Battle of the Bayou splits fans' loyalties

[Cajunbander]

_ I did some calculations yesterday - when all the purple and puke clad traitor-fans from Lafayette went to Baton Rouge to cheer for state, the average IQ of both towns went up by 3 points. Trust me, I'm a doctor. _

HAHA. It took me a second to get it, but that's a good one!

[CajunSaint]

_ The writer (Grant Alexander) (a UL Alum) has in a bio somewhere that LSU is his favorite team. I'm not surprised by the it's OK slant to the article.

Glenn help me here. _

leaving parrott out of this, for argument's sake, because i believe he has no feelings for a&mbr, most of the local media, electronic and print, pull for the tigs. i would think that jay walker, and the guy from the independent ragmag are the exceptions. even heist at the da, who is a relative newcomer, has this attitude. only bcs team in the state, good recognition for the state, etc. phooey, i say.

[4LSU]

_ And what's their excuse? If its the past 15 years, Doc A is gone. That excuse for giving monetary and moral support elsewhere no longer applies. _

Why does one have to have an excuse for how they spend their money or in which way they direct their efforts?

I know I'm in the minority on this issue, but the bottom line for me has always been that your personal choice of what/who you support outweighs my personal choice for what/who you support.

[Hammer58]

_ Why does one have to have an excuse for how they spend their money or in which way they direct their efforts?

I know I'm in the minority on this issue, but the bottom line for me has always been that your personal choice of what/who you support outweighs my personal choice for what/who you support. _

Easy for you guys to say. I'll wager that the majority of your fans, perhaps not you personally, would be making the same complaint if a large percentage of LSU alums were supporting Bama, Ole, Miss, Tulane, or God forbid UL.

We've heard the excuses for years from these guys about why they turn their backs on their alma mater. We've heard all the excuses. First it was because we don't win. Well we were 2-0 going into this game but they were supporting our opponent. Other excuses have been that we don't play any interesting name opponents. We had a "name" in Big-12 opponent K-State but they preferred to go see State vs Vanderbilt. And when you point out that their support , especially financially, could help rectify that lack of wins we heard that they would not support UL until Doc A was gone. Well he's gone and now the excuse is they don't like Doc S. They'll always have an excuse but they will be the first to tell us that UL needs to be "big time". Well big time programs have big time, diehard alumni and fans not bandwagon fans of other teams. They are the problem. If they want to know why UL is not everything they want in a program they should look in the mirror.

[zephyr]

_ Easy for you guys to say. I'll wager that the majority of your fans, perhaps not you personally, would be making the same complaint if a large percentage of LSU alums were supporting Bama, Ole, Miss, Tulane, or God forbid UL.

We've heard the excuses for years from these guys about why they turn their backs on their alma mater. We've heard all the excuses. First it was because we don't win. Well we were 2-0 going into this game but they were supporting our opponent. Other excuses have been that we don't play any interesting name opponents. We had a "name" in Big-12 opponent K-State but they preferred to go see State vs Vanderbilt. And when you point out that their support , especially financially, could help rectify that lack of wins we heard that they would not support UL until Doc A was gone. Well he's gone and now the excuse is they don't like Doc S. They'll always have an excuse but they will be the first to tell us that UL needs to be "big time". Well big time programs have big time, diehard alumni and fans not bandwagon fans of other teams. They are the problem. If they want to know why UL is not everything they want in a program they should look in the mirror. _

Ditto. For me it has been the ones that choose to support LSU, which I don't mind but then literally look at me like I'm crazy because I choose to support UL over the Tigers. This often tells me that people perhaps pull for a school for the wrong reasons and I'm not talking about myself.