First off, I apologize for the delay. We’ve been meaning to do this for awhile, and we had all of the back end work of evaluating and ranking the players done. We just need to write these profiles.
So let this serve as a belated introduction to the Top 44 LSU Athletes of the decade. We chose #44 to honor Wayde Sims just as we chose the top 31 players of the last decade in honor of Wally Pontiff.
The rules of selection were malleable, but the general principle was this: we would honor at least one player from every program (which turned out to not be very hard), though we did treat some sports as one giant program, like cross-country as part of the track program.