LSU Fan Reaction

[bayoutider]

what about all these fran post that have continued almost from the time he left until recently. we (lsu) act like the jilted lover - it is only human. If CNS wasn't meddled with by the fins he could possibly still be coaching at lsu. Please don't tell us ho we should feel about saban when Alabama fans have been wishing nothing but ill will for fran since he left.

Ok let me step in for a moment.

ALABAMA FANS DIDN'T PARK THEIR BUTTS ON A&M MESSAGE BOARDS AND WHINE LIKE SOMEONE STOLE OUR LUNCH MONEY, WE DID OUR WHINING AT HOME!

Carry on.

 

[lsufan10]

There was plenty of whining on our boards. And I don't think any LSU fans have whined on these boards.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Oh?

 

[GORILLA BALL]

i don't consider trying to get this board to understand my frustration with the CNS situation as whinning. if every time an Alabama poster dropped a link or thread on tigerforum or tiger rant and i called it whinning - i would be quite busy. most posters have much more posts than myself and i'm sorry if i have whinned - this is my last post on the CNS saga - i'm done with it and trying to get tidefans.com understand my frustrations. i will be back in a few weeks after everything has died down. goodnight.

 

[SoldierForTide]

i don't consider trying to get this board to understand my frustration with the CNS situation as whinning. if every time an Alabama poster dropped a link or thread on tigerforum or tiger rant and i called it whinning - i would be quite busy. most posters have much more posts than myself and i'm sorry if i have whinned - this is my last post on the CNS saga - i'm done with it and trying to get tidefans.com understand my frustrations. i will be back in a few weeks after everything has died down. goodnight.

FWIW I have especially thought GORILLA BALL has had the most unbiased posts, by a rival fan on this board. I have enjoyed reading what you have to say. I hope you will continue to post your opinion in the manner you have so far.

IMHO, it is good to be at a disagreement at times.

Otherwise after games it'd sound like this....

Winner "Oh well you played a good game"

Loser "No you had a good game"

Winner "Nuh uh you!"

Loser "Tee Hee, meet me at Starbuks at 9?"

Winner "I was really hoping we could just rent 'Must Love Dogs' and lie around the house"

 

[cmmiller711]

FWIW I have especially thought GORILLA BALL has had the most unbiased posts, by a rival fan on this board. I have enjoyed reading what you have to say. I hope you will continue to post your opinion in the manner you have so far.

Ditto. Gorrilla Ball has been a very very civil Tigers fan and his posts are insightful and neutral for the vast majority of the time. Your civility is appreciated GB.

 

[am4titansandlsu]

Ok people, you are cracking me up. I love hearing the horror stories. The .... bags we throw at people, little 4 year old LSU kids flicking people off, grandma LSU fans cussing you out, LSU frat boys beating your sister up.... how stupid do you think we are? Some idiots may fall for your stories, but we all know almost all of them are made up. I go to LSU events all of the time and I look for these horror stories, yet I never see them. I have never seen anything beyond some cussing and tiger bait chants. You people make it seem like all of us do these things, when in reality it either didnt happen, or a dozen LSU fans cussed you out and therefore the whole fan base did it. Also, you make it seem like it was all our faults in some of these events. You leave out the part where Bama fans started something. You inflate your stories and make them up. You twist them with lies and it's just plain sad. If we are SO bad and dangerous, then why do you risk your life by coming to Baton Rouge every other year. Its really easy to make up bull over the internet, I can make up Bama horror stories if I want and spread them all over the internet. Stop the bull and stop the stories, because deep down, we all know most of them arent true. We do have more rotten fans than most schools, but half of our fans are not rotten people. Thats an idiotic statement. So 45 k of our fans would beat you up and cuss you out?........please!

Congrats on Saban, he will help you out, but ALabama talent is not the same as Louisiana talent and he has to compete with Auburn. He will most likely win sec championships for you, but dont expect a dynasty. We might be influenced by it, but IMO Auburn is the one that will really suffer. You and Auburn will just switch places. I am grateful for what Saban did for us, but I don't like the guy at all anymore and view him as a liar, a traitor, and he shouldn't expect a warm welcome back to BR in 08. Good luck next season, but if JRuss comes back we will have more important things on our minds than Saban.

 

[RollTide12]

Florida wasn't bothered by Spurrier going to South Carolina because it's SOUTH CAROLINA!!! I think USC has NEVER won more than 8 games in a season.

For a span of 31 YEARS LSU didn't beat Alabama in Baton Rouge. The first guy who finally beat Bama in Baton Rouge? Nick Saban. Now he's at Bama. That would make me sick too if I was a LSU fan.

