IN South Louisiana, which used to be a French colony, many people grew up speaking French or still do, especially older poeple, and many of our last names end with "eaux". We often stylize things with "eaux" like "Geaux Tigers!". It never snows in south Louisiana so when it does people will spell it "Sneaux" for instance, to symbolize its Louisiana snow. We do it all the time. Outsiders find it annoying but it's our thing. It's a nod to our French heritage. Common last names in the area are: Breaux, Arceneaux, Manceaux, Thibodeaux, Boudreaux, etc. So his name is Burrow and he wanted it to say Burreaux to acknowledge how he felt welcomed in Louisiana. (he's from Ohio.)

Lifelong Louisiana native and LSU fan, so glad y’all reacted to this Blokes! Geaux Tigers!! ✌️⚜️

Daz was right in the connection to the French for the spelling of his name. Joe wanted it spelled that way for his last home game. Not just because he was on the team and LSU’s slogan has always been “Geaux Tigers”. But because he chose LSU after not getting play time elsewhere. He believed in himself enough to transfer here and LSU believed in him enough to give him a position. His dad retired early to watch every one of his games. He wasn’t drafted to play for LSU. He made a conscious decision to leave his home state to play for us. He became one of us and he changed the name on his jersey on senior night, the last home game of his college career to reflect his ties with the state. This was a year where they won every game, including the national championship with a perfect record and he earned the Heisman Trophy, the highest honor for a college football player. He was drafted to the Cincinnati Bengals (more tigers) and now in Louisiana, you see lots of people supporting the Bengals because of Joe. THAT’S why he humbly asked if the equipment guys could make him that jersey that wa only worn for a few minutes before the game started. He ran onto the field and slowly spun around, pointing over his shoulder at the name. The name that the locals and the press had already been calling him because he was one of us.

When Baton Rouge decided to add color to their uniforms, they sought out economical material. Just so happened that it was after Mardi Gras next door in New Orleans and there was an abundance of 2 of the 3 Mardi Gras colors of purple and gold minus the green.

When it comes to facilities like this in college football it is the evolution of an arms race. It’s mostly about recruiting.

Joe Burrow is the qb for the Cincinnati bengals, #1 pick and heisman winner, him wanting to change his name on his jersey to "Burreaux" is being endearing to the Cajun roots, Daz was right

The big 4 bowl games (and their location) are the Sugar Bowl(Louisiana), Orange Bowl(Florida), Rose Bowl(California), and Fiesta Bowl(Arizona). The Cotton Bowl(Texas) used to be a premier bowl game many years ago.

Coach Kelley used to be the coach of ND. Every time he and his teams fuck up, his Irish face turns bright purple. Now at LSU, his face matches the team colors.

Daz is great at figuring things out during videos.

Helps a lot in recruiting also. High school kids come in and see all of that and it gets them excited and wanting to be there to play. #GeauxTigers 🐯🐯

Mike has been bringing the heat on Dave the past few videos…love it

Back in the "old days", colleges were members of small(er) regional athletic conferences. Bowl games were "post-season" opportunities for the football team to play top teams from other conferences while generating revenue for the city hosting the game (and get national TV exposure - remember, at the time, there was only one national game of the week on TV). The different bowl game committees would invite teams to play, hoping to get a great matchup on New Year's Day (which is when the top-tier bowl games were played). The top bowl games (at the time) were the Rose Bowl (Pasadena, California), the Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA), the Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Texas) and the Orange Bowl (Miami, FL). These bowl games contracted with the leagues where the champions of certain conferences would be one of, if not both, of the teams playing in that particular bowl game - The Rose Bowl had the champion teams from the Pac 10 and the Big 10, The Cotton Bowl had the champion of the Southwest Conference as one of the teams, the Sugar Bowl had the champion of the Southeast Conference as one team - these teams were "locked in", so matchups in the top bowls were limited based upon several different factors. Growing cities created their own bowl games, thus the Peach Bowl (Atlanta, GA), the Fiesta Bowl (Phoenix, AZ) the Citrus Bowl (Orlando, FL), the Holiday Bowl (San Diego, CA), etc. As college football became more TV revenue-driven, it became more important to have a playoff system to match the top four teams - thus the creation of the BCS. These premier games were played as part of the "Bowl Championship Series", whereby identified "bowls" would be given the opportunity to host the selected 1/2/3/4 nationally ranked teams in their game(s). That evolved into the current FBS Playoffs (still 4 teams). Anyway, the bowl system still exists, driven still by TV revenues/sponsors (which provides monetary incentive for top college teams to play in the more lucrative bowl games.) There are so many bowl games now that the NCAA has deemed that a team must win at least 6 games to qualify for bowl season, as some nationally-popular teams (e.g. Notre Dame) might be invited to a bowl game with few wins while other less-prominent teams would not be invited due to a limited TV draw. So, that's the story as I understand it.

