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Do you feel alienated by the "new" SEC?
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:09 pm
I'm just getting a thought off my chest here. I don't want to be all "SEC hates LSU" or "ESPN hates LSU" here. I'm just stating something I'm feeling as an LSU fan. This isn't even whining. Honest. I just want to see if I'm the only idiot who feels this way.
TLDR version: The SEC Network makes me feel like I have less in common, not more in common with the rest of the SEC.
I don't really feel as drawn to watch the SEC Network as I feel I should. I mean, we finally have our own network, right? Whoo hoo! Yeah... not so much. See, after watching it for a few weeks, I feel less enthusiastic about it than I did about the idea of it.
We all know LSU is kind of a different place. I mean, we do everything a little different here in Louisiana. We have our own culture and it's different from our neighbors in a lot of ways. Everything from our legal system to the food we eat, to the accents we have, and the offense we run on the football field. It's not the same as the others.
But the SEC Network seems to be hitting the common culture of our neighbors right on the money. Is Mississippi really all that different from Alabama or Georgia or Tennessee, for instance? If I watch SEC Nation, LSU is 1/14 of it, no more than anyone else, but I have to sit through 13/14 of the rest of the conference all the time. And it seems the more I'm exposed to our SEC brothers, the more differences I see between us and the more contempt I have for them.
Combine that with the traditional feelings of the LSU fanbase regarding scheduling, officiating, Alabama-centrism, etc... and I'm just not all on fire about the SEC anymore. In fact, I'm kinda sick of their shite. I'm tired of hearing about the Grind, Tdecline, Saban, frickin' A&M, HUNH offenses, UGA, Sandstorm, Malzahn screaming at officials to hurry up, and Fatass Bert, and everyone telling us how much we suck all the time. EVEN WHEN WE DON'T SUCK.
Now I fully realize this is only MY perception. There is no problem here. LSU is a charter member of the SEC and our place in it is rightly assured, and we benefit greatly from the network and status of the conference.
I'm just getting tired of the SEC lovefest in our shared culture. I'm going back to LSU lovefest in my head. frick the rest of the SEC.
TLDR version: The SEC Network makes me feel like I have less in common, not more in common with the rest of the SEC.
I don't really feel as drawn to watch the SEC Network as I feel I should. I mean, we finally have our own network, right? Whoo hoo! Yeah... not so much. See, after watching it for a few weeks, I feel less enthusiastic about it than I did about the idea of it.
We all know LSU is kind of a different place. I mean, we do everything a little different here in Louisiana. We have our own culture and it's different from our neighbors in a lot of ways. Everything from our legal system to the food we eat, to the accents we have, and the offense we run on the football field. It's not the same as the others.
But the SEC Network seems to be hitting the common culture of our neighbors right on the money. Is Mississippi really all that different from Alabama or Georgia or Tennessee, for instance? If I watch SEC Nation, LSU is 1/14 of it, no more than anyone else, but I have to sit through 13/14 of the rest of the conference all the time. And it seems the more I'm exposed to our SEC brothers, the more differences I see between us and the more contempt I have for them.
Combine that with the traditional feelings of the LSU fanbase regarding scheduling, officiating, Alabama-centrism, etc... and I'm just not all on fire about the SEC anymore. In fact, I'm kinda sick of their shite. I'm tired of hearing about the Grind, Tdecline, Saban, frickin' A&M, HUNH offenses, UGA, Sandstorm, Malzahn screaming at officials to hurry up, and Fatass Bert, and everyone telling us how much we suck all the time. EVEN WHEN WE DON'T SUCK.
Now I fully realize this is only MY perception. There is no problem here. LSU is a charter member of the SEC and our place in it is rightly assured, and we benefit greatly from the network and status of the conference.
I'm just getting tired of the SEC lovefest in our shared culture. I'm going back to LSU lovefest in my head. frick the rest of the SEC.
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Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:10 pm to SpqrTiger
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:12 pm to SpqrTiger
LSU needs to go Independent, then maybe the fans will stop bitching....
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:13 pm to SpqrTiger
If LSU was better they would talk about LSU more.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:14 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
quote:On second thought... there's no stopping the bitching.
LSU needs to let the fans run the team, then maybe the fans will stop bitching....
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:14 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
quote:
LSU needs to go Independent, then maybe the fans will stop bitching....
Never said leave the SEC... and never will. I'm just saying I'm not feeling the brotherhood. I used to, and I don't anymore.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:15 pm to SpqrTiger
Paul Finebaum, who walks around with Saban's dick in his mouth, Greg McElroy, Marcus Spears, and Booger McFarland who played for Saban, and Tim fricking Tebow....
Ill pass
Ill pass
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:16 pm to chilge1
quote:
Booger McFarland who played for Saban,
wrong
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:17 pm to SpqrTiger
quote:
If LSU was better they would talk about LSU more.
Possibly... and it certainly wouldn't hurt my perception... but if you read closer, I'm not even saying they don't talk about LSU enough.