Roll Tide

 

[LegalEagle96]

I echo the sentiment that this is just another example of fans run amuck. This is the type of thing that generally sets our fans apart from the rest of the pack-- While we absolutely hate and despise some of our rivals, I have never known of the Alabama Family as a whole treating the visiting fans (anywhere except in the stadium seats) of any team with anything but good ol' southern hospitality.

I used to take my family to all of the away games, but stopped taking them to either UT or LSU after my 18 month old son was cursed out by their fans (one after another) while walking into the stadium. At LSU it went so far as the usher refusing to admit him. I had to get security before they would let him in as a lap child, and he had his own ticket!!!

There really does need to be a code of conduct that can be enforced by campus police and other officials and schools should be punished for not enforcing it. That doesn't mean all sugar and spice and everything girly girly as far as the talk goes, but it does mean some standard of common decency and respect.

 

[STLSU]

I know LSU fans can be rowdy at their stadium. But the VAST majority of them are good people. Sometimes you just have to ignore a person harassing you and move along. But I don't know any other place where you can go and tailgate with passionate fans who also provide you w/ great food and beer.

Many are just not the traditional fan that carries his/her chair back seat and radio into the stadium that UA/TN/AU have.

this is true. i have yet to see the other sec schools on gameday (but i did visit bama's campus in 96 and it is very beautiful as is vandy). i understand though that some bad things have happened, i just wish people wouldn't generalize and even make things up (hitting women etc). specific examples are relevant and worth reading.

 

[STLSU]

One thing I enjoyed about the LSU/Bama game was sitting around a tail gating party, smell of charcoal on a grill/pit, good music playing, talking about good football with good people (meaning both LSU and Bama fans). And you're right it is the "younger" generation that is the majority of the problem. But I guess they're young and dumb. What do you expect?

But the older I get the more I enjoy the other things (like mentioned above) almost as much as the actual game itself. Life is stressful and hard enough. Let's all just chill the junk out, kick back, bbq, visit, and enjoy some good old SEC FOOTBAW!!!

LSU 41
Irish 14

I'll give a GO!!! TIGERS!!! to that one any day.

rright on man....i always root for the other sec teams,,even auburn _lol: i also liked watching bama basketball in the 90's. and my first big football game i watched was that 93 game although i believe we choked to tulane the next game to lose out on a bid to the carquest bowl.

anyway i tailgate at lsu with family and we do interact with other fans and some that we are friends with esp ole miss, bama and arkansas. tigerbait chants are alot of fun and frequent. often a bowl of seafood gumbo, rosemary chicken, and a cocktail is the reward for the "victims" at some tailgates.

i think the saban "outrage" will fade once the new years day liquor wears off _lol:
there will probably be a few scattered boos but i think the powers that be may end up squelching any booing before that date arrives, by the powers of persuasion hopefully. we owe a lot to NS. he is a free agent, he is just in a business and pretty much admitted he made a mistake in leaving the college game. i for one am ready for the renewed rivalry

 

[Hankster2]

it should be noted that the last time i checked neither toledo not msu are in the sec west.

So you recognize his right to return to coach college football but are only upset because he returned to the SEC and now you're going to have to play against him?

If there's an unwritten rule that it's bad juju for SEC coaches to leave and go to another SEC team then how did you guys end up with Gerry Dinardo and when are LSU fans going to apologize to Vanderbilt? Pot... kettle... black. I understand the frustration but I don't understand why LSU fans feel like their justified in blaming Saban or Bama for wrongdoing. I'm frustrated that you guys signed Ryan Perrilloux but I don't try to place any blame or accusations of wrongdoing on LSU or RP. I'd just rather not have to play against him.

Would LSU fans feel the same way if Mike Archer was named the head coach at Bama? Probably not because he doesn't really invoke fear in the hearts of SEC fans and other SEC teams would be happy knowing that Bama was going to remain a doormat. Granted he was fired by LSU, but I think the analogy still gets my point across.

Coaches are hired hands, plain and simple. He wasn't an alum of LSU so I find it difficult to paint the reaction of LSU fans as being based on anything more than fear that one of their mediocre rivals is finally waking up and smelling the coffee.

You guys stole him from Mich. St. so I don't see how you can think that he owes you any special allegiance. You knew going in that he could be bought and if he was one of those highly loyal guys that you so want him to be now then he never would've been your coach in the first place.

You want him to be a "highest bidder" coach one minute and an "it's not about the money or fame" coach the next.

