Great Article On LSU in Sports Illustrated

Look LSU is sharing the cover of SI!!!! Well sort of :)

Great article here. Yes we are putting the Florida Game behind us. I shall be doing a Kentucky post later. However this article is really good. It has some great quotes and lines. A few are:

-- Miles spoke of "a feeling" and "a hankering" that his serial gambles would pay off. Hester would convert two of those fourth downs, finishing with 106 yards on 23 carries and the winning score. At least someone was representing the Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport, La., on Saturday night.
That's where Hester played his high school ball -- where he took handoffs and caught passes from his friend John David Booty. While Hester was softening up Florida's front seven, Booty was two time zones away at the L.A. Coliseum, turning in the worst game of his USC career...

In the LSU locker room at halftime, with his team trailing 17-7, an angry Highsmith reminded his teammates that the Gators had gathered before the game and jumped up and down on LSU's logo. In Highsmith's version of events -- embellished slightly to provoke maximum outrage -- the Gators also spit on the Tigers' eye.....

Hester has a flair for the dramatic: He proposed to his wife, Katie, outside War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock last season. He plays a lot of tailback, some fullback and is on the kick-coverage teams. A fine blocker and a dangerous receiver, Hester also happens to be white, a subject that arises, every so often, on the field. Earlier in his career, Hester recalls, a Tennessee player asked him, "Shouldn't you be playing at Air Force?" Seven plays after being compared with the composer of Ice, Ice Baby , on third-and-goal from the three, Hester torpedoed under Spikes and got the nose of the ball over the goal line....

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
Or, in Miles's case, the ever-present stiff-brimmed LSU ball cap, which, as far as anyone knows, he wears to bed. Asked late on Saturday if he'd ever, in his six-plus years as a head coach, rolled the dice so recklessly, he allowed that he had not, and added, "Nor would I care to again."
But here's the rub. If the Tigers and the Gators win out, they'll probably meet again in the SEC title game. Miles might not have a choice......