re: I should know this but why do we not wear purple (Home) jerseys more often for home games

They're believed to be bad luck when we wear them with gold helmets and pants.

There's no superstition associated with white, purple, white, however

2015 vs South Carolina. Steve Spurrier tried to psyche out the LSU team be traveling to Baton Rouge in their white unis, and ended up resigning the same day after Fournette and Guice sliced and diced his team to a three touchdown defeat.

Or Lutcher HS-- gold, purple, gold

Yikes. I forgot how awful Curly's teams really were! That was the Ceystone Cops out there that night.

Sidewalk fan much. Sidewalk.

LSU had a record of 45-32-2 at home in the twelve seasons (1983-94) they were mandated by the NCAA to wear color jerseys at home. Not terrible, but not very good considering LSU football's famous home field advantage. Included was a dreadful 9-16 record in Tiger Stadium during the four years of Camp Curley.

The LSU football record at home has been much, MUCH better since 1995, when Gerry DiNardo "took a notion" and brought back the MAGIC! Thanks Mr DiNardo-- job well done by a ragazzo from Brooklyn!

My first games were in the late 70’s and I remember when they started wearing purple. My old man and my grandparents hated it. Because apparently it was some stupidstition that they weren’t lucky. But honestly, the 80’s saw some damn good teams and we went major bowling a bit. Unfortunately there wasn’t much continuity with coaching.
Stovall was really not a very good coach. Decent guy just in over his head.
Arnsparger would have been a Nick Saban but for UForfeit offering him the AD position. Then we sucked again with Archer and then the shitshow that was Hallman.

Hint it wasn’t the damn purple jerseys.

For me, home games always are burned in my brain as yellow purple yellow. I know that’s unpopular but it took decades for me to accept the yellow white yellow. I’m good with it. It is tradition, but for us GenX 80 something folks throwback to a yellow purple yellow won’t kill anyone.

Purple jerseys with gold pants and helmets have not really led to great results on the field in Tiger Stadium.

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Was that the game we wore purple pants also?

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No, that was against UK in 95. Howard was injured and they had not decided to turn Herb Tyler loose yet, so Melvin Hill started at QB. We lost in a pillow fight against a bad UK team, so those awful pants never saw the light of day again. I believe they were auctioned off to raise money for charity or something.

I know this because me and some friends took a road trip up to Lexington for that one thinking it would be a blowout. Most of their “fans” left early to get good seats for Midnight Madness, which was that night. That should tell you how much they cared about football at the time.

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Hint it was the damn purple jerseys.

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That is easier to swallow than the fact that we were too cheap or stupid to hire good football coaches except for Arnsbarger. Stovall was an ex-LSU legend working for the Athletic Department when Bo Rein died, and Carl Maddox (AD) walked down the hall after the funeral and said "Jerry you want to coach?"