re: Why does LSU have fans that aren't really fans?

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Why does LSU have fans that aren't really fans?

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It's actually the opposite.

These are just some of the positions advanced by so-called "Positigers" this week:

- LSU and its fans should be happy being second best in its own division of its own conference.

- LSU and its fans have no right to expect to be the best program in its own division of its own conference.

- LSU can never establish a dynasty, only Florida and Bama are capable of this.

- If LSU loses Miles, LSU won't be able to carry on as a powerhouse and will immediately and inexorably revert to the mediocrity of the 1990's.

- LSU is not capable of hiring ANY MAN in America who could dominate Saban and restore LSU to being the top program in the SEC West. We're doomed to second best.

These are statements made by people who proclaim themselves to be the most ardent of LSU supporters. And yet they disparage and underestimate LSU at every turn. Puzzling, isn't it?

The statements reveal the truth: these posters aren't fans of LSU, they are a cult of one man, no different than the dreaded "Sabanistas." And they will say anything, anything at all, to protect their idol, even if it comes at LSU's expense.

Worse yet, they are scared remnants of an old order of fans who labored for decades beneath the twin clouds of inferiority complex and catastrophe syndrome. VagiTiger vestiges masquerading as something they are not.

So put me in the camp that believes Alabama has no intrinsic advantages over LSU, the camp that believes LSU can and should be the preeminent program in the SEC, the camp that believes LSU can and should establish national championship dynasties, the camp that will never accede to the proposition that LSU should be happy with second best because it's all we can achieve. That's an LSU fan.