Initial Impressions: LSU 52, South Carolina 24

That’s no freshman.... Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports The old expression that the first step to getting out of a hole is to stop digging. Tonight, LSU stopped digging.

It wasn’t perfect. There are still huge problems with the football team that are obvious to just about everyone, but this was a night that LSU showed it can do good things as well. This whole season doesn’t have to be all gloom and doom.

Maybe, just 50%.

The biggest stretch of the game, the moment it seemed like a different LSU team, was in the final five minutes of the first half. LSU had a seven-point lead and the ball near midfield. On 3rd and 5, LSU didn’t want to give the ball back to the Gamecocks, and give them a…