Got to remember they have to recruit players as opposed to drafting them so bringing a 17 or 18 year old kid when he’s visiting and deciding where he wants to play to see these facilities. Also the power 5 conferences for the most part college football funds all the other collegiate sports at that college

They have both Burrow’s Heisman along with JaMarcus Russell’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Trophy displayed there?? That’s prestigious!!!

"Bowls" are usually not part of a stadium's name. It's just part of the name of a post-season game. However, the term did originate from the Rose Bowl, which is both a game and a stadium.

LSU Alabama is a rivalry but Alabama's main rival is Auburn University. Also OB Daz nailed it. The USA bought Louisiana from France in what is called the "Louisiana Purchase" for 15 million dollars. There is still a large French influence on the city and community. So Joe Burrow changing the spelling on his jersey to a French spelling was an ode to the French roots of the state.

The "eaux" is pronounced "o". Louisiana was originally a French colony, but in the time leading up to the American Revolution, French Canadians that refused to pledge allegiance to the British after the French-Indian War were deported out of their colony of Acadia (now the eastern islands of Canada). When they showed up in Louisiana, all the English speakers couldn't understand them so they thought they were saying Cajun, not Acadia. Cajun became a sorta-language after years of mixing the French language with the southern slang and thick dialect. The further you go out of the major cities, the more Cajun is spoken. In Band of Brothers, the medic was from Louisiana and was able to speak with the French nurses.

Dave there stadiums are as big as pro and they fill it every game plus The conference they belong too has a huge tellivision contract that generates huge revenue stream plus clothing sales plus the big colleges have a large alumni and fan following across the country. Equals a very large revenue stream . So to stay on top you need to recruit top players and wen they see this facility compared to a smaller school with older facility it helps in recruiting witch helps with staying on top.

Not only does the cool style and what not have an effect on the players, it is also used in recruiting high schoolers to go to their school over others. Recruiting in college football is a whole different world on its own and is similar to the drama during the transfer windows of European football.

Before college players could earn NIL deals the facilities were one of the main things you could provide when recruiting new players.

Geaux Tigers 🐯

Y’all should watch the LSU Bama highlights from a few weeks ago. Incredible game.

I’m from south Louisiana and all of my family can still speak french

Especially before NIL, recruitment in college was a huge part about a teams continuing success. That’s why these colleges have such insane facilities

"Mindset is everything" - ahahahahaa... more like: money is everything.

26:49 The "Bowl" games are held at the end of the season for the best teams in the country. There are 43 bowl games during the last few weeks of the calendar year where depending on how well a team played in the regular season, they will compete with another team of that caliber. Sort of like a one-off champions league game. The biggest bowl games are the: Rose Bowl (California), Orange Bowl (Florida), Sugar Bowl (Louisiana), Fiesta Bowl (Arizona), Cotton Bowl (Texas), Peach Bowl (Georgia) and the Cereal Bowl (lol). These six bowls rotate on who holds the College Football Semi-Finals, with the National Championship now being it's own bowl game (years prior, a few of the six bowl games mentioned would be the de-facto national championship game as well). In the clip, LSU was displaying their top tier wins in these prestigous bowl games.

