No doubt, a lot of LSU fans are quick to panic. However, I think there are some things happening that are putting people deeper into that mode than usual. With that said, people don’t look at the other side of things. Everyone can say what they want about the class of LSU fans, but does everyone remember when we won the National Championship right there in New Orleans? How many riots, brawls or giant fires were started??? Yeah, that’s right, NONE. People said it would be mayhem if LSU won the NC, especially in New Orleans where everyone would be drunk and rowdy. How many times have we heard about the fires and riots that break out for some retarded reason after teams (college and pro) win championships? Yet, LSU fans were unbelievably well-behaved in a crazy environment where there were also a lot of OU fans mixed in. In fact, the paper said there were even fewer arrests than the previous year when it was just a regular Sugar Bowl and Georgia went. So you have to mix the good with the bad. You can’t stop some people from booing and we have some fans that are nuts. I remember that game against Oregon State and people were booing the play calling because we were running the ball on 3rd and long and time was starting to run out (the calls were pathetic). What do you know, they finally changed the QB late in the game and LSU somehow pulled it out thanks in part to JR. LSU isn’t even as tough as Florida to coach for and that’s not too difficult to see. They have booed Leak in a few games this year loudly on television and they are UNDEFEATED. This guy who has helped them get to where they are is getting booed. Hell, they wanted Zook fired before he was hired. Finally, I made some comments about Landry in another thread. However, I’m not one of the ones who said he sucks or anything. But let me say this loud and clear: LANDRY IS AN A$$$$HOLE ON THE FIELD. Now, hopefully my point is clear. It’s hard for me to say that because I love LSU so much and the players. The only difference between David Irons and LaRon Landry is one plays for Auburn and the other one for LSU. I realize trash talking is part of the game and Landry has always talked a little, but it’s getting out of hand now. He’s talking $hit after every play, including plays where he gets burned and makes the tackle 20 yards down the field. He’s always talking to guys while they’re on the ground through their helmet ear hole. It’s ridiculous. And let me say, I’ve seen him constantly jumping on piles and trying to late hit people and I’m sick of it. He’s lucky that most of the time he doesn’t get caught, but he has indeed been caught a few times. The guy is a great talent and he doesn’t need to represent LSU like that when he’s represented us well in the past. That is how I feel and I know others who have noticed the same thing. It’s not about him sucking. Although, he did get burned a few times yesterday and didn’t have a good game. That’s going to happen sometimes, but the other stuff is INEXCUSABLE. Peace.
Ever fan base has its IDOITS. Ours just seem to ONLY come out after a tough lose because their lives are so ****ty they feel the need to make everyone else feel as ****ty as them. But these people represent a SMALL amount of the fan base.
I don't like the blanket dumbass comment by flabengle. More on that in a second. Downtown made some really good points in his post. I, for one, do not like all of the trash talking taking place now-a-days in college football. For years we've all talked about how classless miami's and FSU's teams were. I expect our players to let their performances speak for themselves. Don't make blanket derogatory statements about LSU fans. Our passion for LSU athletics runs deeper than 99.9% of all other universities. We plan our marriages, our children's births, literally our whole lives around LSU. What makes that even more amazing is the fact that a lot of us never attended a class at LSU. Most of us were raised by our fathers to love and follow LSU. The same as his father before him, and his father before him. Along with a lot of you, some of my first memories are of attending home games in BR, and listening to away games on AM radio. Flabengal, when you use the words..."most", and "majority" it kinda pisses me off. We police our own pretty well around here. If someone makes a comment that is out of line, we call him, or her on it. But don't bring your sorry ass on here and try to talk down to the single most greatest fan base in all of college football.
Give me break. We all just watched an infuriating performance, what with emotions running high and a little alcohol in the system, FANS are going to vent. It takes time, and then we calm down, a bit. I feel better than I did at 7pm on Saturday, fealt less sting this Sunday afternoon, and now I've accepted what happened out their on the field. I'm sure many of the rash opinions you may have read on Saturday have calmed quite a bit and most fans seem to want to analyse the situation in a calm and logical way, in the hopes of a solution.
