re: New Orleans not huge Tiger Fans...

I grew up on the westbank and went to public school so we were definitely pro LSU. I have a family friend who went to Jesuit and hes a die hard notre dame fan and hates lsu. I think the private schools uptown definitely make the kids think that LSU is beneath them.

Damn right that N.O. is above the rest of the state...it's just the truth.

I tend to disagree with all of this. First, don't turn this into a NOLA vs. the rest of the state thing. That shite is played.
Second, there are just as many LSU fans in the NOLA area as there are elsewhere in the state.
(I-10 W is filled with Tiger fans travelling to BR on gameday)
Also, I will put NOLA's biggest Tiger fan, Mike Serio, up against the Ragoo or Evil Twins any day to lay claim to the biggest Tiger Fan.
Also, the majority of bars and sports bars in NOLA support the Tigers by displaying a ton of LSU stuff.

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Many of these people went to Alabama and will be rooting for the tide on Saturday. Growing up there, I was NEVER an LSU fan, always a Saints fan. LSU seemed very removed from my life as a kid and through high school. It didn't seem strange to me at all that so many "of us" went to Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, UVA, Auburn, etc.

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I'm from nola, and I know what you mean. I was a Saints fan. LSU was nice but no big deal. By high school, I knew I wanted to go to LSU, but until then I rooted more for FSU. The Catholic schools seem to have the LSU fans, but the Newman type schools have a stigma about LSU. Like the Mannings. For some reason, it's cool to go to the state school of mississippi over LSU.

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Growing up there, I was NEVER an LSU fan, always a Saints fan. LSU seemed very removed from my life as a kid and through high school.

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Proof that New Orleans is not Louisiana and that the Saints are New Orleans' team and LSU is Louisiana's team!

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and then so many NOLA peeps of that mindset just can't understand why the rest of the state doesn't care for them, and in turn, doesn't care about NOLA. that arrogant mindset reaps what it sows.

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actually that's never crossed mine or anybody's mind i grew up with. do you really think we sit around worrying what some backwoods rantard in houma, donaldsonville or gasp, baton rouge thinks about us or our city? much less do you think it hurts our feelings? NEWSFLASH: IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER.it's more like we'll have a laugh and get back to more important things like hurricanes at pat o's, dinner at delmonico, jazz fest, sugar bowl, super bowl, final four etc etc etc. the fact you think we're actually offended that you don't like the most culturally relevant city in the south is

NOLA is an urban port city, known the world over. Culturally diverse, of course, but religiously dominated by Catholicism, and if you were a middle-class or higher Catholic, you did not send your kid to the public school in NOLA. This is not my opinion, this is fact. Also, you actually had Tulane, Notre Dame, and the Saints competing with LSU for fanship. And, my point, fanship and where you attended HS often influenced your choice of college. [these foregoing facts have
changed rapidly over the last 25 years].

Nonetheless, while plenty of students from NOLA high schools, both private and public, feed to LSU, a good number don't. There are so many contributing factors, but suffice it to say, LSU, and I speak as a NOLA native, alum to LSU and Brother Martin,
is not the best school in every field. And then there's the Carnegie Mellon Scale (basically, a rating of overall academic quality), which to this day, and I think unfairly, still considers LSU a Tier III School, while most of the other SEC Schools are Tier II. When you look at the other schools in Tier III, you see what complete BS the rating is, but it is, nonetheless, a rating system that is considered legitimate and taken seriously.

I think a lot of those kids that went to Newman and schools like that probably had parents that didn't come from Louisiana and have no allegiance to the state schools so there was no push to send them to LSU

driveman, i try not to debate with retards. sorry bro.

well come back when you have a better argument than "nola can't get over the fact that some people don't care for them." it's simply untrue--- FACT