
2pm-4pm Monday- Friday4836 Constituion Ave. 225.925.016
CHICK-FIL-A MALL OF LOUI-SIANA
Now Hiring!! Flexible Hours, Com-petitive Pay. Stop by and fi ll out
application 225.757.0165
TIGERLAND DOMINO’SNOW Hiring Assistant Managers
Manage your own store in less than 6 months
Competitive Pay / Benefi tsNo Experience Necessary
Must have a dependable car with insurance and a good driving record.
Send Resume to [email protected] or call Ken Golden@
601.695.2760
HORTICULTURE/LANDSCAPEManager position. Associates
Degree or higher in Horticulture or related fi eld. Fax resume to 225-
664-1867
LOVE KIDS? Love teaching? Elite Gymnastics, located on Blue-bonnet Blvd., is looking for young and enthusiastic females who have basic gymnastics knowledge to teach beginner classes in the eve-nings and Saturdays. Please call or stop by for more information. 225.252.7592
CPA FIRM LOOKING FOR PT RUNNER Hannis T. Bourgeois, LLP is looking for an Account-
ing Major to join its fi rm as a PT Runner. This person will assist with
running errands, delivering mail, meeting set-ups, etc. Must be able to work at least 15 hours per week; Tues./Thurs. availability preferred. Please send resumes to resumes@
htbcpa.com. 225.364.3486
LASER TAG IS HIRINGLooking for fun part-time work? Flexible scheduling, fun, family atmosphere. Serious applicants
only, apply in person. Sherwood @ Airline 225.303.0386
NGRAPHIC DESIGN/PRINTING
Local Stationery store looking for full or part time printer. Must be reli-able, creative and personable.
E-COMMERCE COORDINA-TOR Local apparel company seeing
individual to manage online store fronts. Must be self motivated,
comfortable with computers and profi cient in MS Excel. Design / programming skills a plus. Email
resumes to [email protected]
HOME FOR SALE New con-struction home near LSU and City Park, 3 bedroom/2 bath, open fl oor plan, large front porch, granite in
baths, great master suite with walk in closet, asking $147K. Great new
community Terrace and S. 18th Street. If interested please call
225.754.4874 ext. 13.
CONDO FOR RENT 3 BR/2 BA. W/D, Fireplace. Gated. Leigh’s
Cove 5157 Etta St. Available now. 337.364.5945
BEDROOM FOR RENT Includes attached bathroom, walk-in closet, offi ce, full-sized bed, internet/cable TV connection and TV. Access to kitchen. 30 minuets from LSU. $500 per month for everything!
225.330.2109
NOW ACCEPTING DEPOSITS For Summer/ Fall 2013 for Lake Beau Pre Townhomes,
Arlington Trace & Summer Grove Condos.
2 Units Available for Immediate Move In at Lake Beau Pre with
Move In SpecialsDean & Company Real Estate
225.767.2227www.deanrealestate.net
CONDO FOR RENT Approx 1.5 mi from LSU. 3 bdr 2 bath. All ap-pliances furnished. Utilities not in-cluded. 5163 Etta St. Leigh’s Cove.
Gated. $1500/mo. 985-792-1376. CONDO FOR RENT Approx 1.5 mi from LSU. 2 bdr 2 bath. All ap-pliances furnished. Utilities not in-cluded. 5153 Etta St. Gated. $1100/
mo. 985-792-1376.
APT/FEMALE ROOMMATE SEARCH
I am 22 y/o, female, Education major. Just transferred here. Looking for a possible roommate that would also become a friend. Either someone who has a place and looking for
roommate, or someone I can look for a place with. Prefer female LSU
student, at least 20 y/o Email me [email protected] Serious inquiries
only please.
HELLO My name is Logan. I’ve been pretty depressed and lonely lately, but i realized there must be other people like me and i fi gure I can help them out and reciprocally
they can help me. I just want to hear from anyone who is reading this and
is feeling like things aren’t going their way. Whatever your problem, relationships, school work, money
issues, fi reants, I’d like to hear from you. Contact me at [email protected]. Depending on how busy I am I’ll try to respond to your emails.
Thanks, and hopefully I can be of use to someone after all.
DEAR PHI MU I am a 20 year old accounting student. I am one of LSU’s most eligible bachelors
looking to take one of Phi Mu’s most eligible bachelorettes on a date to Raising Canes. I dont have much money so you cant order a Caniac
but you can order extra Canes sauce. I also dont have a car so we either
have to walk, take the drunk bus, or you drive us. This will be my fi rst time going on a date so I might be little a nervous. Please go out on a date with me. In the great words of The Temptations, “If I have to beg
and plead for your sympathy, I don’t mind because you mean that much to me”. If you are interested email me at
MODEL NEEDED aspiring pho-tographer in search of individuals to befriend and to photograph. inter-
ested parties please contact [email protected] for details
and sample photography. NOT A PAID GIG.
6’3” GUY W/ DARK HAIR/EYES Looking for someone new, fun to
hang out with. Preferably a girl who’s into ultimate frisbee, disc golf, music,
and sculpture. Serious offers only, text/call 832-236-5248
LOOKING FOR D&D GROUP I’m looking to start a Dungeons and Dragons 4e group. Already have a few people interested. I’m the DM.
