Scott Rabalais

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Scott Rabalais

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. —LSU athletic director Scott Woodward said Wednesday negotiations are continuing with a developer to build a new $400 million multi-purpose arena on campus, with hopes that a proposal can soon be taken to the LSU Board of Supervisors. Woodward said LSU has focused on working with one developer, the Oak View Group, and that another developer, ASM Global, is no longer being considered. Woodward did not give a reason why only one developer is still in the running.

1 week ago | nola.com | Scott Rabalais

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — LSU football coach Brian Kelly dropped a bombshell Wednesday on his way out of the Southeastern Conference Spring Meeting, saying SEC coaches support playing an annual game against the Big Ten. Kelly also expressed his support once again for going from eight to nine SEC regular-season games. Kelly said he “speaks for the room” of coaches in their meetings here that they want to annually take on the Big Ten. “We want to play Big Ten schools,” Kelly said.

1 week ago | nola.com | Scott Rabalais

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Two key starters on the LSU defense have been cleared for full offseason activity, coach Brian Kelly said here Tuesday during the Southeastern Conference spring meeting. Senior linebacker Harold Perkins and junior linebacker Whit Weeks both missed spring practice — Perkins while recovering from a knee injury in September against UCLA and Weeks from a broken fibula in the Texas Bowl.

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Scott Rabalais

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Steve Sarkisian remembers how things used to be. In 2003 he was quarterbacks coach at Southern California, when the Trojans were locked in a three-team battle for the two spots in the BCS national championship game at the Sugar Bowl with LSU and Oklahoma. The Sooners got in on the strength of the BCS computer rankings despite getting routed 35-7 by Kansas State in the Big 12 championship game. The Tigers got in over the Trojans. Why?

1 week ago | theadvocate.com | Scott Rabalais

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. - The Southeastern Conference has reached the beach once again for its annual Memorial Day week Spring Meeting. The meeting, which officially runs Tuesday-Thursday at the Sandestin Hilton, brings together the SEC's administration with the school presidents/chancellors, athletic directors, football and basketball coaches and other administrators from the league's 16 member schools.