re: When did we become a negative fanbase?

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Yes, it is and to the tune of 47-12 which is the best in LSU history.

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DON'T MAKE ME OPEN THAT DOOR!!!

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When did we become a negative fanbase?

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In 2005 when the masses wanted M. flynn to start because the perception was that he was a smarter, more accurate and heady qb than J.R.

Ranking be damned, its the poor showing of our teams by the coaching staff.
C'mon!! Be reasonable!!! The fanbase love LSU, we hate bad coaching, no matter the coach.

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Ranking be damned, its the poor showing of our teams by the coaching staff.
C'mon!! Be reasonable!!! The fanbase love LSU, we hate bad coaching, no matter the coach.

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Did you HATE 8-5 Saban in 2002?

When did we become a negative fanbase?

circa 1893

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all fanbases are negative

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Nov 19, 1988

Miami 44
@ LSU 3

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remember it like yesterday. that was a HORRIBLE night... BUT it wasn't as bad when Tommy Hodson threw that int on the 7 against tOSU and we didn't even get a sniff at the national title. Of course that beat down by Bama that year didn't help either...We had a tought arse schedule then..

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we hate bad coaching, no matter the coach.

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I would disagree with this. I don't remember hearing the same reaction when Saban was here after we nearly lost to a Vandy team who lost Cutler in the 3rd quarter; our D getting crushed by Texas in the Cotton Bowl; the Georgia game where our blitzing, bump and run man to man D got destroyed; the Auburn game where our O was non-existent and our D gave up a crucial 4th and long; UAB; Our juggernaut of an offense scoring seven against Florida while Saban's D gave up two TDs on the same play call, with Zook coaching, no less? This is not meant to demean Saban's accomplishments here, it's just that people seem to have preordained Miles to failure and are more inclined to be more pissed when that which they felt to be true leans in that direction, such as our team's performance the past year and a half.

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When did we become a negative fanbase?

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I think that most schools' fans are more negative than you think. However, I don't think LSU's fans were all that bad until the early 1990s. People really appreciated the winning LSU teams of the mid-80s, because they made us feel a little better while our state was suffering through the oil bust--I think that this actually made our fans too reliant on LSU football's success to make their own lives happier during the lean times. The losing in the early 90s made people really desperate for victories and by the late 90s, a lot of folks seemed downright pessimistic going into most games. For what it's worth, there was one silver lining to all of this--the losing led to LSU fans becoming the best tailgaters in the country. If anyone ever tells you that tailgating has always been big at LSU, they never attended games before the late 1980s. Back then, few people got to campus before 2:00 p.m. on game days, because all of the game day entertainment had always been the winning on the field at nightfall. By the early 90s, the fans had to create fun OUTSIDE of the stadium before the games to have any joy, because LSU's losing in the stadium those nights was becoming pretty anti-climactic.

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DON'T MAKE ME OPEN THAT DOOR!!!

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Open any door you wish, but it will still be 47-12, 4 of 4 in bowl games, and a national title. All of which equates to the best performance in LSU history!!!