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On Sunday morning, LSU receiver Terrance Toliver was tasered twice and arrested/cited for having a “fistic encounter.”  Yesterday he apologized.

Toliver said the incident was “out of character” and that it “won’t happen again.”  He said all of this with a bandage on this left hand.  Les Miles said the hand was broken.

Miles said that Toliver will practice this spring, condition this summer and won’t be suspended this fall.  However, he did add that his senior wideout will pay “a tremendous price.” 

Huh? 

If you ask me, no suspension + “tremendous price” = running stadium steps. 

Bet Les Miles was happy to get this phone call.  Smack dab in the middle of spring practice, LSU receiver Terrance Toliver was arrested yesterday morning by Baton Rouge police.

Toliver was picked up for disturbing the peace and public intoxication following a fight outside a campus bar.  But wait, there’s more.

Rather than going along quietly, Toliver had to be tased (bro) and then subdued by the cops.

But wait, there’s more.

Also arrested on a charge of interfering with a police officer was LSU freshman basketball player Dennis Harris.

UPDATE — It’s been pointed out by more than a few LSU fans that according to other reports Toliver and Harris were CITED, not arrested.  Despite the tasering of Toliver, the citations for both players were misdemeanor in nature.  The Shreveport Times — as of 10:45am — still reports the players as having been arrested.

Les Miles said via statement, “We are in the process of gathering information on this incident.  We are going to investigate it thoroughly to find out the facts and then act accordingly.”

Basketball coach Trent Johnson “planned to meet with Dennis as soon as possible.”

This is the first player arrest for the LSU football program in more than a year.  Looks like by getting tased and getting a basketballer in trouble to boot, Toliver was making up for lost time.

By the way, does it make me a bad person to still find this guy’s comment so amusing?

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Alex Farrer was supposed to be a starter this year for LSU before a knee injury curtailed his season before it started.

Farrer will finally get a chance to start today.

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Last year, LSU’s offensive line was expected to be a strength.  As it turned out, the guys up front might have been the biggest reason for the Tigers’ struggles in 2009.

While John Chavis fixed LSU’s defense, it was the offense that went in reverse.  Mainly due to its inability to run the football.  And if you can’t consistently run in the SEC, you can’t consistently win in the SEC.

(I don’t, however, blame last year’s O-line for all of the 37 sacks they allowed.  Anyone who watched the Tigers last year knows that quarterback Jordan Jefferson often held onto the ball way, way too long… and ran himself into several sacks.)

This fall, Les Miles is expecting more from his linemen.  There will be two new starters in Baton Rouge and there could be more.

“We’ll have the opportunity to move guys around to find the best fit,” Miles said.  “I think our line will be youthfully progressed.  In other words, because of young guys, there’ll be a little bit more competition.”

Glad he added the “in other words,” ’cause I’d never heard of being “youthfully progressed.”

The Tigers open spring practice today after delaying things from Friday’s scheduled start.

I’ve gotten a couple of emails wondering if 0-12 LSU is on pace for the worst SEC record ever.

Technically, the answer is yes, even though three other SEC schools (two of them former league schools) have gone winless in league play.  But none of those previous losers played a total of 16 conference games.

1932-1933 — Sewanee 0-7
1933-1934 — Sewanee 0-10
1935-1936 — Sewanee 0-10
1936-1937 — Sewanee 0-10
1938-1939 — Sewanee 0-13
1939-1940 — Sewanee 0-9
1942-1943 — Florida 0-6
1953-1954 — Georgia Tech 0-14

During World War II, several SEC teams went winless because they did not play a league foe during those shortened seasons, but I’m not going to count 0-0 seasons as being winless.



Since the SEC expanded to 12 teams for the 1991-92 basketball season, not a single team has gone winless.  In fact, no team has ever won fewer than two games in conference play. 

Here are the worst teams in the league by year:

1991-1992 — South Carolina 3-13
1992-1993 — Ole Miss and Tennessee 4-12
1993-1994 — Tennessee 2-14
1994-1995 — Ole Miss 3-13
1995-1996 — LSU 4-12
1996-1997 — LSU 3-13
1997-1998 — LSU 2-14
1998-1999 — South Carolina 3-13
1999-2000 — Georgia 3-13
2000-2001 — LSU 2-14
2001-2002 — Auburn 3-12 (one fewer game played by SEC squads)
2002-2003 — Vanderbilt 3-13
2003-2004 — Arkansas 4-12
2004-2005 — Georgia 2-14
2005-2006 — Auburn and Ole Miss 4-12
2006-2007 — South Carolina 4-12
2007-2008 — Auburn and Georgia 4-12
2008-2009 — Arkansas 2-14
2009-2010 — LSU 0-12

So unless LSU can knock off two of their final four opponents (Arkansas, at Auburn, at Ole Miss and Georgia), the Tigers will become the worst SEC team by record since the league expanded. 

And if they fail to win a game, they’ll be the worst team in SEC history — by record.

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Former LSU coach John Brady probably won’t get a Christmas card from current Tiger coach Trent Johnson.

The Arkansas State coach took a shot at his old team while speaking to a booster club in Little Rock yesterday.  After bragging on his own “nice young team that’s playing some pretty good basketball,” Brady added that he wasn’t going to say anything about “how bad the LSU basketball team is since I left.”

You can hear the laughter ’round the Pelican State, can’t you?

Last year, at the same club, Brady said that he looked at LSU’s first-year success under Johnson as vindication for his own time in Baton Rouge. 

The part that makes Brady look bad in all of this is the fact that Johnson went out of his way to show some love to his predecessor last year.  Johnson openly credited Brady for leaving the cupboard well-stocked.

Who knows what — if anything — has transpired between the two coaches since last year?  Whether their relationship has chilled or not, publicly Johnson looks like the bigger man for showing class last year.  While Brady looks small for firing a shot at his old program… and the man who replaced him.

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It looks like there might be some fire to all that John-Chavis-to-Georgia smoke.

Asked today during a Capital One Bowl press conference about his interest in the Georgia defensive coordinator job, Chavis said: “Well, we’re excited about what we’re doing at LSU, and my focus has been on LSU and will continue to be at LSU.  We have an opportunity to win 10 games, and certainly that is what we want to do.”

“I’ll talk as long as you want to about LSU and our players.  I’ll be happy to do that.”

That’s hardly the definitive “I’m not going to Georgia” statement that I’m sure LSU fans would have preferred to hear.

Dawg fans, it appears there’s a lead candidate.  Come Saturday, this story might just grow some legs.

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