Skip Bertman
Skip Bertman
J. Stanley "Skip" Bertmanis a former college baseball coach and athletic director at Louisiana State University. He led the LSU Tigers baseball team to College World Series Championships in 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, and 2000...
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It's great we're able to do all this. We will get a extremely large amount of publicity by hosting the NFL. But as far as doing that again next year, we'll have to look at that.
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While the football game was exciting, I am especially writing to express my sincere apology and regret to you, your president and all Tennessee fans for the incident which took place on our campus as your team buses were approaching Tiger Stadium.
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We'd have to arrange something as far as a rental agreement. And it would have to work with the LSU football schedule. I'm not sure we could play football on a Saturday night and have it ready for Sunday afternoon.
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We will now face significant logistical challenges . . .. Naturally our strong preference would have been to play during the weekend, but safety for student-athletes, fans and everyone else involved in a football game was the overriding factor for the commissioner.
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We will now face significant logistical challenges, but we hope for the continued cooperation of our fans. Naturally our strong preference would have been to play during the weekend, but safety for student-athletes, fans and everyone else involved in a football game was the overriding factor for the commissioner.
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We got our night game, but not on Saturday night. We'll have to be like the football players and focus. This is the first time probably ever that LSU will play a football game on the same day that the school has classes. But the commissioner said that in the best interest of safety, he wanted the game on Monday. He wasn't sure how much the winds will have subsided by Sunday.
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You have to remember these two have a long history that we don't know about. And the Baylor coach is high strung.
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Although the cost of running the athletics program increases each year, we didn't plan to raise prices this season. Unfortunately, the impact of the recent hurricanes has forced us to accelerate the need to make these price increases now.
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They opted for a different setting. We would have to pay Fresno State more money than the other two.
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As you know, there is unfortunately an element in every crowd that does not exhibit good sportsmanship. And when crowds grow to the size of those on a football game day, it takes only a very small percentage of offenders to ruin the day for so many.
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This is history-making. In a hurricane-laden year, people needed something uplifting and spiritual. I think these teams have captivated the entire country. I am proud of the women, and I am proud of the men.
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This could be the first time in history that the men and women from one school won the SEC basketball championships.
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This contract shows our belief in what she's doing and what she will do in the future for women's basketball at LSU.
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Football is woven into the fabric of society here, and to play next weekend would be great medicine for an ailing state, ... Some people might call it insensitive, but sometimes you need a distraction. You need a game.