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Has LSU's Golden Age changed the way you feel about college football

Posted on 9/4/16 at 3:54 pm
Posted by LsuNav
Sacramento
Member since Mar 2008
1389 posts
Posted on 9/4/16 at 3:54 pm
Has our success changed college football for you? It certainly has for me.

I went To LSU in the 80's. Risher, Wickersham and Hilliard were names I remember from those years. We had ok teams and decent teams that were at times exciting. I can't say that I ever thought we were a national championship caliber team but I don't remember that mattering much. You could be an LSU fan and still enjoy the nationally relevant games. We weren't rooting for other teams to loose except for Alabama and Ole Miss. Time went on a Saban and Miles made us a national power. I found myself looking at other teams as threats. I would compare them to LSU somehow never giving that team their due. Our few losses became flukes that I could and would explain away. My perspective after the national championship that never was changed even more. The Alabama losses stung more and more. The first weekend of November is drill weekend for us reservists. Drill has seldom made me anxious but I'm always anxious on that Saturday. Now we get to yesterday. I was so disheartened I didn't want to watch another football game. I'm sure that will change but it made me think about how entitled some of us have become concerning football success. I need to remember that. It may help get me through another frustrating season. Thirty years ago that loss would been an "oh well". Maybe that is all a loss is ever is.
Posted by AZTiger7072
Tucson
Member since Oct 2011
2464 posts
Posted on 9/4/16 at 4:08 pm to
Ding Fing Ding!!

Yes, our fan base has become entitled.

Watch the games, cheer your arse off and whatever happens happens...

It's college football... It's not life
Posted by TDcline
American Gardens building 11th flor
Member since Aug 2015
9281 posts
Posted on 9/4/16 at 4:10 pm to
Those are some cuck responses that only come from years of being beaten into accepting mediocrity.
Posted by Tiger79
Zachary
Member since Apr 2009
7350 posts
Posted on 9/4/16 at 4:11 pm to
So we know you like Les Miles and don't want him fired. The Golden Age of LSU football ended 1/9
Posted by tigerbait2010
PNW
Member since May 2006
29259 posts
Posted on 9/4/16 at 4:12 pm to
We're 26-16 against P5 teams since 2011. There's nothing entitled about wanting better than that.
Posted by caliegeaux
Member since Aug 2004
10164 posts
Posted on 9/4/16 at 4:18 pm to
I disagree.

I lived through the the 70's, 80's and 90's. Was in an empty tiger stadium while Florida ran off arse whoopin after arse whoopin. I never thought I'd see an lsu championship in football. We now have 2. And I am not in the least bit entitled.

It's not entitlement when your program now recruits and pays coaches at elite levels, yet your watch games and your coach is not coachin at an elite level anymore. That's not entitlement. It's being observant. I supported miles for a long time. But after 2011 the excuses starting piling up. And now we can't even make excuses after ugly wins. We're making them after embarassing losses. It's not entitlement.
This post was edited on 9/4/16 at 4:24 pm
Posted by LsuNav
Sacramento
Member since Mar 2008
1389 posts
Posted on 9/4/16 at 5:02 pm to
Never a Miles fan but my post is about us not him.. Just curious about other (especially older) LSU fans feel.
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