ATLTiger7

I'm dating a Reb, but graduated from LSU so have gotten to experience both a good bit.

Oxford definitely has a way better bar scene and a cool small town charm or vibe to it, but I honestly liked LSU's campus better (more unique Italian Renaissance architecture and the live oaks everywhere vs. a more standard southern campus).

There's also a lot more to do in Baton Rouge, but on the flip side, its larger size also brings more issues as well. North BR is rough, but South BR (especially St. George) outside of a couple of bad pockets is actually pretty nice overall and has some really nice neighborhoods off of the campus lakes and down Highland. I never went to the bad parts of town and never experienced much of those elements associated with it. Oxford definitely feels "safer" and more like a college town, but I think I would've gotten bored after a couple years since I grew up in a larger city.

I haven't gotten the full culinary experience at Oxford yet, but BR is hard to beat in that department. Overall, each place has its different perks and both a really cool schools to attend college. The amount of talent you see walking around on game days at both is unreal.

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I’ve been surprised at how scared Georgia fans are of lsu hiring kiffin

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Three of UGA's worst losses in recent history came from either LSU or Kiffin (LSU-2018, LSU-2019, Ole Miss- 2024).


Now that they've combined forces, it makes some sense I guess.

Classy move.

This program could have completely fallen off the rails following Orgeron (see Auburn or Florida), but overall Kelly kept us in a decent place. It certainly didn't live up to expectations, but the roster is in a much better place now what what he inherited when he took over and I'm grateful for that.

One coached in the SEC, the other wasn't even at the FBS level.

It's a high risk, high reward move. For every success story you mentioned, there's five who didn't work out in this same scenario.

A 43-33 overall record and losing seasons his first two years before this one gives me pause.

5-7 in 2023
6-7 in 2024

Would be mighty risky.

Yeah, I know for a fact Nebraska doesn't tailgate anywhere close to the extent we do, so that's somewhat misleading.

Wisconsin tracks though :lol:

Dalton certainly came across as the most impressive from their brief elevator speeches.

It's definitely gone down hill recently in the last 5 years, but luckily there's still plenty of time to course correct and fix things. I already saw huge improvements for the A&M game.

We need to focus on enrolling students based on merit and less on demographic quotas, which includes requiring standardized testing.

We also need to attract students who will help increase our endowment in the long run (private school kids, kids from affluent areas and out-of-state kids), but with an emphasis on keeping Louisiana's best and brightest home.

Then, clean up the area north of campus, as well as Tigerland, and LSU should thrive.

It's actually quite the opposite. We're probably top-3 with UGA and Tennessee.

We had 40k fans travel to Vegas last year for the opener, 30k go to Lambeau in 2014 and about 25k go to L.A. for UCLA in 2021 and 20k go to Seattle for UW in 2009. Not many fan bases could/would do that.

That said, given our current situation, we're probably not traveling in droves to T-Town this year :rolleyes:

Honestly, that trolley line down Nicholson to downtown that Kip wanted, but Broome nixed could help a lot.

You could quickly move thousands of people off campus to downtown and disperse the traffic a good bit.

I know it's not feasible due to cost, but I've always wished we could have a bridge from LSU to across the river and have lots of parking options there as well. Would greatly help with anyone heading West after the game.