Ask yourself this question

For those of us who hung in there during the 90's, there is only one answer to you question. Basing your support on performance only is fare weathered fandom.

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That's what so very puzzling to me about this board.
Before the bama game all these "fans" talking about how badly bama was going to crush us. Then after ward they are all pissed off because we got crushed at the end of the game.
I just enjoy the whole LSU experience. As goofy as les is I still support him. Chavis and cam are a blessing.
There is always a rainbow after the storm. Enjoy life every second of the day, you never know when it will end.

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Is your love for LSU based on performance?

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Though worded differently, we essentially had this discussion the other day in another thread where is became about WHY we are LSU fans.

I'm 43...I was a fan before we started winning like we are now, so clearly my fandom is based on something OTHER than straight up success. That does NOT mean I am happy with "mediocrity" or that I'm complacent, but it does mean that in those years where we are somewhat disappointing I feel no reason to start screaming for the coach's head are start yammering about giving up my seats.

You're gonna' get eviscerated for this post, btw...

Been going to LSU games for 40 years, that would not be possible if I based my love/interest/enthusiasm solely on performance. Unfortunately, the new generation is more about "now, now, now" and loses interest quickly when things don't go their way, much the way they view life in general which is why our society is in the shape it's in-no backbone, no tradition, and no "stick-to-it-ness".

I love my Tigers through thick and thin. I look at some of the posters on this board and think I must get much more enjoyment from LSU football (and other sports) than these miserable bitches.

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Pics or GTFO

I am old enough to remember when Paul Dietzel's LSU won the national championship, even though I was only about 9 years old at the time. I remember my uncle and older cousin jumping up and down beside the radio as Billy Cannon ran his way into Tiger legend on Halloween Night. I remember Cholly Mac taking over when Dietzel left, and the Tigers losing heartbreakers and also those amazing wins. Texas, Arkansas, Notre Dame... (that one was a 0-3 loss, but what a game! The next week, LSU actually rose in the polls as a result); bowl invites and all that great stuff. Like how many times did we beat Tulane 62-0? Nelson Stokley (a precursor to Archie Manning's QB style) was electric. George Bevan. Alexander the Great. And Sammy Grezaffi, Tommy Casanova, and Bert Jones. Then the bottom fell out and we went through some rough decades before a new coach came in 2001 and wrote an entirely new chapter to LSU's story. He set the Tigers on a really upward course that was then picked up by Les Miles and maintained (sometimes even almost surpassed) with great success for quite a while. I've loved LSU and been a fan through it all.

How can you separate love from LSU from love for their performance and storied tradition? It's not an either/or. It's a both/and.

Which explains the levels of emotion directed at certain persons and coaches, relative to what might look like the start of a slide and performance failures. None of us want that to happen; we all love our Tigers too much.

It's just that some of us think it's time to change. And others don't.

as an Alum, my love for LSU goes far beyond the athletic teams. I have always supported and will continue to support the teams. I've just come to the point that I don't really enjoy watching the football games anymore. Maybe it's having expectations too high, or maybe it's my opinions on the staff, and the attitude that the recent teams have had once they get down. I don't think it is really a matter of the final score, but the way the team plays. I can handle a loss just fine when it looks like the team did their best.

I do think it is easier to be an excited fan when your team is an underdog. I remember getting the football schedule every year and circling the teams I though we would beat, and thinking that if we got lucky, we'd win 8, maybe 9 games. I still tell myself that 10 win seasons are special, even though there is an extra game these days. Not meeting that expectation would be fine if we just are not as good as other teams. That's not the case these days, though, as very, very few schools can match the athletes LSU has. Certainly Ole Miss' 2nd and 3rd stringers aren't better than LSU's starters, but they damn sure looked like it in Oxford.

People easily forget that it's just a game, and it shouldn't have any impact on their lives (unless you're a player or coach).

Those that get so upset that they throw/break things, or let the outcome of a game dictate how the rest of their week will go have some sort of issues deep down inside.

Sure I wish LSU could win every game by eleventy billion points, and hold their opponents to negative yards every week, but none of that will ever happen, and win or lose the sun is gonna come up the next morning, and i'm gonna go on with my life.

The only thing I can control is whether I watch the games or not, and if it ever gets to a point where i'm miserable after a loss then I need to reevaluate my life and find something better to do on a Saturday night.