It's almost gotten to the point where I can't even talk LSU football with anyone.... "Les Miles sucks and we need to fire him and get Saban back" "Saban would come back in heart beat" etc, etc, etc.
Ive lived through a lot of crappy years of LSU football. These last few years have been great compared to those. If you only witnessed and felt the pain of some of those years you wouldn't be so quick to bitch. No, we haven't looked great here recently and I get frustrated too. Im not above giving constructive criticism when its warranted but these constant FIRE MILES or WE SUCK or WHATEVER type threads are nauseating. We are still a great program in a great conference. Are we as good as we want to be? No. Do we have the sharpest coach in the game? Hell no. Its still LSU football though and Im loving it daily!
And there are just a lot of folks who only post when they are mad. Plus we are getting younger demographically. Echo Boomers who've lived a virtual anonymous life online are more pugnacious and less gracious than Boomers and GenXers. They are ruder, but they also take less offense at rudeness. I've gotten to where for the first 24 hours after a game, I just expect people to blow off steam, win or lose. Most drive-by whiners disappear until the next time and the regular doomers calm down and start talking football again in a day or two.
I agree with all of that, but it doesn't address my original complaint which is that the game watching experience is a trying one lately. I can avoid the game thread where every play is a coaching disaster of monumental proportion, but I can't avoid the ones I'm watching the game with unless I want to just watch it alone, which is no fun at all.
It's just as bad in the stands. What is it about LSU fans that causes them to talk out of their ass so much? There was even an 8-year old kid behind me with braces who kept saying Miles should be fired. I guess the parents start em out young. LSU's fanbase is easily the worst part of LSU football. Don't replace the coach, replace the fans.
Miss Manners probably thinks you should revise the guest list for certain functions. Me, I make accommodations. We really have only one Bitchmeister in the regular TV football gang. But he brings huge quantities of really good food and buys expensive whiskey so we keep him. Now and then we just have to yell at him to stop shouting and mutter quietly to himself. Then I drink his whiskey.
