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Has LSU's Golden Age changed the way you feel about college football
Posted on 9/4/16 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 9/4/16 at 3:54 pm
Has our success changed college football for you? It certainly has for me.
I went To LSU in the 80's. Risher, Wickersham and Hilliard were names I remember from those years. We had ok teams and decent teams that were at times exciting. I can't say that I ever thought we were a national championship caliber team but I don't remember that mattering much. You could be an LSU fan and still enjoy the nationally relevant games. We weren't rooting for other teams to loose except for Alabama and Ole Miss. Time went on a Saban and Miles made us a national power. I found myself looking at other teams as threats. I would compare them to LSU somehow never giving that team their due. Our few losses became flukes that I could and would explain away. My perspective after the national championship that never was changed even more. The Alabama losses stung more and more. The first weekend of November is drill weekend for us reservists. Drill has seldom made me anxious but I'm always anxious on that Saturday. Now we get to yesterday. I was so disheartened I didn't want to watch another football game. I'm sure that will change but it made me think about how entitled some of us have become concerning football success. I need to remember that. It may help get me through another frustrating season. Thirty years ago that loss would been an "oh well". Maybe that is all a loss is ever is.
I went To LSU in the 80's. Risher, Wickersham and Hilliard were names I remember from those years. We had ok teams and decent teams that were at times exciting. I can't say that I ever thought we were a national championship caliber team but I don't remember that mattering much. You could be an LSU fan and still enjoy the nationally relevant games. We weren't rooting for other teams to loose except for Alabama and Ole Miss. Time went on a Saban and Miles made us a national power. I found myself looking at other teams as threats. I would compare them to LSU somehow never giving that team their due. Our few losses became flukes that I could and would explain away. My perspective after the national championship that never was changed even more. The Alabama losses stung more and more. The first weekend of November is drill weekend for us reservists. Drill has seldom made me anxious but I'm always anxious on that Saturday. Now we get to yesterday. I was so disheartened I didn't want to watch another football game. I'm sure that will change but it made me think about how entitled some of us have become concerning football success. I need to remember that. It may help get me through another frustrating season. Thirty years ago that loss would been an "oh well". Maybe that is all a loss is ever is.
Posted on 9/4/16 at 4:08 pm to LsuNav
Ding Fing Ding!!
Yes, our fan base has become entitled.
Watch the games, cheer your arse off and whatever happens happens...
It's college football... It's not life
Yes, our fan base has become entitled.
Watch the games, cheer your arse off and whatever happens happens...
It's college football... It's not life
Posted on 9/4/16 at 4:10 pm to LsuNav
Those are some cuck responses that only come from years of being beaten into accepting mediocrity.
Posted on 9/4/16 at 4:12 pm to LsuNav
We're 26-16 against P5 teams since 2011. There's nothing entitled about wanting better than that.
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