I feel LSU fans are unjustly projecting their love and allegiance of their alma mater onto Nick Saban and it just doesn't fit because he's a career coach.

Don't be so upset. You guys have already hired what you felt was the best coach available. Why can't you let the rest of us do the same?

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Aladadgumbama]

Since when did we give a rat fart what the LSU fans think? When those clowns win 12 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS I will listen to them. Otherwise I will not even acknowledge them!

 

[Tiger61]

I rarely post other school's boards....people who do IMHO tend to be either suckups or disruptors, and I'm neither. That said, here's my 2 cents, take it FWIW.

I'm not a Bama hater--at least I don't hate them any more than I do the rest of the SEC....Tide fans are generally too full of themselves and think too highly of their program, but you can make that generalization about any fanbase in the SEC, save the bottom dwellers.

What's driving the LSU hostility toward Saban is not fear--I think the last seven years have shown that LSU need not fear anybody. Nor is it jealousy--We have Miles, whom the rest of the country takes lightly, but he just keeps getting results, on the field and on signing day, and frankly he's a much better fit personality-wise than Saban ever was. You can say that he's doing it with Saban's players, but starting this past season, half the roster, including many starters and key backups, were Miles recruits, and even Saban's guys have been in the Miles system for two years now, and arguably he's been a bigger influence on them--Remember that these guys were freshmen and sophomores under Saban, and very few were getting meaningful playing time. In short, I like where our program is heading.

Very few LSU fans expected Saban to end his career here, and I don't think many begrudged him taking a shot at the pros. Many of us do resent the way he bolted, leaving us to scramble and find a coach at the last minute, and putting his successor behind the eight ball in recruiting. We also didn't like the way he mailed in his coaching performance in the Cap One Bowl.

What we didn't expect was for him to jump from what was ostensibly his dream job to one of our SECW rivals (now he's saying Bama is his dream job--how many dream jobs does he have???) That can't help but be a shock, and his actions since then haven't smoothed the waters. Let's recap:

1. Saban's official announcement is pushed back one day, and just HAPPENS to fall on January 3d, the day of the Sugar Bowl, when LSU is supposed to have center stage.

2. Then in his press conference a day or two later, Nick attempts to take credit for LSU's Sugar Bowl win, by saying it was done with his players. Totally classless thing to say, and again from our perspective it's another attempt to elbow his way into LSU's spotlight.

3. Add to that the fact that he's coming after our players and our recruits. While that's the way the game is played, we can't help but resent it in a big way. (Interesting sidenote--Nick may find the sledding a little tougher this time around--there's a story going around the LSU boards about him calling an assistant coach at one of the powerhouse Louisiana high school football programs asking about one of his up and coming prospects, and instead getting an earful from the high school coach re: character and truthfulness.)

4. Finally, Saban gets introduced to the Bama faithful at the LSU basketball game. I mean, come on. You don't expect us to take offense at that?

I'm sure you can offer explanations for all that, and maybe you'd be right. But put it all together, and a pattern starts to emerge. He really does seem obsessed with LSU--he's not focusing nearly as much energy on his in-state rival, Auburn. To me, it looks like Saban is not only trying to build Bama up, he's trying to knock LSU down, and I for one resent the hell out of it. If I may play amateur psychologist here, Nick's psyche can't afford to see LSU successful, because in his mind, it would diminish his own accomplishments in Baton Rouge. Nick is in some ways a very screwed up guy mentally. I don't mean that as a slam on the man; we all have our own issues to deal with, and driven high achieving individuals often moreso than others. I'm just saying that's part of the package you get with Saban.

In summation, I for one don't have anything against Alabama. I want to beat you every year, but other than that, I don't think about Bama that much. Saban, however, is another matter. I never disliked him before, and I don't even dislike him now. But he has chosen to personalize all this with his recent actions, and we can't help but react accordingly.

 

[J.Will]

Congrats on Saban, he will help you out, but ALabama talent is not the same as Louisiana talent and he has to compete with Auburn. He will most likely win sec championships for you, but dont expect a dynasty. We might be influenced by it, but IMO Auburn is the one that will really suffer. You and Auburn will just switch places. I am grateful for what Saban did for us, but I don't like the guy at all anymore and view him as a liar, a traitor, and he shouldn't expect a warm welcome back to BR in 08. Good luck next season, but if JRuss comes back we will have more important things on our minds than Saban.

