Why is everyone so pent up upon booing our football team?

If this team would be playing now how would it be accepted?

LINK Go down to the bottom of the page and click on the year and see for yourself the previous years games.

1958 scheduleat Rice
26 - 6 W Sep 20, 1958

at Alabama
13 - 3 W Sep 27, 1958

vs Hardin-Simmons
20 - 6 W Oct 4, 1958

at Miami
41 - 0 W Oct 10, 1958

vs Kentucky
32 - 7 W Oct 18, 1958

vs Florida
10 - 7 W Oct 25, 1958

vs Mississippi
14 - 0 W Nov 1, 1958

vs Duke
50 - 18 W Nov 8, 1958

at Mississippi State
7 - 6 W Nov 15, 1958

at Tulane
62 - 0 W Nov 22, 1958

1958-59 Sugar Bowl
vs Clemson
7 - 0 W Jan 1, 1959

LSU is winning granted not the way we want or would like and a lot of you do not like the Coaching staff. But, why do you want to take a chance at ruining this teams chemistry, what little there is, to get at the Coaching staff? What if this team that all of you are bent on booing for the first mistake in this game Saturday night would happen to go undefeated like the one above? I do not understand why you want the team to be error less but, at the same time you want to create an atmosphere for them to loose in and that is what puzzles me.

This team is made up of young men who came to this university to play the sport they love and do not think for a minute that the young men we are recruiting now are going to be seeing what you the so called LSU Fans are doing when you start booing them for making a mistake.

Every game is the beginning of a new game, the previous game is history win or loose and as athletes they are taught to forget that last game and focus on this game. Why can't we as fans do the same thing. Look at that schedule of the 1958 National Champions, a team that every team here at LSU is measured by, they went through a year much like this team this year is going through. Coach Deitzel split that team into 3 different teams in oder to have them all have a part in the team on the field because he felt it gave them a better shot at winning.

You think the going was easy? When you see the records of the previous 5 years you will see that back then nobody was expecting LSU to win crap. Look at it for yourself.

1957 6-5; 1956 3-7 the first 6 were loses;
1955 3-5-2; 1954 5-6; 1953 5-3-3

As you can see LSU was not a great power. What do you think those fans where thinking by the time they got down to Miss St and that year they were 3-6 and held LSU to a 7-6 score. How would have reacted to that game?

You can say all you want to about me I do not care, because there is not a single one of you I would drive over 500 miles to see, let alone play football. But, I believe over 25,000 fans would not have driven to see this team play at Vandy if they did not think LSU did not have a chance at winning that game and all the rest and they did not love their Tigers. Vandy or no Vandy, this is the SEC where on any given day/night a team can beat another team if the team that is expected to win does not play good enough to win.

I ask you this week not to boo those kids let them play their game and let's hope they keep progressing each week and by the end of the year let's see where they stand. I know you want to act like the bully on the block or on the school ground but, with this team as fans we can make or break this teams year by going out in that stadium and booing. I feel there is a better way to get your point across and that is by staying home and keeping your tickets to your self and letting the empty seats speak for you.

If you do not think that will work just try it once and you will see how loud of a message that would speak. But, I ask you do not boo those kids, those kids are not the Coaches so I ask you do not cost them their shot at winning it all after all they have not lost a game. Boo me but do not I am asking you as a Tiger Fan do not boo the team!

As Always! I SAY!