re: Why is wanting better for LSU football a negative?

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Why is wanting better for LSU football a negative?
most threads I read where someone discusses the reality of our program people constantly bash them and tell them to support Bama.

What's wrong with wanting to compete for championships?

LSU has every quality you need to do this, yet coaching seems to be keeping us down.

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I really didn't get through the first 3 or 4 pages of this thread because quite frankly, starting with the last sentence of the OP it just degenerated into the usual tit for tat.

But here is an attempt to answer your questions legitimately without bashing either way:

You ask why wanting better is a negative? The answer is it isn't. I think if you started a thread titled "I want LSU to have a better year next year" not too many people would disagree with that desire.

You ask what's wrong with wanting to compete for championships? The answer is nothing. I think if you started a thread titled "I want LSU to compete for championships next year" no one would disagree with that desire.

What I think is "negative" is when the vast majority of any poster's posts are ... well, negative. Always downing the program or a part of the program. Always concentrating on the negative.

Football is a form of entertainment. It is meant for people to enjoy. There is a lot to enjoy and be entertained (for me at least)in watching the Tigers, even in relatively down years.

There are reasons the old sayings like "enjoy the journey not the destination" and "look at the bright side of things" have been around so long and repeated so many times.

If something like a football game or season is making someone so unhappy that all they can do is complain about this or that, then that person maybe is investing in the wrong form of entertainment. (I realize that there are all kinds of personalities in the world and some people may actually get a form of joy or entertainment out of constantly complaining or bitching. That seems a shallow form of joy but perhaps for those people that's as good as it can get).

Anyway, that's my philosophical musings on your questions.