Sam

Jig, yes there are reasons. First, he has gone .500 in his games since the 2019 title year. He did not beat Alabama. His off field antics with the ladies is known and not approved by LSU. He also knows about the LSU sexual abuse scandal going back to the Les Miles days and it has been rumored that he is going out of the country so he will not have to testify or answer questions from the NCAA or attorneys. Otherwise, we love him and always will. Geaux Tigers! Dwight: LSU paid Coach Eaux $17 million to take a hike and signed Brian Kelly for $9.5 million a year for 10-years. Where is this money coming from? TV rights; SEC share of their TV income; 8 home games; bowl games; sales of merchandise and food at the game? I know LSU cleared at least $8 million per game in past years but lately the 102,000 seat stadium has not filled up to capacity. With the SEC expansion expected to increase revenue and having a proven coach (74% win record) I believe the administration is thinking "sell out" for every SEC game and at least 95,000 or more fans for the nonconference games to generate this level of income. Time will tell. Geaux Tigers! I guess $9.5 million for each of 10-years had something to do with it. And that is the way it is done this year. Just look at all the coaching changes announced before the end of the season and the bowl games.

From Dandy Don's LSU Blog the morning of November 20th: Brian Kelly, the winningest football coach in Notre Dame history with a winning percentage (.743) that is second only to Nick Saban among active FBS coaches, is expected to be named LSU’s next head coach. LSU hasn’t officially announced the news, but several major media outlets have confirmed it and Kelly has already notified his players that he will be leaving. Brian Kelly is the most accomplished football coach LSU has ever had at the time of the hire. Ed Orgeron brought to LSU a winning percentage of .372. Les Miles was .571. The great Nick Saban’s winning percentage was only .585 when he arrived at LSU. Each of those three men increased their win percentage substantially while at LSU. Kelly comes in with an .743 winning percentage. Kelly restored Notre Dame football to prominence. In each of the past four years, Kelly’s Notre Dame teams have lost no more than two games. They’ve played in two of the last four college football playoffs, just finished the 2021 regular season at 11-1 and are still in contention to make this year’s CFP, which makes the timing of this news particularly interesting. Now to see how he does against the SEC schools since he will not be playing the five ACC schools and may have to eliminate the military schools and Southern Cal from his schedule and play very challenging teams. South Louisiana is a strong Catholic area which should help with recruiting and keeping Saban and others out of Louisiana. Geaux Tigers!

I went to Walmart yesterday looking for a window blinds wand stick and I sang, whistled, and clapped to the Addams Family Theme Song the entire time I was in the store and it never bothered anyone, even those who looked like Addams Family relatives! YOUTUBE.COM The Addams Family Theme song Hehe I love this show and the movie of course! Enjoy!Lyrics:They're creepy and they're

Catt, sorry for your loss. I know you are hurting. Time seems to heal all. And yes, we need more research to study different diseases to try to eliminate them. Too much money that could go to research goes to backwards countries that don't give a d**n about America; and way too much government waste. Let's hope ALS gets wiped out in our lifetimes.

You can confuse yourself while fishing if you bring too much tackle and baits. Keep it simple.

I think Coach O will have some time on his hands at the end of football season. Contact the LSU football office to see if he wants any. Geaux Tigers!

Outstanding! Your wife is extremely talented. If she was a bass fisherman she would win the Bassmasters Classic!

I was totally caught off guard with the news of Aaron's passing. I had not heard or read anything about his condition deteriorating and I thought he was getting better. Prayers to the family during this terrible time. We all will miss Aaron and his quiet approach to fishing. RIP Aaron.

Have some fun and forget that one that got away!

Interesting. Never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing.

Green Pumpkin

Rumors have it that the administration wanted to get rid of him a year ago but decided to wait for Woodward, his old friend, to do it. Seems he allowed the children of his latest girl friend to bring her kids to the practices and do what the players did. I understand that this did not sit well with a few "high ups" at LSU.

Huz, you are correct. The problem is the money. LSU will probably clear $30,000,000 from the SEC plus approximately $8,000,000 a home game based on food, beer, novelty, and ticket sales. And think how this money impacts the less successful schools throughout the nation. This is why we are seeing conference realignments. "What can your team bring to the table in terms of eyeballs on your games to generate more income?" Ask Rutgers and Maryland that went to the Big 10. Rutgers in the Big 10? That's a joke. Maryland in the Big 10? Honestly, Maryland is a basketball school but the big guys in the Big 10 will feast on the Turtles to pad their win column and pocket book. Now with that said, how much money will Rutgers and Maryland receive as part of the Big 10 Network and TV/Radio revenues? A lot. A really lot of money. So their respective football teams get clobbered by the Big 10 echelon. Do you really think these two schools administrators care about that? It's "Show me the Money." Bye Bye ACC. The more successful the football team is the more kids want to attend that school and alumni will donate millions to the athletic funds and individual colleges. Virginia Tech had a tremendous jump in applications after they played Florida State in the Sugar Bowl for the national championship all those years ago. And then Virginia Tech, with the blessing of Virginia, joined the ACC. As my old economics prof at LSU told us: Follow the Money!

