New Orleans not huge Tiger Fans...

New Orleans kids are douche bags

I went to LSU late 80's-mid 90's and knew TONS of people from N.O. LSU seemed like the place to be for them...

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Is the city contributing to the LSU fan base?

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More like the other way around.

Representin' in NOLA

New Orleans high school graduate is an oxymoron.

You were obviously brainwashed and abused as a child to accept such inferior things. Either that, or your parents were fat frick YATS who loved Tulane and hated LSU. Either way, you have seen the way, the truth and the light. For that you should be eternally grateful.

/j/k/tongue in cheek.....

eta: I don't know, as I went to high school in NOVA, had a 31 ACT, had my choice between VA Tech, James Madison, Texas A&M, West Point and LSU, and I chose LSU. So in all honesty, f*ck the snobs, and lets have a spelling bee and chess match.

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It didn't seem strange to me at all that so many "of us" went to Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, UVA, Auburn, etc.

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This is what I don't get. I can see leaving the state to go to a prestigious private school like Vanderbilt, Duke, etc. I could even see leaving for a really good state school like Michigan or UVa, but to leave the state just to go to another cookie-cutter state school that is basically the same as LSU makes no sense. Why pay the extra out-of-state tuition for basically the same experience and education? Out of that group you mentioned, only UVa is significantly better than LSU, but the others are essentially the same.

I started following LSU basketball just after Dale Brown retired. Not sure why because those were some mediocre/bad teams for a little while

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Growing up there, I was NEVER an LSU fan, always a Saints fan. LSU seemed very removed from my life as a kid and through high school.

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Proof that New Orleans is not Louisiana and that the Saints are New Orleans' team and LSU is Louisiana's team!

NOLA is an urban port city, known the world over. Culturally diverse, of course, but religiously dominated by Catholicism, and if you were a middle-class or higher Catholic, you did not send your kid to the public school in NOLA. This is not my opinion, this is fact. Also, you actually had Tulane, Notre Dame, and the Saints competing with LSU for fanship. And, my point, fanship and where you attended HS often influenced your choice of college. [these foregoing facts have
changed rapidly over the last 25 years].

Nonetheless, while plenty of students from NOLA high schools, both private and public, feed to LSU, a good number don't. There are so many contributing factors, but suffice it to say, LSU, and I speak as a NOLA native, alum to LSU and Brother Martin,
is not the best school in every field. And then there's the Carnegie Mellon Scale (basically, a rating of overall academic quality), which to this day, and I think unfairly, still considers LSU a Tier III School, while most of the other SEC Schools are Tier II. When you look at the other schools in Tier III, you see what complete BS the rating is, but it is, nonetheless, a rating system that is considered legitimate and taken seriously.