re: Team name/mascot origins.

If you're named after a Confederate regiment, your branding featuring that name is rooted in the Confederacy, even if it's not as apparent as Ole Miss. And in battles where raging liberals and white supremacists are the ones shrieking the loudest by far, society as a whole tends not to side with white supremacists. I think it'd be ridiculous if either school were forced to change (Ole Miss will almost certainly be forced to change eventually), but if fricktards keep murdering people over statues, modern ties to the Confederacy, even loose ones, will be called into question

We literally have Confederate dead buried on campus and are named after a group of students from the University... Remind me again what natural ties the Fighting Tigers have to Louisiana State University other than being a regiment from Louisiana that embodied the ideology that it was preferable to secede from your nation and kill other human beings to preserve one's right to own and torture other human beings. Just because y'all want to have a live tiger on campus doesn't mean the history of the name is somehow less problematic than Ole Miss'

And Ole Miss' colors are Harvard Red and Yale Blue, but we all know about how those schools seceded from the northeast to fight with the Rebs

Blind Jim Ivey, yup. And fwiw, I hope we go back to the Flood if/when we're forced to make a change

Because it wasn't a national issue until someone got publicly murdered over the Lost Cause monuments. I completely disagree with it, but people are trying to eradicate anything with a problematic history these days, especially if that history involves slavery or the Confederacy. Ole Miss and LSU both have names whose histories involve the Confederacy. It's not a massive leap in logic to think that a state who's trying to erase PGT Beauregard from public view would eventually examine how its primary public university has an athletic program named after a Confederate regiment, especially after the pitchforks and torches come for Ole Miss. Plus, I distinctly remember a number of NOLA.com articles that mention the origins of the Tigers nickname in both positive and negative lights once the city decided to do away with Lee Circle, Beauregard monuments, etc. I'm absolutely not saying there should be a change, but I also don't think it's too absurd a thought that a team name with Confederate origins can come under fire

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There's a difference between adopting a nickname that a Civil War regiment also had and adopting a nickname that embodies the entire ideology that it was preferable to secede from your nation and kill other human beings to preserve one's right to own and torture other human beings.

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I don't believe both sides of my family, fought and died, for the sole purpose of slavery. Go frick yourself and go spit on someone else's ancestors. Try reading a fricking history book.

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I wonder how many of these men fought in the Civil War for the South. I'm sure their grandfathers/fathers/uncles/etc did.

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Not many East, Tennesseans but likely a portion of Middle and West, Tennesseans. East, TN was one of the most solidly Union areas in the entire country North or South. UT itself was Union.

We escorted Sherman on his March. And prior to that teamed up with North Georgians and North Alabamians to burn the hell out of some bridges and fight guerrilla battles against the Rebels. Then there's all our attempts to secede from the secession.

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Cheese Grits

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Hey, I have more booger gifs, we could use some comic relief in this thread

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What makes LSU's homage to the Fighting Tigers so different from Ole Miss' homage to the University Greys, other than the Greys were made up of Ole Miss students and the Tigers were a general Louisiana regiment?

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Because theLouisiana Tigers pre dates the Civil War:

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The official date of organization for the Washington Artillery of New Orleans is September 7, 1838. This is only because that year is the earliest documented date associated with the unit that the United States War Department would concede when it accepted the Washington Artillery into the National Guard in 1909. But research now clearly proves that an organization of this name existed prior to 1838 (at least 1819) and may actually have roots all the way back to within the first ten years the founding of New Orleans in 1718. This latter date precedes even the birth of George Washington in 1732, for which the unit is named. So obviously the unit was known prior to Washington’s life by another name or series of different names. Despite this series of name changes, a line of transition appears clear, with a continuity of personnel ever since those early years.

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Here's the emblem:



Look familiar?

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