Maybe I’m reading too much into this Tweet from former LSU defensive back Tyrann Mathieu.
Mathieu’s crying-laughing emoji was in response to this tweet.
I have no idea who Belton J Pryor III is, what he’s not is an LSU athletics historian. This is a school, after all, which named its basketball arena after former LSU basketball player Pete Maravich whose popularity so far eclipsed Simmons while at LSU no unit of measure yet devised by humans can adequately gauge it. Maravich remains an idol, an icon, a hero… a whatever in that state, almost 30 years after his death.