My older brother went to highschool with the new LSU kicker ( Nathan dibert ) and are still best friends

Gotta get my Daily Dose of Office Blokes.

Fun fact: the French speaking people who settled Louisiana, were actually ousted from Eastern Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Ergo, many common family names in Louisiana are the same or similar to family names in present day French speaking parts of Canada. Those people, who originally settled in Canada, had come to the New World (in large part) from Normandy and Brittany in France. Linguists concur that the French spoken in Canada and Louisiana more closely resembles 17th century continental French than the dialect presently spoken in Europe. Truly native French speakers in Louisiana are somewhat rare, although many Louisianans claim at least some level of conversational fluency. Certain French root words are commonly code-switched into English conversation. Example: lagniappe, meaning a small extra or bonus given as a courtesy. "I'd like a dozen beignets, please". "Sure. Tell you what... We baked too many this morning. I'll give you 13. A little lagniappe". "Ah, merci, mon ami. Have a nice day!"

20:16 “When you look good you feel good, when you feel good you play good, when you play good then they’ll pay you good” - Deion Sanders

Valerie Burris He wanted to spell it the Cajun way( French) .you should see the game they played against Alabama 2 weeks ago.Nick Saban was LSU coach first ,he left to go to the NFL ,that didn "t work out to well and he decide to go Alabama,their is a love hate relationship with Saban, because he went to to coach Alabama.but the game that LSU and Played here almost 2 weeks ago was a thriller,the game went to overtime and LSU won 32-31. the Sugar bowl is played in New Orleans.

On January first the four biggest Bowl games were always played. Orange, Sugar, Cotton (Fiesta) and Rose. But now that they have gone to a four team playoff they are not all on the January first.

-The "eaux" is just the nod to the French roots and history of Louisiana. That's what Burrow wanted to do, give a nod to the school and it's fans. -The major bowls are, Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Peach and Cotton, with the first 4 being the Elite (Bowl Championship Series, (BCS)) of the 6. The Rose Bowl is nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All" because it is the oldest current running bowl game to date, starting in 1902. Then there are SEVERAL trash ones that are like giving kids participation trophies. Don't mean anything in the greater scheme, but a bone thrown to the programs, who may even have had losing seasons. I think there are like 35 bowl games all together with the 6 I listed before as the major ones and the originals. Most conferences are usually slated for a specific top bowl game as well, like The Big 10 will usually go to the Rose Bowl.

Joe Borrow was born in Iowa. But he was raised in Ohio & transferred from Ohio St because they had him warming the bench. LSU threw him a bone & he went from bench warmer to Heisman trophy & #1 draft pick

A lot of money until you realize that SoFi Stadium in Inglewood cost around $5 BILLION...

Tiger Stadium sits about 105 thousand people. It’s ridiculous. It’s known as the loudest or top 3 loudest place to play on any list. Literally have shaken the earth multiple times that came up on the Richter scale. Anyways, great video. An lsu vs Bama game st Tiger stadium should be on any bucket list. Other good ones, Ohio state vs Michigan. Boggiest rivalry in college A game at Oregon, another considerably loud place that’s up there with lsu Penn State white out A Florida home game in the swamp

Boudreaux, Thibodeaux, Robicheaux and others are common surnames in South Louisiana.

Wow, my own school is on the Office Blokes out of nowhere from 3000+ miles away. I love to see it.

Joe spells his name Burrows but in Louisiana we put eaux on the end of lots of words..it sounds like go..Geaux Tigers is how it’s done so when Joe was graduating he wanted eaux put on his jersey for his final senior game.

Geaux Tigers! Shout out from NOLA. Thanks for this reaction. Loved it!

Very good, Dave, the bowls were originally named after the state or region's big exports. Certain conferences were tied to certian bowls. Example, the Big 10 champions always played the Pacific 10 champions in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The Big 8 and the Atlantic Coast Conference champions played in the Orange Bowl in Miami. And the Southeastern Conference Champion always played in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans against a champion or runner up from one of the other major conferences. The Southwest Conference champion played in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas against a Champion or runner up from another Conference. With conference realignments and a championship playoff, the importance of bowl games has diminished. There are now too many meaningless bowl games that give teams with a slight winning record a chance to have a big game after the season, but if your'e not in the final four playoff, it's all rather meaningless.

