re: I have a theory about this whole positiger/negatiger thing...

Agree with those who associate positiger attitudes with having followed the team through many lean years. indirectly, I think age is a factor - only the older fans have that perspective and are more likely to be positigers. Younger fans are more inclined to think LSU's recent winning seasons are the most appropriate baseline from which to judge.

In my quest to understand this whole issue, I have come to understand that positigers are generally very realistic about problems with LSU football, but simply choose to be positive about it.

On the other hand, negatigers seem to be unrealistic (dramatic and exaggerating) and choose to dwell incessantly on every negative detail.

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This Posi/Nega stuff is total BS. I have been a devoted fan / season ticket holder since I attended LSU back in the early 90's I have been through the very thin times as well as this "Golden Age" of LSU football (current status).

LSU was horrible when I was at LSU (Mike Archer to Curley Hallman). We were bad and I said so back then. My problem is that CLM had a very conservative approach. I am often at odds with his decisions (play calling, personnel groups, who we redshirt, clock management, etc.).

That said, when we play well I give them credit. When they play like shite, I say so. I have some friends that are 100% posi. They are near impossible to even have a conversation with about LSU football. Everything is a conspiracy theory why or how we didn't achieve. It can never be anyones fault (coaches or players) in their eyes. They are consumed by their purple and gold vision.

So because I am a realist I love LSU less than the Posi's? bullshite!!!

I know a lot about football. I am a football coach. I see things for exactly what they are. You either get the job done or you don't. There is no gray area - coaches and players alike.

Put me in whatever category you like. I am a realist. I won't back down from being such or apologize. That is how I am wired.

My biggest gripe is the posters who flip flop all over the place depending on how LSU looked in the last game or three.

The ones that in preseason predict 15-0 and say LSU will beat say Wisconsin by 40 points and MSU by 35 then turn around after the two losses and think LSU will not qualify for a bowl and that Miles needs to be fired immediately.

I think we all look at LSU and think we know them well. In fact we know them better than most analysts, but we forget that their is an opponent that we don't know as well playing the Tigers. We kicked their butts or we gave that one away scenario.

I don't mind some inconsistency in the posters because we all see regression or improvement in the team in various aspects of their play. However the radical bipolar type posters are hard to take...and I will include the extreme consistent positive and negative ones as well. These people are clueless to me.

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Nega, please

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I find it just the opposite. From the "positigers" i have encountered they, for the most part seem delusional, angry, judgmental and quite frankly ignorant. They also seem to have nothing better to do than to sit by their computer all day just waiting to attack and belittle a common sense or what they perceive to be negative comment. I have huge problems with Miles at times and at times, I do not. In any event, Miles and this LSU team always have my full support, so please do not try and label me. BTW, I grew up on the LSU lakes, went to U -High and attended LSU... Theory busted.