The phone rang Tuesday morning and it was an LSU campus number I didn’t recognize, but the voice was very distinctive.
“Who’s your favorite Demon baseball player of all time, Doug?” he asked.
“Do batgirls count?” I replied, thinking back to my days as a student, when Yvette and Collette Coburn, the beautiful and charming twins from Anacoco, were good reason to take in games at Brown-Stroud Field.
After he stopped laughing, Terry Joseph said hello.
Joseph, the three-time first-team All-SLC centerfielder, a two-time Academic All-American and the 1995 SLC Player of the Year, is coaching at LSU.
No, not on the Tigers’ new baseball staff. He’s coaching football.
And so is another former Demon and SLC Player of the Year, Tony Joe Maranto. T.J. and Tony Joe are on Les Miles’ staff. Maranto was the 1997 SLC Defensive Player of the Year and an All-America safety for the Demons coached by Sam Goodwin.
It was great to hear from them, if only for a moment.
“After the Florida debacle,” said Terry, referring to LSU’s loss to the Gators last week, “we all have a lot to do.”
They will be in Baton Rouge this weekend when LSU entertains Kentucky, and hope to cross paths with Demons heading through town on their way to Hammond for Saturday night’s football game at Southeastern.
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