Everybody that’s ever went to college uses it as a “mean to an end” it’s a stepping stone in what hopefully helps vault your life to the next step. There are very few alumni that represent their school and talk up there school and program the way LSU guys do. Patrick Peterson, Tyrann Mathieu (even after being kicked off) have both given back and come back and promote the program weekly. Guys like Donte Jackson and Leonard Fournette seem to tweet about LSU nearly every other day and that’s just to name a few guys. And yes anybody especially from a lower income family would love to use football as the way out for themselves and their families that’s just common sense and yes the quicker you can get paid (while also trying to balance future earning potential by potentially returning) the better.

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Posted by lostinbr

Baton Rouge, LA

Member since Oct 2017

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Posted on 5/2/21 at 8:18 pm to Wrucker16

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Everybody that’s ever went to college uses it as a “mean to an end” it’s a stepping stone in what hopefully helps vault your life to the next step.

This is a great point, and is worth repeating.

As others have said, you have some players that grew up LSU fans and are honored to be here. You have some who didn’t necessarily grow up as fans, but take great pride in playing for LSU. You have some who are here strictly to get to the next level and don’t really care about school pride. And you probably have some who are disenchanted for whatever reason and wish they had gone somewhere else.

In other words, pretty much the same spectrum as any school’s student body or any company’s employee base. And I would be willing to bet that a lot of those kids from low-income families - especially Louisiana families - are more grateful to the university than many folks would like to believe. Are they 100% selflessly devoted to LSU? Probably not, but not many college kids are.

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