the "uproar" is it is an organized (for lack of a better word) chant that makes our student body look classless and vulgar. not exactly how most of us want the university portrayed. or maybe just wanted to voice an opinion on it. you know, like you just did.
I just finished watching the game on CST. MUCH better commentating. I saw/heard the chant in question.. I don't think that will last (just my opinion)
btw, seems like over the last couple of years we are getting less and less of the band and more and more piped in canned music. some of us grumble and have wondered why. tgbftl is a great tradition at lsu and fb games. is this kind of thing the reason? (since its not the first time?)
this may be difficult to believe, but you can be rambunctious and loud without being vulgar. it's actually quite easy even. none of us want the student section to disappear. we want them to have a little respect for themselves, the others around them, and the university they represent. you want to sound clever and cool? come up with a chant that fits the rhthym of the song. have that chant not contain obscenities, but either a. talks up the tigers or b. puts down the opponent. if the new chant is good enough, it will still be sung when your kids are sitting in that student section. then you can puff out your chest and tell your kids about your greatness. believe me when I tell you they'll be much prouder to hear that than when you tell them "well we used to have a band that played songs and the crowd loved them and fed off of them. but we were so immature and vulgar when they played that the administration eliminated the band from the stadium." unfortunately, i have zero faith that this student section is clever enough to pull that off.
Yea, well opinions are just like as______..nevermind, I don't want to be considered vulgar. All kidding aside, to me this is comparable to a Fire Les Miles thread...you have your opinion and maybe make some valid arguments but where will it get you in the grand scheme of things? Nowhere. Les Miles will still be the head coach next year and the student section will continue to have a mind of their own despite all the purists of LSU Football. In my "opinion" and high hopes, I think the student section should receive more seats each year. Now, I never participated in vulgar chants when I was a student at LSU, except for a few "Geaux Tigers, Geaux Tigers, Kick their a$$" every once in awhile, but paying $18,000 a year for schooling at LSU was very much deserving of releasing some pent up emotion and enthusiasm for 8 home games a year. I don't know about you parents out there, as I am not one myself, but I did not know meanings of certain words such as "dick" or "f**k" before the age of, say, 13...give or take. As a parent, it is your job to take the responsibility of teaching your children what is right/wrong. My parents made sure I knew cussing was not acceptable in certain situations and at specific ages. However, my passion for LSU football supersedes the rate my mind can logically process the appropriate words in an LSU-drenched atmosphere. I will slip out a few cuss words every once in awhile but I can promise you my passion is not based on the price I pay for a ticket or how old I am. So, for some to say their idea of how LSU Football's atmosphere should go does not matter. Each person is entitled to their own opinion and their decision on how they wish to be perceived. Right now, this student section, wishes to be vulgar...will you stop it? No. Will you complaining on an internet message board reach their ears? No. But go ahead, complain to your heart's content. All of you are right in your own mind and do have the right to voice your opinion...to you I am just part of the problem but perhaps, maybe just a little, you should realize your very right to post your opinion on this forum is just as big as the student section's right to chant vulgarities.
I agree that they should be more creative.. However, TGBFTL is the last thing I will be puffing my chest out about concerning LSU...being in the stadium for this past Saturday's game are what stories are made of, what crowding around by the fireplace are for. A meaningless chant that nobody on this board will remember, and no person at the university will pick up as "tradition", will be relegated to the depths of tigerfan.com's buried posts. Not that I'm saying what the student section does is not vulgar but that people should shrug it off as students being students and use it as an example of what not to do for their own children. Next thing you know is we're going to have the Golden Girls covering up because their outfits are deemed too sexy for the 10 year olds in the crowd and that LSU gives off the impression of objectifying women on national television. Hell, I'd take the student section any day over some of the things I've seen at tailgates outside the stadium. I bet some of ya'll think the "Bama Blows, Saban Swallows" shirts should be banned as well.
It's obvious the ones saying it's not a big deal you don't understand and your arguments are weak. There are things that can be done if it is dictated by the university. You get enough "old fogeys", also known as ALUMNI, that bring a great deal of money into the athletic program upset and you will have issues with what the students of today are doing. It's more than just chants. It's the general attitude, like yours, that as students we can get away with whatever we want. It's wrong. Plain and simple. If you are sitting a frat party and want to do that sort of thing, fine. But Tiger Stadium is a public arena, not a frat house. Believe me when I say if the athletic dept gets enough complaints there will be something done. I'd hope the students, as young, mature adults can use their power of reasoning to clean up this issue on their own and not have to be treated as kids.
But I heard it clearly on the CST replay and on the CBS broadcast which is worse. It is not about free speech, it is about having enough class and intelligence not to disrespect your self or LSU in general. The same mentallity as those clowns who don't have enough sense to wear a belt and have to walk around holding their pants up.
No, he is the guy that will eject your dumb butt from the game. Much like the current generation that attend LSU they are not afraid to show us how clueless they are. Much too young and think they are entitled to anything that those before them worked to establish without doing anything worthwhile to deserve the benefits of the work done by those before them. Just because you attend the university doesn't mean you own it or are entitled to behave in such a manner to disrespect it or those who were there before you.
I guarantee you, nothing will be done besides the generic letter from Joe Alleva pleading for some dignity or the band deciding not to play certain songs again. They are not going to hire extra security to be censor patrol and I'd love to see COmprat try to remove each offender single-handedly.
