re: Would LSU fans care about baseball if they sucked at it?

Or the fact that we won 5 out of 10 cws around that time. Most LSU fans love the big 3. Just because we aren't having a good year doesn't mean nobody cares. I thoroughly enjoy LSU basketball, but they are hard to watch at times. There is an obvious hook here, but it can go multiple ways. We just want to be competitive in basketball, and we feel like Jones needs to go in order to do so. Do I think we'll ever be a duke or Kansas or anything like that in basketball? No, but we do have a decent history, nothing great, but more than a few SEC teams

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No. The only reason they care as much as they do is because they found a sport no else cares about in baseball. This allows them to succeed by default. It's not a coincidence that the rise in LSU baseball and its fan bases support happened in the 1990s when they couldn't compete in football.

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I will adjust this a little- LSU football was in deep decline, and LSU basketball was getting hammered by the NCAA.
At that time, Skip had baseball in the process of becoming a dominant team in that sport.
It was a lucky circumstance; baseball is one of the sports most fans understand and can follow, and we were desperate as a base to have something to enjoy. Turned out you could go watch Bertman's team beat everyone, see a lot of homeruns in the process, and generally still spend a weekend afternoon or evening having a good time on campus.

I don't think it emerges otherwise, but it did. The rest of the SEC saw there was some money to be made, and followed suit.