re: Non-alumni fans

LSU represents the State of Louisiana.

Every citizen of Louisiana owns a part of that great Legacy.

All Tigers Welcome!

You would believe how many non alumni support LSU, especially in small towns across the state.

I didn’t go. Moved from LA my senior year of high school. Couldn’t afford the out of state tuition. Can now though, and I’ve seriously considered doing some grad work there.

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Non-alumni fans

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Being a fan of a particular team or school has nothing to do with whether you went to that school or not. It's like falling in love, you don't just choose who you fall in love with, it just happens or it doesn't, you cannot force your emotions to feel that way. There's a lot of Saints fans that have never played for the Saints or lived in New Orleans. It doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, how old or how young, when you fall in love it just happens, it's magical and should be treated with reverence, honor, because not everyone will fall in love. Though I was born and raised a 25 minute drive from Tiger Stadium, I wasn't born in love with LSU, it happened over time during my adolescents. Maybe that love and passion was cultured with my dad's love for the Tigers, maybe not, all I can say is there was a time when I was a child I didn't have this love and then, when I was still a child, I did. I don't know how or why I fell in love with the Tigers. Love can't be explained and not everyone does fall in love. You keep that passion burning for the Tigers my friend, you fell in love, let nobody ever take that away from you!

You're more accepted and done more for LSU than Ben Simmons, so you're good.

Is your friend a Saints fan? If so, did he actually play for the Saints or at least work for them in some other capacity?

By his logic, he can’t be a fan of the Saints if he’s not affiliated with them in some way, correct?? He has to turn in his Saints fan card.

I'm lucky to be both an alumni and a lifelong fan of LSU. I wouldn't want it any other way.

In terms of arguments, I think it's retarded that people think you have to go to school to some place to be a fan of them. As far as I'm concerned, as long as you watch games, spend time talking about LSU, go to games, go to LSU events, but their merchandise, donate to the school, etc., then you are certainly a fan in my book.

Where you played? MTSU?

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Also a couple of TAFs biggest donors are non-alumni. I’d have a hard time telling those guys their millions donated don’t stack up to someone who sat in a classroom at LSU.

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I hear you and agree. But I think when that alma mater is sung there is a spot in an alums heart that is touched that a non alum just does not get.

But I am getting old and soft. My daughter graduated from La Tech recently. I got a tear in my eye seeing the pride she has in her school.

Have a friend whose father went to LSU and was a rabid fan of all things LSU. His dad had so much passion for LSU and took him to so many sporting events as a kid that he was all LSU for as long as he could remember. He always planned to go to LSU for college but ended up getting an academic full ride to an Ivy League school instead, which he did not turn down. He ended up an LSU graduate school alum as well and he pulls for both teams, but ultimately he’s always bled purple and gold.