You guys should react to some georgia bulldogs football. They're at the top of college football right now and our QB has one of the best underdog stories you could hear. We're a team thats always inches away from greatness only recently winning it for the first time in 40 years. In the college miracles reaction vid you did we were on the bad end of 3 of those miracles 😅Go dawgs and good luck in the sec championship LSU!

There’s no better on-campus gameday environment in the country than LSU.

The University of Michigan football facility costs $168 million. Michigan stadium, AKA the Big House, is the largest stadium, seating over 107,000.

If you're wondering how this happens, most large colleges are Non-profit organizations but pull in HUUUUGE amounts of money through merchandising, tv contracts, etc. Because of the extreme revenue, it forces the schools to practically burn the money in property and equipment and sometimes just coaches. For example, the walkthrough you see here is pretty unique to big schools.. but teams like Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, all have to burn 30 to 50 million per year so they end up doing ridiculous things... like the Alabama facility has a monstrous sauna room with walls of TV's and drinks. It's frivolous, but they have to spend that money or lose their non-profit status. The school itself can only build so many buildings or hire so many professors, so they have to think outside the box... and if all else fails, do like Alabama does and overpay the hell out of the coaches for all your sports teams.

The one that drives the size of US college football home to me is the Maryland facilities. Maryland is rarely competitive on the national level (maybe a handful of seasons since the 1950s), yet their training facilities are outrageous. ~150 million invested, and that's just for a re-fitting of an mostly existing structure. - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8elZr1pvN2veaM.html

The main reason for the flashy, hugh end facilities is recruiting. When you bring a young 5-star recruit in for a tour, you want to be able to wow them. Recruiting is the lifeblood of college football in the USA.

Joe Burough won a National Championship, the Heisman Trophy, and was drafted in the first round to be QB of the Cincinnati Bengals.

LSU (3) and Alabama (6) have won 9 championships since 2003. The LSU helmet design dates back to the early to mid 70s. Nike wasn't involved.

These facilities are a huge difference-maker when recruiting top high school players.

Tell the "Ginger" that in the States DLSR means "Dim Lighting or Sear the Redhead" YES I USE QUOTATION MARKS "Is there a problem?"? Peace ... Love ... and Tranquility ... especially for MIKE!!

TaxSlayer Bowl is the most prestigious bowl game in all of college football.

Loving the sick burns flying all over prior to the tour of LSU's facility. Not an LSU fan, personally, but way back when I was in 8th grade and Jimbo Fisher was still some sort of coach there, his wife Candace became my English teacher (can't recall why she was teaching two states away from Louisiana). 8th grade me had quite the crush, I must say. Annnnd, that's it for another exciting peek into my life! Huzzah! Edit: I'm an Auburn fan in case anyone's curious.

It feels like you are in a drum when you are there at a game

It’s insane how much revenue college football makes. It basically finances all women’s collegiate sports and most of the men’s sports, cheerleaders, etc.

Y’all should definitely come to the states and go to a game at LSU. There stadium is considered the loudest in all of football

The tradition of teams wearing white or dark began with black and white telvision broadcasts of the games so fans cold distinguish who was who. Also players who are color blind would throw the ball to the wrong team if the contrast didn't exist.

Right on the money Daz!

The reason colleges have to spend so much on facilities vs professional teams is colleges have to recruit the players vs drafting them

It’s part of many last names in Louisiana

Can confirm, Dave's pastie looked delicious

That’s nothing, Auburn, one of LSU’s rival just unveiled a $92 million dollar football only facility.

