Published 9:14 am Saturday, June 1, 2024 By Scooter Hobbs For his next stunt, perhaps LSU’s Steven Milam will let a decorative tiger tail hang from the back of his ballcap. The Tigers’ little freshmen isn’t afraid to change things up. He had his hair dyed gold — well, blond, but close enough — last week before hitting the walk-off home run that capped the Tigers’ nutty 12-11 win over South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals.
He’s not superstitious. He chose another look for his walk-off home run Friday that saved a struggling Tigers offense for a 4-3 comeback (again?) over Wofford. Yes, he upped the ante for the NCAA Tournament, showing up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for the NCAA Tournament with purple stripes blended into the previous all-gold haircut.
If it catches on — and it just might if this keeps up — this will be an even stranger looking Bayou State. “We all have choices,” LSU head coach Jay Johnson said when TV announcers asked about Milam’s continuing efforts to emulate the school mascot. Milam apparently has more choices than most.
Forget the creative hair color with the switch to both school colors, which was fashioned by the girlfriend of a fellow freshman, Sulphur’s Jake Brown. He is listed (perhaps generously) on the roster as 5-foot-8, proving again that LSU is not without a sense of humor. Yet the mighty mite chooses to be a power hitter on a team with many more behemoths who look the part.
He even like.
