Charles Alexander, Former Player, on his junior year season and the o-line

Charles Alexander: LSU Photograph Collection, RG #A5000,
Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.

Charles Alexander: That was probably one of the better years in my career as far as personal goals or personal stats or whatever. I remember carrying the football a lot. I think I averaged about twenty-eight carries a game. It was just . . . It was a great year. The offensive line did a great job. We had a two quarterback system. I remember one game in particular, [against] Rice [University] I only played a quarter and a half. I had 150 yards. I remember Carlos Carson scoring five touchdowns in one game. We beat Rice seventy-seven to nothing and it was just . . . We really had a powerful offense that year. We would just line up and we had Carlos Carson on one end. We had Tracy Porter at a flanker. We had Leroy Jones; he was on that team. Let me see, Thad Minaldi, Kelly Simmons. We really had some explosive players in the backfield and in wide receiving and some real good quarterbacks. So, that was a great year.

Scott Purdy: Do you have any thoughts about what happens to the mood of a team when it's been going through a rough time, then all of sudden it turns things around and has a good year?

Alexander: Well, you know winning and losing is contagious. If you get in a rut of losing all the time, it can spread and you can get used to it. On the other hand, if you're winning, things are a lot better. It is contagious also. It was definitely much more fun . . . more fun around here my last two years than in my first two years. My last two years, we won eight games. Those were some good times and I'll never forget them.

-- Charles Alexander, interviewed by Scott Purdy, 1993