Dubois: Who are these chaps at LSU?

• By CARL DUBOIS
• Advocate sportswriter
• Published: Jul 3, 2008 - Page: 1C - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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So, LSU has a quarterback from Harvard, a basketball coach from Stanford, an athletic director from Duke and a system president from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

There’s never been a better time for the student body to work a little harder to raise the level of cheer, chant and taunt at LSU games.

Body-part references and off-color epithets shouted to the strains of the Golden Band from Tigerland will never disappear, but some evidence of higher education taking place would be nice.

Especially now. I mean, look at that list above.

A free slide rule to the young man or woman who gets the north end zone to go deep inside “Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body” for the next references to body parts audible on ESPN.

How difficult can it be?

Wasn’t it the University of Chicago that gave us one of the best scholarly cheers of all time?

With the first- and second-year roster of LSU transfers sparkling from top to bottom, surely there’s inspiration for the student section to aspire to something better than its controversial accompaniment to the traditional version of “Tiger Rag.”

How tough could that be?

(That one was for the older crowd. You kids have until Aug. 30 to top that, and the bar is set decidedly low.
About where it is for a lot of home games.)

But seriously, what’s going on at LSU?

Andrew Hatch, Harvard.

Trent Johnson, Stanford.

Joe Alleva, Duke.

John Lombardi, UMass.