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re: Hard to get excited about any player coming when they're only there for the money, not LSU
Posted on 1/12/26 at 11:12 pm to tigermed2
Posted on 1/12/26 at 11:12 pm to tigermed2
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The difference now is the portal.
And the amount of money players are getting. Was nowhere near this. Players are staying in college to make more money than in the NFL. Again, not the same as it was before
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Posted on 1/12/26 at 11:48 pm to mdomingue
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Explain it to me like I'm 5 years old.
When posters reply with snarky comments ("Now you're a mind reader" or "don't watch" or "You should fish on Saturdays in the fall" or "Ill call you a dumbass" or "grow up") to a sincere sentiment, I just decide to return serve.
If all the CFB / LSU fans say over 40 heeded the advice and walked away, is that good for the game? That would likely be what 30-40% of the fans. And there are knuckleheads who advocate for that?
The things that made CFB the greatest sport on terra firma are now just throwaway relics of a bygone era. Things like traditions, rivalries, and continuum between school-players-team. We used to tell our children 'we are Tigers and everyone else is Tiger-bait.' Now, wait a year it's the opposite.
Then, once-a-Tiger, always a Tiger. And once Tiger bait, always Tiger bait. Now we have players transferring to Ole Miss and theirs to us. Something's wrong in this picture. Really, really wrong.
So when I ask sarcastically "Is this why MiLB is exploding in popularity?," it's because that is what CFB is morphing into. It'll take some time. CFB still has a lot momentum and the expanded playoffs will generate some spikes in interest. But over time on this course, it will become MiNFL.
And the people telling us not to watch, I doubt they're buying lots of season tickets to see the Lugnuts.
Posted on 1/12/26 at 11:48 pm to friendlyobservation
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Why is it one and not the other too? Why not both?
Listen with your eyes.
25+% of roster turns over annually.
That ain’t “both”.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 12:04 am to etm512
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First to act like what was happening back then and now is the same is a false equivalency and disingenuous.
I know (at a distance) a handful of major college football players from late 70s (RD), early 80s (PC and JW), 90s (CD), and mid-2000s from LSU, Ole MIss, Bama, and UF. All starters and some played NFL but to my knowledge, none of them got anything lucrative from their schools. One (all-SEC) after UF days wanted to open a Dairy Queen on Cocoa Beach for income. Another lives in a simple house in rural MS.
Not saying no one got paid but I think a lot of this talk about players always getting paid 'back then' is overstated. Getting paid back then usually meant getting a summer job somewhere. Heck, I think Risher worked on a highway construction crew for a summer job.
And not a few name programs were hammered with probation for this kind of stuff (SMU - death penalty, Bama, Auburn, OU).
But what's is happening now with NIL is a new specie.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:32 am to homemadeshine
We can still enjoy and take pride in our traditions, the camaraderie, our food, our tailgates, our unique culture, our passion, our reputation, our joie de vivre…
I’m going to keep going to Tiger Stadium and screaming and cheering as long as I have breath-
Just because a beer or pizza pays somebody to represent them in advertisements, it doesn’t taint or lessen my enjoyment of the product
I’m going to keep going to Tiger Stadium and screaming and cheering as long as I have breath-
Just because a beer or pizza pays somebody to represent them in advertisements, it doesn’t taint or lessen my enjoyment of the product
Posted on 1/13/26 at 4:37 am to homemadeshine
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Call me old fashion, but I would rather sign a 2/3 star player that loves LSU
And be 7-6 or worse every year. Also, did you see the attendance at the final few home games this year after LSU was playing for nothing?
This is how I rationalize it because I hate the new way as well as you.
Either you in it to win or not! LSU did not create the current situation college football is in so they have a decision do we try to win or not? If yes then you have to do what they are doing period.
A roster full of only 2-3 star players and not compete in the portal will get your arse kicked in the SEC today.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 6:00 am to homemadeshine
Old fashion
Posted on 1/13/26 at 6:01 am to homemadeshine
Think differently.
Most of these guys could get money from a lot of places. They choose to get it from LSU.
Most of these guys could get money from a lot of places. They choose to get it from LSU.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 6:11 am to homemadeshine
Times have changed (as they always do). Is what it is. And, so to has my enjoyment of it.
Games are far less stressful now.
Games are far less stressful now.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 6:30 am to homemadeshine
It is still LSU's team. 
Posted on 1/13/26 at 6:34 am to homemadeshine
In general I feel the same way however, after a night game in Death Valley I believe all players feel,see, experience something that's in another world !
Posted on 1/13/26 at 6:36 am to homemadeshine
Have you ever had a job where you wanted to be there, but also wanted more money?
Posted on 1/13/26 at 6:38 am to homemadeshine
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Call me old fashion - - - just using LSU for a paycheck
I'm with you wholeheartedly. I remember the days when the players were mostly from Louisiana and you could follow their progress thru the full 4 years they were in school & then graduate and on with their lives, with great memories.
Now, I doubt that any of them actually take real classes leading to a degree.
I's more like a semi-pro team where you never know from day to day who is on the roster.
