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For Clausen and his family, it was a complete dream come true.
Rick's father, Jim, tried frantically all weekend and Monday morning to get a flight to Baton Rouge for the game.
"We got a flight to Jackson, Miss., but we couldn't get a rental car," Clausen said from his Los Angeles area home Tuesday.
He had travel plans for Saturday but changed them when Rick was demoted to second team and the game was moved to Monday because of Hurricane Rita.
So he stayed home to watch it on ESPN2, hoped for the best and ended up manning the phones.
He watched Rick come off the bench to deliver the win against his old school and get his old job back at his new school after spending a couple days last week considering only going to school.
"Rick was thinking about just focusing on school last week when they named Erik the quarterback," his father said. "The kid was embarrassed. He went from getting 50% of the reps to 10% at practice. He had done everything they asked of him for two years and did not want to be there. I told him to stick it out and be ready to play if needed. The last thing he wanted to do was go back to LSU with his tail between his legs."
Clausen instead took Tennessee (2-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) on touchdown drives of 61 and 75 yards and a field-goal drive of 52 yards in the second half of regulation to get the Volunteers back in the game, and his father's phone kept ringing back in Los Angeles. The calls were from Rick's older brother, former Tennessee quarterback Casey Clausen, who is now a graduate assistant coach at Mississippi State.
"I think Casey set the record for phone calls during one game," Jim Clausen said. "He called me 39 times. Casey just went berserk he was so proud of Rick. So am I. I'm a proud dad."
Tennessee may have also climbed back into the race for Clausen's third son Jimmy Clausen, the No. 1 quarterback prospect in the nation. The elder Clausen listed his son's favorites as Tennessee, LSU, Notre Dame, South Carolina, USC and Michigan in that order.
Meanwhile, LSU (1-1, 0-1 SEC) cannot get away from the Clausen family. The Tigers play Saturday at Mississippi State.