Need 3-5 more people. No prior experience required, I’ll help and
answer any questions. Email me at magillafl [email protected] or call/ text the phone number included. Thanks.
318.355.3425
LOVER LAY DOWN Female seeking same for platonic (or not) adventures. Main interests: music, books, movies, psychology, others. Understanding of dry humor is a
must; possession of dry wit is a plus.Hit me up at maitresse.anonyme@
gmail.com.
GOOD LOOKING MALE, graduating May 2013 in engineering with 6 fi gure starting salary. Looking to bestow an MRS Degree upon an
outgoing trophy wife.Extra Credit:C’s or better
Less than 6’0 ftBlonde Dancer
Sports fanRespond at [email protected]
DEAR TRI DELTA I am a 25 year old political science student. I am
going to graduate in May. I am shy and have been called a sweet guy.
All I want is to go on one date with a member of the tri delta sorority. They have some of the smartest and pretti-est girls. Looking for one dinner and a movie or maybe to spend a game day together. I just want this more
than anything in the world. [email protected]
INTROVERTED NICE GUY trying to break out of his shell.
Looking for a female friend to have meaningful conversations with and to have someone to hang out and do things with (texting, getting coffee, etc..). SERIOUS offers only please. If interested or have any questions,
contact me at [email protected]. Put personal ad or something to distinguish your email in the subject
line in case it goes in spam.
and total defense .With South Carolina’s of-
fense posting the highest passing effi ciency in the conference — 180.9 compared to LSU’s eighth-ranked 138 — and junior running back Marcus Lattimore continu-ing his Heisman candidate cam-paign, the battle in the trenches will be of paramount importance.
“South Carolina’s No. 1
priority is to stop the run,” senior tackle Alex Hurst said. “... Both ends are fast, and if they get past you, it’ll be a long night.”
The battle up front is only compounded by LSU’s struggles at the offensive line and the force that is the SEC’s highest-sacking defense led by the Gamecocks’ 6-foot-6, 256-pound sophomore defensive end Jadeveon Clowney. “If you can’t put fi ve guys that are cohesive, know how to work
together and understand the scheme, it’s a real issue,” Miles said. “And we’ve been fortunate that we’ve had that.”
But the Tigers have seen a fl urry of issues on the offensive line this season, beginning with an abundance of injuries and re-sulting in LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger being taken down 15 times through six games.
The early-season loss of se-nior left tackle Chris Faulk has
grown into a widespread epidem-ic among the rest of the offen-sive line, culminating in the third quarter against Florida when se-nior center P.J. Lonergan was the only player with any signifi cant playing time before this year.
Junior guard Josh Williford is listed as questionable for South Carolina, and Miles alluded to Hurst also sitting out Saturday af-ter he missed the majority of prac-tice this week for what he called
“personal issues that had not been resolved.”
“The biggest thing is to just continue to build chemistry,” Hurst said. “Going forward, you have to trust the guys are going to be there for you.”
But as crazy as they are, there’s a method to the madness.
Both have won a national cham-pionship with an SEC team . Both have found success in a conference that provides some of the hottest competition in the country season after season. Both have players on their teams that will be selected in the fi rst round of this year’s NFL Draft, and rightfully so.
These aren’t the things that truly make these coaches special, though.
It’s that rare combination — a number of coaches can be consis-tently successful in a top conference and a number of coaches can be cra-zy, but it takes a special breed to be both crazy and successful.
That’s why Saturday’s matchup between No. 3 South Carolina and No. 9 LSU is a stellar contest. No-body knows what’s coming, but ev-erybody knows it’s going be good.
We’ve only seen Miles against Spurrier twice, and both were excit-ing contests.
In 2008 , it took a staunch defen-sive effort by the Tigers in the second half to sneak out of Columbia, S.C., with a 24-17 win. But that game was nothing compared to the antics of the 2007 meeting of the squads.
In the 2007 game, it took some of that special Les Miles magic for LSU to pull out a victory against the Gamecocks.
Setting up as if they were going
to kick a fi eld goal, the Tigers had quarterback Matt Flynn toss the ball over his shoulder to kicker Colt Da-vid , who scampered 15 yards to the end zone to put LSU up by 14 points and secure a 28-16 LSU victory.
Since then, fans have become accustomed to Miles’ reputation as a trick play mastermind, rarely seeing a season devoid of deception.
There may not be any fake fi eld
goals on Saturday, but the fun thing about the game is that nothing is off-limits.
Both coaches play the role of a madman, but they know what they’re doing.
� e Daily Reveille page 15Friday, October 12, 2012
SHOWDOWN, from page 11
HAT VS. VISOR, from page 11
Contact Albert Burford at [email protected]
Contact Mike Gegenheimer at [email protected]
JAMES CRISP / The Associated Press
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier gestures to an of� cial Sept. 29 during the Gamecocks’ victory against Kentucky at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Ky.
� e Daily Reveillepage 16 Friday, October 12, 2012
