I can't remember the last time I cared this little about LSU basketball

For me it was last year....

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Dale's last couple of years compares for me

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Not even close. I cared then because we were used to being pretty damn good in basketball for quite a while. I now look at basketball season as something that is a filler between football and baseball.

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Not even close.

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I guess it's a matter of perspective and opinion. It was for me. Four straight years of bad hoops. I even quit going to games at the end, which I'd never done before or since.

I see other programs that have consistency, which we used to enjoy. It was frustrating for a while but now I just don't care. As I have gotten older I have grown to love baseball more and more. Having the Dodgers and Angels has helped with that as well. There's the strategy in baseball that I love. Over the years basketball has lost much of its strategy and the finesse of the game has been lost. Too much of what used to be called traveling is allowed.

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We're playing our asses off and still getting our teeth kicked in. That sucks.

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No doubt. Especially for the players. FWIW with a healthy Turner and Warren I still think they'd have lost the last three but the OM game might have been interesting. I look for Stringer to find his shot once Turner is out there because the defense can't cheat as much when he's on the floor.

I'm not a basketball fan except for lsu... Straight up... You all sound like a bunch of bitches.

However long it may be lsu will get back in the final 4 and all you bandwagon fricks will be jumping right back on. FACT

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However long it may be lsu will get back in the final 4 and all you bandwagon fricks will be jumping right back on. FACT

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True, it happened in 2006. Very little interest for a 14-2 conference team and not even all that much until we beat Duke. Then it was a full-on bandwagon that was abondoned right after the UCLA game.

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Too much of what used to be called traveling is allowed.

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And palming the ball. I don't care any more. Basketball has become ghetto and if the rules were enforced, as Naismith created them, you wouldn't have this gangster ball.

Having said this, LSU deserves a better Basketball program.

It's all about winning. In 1987, people were football and basketball. Baseball averaged 600 fans per game despite being a CWS returnee.

Five years later, it was 1) basketball and a 4th consecutive 20 win season and 8 straight NCAA apperances - mixed in with an SEC title and some GREAT games. 2) baseball was just getting blasted off and in its 3rd season of sell-out games. 3) Football was nothing people kept up with so much. People in north LA rooted for NLU or Tech and laughed at LSU. Now, those same fans are LSU "fans".

Now, it's 1) football 2) baseball and 3) basketball. If basketball was like it was 2 decades ago, people would go and fans would be made. No one cares about basketball b/c no one talks about it to get them interested b/c no one likes talking about teams that lose by 25 each night. People root for teams that win and that's a shame but it's nature of the beast. People who are modern LSU fans or didn't attend school there will not suupport it during bad seasons, no matter the sport. That's why basketball is poorly attended. The only people wh olike it are the historians, students, and purists. I know some baseball fans who won't go near the PMAC.