LSU fans may have long checked out on this football season, instead obsessively checking their web browsers to see if there are any updates in the coaching search and the school’s pursuit of Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin.

The LSU players and remaining coaches, to their everlasting credit, are still invested.

There has been disappointment. Container ships full of it. But it has been trumped so many times by determination.

Linebacker Whit Weeks revealed earlier this week that he broke the same ankle he broke in the Texas Bowl on Sept. 22 at Ole Miss. He finally got back into action for 14 snaps this past Saturday against Western Kentucky and is hopeful, fervently so, that he can see about 30 snaps in Saturday’s regular-season finale at No. x Oklahoma (2:30 p.m., ABC).

“I just love playing b

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