re: The chant, STTDB

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No one answered this.... I wonder why?

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i think most people with common sense hates STTDB. That doesn't mean I agree with the people who want to take seating away

You didn't need to quote him, I read it the first time. I simply do not believe that entire chant was as clear and as audible as he thinks it was.

I didn't say anything was right or wrong. I said I fully understand that some people or groups are going to say what they want regardless of what others think. I would never want to take away your right to express your obsession with sucking dicks. I'm just saying that LSU as a whole looks like trash when the entire student section does it.

It's clearly not my obsession. Since you read it the first two times, you fully understand that chanting about sucking dicks has been an LSU trademark since the 70's .

Again, like I said earlier, I'm not pro-STTDB. I've said several times in this thread I agree it is stupid. But, to treat the current students as trash because of current chants is hypocritical. It's always happened. It will most likely continue to happen. And it happens everywhere.

I hope we keep it. We may not be able to beat A&M next year if Manziel doesn't hear something about sucking dicks.

My opinion on the matter is as follows:
1. STTDB was an act of protest done in revenge to make a point for how stupid it was to ban "Ooh-we-ooh" for the whole "you suck cock" episode.
2. STTDB is a stupid cheer, but that was the idea. It was supposed to be a stupid, immature, futile gesture, much like the antics of the Delta's of "Animal House". I maintain that it was just stupid in general.
3. STTDB is a stupid cheer that would have died on its own (mostly due to its stupidity) if "Neck" had not been banned.
4. STTDB will remain a common cheer at LSU events for quite some time due to "Neck" being banned.
5. The best way to get college-aged persons to do something is to tell them they are BANNED from doing so.
6. The best way to stop teenagers and college-aged people from doing something is for people they don't consider cool to adopt that thing, own, it, condone it, and encourage it. Once that happens, it will no longer be rebellious or cool and the fad will die out.

The correct approach by the administration should have been to reinstate "o-e-o", "Tiger Rag", and "Neck" while having videos showing old faculty doing those chants (possibly while wearing flatbills and having their pants on the ground to kill 3 awful trends at once), and simply ask TV networks to cease mic-ing the student section. CBS games showing LSU make the network a lot of money and they would be willing to compromise on the mic-ing if it meant not losing those precious high ratings games.

In one season (maybe longer for the "a-hole" cheer), you would no longer have obscenities chanted "en-masse" by the student section being picked up on National Television.

Yeah, it was probably just as loud and clear in the 70's as it is now. I didn't hear it in the 90's and that must have been why it was such a bad decade.

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kingbob

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Fully agree. The "ooh-we-ooh" ban snowballed this whole thing. It's interesting how STTDB has grown because it's one stupid act followed by another. But, like you said, the best way to get college aged kids to do something is to tell them they can't.

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My opinion on the matter is as follows:
1. STTDB was an act of protest done in revenge to make a point for how stupid it was to ban "Ooh-we-ooh" for the whole "you suck cock" episode.
2. STTDB is a stupid cheer, but that was the idea. It was supposed to be a stupid, immature, futile gesture, much like the antics of the Delta's of "Animal House". I maintain that it was just stupid in general.
3. STTDB is a stupid cheer that would have died on its own (mostly due to its stupidity) if "Neck" had not been banned.
4. STTDB will remain a common cheer at LSU events for quite some time due to "Neck" being banned.
5. The best way to get college-aged persons to do something is to tell them they are BANNED from doing so.
6. The best way to stop teenagers and college-aged people from doing something is for people they don't consider cool to adopt that thing, own, it, condone it, and encourage it. Once that happens, it will no longer be rebellious or cool and the fad will die out.

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This isn't opinion, this is pretty much how it went down.

Oh-we-oh should have never been banned, it was the USCe game, that's their mascot.

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How loud was the STTDB chant?

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It was loud. The entire bridal party was screaming this while we drank crown and waters.