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Tulane Fans
Posted on 12/29/10 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 12/29/10 at 10:38 pm
Why do they hate LSU so much. They really are not even our rivals that much. I just don't understand all the hatred. Seems like everytime I go to New Orleans there is some guy hating on LSU and pumping Tulane. How could one live in Louisiana and not be an LSU fan?
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Posted on 12/29/10 at 10:40 pm to DlineU
I would take those over the people who live here and blindly hate LSU because the state is obsessed. What a sad excuse to not support your state school!
Posted on 12/29/10 at 10:42 pm to DlineU
Maybe they're somehow affiliated with the university? 
I expirience the same thing when I go back home in Lafayette. It's mostly a penis envy kinda thing because no university has the degree of power that LSU has. Everthough Tulane has a better academic standing, their athletics suck and don't have near the size or funds that is granted to LSU.
I expirience the same thing when I go back home in Lafayette. It's mostly a penis envy kinda thing because no university has the degree of power that LSU has. Everthough Tulane has a better academic standing, their athletics suck and don't have near the size or funds that is granted to LSU.
Posted on 12/29/10 at 10:58 pm to DlineU
the only reason they could be jealous is because of our athletic program. other than that, i don't see any reason.
Posted on 12/29/10 at 11:03 pm to DlineU
From the way I have heard it explained in the past, in the old days (1940s-60s), if you lived in Louisiana and your family had money, you went to Tulane. Many people in that time period looked at LSU as a poor man's university. I heard this from my uncle who attended Tulane.
It reminds me of a banner I saw hanging in the Superdome when LSU went there to face Tulane in 1985. The banner read: "You will not find any AGRI in our CULTURE." I think that leads more credence to that belief ... subsequent generations have probably been taught to believe that way ... much the same way that LSU fans have magically become "corn dogs" over the past few years just because some Alabama and Auburn fans believed it should be that way.
Living in Alabama now, I do not hear that story from the Alabama graduates that I know, but the Auburn graduates (who graduated in the 1960s) always bring that fact out ... that when they were in school, LSU always had overcrowded classrooms because it was a "poor man's university" and anyone could get in - which is why they attended Auburn.
Not trying to start anything here ... just reporting what I have heard most of my life.
It reminds me of a banner I saw hanging in the Superdome when LSU went there to face Tulane in 1985. The banner read: "You will not find any AGRI in our CULTURE." I think that leads more credence to that belief ... subsequent generations have probably been taught to believe that way ... much the same way that LSU fans have magically become "corn dogs" over the past few years just because some Alabama and Auburn fans believed it should be that way.
Living in Alabama now, I do not hear that story from the Alabama graduates that I know, but the Auburn graduates (who graduated in the 1960s) always bring that fact out ... that when they were in school, LSU always had overcrowded classrooms because it was a "poor man's university" and anyone could get in - which is why they attended Auburn.
Not trying to start anything here ... just reporting what I have heard most of my life.
Posted on 12/29/10 at 11:58 pm to DlineU
Prior to Tulane Stadium being torn down and a few years after, LSU-TU was a HUGE rivalry. It's hard to imagine that now, but it was indeed. The rivalry was intense on both sides, even though at one point, LSU held a 25+ year winning streak. The 1971 or 1972 TU 14-0 victory at Tulane Stadium intensified it, along with Tulane winning 3 of 4 in the late early 80's. All week long before the game, people chose sides in the NOLA area. Believe it or not, MANY chose Tulane. Of course, many chose LSU as well. I remember clearly all us kids choosing sides in grammar school for the few years I was there. AFter that and with the Dome, the rivalry was all downhill. The second worst thng TU did for football was moving off campus to The Superdome. The first, of course, was leaving the SEC.
I remember going on a rented bus from a bar to the game with my dad in the very early 80's and Tulane somehow won 48-7. The Dome was nuts on both sides. It was pretty passionate. I also was fortunate to see LSU win by almost the same score in the Dome a few years before. It was also just as passionate at Tiger Stadium.
I believe if TU was to build a 35-50K outdoor stadium on campus, the program would be worthwhile again. They had very respectable attendance at Tulane Stadium and many were season ticket holders. I am not a rabid TU fan, but I think that would be great.
