re: Too Bad LSU Doesn't Have An Intrastate Rival

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I've never seen so much hatred in a fanbase as LSU fans hatred of Tulane.

Tulane IS LSU's intrastate rival, it's just that LSU fans hate Tulane SO much, they refuse to believe it.

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Very few people in the state of Louisiana, other than Tulane alumni, care about Tulane football. Possibly many many years ago there was a rivalry but today it's virtually nonexistent. Ask a LSU fan about Tulane and most of the time they'll tell you that they don't follow Tulane. They don't care about Tulane. You can bet that the fans in the other rivalries mentioned do care about the failure and success of their intrastate rivals to a point of obsession with many of them.

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Then you must be a child.

I've never seen so much hatred in a fanbase as LSU fans hatred of Tulane.

Tulane IS LSU's intrastate rival, it's just that LSU fans hate Tulane SO much, they refuse to believe it.

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I'm not young and was born and raised in New Orleans. I can assure you that I, and most other LSU fans I know, do not hate Tulane.

My Father's generation hated Ole Miss. My generation hasn't really hated anyone except Alabama and that is just since 2007.

I was a child when Archie Manning was QB at Ole Miss and I firmly remember the hatred of Ole Miss by my parents, family, and their friends. Don't get me wrong, I remember the Tulane-LSU rivalry and remember both fan bases getting up for the games. However, the "hatred" came from Tulane fans and not so much from LSU fans.

Tulane, simply, has not been competitive with LSU during my lifetime, outside of a 4 year period from 1979-1982.

Why would LSU fans ever care about Tulane?...