Article about Coach Eaux's departure from LSU for your reading enjoyment from a reporter covering LSU sports. We all know big time college football can be dirty, but the Coach Eaux situation takes the cake! Over his last 17 games, LSU football coach Ed Orgeron is 9-8, and he will get $17 million to walk away quietly at the end of the season. He was fired last week before the win over Florida because he fell to 8-8 over his last two seasons after going 15-0 to win the national championship in 2019. Key phrase: “Walk away quietly.” Prominent businessmen with strong interests and financial ties with LSU have been saying for weeks LSU would be able to finesse that $17 million buyout in Orgeron’s contract to something closer to $10 million because of Orgeron’s off-field issues. Had Orgeron been fired with cause, LSU would not owe him the buyout. It is difficult to fire someone for cause, but LSU attorneys could have threatened that for legitimate reasons and made it part of negotiations to get the buyout down. Orgeron has not exactly been a model coach off the field and may have violated some of the moral language in his contract, so it would’ve been worth a try. Remember, Orgeron clearly looked the other way and was slow to discipline former LSU players Drake Davis and Derrius Guice, whose sexual assault cases and other deviant behavior were investigated by USA TODAY over the last year. That led to ongoing investigations by the U.S. Department of Education and a state Senate select committee. LSU also hired an independent firm to conduct its own investigation of LSU’s own handling of the accusations against Davis and Guice that led to the suspension of two athletic department employees, who covered up information, and some other changes in LSU’s approach to accusations by female students. Orgeron has also been the subject of several rumors since divorcing his wife Kelly of 23 years after the 2019 national title, and there have been questionable pictures of him with women on social media. Some other LSU people could tell you some other stories as well. The LSU football program also remains under NCAA investigation for various recruiting practices and other items, mostly related to former coach Les Miles’ tenure, but Orgeron was Miles’ recruiting coordinator and has been close to recruiting since 2015 when he was hired as an assistant. But most important is the fact that Orgeron is potentially involved in the $50 million sexual harassment lawsuit filed against LSU in federal court last April by LSU associate athletic director for football recruiting Sharon Lewis. The suit concerns Miles’ behavior toward Lewis after she tried to report Miles’ advances toward young female football office employees. A previous report by the investigative firm LSU hired revealed in March that Miles “tried to sexualize the staff of student workers (overseen by Lewis) in the football office by allegedly demanding that he wanted blondes with big breasts, and more pretty girls.” Orgeron was Miles’ defensive line coach in 2015 and recruiting coordinator in 2016 before replacing him as interim head coach when Miles was fired in 2016 after a slide over several years. Lewis’ lawsuit does not name Orgeron among the defendants, but it lists 10 unnamed men among the defendants. And the lawsuit says that current members of LSU’s football staff and athletic administration conspired to retaliate against Lewis when she attempted to report Miles’ behavior with the female workers under him in violation of federal Title IX laws that ban gender discrimination and harassment. And who knows what else LSU knows about Orgeron off the field? Yet, LSU is allowing this ridiculous buyout to a coach who obviously does not deserve it, considering how his team has played over most of 2020 and ’21? The man called his own team’s performance at Kentucky “embarrassing,” but he can still take it to the bank? LSU’s problem, though, is that if it fired Orgeron with cause and therefore negated the buyout, then those reasons for cause could be brought up in the $50 million lawsuit against LSU and render LSU culpable. So, LSU may be cutting its losses by doling out $17 million to Orgeron. LSU and Woodward may be paying Orgeron that much without much discussion because they may be a little afraid of Orgeron and what he knows and might say. “You better come hang out by the bayou with me,” Woodward told Orgeron Sunday night during a press conference about the firing with the two sitting right next to one another in a team meeting room. Orgeron had been asked about his future plans without a job come January. I doubt that bayou invite would work as well if Orgeron, who likes to joke about inviting someone he doesn’t like to a particular fishing spot on the bayou, wasn’t getting his money. “I can’t tell you what Coco said, but she wanted to make sure I got my money,” Orgeron said at the same press conference when asked whether he discussed his job change with his family. Coco is his mother, Cornelia Orgeron, who lives in the LaRose area down on the bayou where Orgeron grew up. (Same area where my mother's family lived, Sam's input) Considering how honest and candid Orgeron is and that he can be a loose cannon, Woodward would likely prefer he not make the school more vulnerable by what he might say to NCAA investigators, Lewis’ attorneys, or the attorneys for the alleged victims of Davis and Guice during, say, depositions. Particularly if the NCAA interview or deposition happened after, say, Orgeron was fired and he did not get all or most of the $17 million. One particularly influential financial figure close to LSU said this week that the reason Orgeron is getting all his money is because LSU wants to make d**n sure Orgeron is very happy with his firing and not a bitter former employee. Orgeron seemed very happy Sunday to be getting $17 million over the next four years without working. In the end, LSU may have a thing or two to get that buyout down, but Orgeron may have a thing or two more on LSU. This is the stuff deals are made of in Louisiana. In the end, LSU is out $17 million for a buyout that didn’t need to be in Orgeron’s updated contract after he won the national title. He didn’t need that incentive to stay at LSU – his dream job, And no one was trying to hire him, even after he went 15-0. Everyone knew he was at his destination job. And he is not an NFL coach. Orgeron’s raise from $4 million a year to an average of $7 million a year through 2025 was enough of a reward for the national title. His buyout could have been a few million. But Woodward let it start at $27 million with it now down to $17 million. That is even worse than former LSU athletic director Joe Alleva, who was able to fire Miles for $9 million and ended up paying only $4 million when Miles took the Kansas job. Orgeron has said he doesn’t plan on coaching again. But he may become a spokesman for McDonald’s. “I think I’m going to have enough money to buy me a hamburger every once in a while,” Orgeron said. “Maybe a double-meat cheeseburger.” Thanks, Scott Woodward. Great move. You have created the new Hamburglar.