The company I work for did all of the frames, doors, and hardware!! 💖💖💖

Dave looks like someone who'd give off that Gravy smell ;)

In college, the Universities compete for the best athletes around the country, so the facilities play a huge part in recruiting. Every athlete are allowed 5 Recruiting Trips(if offered a scholarship), meaning they choose which school they want to visit. Typically it's from Friday to Sunday trip where the University wine and dine the recruit and showcase why their University should be their top choice. As you guys can see from all the college facilities you reacted to, a lot of money are poured into the facilities to cater to the athletes needs. Also, the best facility in all of these universities are the Basketball and Football facility because they generate the most.

South Carolina, Clemson and Alabama all have freaking ridiculous sports facilities. I’ve been through all of them and it really mind boggling.

Also, I would love to see y’all react to LSU vs Bama 2022 highlights

Since the colleges don’t have to pay the students, and there’s no owner, a large portion of the money they generate is put back into the program.

can u imagine just a normal joe had full access to those facilties and nutrition... just to work out and stay in shape and take naps....i would look like a ripped bodybuilder

LSU and Georgia Tech are the only two FBS teams I'm aware of that traditionally wear white at home.

Valerie Burris There are 43 bowl games for the 2022-23 postseason.

You may want to do a reaction to LSU mike the tiger a real tiger This tiger gets better healthcare than I do and I’ve been with my company for 21 years, they used yo put him right outside of the opponents locker room in a cage to scare them

In the States, (OB) stands For Obstetrician. So when a Woman says She is going too the OB Doctor, that is what She means, She is going too Baby Doctor. These Hats will get Some Funny Looks and Comments. But I Would Wear One, if only for the Funny Looks, Questions and Comments!!

Coach Kelly left Notre Dame and went to LSU so he could have a chance to beat Coach Saban at Alabama.

Its the French spelling of his name. La was a French colony hundreds of yrs ago.

Yes, a lot of this stuff they have is just extra. But it looks better for recruits so hopefully they will come to their school and bring in more money

Does anyone know why they started laughing at 19:15? I can't figure it out at all 😂

Y’all need to react to the Texas Longhorns facility

University of Oregon is getting ready to break ground on their $68 million football practice facility courtesy Phil Knight of Nike!

You guys should look up deion Sanders recruiting at Colorado. He brought in Lambo’s and a bunch of other sports cars. Most of it is all for looks to get more players to come

Way back the original 4 major bowls Rose California Sugar Cotton Texas Peach Georgia Orange bowl in Florida. Many don't exist any more but we have a total of 32 bowls 130 div 1 D1 football schools They have down to division 3 d

Y'all mean the cajun Joe Cool!

He was making it more Creole/French.

Joe Barrow ask for to spell his name like Cajun BREAUX

Joe Burrow went from tigers to bengals.

It’s not just about morale and high school recruiting. To remain “nonprofit” status NCAA schools have to spend the massive windfalls from football and basketball revenue.

Pretty wild to see how you guys kno about America lol

Daz should do a video like this for City and bring the blokes along too

Rose bowl is Los Angeles peach bowl is Atlanta Fiesta bowl is phoenix and so fourth.

You guys reacting to sportsball this week?

I love My Tigers. I live here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and football here is a religion. I'm a G.R.I.T.S. (Girl Raised In Tiger Stadium).

While you're here you might as well check out the Maryland Terrapins Football Facility also by Royal Key

Geaux Tigers!

you must win 6 games 5 D1 teams plus another blood money game. You qualify to go to bowl. Acc Atlantic coast conference Has ties to 8 bowls they send to.

This is what's wrong with the country in a nutshell. Louisiana which exactly isn't a rich state invests this much money on college football for the state school and the coach is the highest-paid employee of the state. And they blame the federal government when a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina happens 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂.

So, this is the reason for tuition being expensive

Do South Carolina football facility it’s insane

$28 million 😂🤣😂 go check out Auburn’s $100 million

These schools want to appear as appealing as possible in order to attract recruits out of high school.

Dude college stadiums hold over 100,000 people 6 or 7 times a year. They make crazy money plus all the merch oh and they share revenue from the games being on TV. There not that poor down there as they want you to think.