I remember going on a rented bus from a bar to the game with my dad in the very early 80's and Tulane somehow won 48-7. The Dome was nuts on both sides. It was pretty passionate. I also was fortunate to see LSU win by almost the same score in the Dome a few years before. It was also just as passionate at Tiger Stadium.
I believe if TU was to build a 35-50K outdoor stadium on campus, the program would be worthwhile again. They had very respectable attendance at Tulane Stadium and many were season ticket holders. I am not a rabid TU fan, but I think that would be great.
This post was edited on 12/30/10 at 12:07 am
Posted on 12/30/10 at 12:26 am to DlineU
Theyre just upset their fan support/numbers are diminishing, while LSU's is having the opposite effect. Tulane used to have a decent fan base, but now LSU's women's basketball fanbase is larger than Tulane's entire athletic support system. The Tulane fan is an endangered species.
Posted on 12/30/10 at 12:27 am to DlineU
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Why do they hate LSU so much
They have no reason to cheer for their own pathetic teams. It's more entertaining to root for LSU's opponents than to sit in their 80+% empty venues to see Toolame lose to other bottom-feeders.
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Seems like everytime I go to New Orleans there is some guy hating on LSU and pumping Tulane.
You have the uncanny misfortune of encountering 1 of the same 20 or so sadsacks. Don't worry about that problem. Their dwindling fanbase has a microscopic # of fans less than 40. Once the Baby Boomer fans are all dead or too decrepit to talk smack, there won't be any Green Weenies left to hassle you.
Posted on 12/30/10 at 1:10 am to DlineU
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Seems like everytime I go to New Orleans there is some guy hating on LSU and pumping Tulane.
During the LSU-Florida game this year we watched the game at the NOLA Bulldog (Mid-City). Some Tulane students showed up decked out in Florida gear,would constantly walk over to our table and gator chomp, and kept trying to tell everyone around that they were getting a "real education" at Tulane.
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How could one live in Louisiana and not be an LSU fan?
Easily. Before I came to LSU, I didn't care about its athletic program. Didn't hate it, but didn't care.
Posted on 12/30/10 at 5:27 am to DlineU
Who cares what Tulane fans think?
Posted on 12/30/10 at 5:47 am to DlineU
Yada, Yada, Yada ... Huge rivalry in the past when majority of Tulanians were from the local area, then they went for the Ivy League rejects and voila! There you have it.
Posted on 12/30/10 at 5:54 am to DlineU
What Tulane fans? I am a LSU fan, but I enjoy Tulane too. Tulane's problem is that very few Louisianians attend school there. The student body does not support their teams. Tulane football needs to recruit more kids from Louisiana if it expects to regain some respect. It is very hard to get fans to root for kids who have no roots here whatsoever.
Posted on 12/30/10 at 6:34 am to DlineU
My brother is dating a Tulane grad, and she's been, IMO, "brainwashed" to loathe LSU by her family because "most of the fanbase didn't even attend the university." My responses include what many have already stated:
-It's the flagship university of Louisiana.
-More Louisianaians can relate to LSU than Tulane because a higher percentage of out-of-towners attend Tulane; therefore there is a sense of disconnect, even from NOLAers, to Tulane.
-LSU is much more accessible to watch on TV, listen on the radio, and even attend games.
-The Tulane teams, for the most part, are subpar to LSU's teams; therefore, it is much more enjoyable to be a part of LSU's success.
-Jokingly, I tell her, "Those are some cute witttle pwayers for Tuwane. They are soooo adowabwle. I almost feel sorry for the arse beating they are about to receive." The key word is almost.
-It's the flagship university of Louisiana.
-More Louisianaians can relate to LSU than Tulane because a higher percentage of out-of-towners attend Tulane; therefore there is a sense of disconnect, even from NOLAers, to Tulane.
-LSU is much more accessible to watch on TV, listen on the radio, and even attend games.
-The Tulane teams, for the most part, are subpar to LSU's teams; therefore, it is much more enjoyable to be a part of LSU's success.
-Jokingly, I tell her, "Those are some cute witttle pwayers for Tuwane. They are soooo adowabwle. I almost feel sorry for the arse beating they are about to receive." The key word is almost.