I don't like it - I gave up Major League Baseball yeas ago when they went on strike for more money. Made me realize we were watching people work, not play. It became like watching a different circus every week. Now that blight has seeped all the way down to college football.
This post was edited on 1/13/26 at 6:39 am
Posted on 1/13/26 at 6:45 am to homemadeshine
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just using LSU for a paycheck.
It’s been like this for the last 25 years. Don’t you remember O’s statement : “Back then, we used to walk through the back door with the cash. Now, we just got to walk through the front door with the cash.”
Imagine O walking through your backdoor with a grocery bag filled with $3,000,000 or more so your son could play for LSU for a year. You would have still been cheering your arse off, even if the newspapers didn’t know how much he was getting paid.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 7:21 am to homemadeshine
quote:and many will transfer out the next year for more money.
Hard to get excited about any player coming when they're only there for the money, not LSU
I still root for the Tigers, but my emotional connection to LSU sports, and college sports in general, has been greatly diminished.
The interest is there, but the passion is gone.
College sports is broken.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 7:25 am to StadiumDormNEZ72
quote:that’s what NIL was SUPPOSED to be, and i’d be ok with that.
Just because a beer or pizza pays somebody to represent them in advertisements, it doesn’t taint or lessen my enjoyment of the product
But that’s not what NIL is.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 7:26 am to homemadeshine
Don't you ever get tired of creating these crappy posts?
Do you like cheering for a new team every year?
College football gains new fans every year. Young kids start watching for the first time. College kids start enjoying football where there are going to school. New people tune into college football.
New fans every year.
College football loses old fans every year. Peoples' lives get busier with new priorities. Money gets spent on more pressing issues. Age gets all of us.
Lose fans every year.
Viewership is up. Attendance is up. YOU may not be watching it as much. YOU may have lost some interest as you age. That's life.
College football is doing fine. It did fine before you started cheering, and it will do fine after you leave.
Do you like cheering for a new team every year?
College football gains new fans every year. Young kids start watching for the first time. College kids start enjoying football where there are going to school. New people tune into college football.
New fans every year.
College football loses old fans every year. Peoples' lives get busier with new priorities. Money gets spent on more pressing issues. Age gets all of us.
Lose fans every year.
Viewership is up. Attendance is up. YOU may not be watching it as much. YOU may have lost some interest as you age. That's life.
College football is doing fine. It did fine before you started cheering, and it will do fine after you leave.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 7:41 am to homemadeshine
I suspect that, eventually, college programs will formally become affiliates of NFL franchises. The schools would get paid to host the affiliate teams (who would retain thier names, etc), and the NFL would handle the contracts with the players. Yes it would be corporate and boring, but fans could still tailgate, the band can still play a little (like they do now), and stability would return to amateur (college) football. Were almost there now, just need the NFL tie in.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 7:44 am to homemadeshine
quote:agreed. It takes some of the shine off recruiting success and maybe team success in general when they are all just paid employees. Hopefully they play inspired by more than just money.
Hard to get excited about any player coming when they're only there for the money, not LSU
Posted on 1/13/26 at 7:45 am to KLSU
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Either you in it to win or not! LSU did not create the current situation college football is in so they have a decision do we try to win or not? If yes then you have to do what they are doing period.
That seems entirely reasonable for the school. But the OP was talking about the fans. And there seems to be a strange notion on message boards like this that we are somehow compelled or obligated to love whatever the NCAA tells us to love. Not caring about a "sport" is still an option. Most of us are LSU fans because we came to love college football and LSU is our team. But if that sport -- the sport we fell in love with -- no longer exists, why would we feel compelled to invest our time, energy, emotion and -- especially -- money into whatever bastardized creation they put on display?
Many people on here comment extesively about how they don't care about womens basketball, or softball, or tennis, or swimming & diving, or some other LSU sports. Presumably, that is because they simply aren't invested in those sports because those sports don't appeal to them. If what happens on Saturday nights in the fall isn't the sport that we grew up loving, who is to say that it necessarily has to appeal to us? If you don't care about LSU's Gymnastics team, why should the OP care about LSU's Minor League NFL team? I don't particularly care about the sport of baseball, but I love LSU baseball solely and specifically because it is LSU athletes competing for LSU. The same has always been true for LSU Football as well. The more that reality diminishes, the more that emotion investment is uncertain. And that is 100% not a diminution of my (or anyone else's) love or commitment to LSU's College Football team, it is only a consequence of LSU (along with the rest of the NCAA) abandoning College Football as a sport.
College Football is 100% dying, especially at the "Major" level like LSU. Whether any particular fan of College Football feels an emotional attachment to the new sport being introduced is completely up to them. Passing on that is no different than anyone else passing on any other LSU endeavor. Would you pay thousands of dollars for season tickets to watch LSU's groundskeeping staff do their job? No? Then why would you pay that to watch some other LSU employee doing their job? If it's because you find professional football entertaining, I've got news for you: there's MUCH better professional football happening every Sunday throughout football season (and even longer, for now). Maybe you love even more professional football, and if so that's great for you. But the history of past minor leagues of pro football suggests that most people don't share that love; at least, not enough to make such a league viable.
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