I guess I can understand why people believe that our rivalry with TSDTR extends into the off-season recruiting wars, but let me re-iterate emphatically the fact that....WE DO NOT RECRUIT AGAINST AUBURN. We own this state as far as the in state prospects. Auburn steals a few, Georgia steals a few, Tenn, LSU, etc, but we rarely if ever go head to head with the Tigers for a recruit. The last I can remember was Brandon Cox and we backed off him, before that it was Carnell. I'm sure there are more, but it is rarely more than one or two per class. I'm actually looking forward to Saban's reported it ain't over till the ink dries attitude towards recruiting. We might chuck the gentlemans agreemnet and steal a few of the barns.

 

[wisten]

1. Saban's official announcement is pushed back one day, and just HAPPENS to fall on January 3d, the day of the Sugar Bowl, when LSU is supposed to have center stage.

I believe he answered that himself in saying that the decision had not been made until sometime late at night on Jan 2. And based on his legendary focus on what he is doing, I honestly doubt that he realized the implications and when he did, we had a partial love fest for LSU right there in the press conference and even his wife Terry popped an LSU question out.

2. Then in his press conference a day or two later, Nick attempts to take credit for LSU's Sugar Bowl win, by saying it was done with his players. Totally classless thing to say, and again from our perspective it's another attempt to elbow his way into LSU's spotlight.

No, I do not think he was trying to elbow his way in. He was proud of the team he had spent four years with, proud of the players, and in that he demonstrated that he does not make promises lightly to recruits.

3. Add to that the fact that he's coming after our players and our recruits. While that's the way the game is played, we can't help but resent it in a big way. (Interesting sidenote--Nick may find the sledding a little tougher this time around--there's a story going around the LSU boards about him calling an assistant coach at one of the powerhouse Louisiana high school football programs asking about one of his up and coming prospects, and instead getting an earful from the high school coach re: character and truthfulness.)

Now him utilizing every possible avenue to recruit is part of his greatness in this day of parity. Now there was an outside contender for the HC at BAMA and UAB that you can watch on MTV. I graduated from Vestavia Hills, and those Berry/Hoover Bucs are strong, and have been. Good feeding ground for Saban, and woe to Tubbs and Phil. The NCAA over the past 30 years has worked hard to level the playing field, but recruits are available nationwide. Now if Coach Saban locks in on Alabama talent, then all teams will be very afraid. We need skill players, and if they are not here, then we should reach out.

4. Finally, Saban gets introduced to the Bama faithful at the LSU basketball game. I mean, come on. You don't expect us to take offense at that?

The LSU faithful wanted to hug him. It was the first home game since he had been hired and is standard practice. Even then, he gave LSU props.

...Nick's psyche can't afford to see LSU successful, because in his mind, it would diminish his own accomplishments in Baton Rouge. Nick is in some ways a very screwed up individual mentally.

Seems determined. Maybe even desperate, since he is at Alabama. He is doing what he has always done, building a team, starting with the office staff, then coaches, and finally players. I thought his jacket and shirt were perfect for the evening. My God, the man does put in close to 17 hours a day according to Terry.

In summation, I for one don't have anything against Alabama. I want to beat you every year, but other than that, I don't think about Bama that much. Saban, however, is another matter. To LSU fans, he has very much personalized this with his actions--it's us against him now, and yall just happen to be on the wrong side, that's all.

I think you are taking it personal and I do not think he means it that way. From what I have seen he has exemplified class and honor in what was a very difficult decision for him and a difficult return to Collegiate Athletics.

 

[Tiger61]

we obviously disagree, and that's fine. I was just stating how things look from this side of the fence. At any rate, I expect tempers to settle down a bit after signing day, until it picks back up next November. It's hard to sustain emotions at this level for very long, and most of us have real lives and can't afford the luxury of spending 24/7 following our teams.

 

[wisten]

we obviously disagree, and that's fine. I was just stating how things look from this side of the fence. At any rate, I expect tempers to settle down a bit after signing day, until it picks back up next November. It's hard to sustain emotions at this level for very long, and most of us have real lives and can't afford the luxury of spending 24/7 following our teams.

I suspect you are right. Let's enjoy the game and let the drama be on the field.

 

[IH8Orange]

Ok people, you are cracking me up. I love hearing the horror stories. The .... bags we throw at people, little 4 year old LSU kids flicking people off, grandma LSU fans cussing you out, LSU frat boys beating your sister up.... how stupid do you think we are? Some idiots may fall for your stories, but we all know almost all of them are made up.

That one's a fact. One of my friends' mother, who had an 8-year old grandson, met me at the door after the 2000 game yelling "Tiger Bait" and calling me every name under the sun. I think that ending the ~30-year home losing streak to Bama caused that tremendous emotional release. :blush: