re: cbi8's take on LSU and "rivals"

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you're figurin' shows that you don't know shite from shinola.

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Mebbe, mebbe not, but I's know who Chuck "Chollie Mac" McClendon was, and that makes me a rarity outside of Louisiana. LSU's main problem, methinks, is they just never really established a brand even with their most successful coaches. People know Neyland and Shug and the Bear and so forth even outside of the respective fanbases, but LSU never really gained the same sort of traction in the wild-and-wooly days of the early- and mid-20th college football, and that's in no small part, imho, due to the fact that they simply didn't have the same national cachet as some other SEC football programs. Not an insult, just an observation. LSU simply didn't have the sheer clout to draw as much attention as they might have away from the bigger names that potential rivals were focused on, so establishing meaningful rivalries with staying power was a difficult task.