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Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:42 pm to tigermike200444
<----------- Started at UA finishing up at UAB 
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:42 pm to arwicklu
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Both statements are equally silly.
Then why is one discussed all the time?
I'm done discussing this with you two. Obviously you're just here to argue and not be reasonable.
This post was edited on 8/4/09 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:42 pm to Alahunter
quote:Yes. Absolutely.
Wouldn't that make them just as passionate about Lsu as you?
I would even go so far as to say there are many people who are not graduates of a University who are actually more passionate about a school because they didn't get to go there. They long for being able to say they went to school there, but for whatever reason it didn't work out. Those guys transfer all of their longing into absolute fanatacism and they are the ones with the Crimson colored den and daniel moore paintings on the wall.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:43 pm to jbirds1
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Then why is one discussed all the time?
Why is Charles Scott for Heisman discussed all of the time?
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:44 pm to arwicklu
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:45 pm to tuck
the whole topic in itself is kind of pointless to me bc/ you can't really define someone's passion for a school. i've been to pretty much every LSU home game and several away games since the mid 90's and consider myself an average fan. meanwhile i know several people who have been to 10 or less games their entire life or couldn't name more than 5 non-starters on the team who claim to be "die-hard" LSU fans.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:46 pm to lob1284
Well the problem is that the thread wasn't intended to discuss this. These guys turned it into that. 
I was just polling the SEC rant.
They asked my opinion and I gave it. Everyone's opinion is different. I understand that and enjoy hearing the different perspectives. But this thread wasn't intended to flame on Bammers.
I was just polling the SEC rant. They asked my opinion and I gave it. Everyone's opinion is different. I understand that and enjoy hearing the different perspectives. But this thread wasn't intended to flame on Bammers.
This post was edited on 8/4/09 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:46 pm to lob1284
Preston Place also. entering my fourth year, not in any hurry to leave.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:48 pm to jbirds1
I think it would suffice to say, that what you feel as a fan, can and is felt by other fans, whether they went to school there or not. Trying to say that your feelings for you school is > than others is all relative to the situation, aight? The main thing, is that the process of becoming a fan is the right thing to do and everyone needs to be a part of the fanbase to make it the greatest fanbase there is. If you take away the passion of nonschoolers, aight, and then just have the folks who went to schoo.. then you've got a part of the puzzle. Not the whole thing. Relative to how it fits together is how the fans should be and working together to make it the best it can be.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:49 pm to Alahunter
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feelings for you school is > than others is all relative
I never once said this, but hopefully you've realized that. And I agree with the rest of your statement; it's what I've been implying the whole time. There are many different fans and together they make a fanbase. Just saying someone is different isn't a bad thing.
This post was edited on 8/4/09 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:52 pm to jbirds1
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jbirds1
I see what you are saying.
BUT, I think people should try and separate Sports/Academia side of their respective schools in their minds even though they are still one in the same.
A LSU "sports" fan may be a huge die-hard fanatic when it comes to everything LSU sports while some alumni may not give a wizz about sports, and only care about academia.
I am a huge LSU sports fan, and I also went to school at LSU. For my own personal experience, before I went to school at LSU, I had grown up as a huge LSU football fan since I was little growing up in MS. After I attended LSU, I have a huge appreciation for the school. Alot more than I had before I attended. I think this is true in most regards. In fact, I think I get more mad at people when they talk about LSU "the school" then when people talk shite about our football team, even though I care a great deal about the team.
All this doesn't make me a bigger or less fan, but just a LSU fan.
This post was edited on 8/4/09 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:53 pm to Barry Badrinath
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All this doesn't make me a bigger or less fan, but just a LSU fan.
See my prior posts. Never once said better, greater, more important, or best.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:54 pm to Barry Badrinath
fwiw.. I don't give a crap about UAb athletics. 
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:55 pm to jbirds1
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See my prior posts. Never once said better, greater, more important, or best.
Never said you did. And I agree with what you are saying. I was talking about me specifically and how I feel also. I think you are being taken out of context.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 4:57 pm to Barry Badrinath
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Never said you did. And I agree with what you are saying. I was talking about me specifically and how I feel also. I think you are being taken out of context.
I know you didn't say that, but I was replying before someone who hasn't read the thread implied that I did. Hopefully most can see what I'm saying.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 5:13 pm to jbirds1
I went to the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Great education but if I could do it over I would have gone to Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 5:22 pm to jbirds1
My Mother was a professor there on the fifth floor of the Gorgas library. My sister, cousins, and aunts were all Alpha Gamms. My cousin was director of student life. As an act of rebellion, I attended Auburn and then later the University of Montevallo.
Still...
RTR
Still...
RTR
Posted on 8/4/09 at 5:44 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I spent 5 glorious years working my way through The University of Alabama.
Best years of my life.
Didn't know a goddamn thing about the football program when I got there... Now it's an obsession.
Preston Place represent! I lived in one of those dumps on Reed St. my freshman year.
Best years of my life.
Didn't know a goddamn thing about the football program when I got there... Now it's an obsession.
Preston Place represent! I lived in one of those dumps on Reed St. my freshman year.
Posted on 8/4/09 at 6:00 pm to jbirds1
BS in Civil Engineering 2004
MS in Civil Engineering 2006
MS in Civil Engineering 2006
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