Last year when former LSU football coach Jerry Stovall received a phone call from Joe Alleva, vice chancellor and director of athletics, he was surprised by the casual nature of the conversation.
When Alleva asked Stovall how his day was going, Stovall answered, “Pretty special.”
Stovall said this festival should be more casual than the induction ceremony last December. Stovall attended the black-tie event in New York with about 1,700 others.
Inductees were introduced in the presence of athletes, coaches and an array of dignitaries.
Stovall said the honor is a measure of how many people have helped him along the way.
“This is not an individual honor,” he said. “They give it to one person, but every person I played with my entire career helped me get be.”
Stovall said he is excited about the Enshrinement Festival because it may be one of the last chances he gets to travel with his whole family.
“The two most meaningful things to me are my faith and my family,” he said. “I hope my family understands how much the award means to me because they can share in it. So much of the honor would go away without them there to true.”
 
 
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