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re: Is LSU a baseball school or a football school?
Posted on 6/9/13 at 10:52 am to catholictigerfan
Posted on 6/9/13 at 10:52 am to catholictigerfan
We are an All Sports school. I am very impressed with Alleva and our athletic adm for the commitment to excellence we place on the field in virtually all sports. But make no mistake...football is the cash cow for all other sports to succeed.
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Posted on 6/9/13 at 11:03 am to Smiling_Tiger
Do you not realize how much money the football program generates?
Posted on 6/9/13 at 11:05 am to Iam4LSUnTN
Football will ALWAYS be the king at LSU. But I love
going to Baseball games just as much as football games.
going to Baseball games just as much as football games.
Posted on 6/9/13 at 11:05 am to Iam4LSUnTN
Football will ALWAYS be the king at LSU. But I love
going to Baseball games just as much as football games.
going to Baseball games just as much as football games.
Posted on 6/9/13 at 11:34 am to lynxcat
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And I hope LSU fans realize that the majority of the country DNGAF about college baseball. I was talking to someone from the northeast recently and saying LSU was ranked in the top 3 this year and he said "they rank college baseball? people actually follow that?". LSU baseball is lightyears ahead of any program in terms of support for the program.
I hear what you're saying, but that doesn't hold any significance as far as answering the question goes. It doesn't matter who else follows either sport. How LSU fans follow their baseball team and football team and the priority they give one sport over the other is what matters.
LSU has great success at both sports and the fans are very dedicated to both, but football seems to mess with peoples' mental health when it comes down to it, so I would go with football.
Basketball was #2 back in the 80's and seemed larger than life back then at times. The NCAA changed the way they named host sites in the NCAA tournament based on LSU's 1986 run where they won their first two games playing at home in front of a raucous crowd as an 11 seed. Back then the fans made that place sound like a miniature Tiger Stadium. But basketball has been inconsistent for quite some time now...getting better now though.
Posted on 6/9/13 at 11:42 am to Smiling_Tiger
I say both. Football is king but you can't talk about college baseball without mentioning LSU.
Posted on 6/9/13 at 1:55 pm to German Shepard
Why do we not also admit that the fans that go to baseball games are different than the ones that go to the football games? There is definite overlap, but there are different populations of LSU fans that love going to the baseball games as is it with football.
It isn't even a question of which is bigger or more prominent...LSU football is the clear answer. 120,000 people on campus for a good-to-great game is a clear example of this. I do think that small segment of the LSU fanbase that loves LSU baseball are just as passionate as the strong base of passionate football fans.
We are talking about completely different scales of popularity on the continuum here...LSU football brings 100k people to campus and baseball is lucky if it hits 15k in the biggest game of the year.
It isn't even a question of which is bigger or more prominent...LSU football is the clear answer. 120,000 people on campus for a good-to-great game is a clear example of this. I do think that small segment of the LSU fanbase that loves LSU baseball are just as passionate as the strong base of passionate football fans.
We are talking about completely different scales of popularity on the continuum here...LSU football brings 100k people to campus and baseball is lucky if it hits 15k in the biggest game of the year.
Posted on 6/9/13 at 1:57 pm to German Shepard
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I say both. Football is king but you can't talk about college baseball without mentioning LSU.
Most of the country doesn't care about baseball, so it is less significant to be the team everyone associates with the sport when there are only 20 programs worth a damn. Being in the top three football programs in the country holds way more significance purely when looking at the number of programs that compete at a high level and the national interest in the sport overall. Again, two completely different scales that makes the football program tower the baseball program.
Posted on 6/9/13 at 2:01 pm to Smiling_Tiger
Yes
Posted on 6/9/13 at 2:37 pm to Smiling_Tiger
Tell me when LSU baseball can pack in 90k+ and we can talk about it.
Or when LSU baseball can pay for the entire athletic dept.
Or when LSU baseball can pay for the entire athletic dept.
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