LSU Tigers

BATON ROUGE -- With spring practices all but concluded, and the zaniness of a student-attended practice behind him, LSU coach Les Miles set to work on the final details of Saturday's spring game.

Except, of course, for perhaps the most important detail -- who will be participating. The Tigers' month of preparation for the spring game is concluded, but Miles said his coaching staff will wait until the last possible minute to split the team roster into competing squads.

"We will discuss that fully in the morning," said Miles on Thursday night.

While he might not have teams in mind just yet, Miles was willing to share other details of Saturday's game. As has been customary, he said that after using traditional rules in the first half, the Tigers will play with a running clock in the game's second half, adding "late in the game it will run real fast."

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BATON ROUGE -- LSU has become quite adept at keeping out prying eyes.

At the Tigers' Charles McClendon Practice Facility, there are enormous wooden fences surrounding every inch of the property. There are locks on every door and gate. There are special employees designated to keep an eye on visitors, such as high school recruits and reporters. There are sign-in stations and there are name tags used to identify outsiders.

All that precaution will be rendered moot this afternoon, however. For the first time, the Tigers are bursting the bubble that has long protected their routine. LSU is holding a student appreciation day of sorts, and any student with an LSU ID will be able to access the team's final practice of the spring.

It won't be a measly 25 minutes, as has been the custom for the Baton Rouge media, either. Any student in attendance will have the option to watch the team's full, two-hour practice. Thursday, the Tigers could (and should) have a large audience on them for the first time since January's BCS Championship game.

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Stephen Rivers said he doesn't mind getting asked a lot about his famous brother, San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers.

"It's not so bad," the LSU redshirt freshman quarterback said. "Pretty much every interview I do, there's a question about my brother. I don't mind it because there aren't really many negatives with it."

But there's one guy who's taken to giving Rivers a hard time about his brother.

"I keep busting his (chops) about getting his brother down here to throw with us," LSU starting quarterback Zach Mettenberger said. "I'd really like his brother to come down here and work with him."

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