I'm saying when I see the others all the time, I hate them more, not less.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:17 pm to SpqrTiger
LSU gets no love from the sec network which is why I tend to stay away from it. If we beat auburn that changes so I don't think it has to do with being LSU just the fact that we haven't won an sec game yet
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:20 pm to SpqrTiger
Good grief, dude. This is a whole lot of whining.
Beat them and make them fear you. If LSU returns to mediocrity, this conference has ALWAYS been Alabama and Georgia centric - which means that the core of the conference is Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, and Georgia. Everyone else is on the margins. Texas A&M is new and the flavor of the month, but if they were average we would not hear much from them. To get into the SEC Media's mind, you have to beat those 4 teams and be better than everyone else. It is a Birmingham-Atlanta based league.
Get over it and just be LSU and win.
Beat them and make them fear you. If LSU returns to mediocrity, this conference has ALWAYS been Alabama and Georgia centric - which means that the core of the conference is Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, and Georgia. Everyone else is on the margins. Texas A&M is new and the flavor of the month, but if they were average we would not hear much from them. To get into the SEC Media's mind, you have to beat those 4 teams and be better than everyone else. It is a Birmingham-Atlanta based league.
Get over it and just be LSU and win.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:24 pm to SpqrTiger
quote:
I'm just getting tired of the SEC lovefest in our shared culture. I'm going back to LSU lovefest in my head. frick the rest of the SEC.
Thanks. I've been on that wagon a while. Screw the rest of them.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:25 pm to SpqrTiger
quote:
If I watch SEC Nation, LSU is 1/14 of it, no more than anyone else, but I have to sit through 13/14 of the rest of the conference all the time.
So you're waiting on the LSU network to drop?
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:28 pm to SpqrTiger
No because I'm not a pussy.
By the way you and your bama/SEC/everyone hates LSU complex are exactly what's wrong with some of our fans.
What an embarrassment
By the way you and your bama/SEC/everyone hates LSU complex are exactly what's wrong with some of our fans.
What an embarrassment
This post was edited on 10/3/14 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:29 pm to burdman
quote:
So you're waiting on the LSU network to drop?
No. That's never going to happen.
You know how when MTV used to play videos and you wanted to watch your favorite Def Leppard video and you had to sit through hour after hour of Wham! and Duran Duran videos?
It makes you fricking hate Wham! and Duran Duran.
Saban and Kiffin would make an amazing Wham! video, though, come to think of it.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:30 pm to Honkus
quote:
By the way you and your bama/SEC/everyone hates LSU complex are exactly what's wrong with some of our fans.
I'm not saying THEY hate US.
I'm saying I hate THEM more.
Reading comprehension, fricker.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 3:54 pm to SpqrTiger
Many, not all of you points, are well received. I do feel the same about the SEC network. I feel a lot of my disappointment in the network is related to that abomination of a 'talk show' every afternoon. Fortunately, I work for a living and only catch it occasionally. Such a waste of air time that could, and should be used, better than that for the sake of the entire conference not just select group.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 4:03 pm to TheLSUriot
Living in Michigan I never understood all the dislike for fiunebaum. What a dick with ears. I watch when Lsu is on and that's it.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 4:08 pm to SpqrTiger
I am with you, but for different reasons.
Most teams plays their best game of the year against LSU. I am OK with this part due to recent historical results. It does happen though.
Our own alums, MS and ABM, should use Finebaum as a flyswatter when he starts all of the homer mind-garbage. They don't though.
Every bit of footage showing some other school making a good play shows them doing it against LSU, even if LSU STAIAMP, Then walked it dry.
They always explain why LSU can't, and everyone else can. I do not think this is on purpose, nor do I fall into the "ESPN-SEC hates us" category. I think they do it absent-mindedly, due to the deep seated feeling that we are different, and somehow less than the others, who are more similar.
I am unsure but I think part of your point is that we should build each other up, instead of eating our own.
In the meantime, their opining does carry a little less weight every day.
Most teams plays their best game of the year against LSU. I am OK with this part due to recent historical results. It does happen though.
Our own alums, MS and ABM, should use Finebaum as a flyswatter when he starts all of the homer mind-garbage. They don't though.
Every bit of footage showing some other school making a good play shows them doing it against LSU, even if LSU STAIAMP, Then walked it dry.
They always explain why LSU can't, and everyone else can. I do not think this is on purpose, nor do I fall into the "ESPN-SEC hates us" category. I think they do it absent-mindedly, due to the deep seated feeling that we are different, and somehow less than the others, who are more similar.
I am unsure but I think part of your point is that we should build each other up, instead of eating our own.
In the meantime, their opining does carry a little less weight every day.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 4:10 pm to SpqrTiger
I honestly don't give 2 fricks about Mizzou, or Carolina, or hell even Kentucky and Vandy. It barely feels like we're even in the same conference as them. A byproduct of expansion; it's impossible to feel a true "rivalry" with that many teams.
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