Gary, I use an SUV to tow the boat. And thanks to you guys I am putting the possibility of adding the bar on hold and probably will table it. Thanks for your input. Thanks. The trailer does not sway but someone told me to add a sway bar, which I have never seen on a bass boat trailer, and I wanted everyone's input. Thanks to everyone's input I will not put the sway bar on the trailer. Thanks for your help.

Yes, sway control switch is probably correct. I have never seen them on a bass boat, either, and was wondering if they would help tow the boat? Yes, the trailer is 100% level. OK, maybe 90% level, but close to 100%.

Great! Keep those rods and reels in your vehicle at all times. Post some pics of those big Louisiana bass for us to enjoy. Geaux Tigers!

Yes. First, sorry to see him go. Second, he has had some interesting off-field adventures that had the LSU administration very worried and concerned had they come out into the open. Rumors have it that after his divorce it seems he took up with some young coeds and had a good time. A really good time. And these days you don't do that. So we had him as our coach; he was a great coach and ambassador for LSU; got us another National Championship; and always spoke highly of LSU and his players. But you have to be a saint these days when you are a coach and if you aren't, administrations will find things to use to ask you to leave, quietly, which is what Coach Eau is doing. Of course, getting $17,000,000 pay out doesn't hurt, either. I wonder if his ex-wife gets any of this money???? Here's too a wonderful retirement for Coach Eau and some great UT infections like Bill Clinton!

Having a discussion with a friend about installing a sway bar on my Ranger's trailer to help stabilize it when towing on the Interstate. What experience have you had with a sway bar on your trailer? Would you suggest I continue to look into installing a sway bar on my Ranger's trailer? Thanks to all for your input and guidance.

Not so fast, my friend, as Lee Corso would say. Bamasux looks good against weaker opponents but when they play a quality team they have problems. Bamasux just nudged out Florida for a win and then blew it against the Aggies. The Ole Miss game will be a good one and this weekend against Tennessee should be a fun one, with Bamasux a 24 point favorite. And then there is the powerful LSU Fighting Tigers that woke up this past weekend to crush the Gators after being an 11 point underdog at home. So I look for Bamasux to lose one or two more games and if they do prevail and make it to the SEC Championship game against Georgia I would put my money on the Dawgs. Geaux Tigers!

Welcome back, Crash. Where in Louisiana do you live and what bodies of water do you like to fish the most? I am from New Orleans and am an LSU alumni. I used to fish both salt and freshwater when growing up, mainly in the Biloxi marsh on weekends and during the week would hit the Audubon Park lagoon after school. Looking forward to reading your posts and enjoying your Louisiana stories. Glad you decided to return to the Forum. Geaux Tigers!

Sorry, thought of skirt colors. Blade colors: Silver or Gold. Never have seen the red have more hits. Depending on the cloud cover, go with silver for blue bird skies and some clouds and gold for overcast and raining days.

Nope. It is like a balsa bait.

1. Black. 2. White. 3. That's it.

Like Jimmy Hoffa?