Posted on 12/30/10 at 7:05 am to DlineU
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Why do they hate LSU so much.
That's all they have to live for.
Posted on 12/30/10 at 7:28 am to DlineU
quit trolling
Posted on 12/30/10 at 7:56 am to DlineU
Oldest rivalry in Louisiana, and one of the oldest in sports. It is fading with each generation though. I would bet its older guys (40+) if Im guessing.
Posted on 12/30/10 at 9:38 am to DlineU
I am at a loss as to why Tulane is still perceived to be "superior" academically to LSU.
Because their """""""""""ENTRANCE""""""""""" requirements are higher (that is higher ACT/SAT scores) - that somehow follows that the ENTIRE Tulane University is superior to the ENTIRE Louisiana State University???
Because you have to score higher on the SAT to be accepted at Tulane, that means Tulane is "better???" Skunk Poop.....
How are Ph.D Professors teaching at a building on St. Charles Avenue in N.O. automatically superior to Ph.D Professors teaching the same courses with the same texts at a building on Highland Road in B.R. ?????
How? Explain that to me please.
And they say: "uh, weeellll, Tulane's class sizes are smaller." Oh no, they're not. Actually LSU's upper level classes and grad classes are average size or smaller than any other university - private or public.
If you open LSU's catalogue - there are pages upon pages listed in the Faculty Section - they are """""""""""ALLLLLLLL""""""""""" Ph.Ds - from "AAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL over the world."
Furthermore, LSU runs circles around Tulane as far as research, grants, funding, projects, etc.
LSU is a Tier I level institution, just like Tulane; and has Top Five programs in: Petroleum Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Landscape Architecture, and Top 30 Programs in Agribusiness, Entrepreneurial Science, Hurricane Meteorology, Music & Dramatic Arts, MBA Program,
Geophysics, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and many others.
LSU also has one of the premiere Academic Centers for Student-Athletes on the planet.
Tulane likes to label themselves as the "Harvard of the South." Yeah, ok. Tell me another fairy story.
Because their """""""""""ENTRANCE""""""""""" requirements are higher (that is higher ACT/SAT scores) - that somehow follows that the ENTIRE Tulane University is superior to the ENTIRE Louisiana State University???
Because you have to score higher on the SAT to be accepted at Tulane, that means Tulane is "better???" Skunk Poop.....
How are Ph.D Professors teaching at a building on St. Charles Avenue in N.O. automatically superior to Ph.D Professors teaching the same courses with the same texts at a building on Highland Road in B.R. ?????
How? Explain that to me please.
And they say: "uh, weeellll, Tulane's class sizes are smaller." Oh no, they're not. Actually LSU's upper level classes and grad classes are average size or smaller than any other university - private or public.
If you open LSU's catalogue - there are pages upon pages listed in the Faculty Section - they are """""""""""ALLLLLLLL""""""""""" Ph.Ds - from "AAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL over the world."
Furthermore, LSU runs circles around Tulane as far as research, grants, funding, projects, etc.
LSU is a Tier I level institution, just like Tulane; and has Top Five programs in: Petroleum Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Landscape Architecture, and Top 30 Programs in Agribusiness, Entrepreneurial Science, Hurricane Meteorology, Music & Dramatic Arts, MBA Program,
Geophysics, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and many others.
LSU also has one of the premiere Academic Centers for Student-Athletes on the planet.
Tulane likes to label themselves as the "Harvard of the South." Yeah, ok. Tell me another fairy story.
This post was edited on 12/30/10 at 9:49 am
Posted on 12/30/10 at 10:57 am to DlineU
they see this when they see LSU
they think this when they see Tulane
they think this when they see Tulane
Posted on 12/30/10 at 11:01 am to DlineU
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Seems like everytime I go to New Orleans there is some guy hating on LSU and pumping Tulane
I call BS
Everyone knows Tulane has ZERO fans
Posted on 12/30/10 at 1:02 pm to DlineU
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Why do they hate LSU so much.
Because Tulane sucks, LSU is everything they wished Tulane would be. I have family who are die hard Tulane fans, they hate LSU with a passion. IN fact, some Tulane fans get more satisfaction out of LSU losing then Tulane winning...kinda pathetic.
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