Scooter Hobbs

BATON ROUGE — So here we are half through LSU’s regular season, sifting through another of the Tigers’ frustrating victories, and maybe it’s time to face the facts. This is ugly football. Its beats the alternative, perhaps — and it’s painful to even imagine what this football might look like if there was a losing […]

Some six months after Kyren Lacy’s death, suddenly nearly every day a new investigation is opened or called for surrounding events that led to the former LSU football star’s self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 12. They can launch a hundred probes from every corner of the legalsphere and it’s doubtful they will ever answer the […]

I’m scannning the weekend’s football schedule — or the “slate” if you prefer a well placed cliche´ — and, frankly, I’m wondering if the Southeastern Conference went out of business while we weren’t looking. Really, where are the games? All these great SEC rivalries and … nothing. Hand me a flashlight, please. Looking, looking, anything, please […]

This is probably as good of a time as any to remind LSU fans that a team is never as bad as it looks at its worst moment. Other than that, about the best thing I can say about the Tigers’ 24-19 loss to Ole Miss Saturday is … Mayday! Mayday! Call 9-1-1. Sound the […]

We interrupt today’s Southeastern Conference football developments with important news from the world of Cupid and Amor. The two may be related to football this week. Perhaps it is because Ole Miss and LSU officially tied the knot the other day. They were brought together, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, as bitter […]

Logic 101 still seems to be in short supply among the Southeastern Conference learning centers, but give the schools some credit here. The 16 of them, crammed into one conference without any divisions, long or otherwise, had to wheel out some fancy-pants mathematics that might make the Ivy League blush. But they huffed and they […]

BATON ROUGE — Not to worry. Nobody tried to ask Brian Kelly about it when he opened his latest postgame press conference. It was probably just an oversight by the state’s media spoilsports, but LSU’s shaky start against Southeastern Louisiana was long forgotten by the time Kelly addressed the Tigers’ eventual 56-10 victory. So, no […]

BATON ROUGE — Brian Kelly is about one or two more LSU victories away from totally blowing a gasket. Tiger Stadium lore already has an Earthquake game. Stay tuned. There may be a spontaneous volcanic eruption in its near future. Alert FEMA. It will be a sight to behold, maybe of as much interest to […]

Well, that certainly came out of nowhere. But maybe it was just the jump-start that LSU and Florida needs. Anyway, LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier was sitting there before a media enclave Tuesday, discussing something or another to do with the Tigers’ offense, when out of the wild blue yonder he dropped a bombshell. TrendingNew I-10 […]

BATON ROUGE — It was LSU’s next logical step in the cash grab that is now NCAA football, so Saturday night the Tigers peddled probably the last remaining unsold spot in Tiger Stadium to the highest bidder. It was a new money-maker painted on the actual field, on both 25-yard lines, an advertisement for “Chico’s Bail […]