re: Cam Robinson High Ankle Sprain

karma

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Lol wut? The entire SEC desegregated in the 1970s. LSU fielded an entirely black defensive starting lineup in 1979 - the "Soul Patrol".

Heck, we've already gotten our first black legacy players - Odell Beckham, Jr., as an example.

I reject the assessment, having been around black LSU fans for over 40 years.

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I'm well aware of how long black players have been playing for LSU. I'm conveying that even though my mom and dad were staunch fans (mom is an alumn), many of their brothers and sisters, cousins, family, etc (dad is almost 70) came along at a time when blacks mostly cheered for SWAC schools and didn't give a shite about LSU. That's not to say that LSU didn't get some great players who had the common sense to look past race and improve their future prospects, but even those guys' families probably viewed it more as a pragmatic decision than something done out of love for the P&G. Just trying to lend some perspective. I used to get my hair cut down by BRMHS when I was in school there at the turn of the century and it still wasn't uncommon to hear older black men say "too many of our boys have abandoned black schools". Obviously Bama isn't Southern or Grambling, but it just goes to show that there are still a lot of families in which "good at football" + "from Louisiana" does not automatically = LSU lock.

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Obviously Bama isn't Southern or Grambling,

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I think that says it all. Hypothetically, if CRob had gone to Grambling, because his dad went there? I'd be a huge fan. CRob going to Bama is CRob asking me to wish bad things on his team, and indirectly on him. Not injuries of course, but I don't want him to have individual success because he's the left tackle at Alabama.

I honestly didn't think the race card would get played in this discussion. Saban isn't even black. Race has nothing to do with this.

I hope C Rob has just as productive a career as a professional in the NFL as Lester Earl did in the NBA.

Too bad he is an o-lineman, hard to boo him individually since they generally don't get their names called during a game.

Fine. I will simplify. My argument goes something like this.

1. You're presupposing within the general population of Louisiana a natural allegiance to or affection toward LSU football. You have it. I have it. Probably 70% or more of Louisianans have.

2. There are exceptions, however. There are people within the state who for whatever reason did not grow up with and do not possess any such affection. Among these groups might be:
A. People with buildings named after their family at Tulane, or ULL.
B. People with some negative family history with the University (maybe someone who was unfarily expelled or something).
C. Others (like certain blacks) who don't simply identify with LSU as a matter of course. That's not a "card", it's just one potential factor among many (I gave two other examples).

3. Having established that a natural affection toward the school isn't a given for every single person born in the state, my entire point shouldn't be that difficult to grasp. If Cam's family and Cam don't view LSU as anythimg other than another offer in a long list, his decision making process is going to look quite different from what you'd imagine. To some people telling a kid "you're from Louisiana and you're good at Football, so LSU it is" just doesn't resonate. They don't see the connection.

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If Cam's family and Cam don't view LSU as anythimg other than another offer in a long list, his decision making process is going to look quite different from what you'd imagine.

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Fair enough point - makes it much less likely that I should care one way or another about him, as well. He's just another in a long list of players considered by LSU and other schools.

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He had a choice of schools, I have a choice to pull against his success

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That's fair (as was Ace's point). I don't see the point of wishing injury upon them as some do. And yes, it galls me when kids go to other schools--especially Bama, Auburn, and now A&M. But I try to understand that their motivations and mine may simply not align.

Seems our fanbase forgets how many "traitors" we've had on our past teams

PP7, Mett, Loston, Flynn, Jamarcus to name some

HE'LL NEVER GET A JOB IN LA, DERPPP!!

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LSU =/= Louisiana. There are plenty of people born/bred in the state (ULL, Tulane, etc) who can't stand LSU. Are they not real Louisianans? Depending Robinson's coaches, family background, etc, it's not inconceivable that he didn't grow up loving LSU. Many blacks in Louisiana couldn't give less of a damn about LSU until the late 90s. Surely you see that this is a bit of a silly line to draw. And again, I always feel "betrayed" when a local star gives us the finger. But it still seems kind of silly to me when I think about it.

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There's wisdom in these words. There are many personal reasons for not choosing LSU. To think they have somehow betrayed their state or to wish ill-will to them personally is morally wrong IMO.