Word: lsu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jacksonville Jaguars: David LaFleur, TE, LSU. Pretty much everyone acknowledges that current TE Derek Brown stinks. Maybe even his mother. So they will get this 6'7", 280 behemoth who has occasional back problems...
...being played right, no more bed checks, no more chasing recruits or hearing about what people are giving them or what they want...I'm really glad that from this day on I can be responsible for just myself."--Dale Brown, about retiring after 25 years as the LSU basketball coach...
...music. Sociological, political and anthropological theories of how we define different cultural and ethnic traditions--and the study of ethnomusicology, in particular--interested him. Questions about why and how a piece of music was performed in different cultures (a difference he noticed first-hand in jazz was performances at LSU and Southern), and about the perceptions and forms of different musical traditions, drove him farther from a narrowly-defined study of music...
...Capello felt that LSU's program was too heavily centered around Western art music, to the exclusion of his main interest in jazz. In the second semester of his sophomore year, he enrolled part-time at Southern University, where he played double-bass and studied jazz in a predominantly African-American environment. His experiences there-- playing in all-black ensembles, feeling sometimes that problems of race inhibited the formation of elementary social relationships, and developing technically as a musician--posed more intellectual questions for him than they answered. He had long harbored a more general interest in social theory...
That summer, Capello left LSU and Southern and moved in with his sister, who was then a senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In Washington, Capello held down three jobs: as a bass teacher in a music store, as a waiter in a local restaurant, and as a free-lance bassist playing two to three gigs a week. Simultaneously, he enrolled in Georgetown and George Washington Universities, where he took college courses in Italian, physics, aesthetics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. And he earned straight...