Louisiana State University and Agricultrual & Mechanical College - Baton Rouge:

Perennial contender in the traditionally deep Southeastern Conference, 4 CWS titles between 1991 & 2000

And a rather rabid local following.

There is my alma mater, McNeese State University, but the Southland Conference is almost JuCo, when compared to the national scene.

Both are located in Louisiana, and if your grades stay where you portray them as currently being, you'd have no trouble being accepted, academic-wise.

-KIE

 

And a rather rabid local following.

 

-KIE

That made me laugh.

Anyway, LSU has always been a powerful college. I'll probably end up applying there. Say, is there any danger a Katrina 2 might strike down there?

...Say, is there any danger a Katrina 2 might strike down there?

Baton Rouge is not New Orleans. There is no 15 foot levee holding back a Gulf-connected-lake outside the city, just the Mississippi River to contend with. In other words, the massive >8-foot-deep, weeks-long flooding you saw take place in New Orleans? That can't happen in Baton Rouge.

That said, there really hasn't been a storm as cataclysmic as Katrina. The most recent Katrina-worth storm to call the Gulf home would probably be Andrew, back in 1992 (I was in 8th grade that year.)

The storm most people in the bayous of southeast Louisiana [foolishly] compared Katrina to (saying: "I survived _____, this Katrina can't gonna be any worse." (and after Katrina, they were saying "NEVER AGAIN")) was Betsy, in 1965.

Given 40 years between major hurricanes, I'd say you're safe for the duration.

I'll be quite curious to follow your career if you're wearing purple & gold: LSU has a fan base all its own: the winning tradition is so strong that this year was the first time since 1987 that the Tigers didn't make the NCAA baseball tournament. In light of that, fans called for [4th year head coach] Smoke Laval's job, and he was dismissed a few weeks ago.

It is taken that seriously down here.

And then there's those autumn Saturday nights in Death Valley. I didn't even go to LSU, and my skin's tingling just thinking about it.

-KIE

Thanks for the info. It's good to know the hurricanes won't get me.

And if I do get excepted to LSU, I'll stop buy for a chat. We can pop open a can of that salsa you were talking about in your blog. I'll bring the chips.