Vball, join the girls at the UGA game October 25th, so you can witness Tiger hospitality. We'll have to put you in LSU and USC colors. I hope those won't clash...
Nebraska fans are great at hospitality. After every football game, even when they lose, they give the opponent team a standing ovation after the game is over. I think that is a cool tradition that they have there. When #16 Florida State went up to Lincoln and beat Osborne's #3-ranked Nebraska team (first time Florida State had every played Nebraska), Bobby Bowden was so moved by this post-game standing ovation that he wrote an open letter that was published in their local paper saying that was the classiest thing he had ever seen an opponent fan base do in his entire life.
Yeah, I'm sure this guy feels a strong kindred with us as fans and was in no way trying to insult us... gimme a break.
My dad is taking the credit for the series victory now because of reverse psychology.:rolleye33: He was on the plane with the UC Irvine team while flying into Baton Rouge. He sat next to one of the players and the player said they will probably get beat down in Baton Rouge because of the way the Tigers have been playing and the crazy fans. My dad said no you will probably win. He was kind of shocked my dad said that and the mind games never fail.:grin: :geaux:
Are you kidding me? Either your an eternal optimist who only see good in people or your extremely naive. If he was praising us when he said it, then why did he backtrack and apologize? I think a true measure of how classy our fan base can be is when the kid from UC-I hit the monstrous HR over the scoreboard and the fans at the game actually applauded him as he was rounding the bases. I realize the game was in hand at that point and it wouldnt have happened if the score was closer, but there's not too many other visiting places that it happens period, no matter what the score is.
Everyone was clapping and chearing because the fans made a little boy across the road run back, and throw his ball he just caught back over the fence into the park.
Again, the guy says that the Box is "beyond crazy," "exciting," that he doesn't "think there is any debate about that," that fans at the Box "turn out in full force" and are "enthusiastic to the max." He says that, at the Box, it is "too loud to hear yourself think, let alone have anyone else communicate with each other. You've got to play the game without anyone being able to talk." Quite a compliment from a guy that was born in California, played for the USC Trojans as a college baseball player and coached the USC Trojans from 1987-2006 and UC-Irvine since 2007. How many of you people could praise California programs like Gillespie praised us? Then, when he is asked about the Nebraska fans, he doesn't want to admit to the press that he obviously thinks they aren't even close to LSU fans in his opinion (especially since he was hoping to go to Omaha at that point)... so he says that the Nebraska fans are "not on you, and they’re not rude and they’re not vicious and they know the Civil War is over and they know how to act. Now, I don’t mean to suggest (that is the case at LSU), I really don’t.” In other words, he tried his best to say LSU fans were greater than Nebraska fans without being mean to Nebraska fans. Sure, he wasn't exactly 100% smooth about it, but if you read between the lines, the guy was 100% praising LSU. Also, when it comes to not being the most PR person on the planet, note that he pulled the same thing I pulled earlier in this thread when I myself used the word "suck" when talking about Nebraska fans (which freaked USCvball out). I don't think Nebraska fans suck, but I do think they suck compared to LSU fans. I believe Gillespie feels the same way, and just wasn't PR enough while expressing his opinion, just like I wasn't PR enough by using the word "suck" when talking about Nebraska fans. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have a field day with me and Gillespie here. Perhaps it is a shame that some of you are the same way. I honestly don't see what Gillespie has to apologize for, but yes, being that a very sizable amount of LSU people got all Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on him, he felt that he had to apologize.
