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re: For the most part, why do LSU and aTm fans get along...
Posted on 6/1/16 at 9:22 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
Posted on 6/1/16 at 9:22 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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The rant is just one big game to both sides. I thought that was understood.
It is...until it isn't.
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 9:24 pm to Spirit Of Aggieland
I agree, and I've said it before, real life aTm fans aren't great. I've actually never had a problem at UF.
I'll go to a UGA or UT game any day, they are the best. Auburn is ok and ole miss fans can be rough.
I'll go to a UGA or UT game any day, they are the best. Auburn is ok and ole miss fans can be rough.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 9:55 pm to cardboardboxer
YAS BITCH!!!!
Posted on 6/1/16 at 10:00 pm to Daigeaux
I live in Dallas and know quite a few Lsu alums and we get along great. Growing up in College Station my baseball coach was an Lsu alum as well, and I never understood any real hate outside of a sports rivalry and giving each other general crap for it.
Honestly though, I don't know if many fan bases that we don't get along with as a group minus Baylor and Tech(gotten better recently but rather mike leach era fans). Even most real Longhorns alum(not the tshirt fans) get along fine with but there is the hate for the other schools
I also don't think the rivalry between us will be the same as with Texas ever. And a big part is really due to the damn tshirt fans of Texas who talk more shite in real life to us in a daily basis than any person who attended. It's almost like taking the rant hate to real life with them.
Honestly though, I don't know if many fan bases that we don't get along with as a group minus Baylor and Tech(gotten better recently but rather mike leach era fans). Even most real Longhorns alum(not the tshirt fans) get along fine with but there is the hate for the other schools
I also don't think the rivalry between us will be the same as with Texas ever. And a big part is really due to the damn tshirt fans of Texas who talk more shite in real life to us in a daily basis than any person who attended. It's almost like taking the rant hate to real life with them.
This post was edited on 6/1/16 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:01 pm to Daigeaux
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except for the one's on here?
I'd hate to say it, but I really think it's "a Big XII thing." Prior to A&M and Mizzou joining the conference, everyone got along with each other on this message board and there was peace and universal harmony...everyone here chanted "S-E-C, S-E-C, S-E-C!!!" and rooted for their fellow SEC members to do well. Then the two Big XII members joined and seemed to have brought their conference's divisiveness and infighting along with them. I'm not picking on the A&M and Mizzou fans here mind you, as the other 12 SEC schools' fans bear the responsibility of buying into that mindset.
That said, A&M and LSU almost show each other too much of a gentleman's respect as opponents--it's even actually kind of creepy to me that LSU's public address announcer refers to A&M as "the Texas Aggies" (the preferred nomenclature of A&M fans) instead of the Texas A&M Aggies during the games played at Tiger Stadium. That's just going too far in support of intraconference unity.
This post was edited on 6/1/16 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 6/2/16 at 7:24 am to Rodo
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But, then LSU ran away and stiffed A&M on the cash.
Typical aggy lies. Why do yall makes so much shite up?
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LSU cancelled the series with two games remaining after the 1995 game in College Station.
That move sparked some friction between the schools, which contributed to them not renewing the series. With the SEC going to a divisional format and eight conference games in 1992, then-LSU Athletic Director Joe Dean said he couldn't afford to give up one of three non-conference home games every year.
"You've almost got to have seven home games to pay the bills," Dean said. "That's all it was. Some of the A&M people felt because we were losing to them we didn't want to play anymore.
"It was peaceful, friendly. It wasn't ugly. I thought we'd wait a few years and reschedule them when we could manipulate the home-and-home series with the SEC."
Crow had a different point of view.
"I said, 'Get out of another (game)' because this game means too much for us,'" Crow said. "We would sell the stadium out for LSU. Them and Texas were only ones we did that."
LSU eventually refused to play the final two games and the schools settled the matter for $100,000. Attempts by LSU to renew the series have been rebuffed, insiders say, because of lingering hard feelings over breaking the contract.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 7:50 am to Uncle Gunnysack
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we were mostly just really happy to be out of the B12 and into the SEC.
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Posted on 6/2/16 at 7:52 am to GFaceKillah
IMHO...A bunch of the LSU fans are Texas lurkers or spent too much time on the Texas boards. They try to bring that crap over to the rant.
I saw this happening when the SEC decided to make LSU and A&M a rivalry game. Texas and LSU posters all started exchanging info on the 247 boards. It's sad that some LSU fans think they actually have something in common with the Sips, when all the people who actually went to Texas look down upon LSU and most of the SEC as trash. This is a similar attitude held by OU alumni too. Only Sip and Sooner T-shirt fans really hold the SEC in high regard, because they only follow football and have no real connection to the Universities.
I saw this happening when the SEC decided to make LSU and A&M a rivalry game. Texas and LSU posters all started exchanging info on the 247 boards. It's sad that some LSU fans think they actually have something in common with the Sips, when all the people who actually went to Texas look down upon LSU and most of the SEC as trash. This is a similar attitude held by OU alumni too. Only Sip and Sooner T-shirt fans really hold the SEC in high regard, because they only follow football and have no real connection to the Universities.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 7:53 am to Daigeaux
One of my best friends is an LSU guy, and I'd give the shirt off my back to him if he needed it.
Hell, he even got me onto the private range we shoot at. For all we know, we cuss each other and question lineages and bastardizations on tRant only to drink beer IRL.
I'm good with LSU. As I've said all along, they are very close in actions to our fan base.
Hell, he even got me onto the private range we shoot at. For all we know, we cuss each other and question lineages and bastardizations on tRant only to drink beer IRL.
I'm good with LSU. As I've said all along, they are very close in actions to our fan base.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:10 am to Jobu93
Louisiana is my ancestral homeland. My father went to LSU and my brother lives on the north shore.
LSU and A&M fans get along well in real life. Work and live right alongside one another in Houston especially, and Dallas as well.
The only fans we haven't gotten along with in real life were Tech fans during their Leach era. They, including the alumni, became bad people, in real actual life. The hatred level they had was ISIS-level as was their behavior. Now that Leach is gone they've gone back to normal.
Alumni of the University of Texas are not bad. We actually get along well with them in person. They're typically pretty classy and we work with them at our jobs. The problem with UTw is the horde of unwashed t-shirt fans who love them. If you dropped your average UTw fan off at the capitol building they couldn't find campus. But they loooove the horns and hate those stupid Aggys, and boy, they'll let you know! I've never had one negative remark directed toward my A&M gear in Austin. Too many actual graduates, too many out of state transplants, and too high of an education level. Down in San Antonio, where hardly anyone has been to college and everyone who has went to UTSA and loves them some UT-Austin, it was a game to see if I could go to the grocery store without being accosted for wearing an A&M shirt - always by someone who needed a shower and a shave and probably some strong antibiotics.
LSU and A&M fans get along well in real life. Work and live right alongside one another in Houston especially, and Dallas as well.
The only fans we haven't gotten along with in real life were Tech fans during their Leach era. They, including the alumni, became bad people, in real actual life. The hatred level they had was ISIS-level as was their behavior. Now that Leach is gone they've gone back to normal.
Alumni of the University of Texas are not bad. We actually get along well with them in person. They're typically pretty classy and we work with them at our jobs. The problem with UTw is the horde of unwashed t-shirt fans who love them. If you dropped your average UTw fan off at the capitol building they couldn't find campus. But they loooove the horns and hate those stupid Aggys, and boy, they'll let you know! I've never had one negative remark directed toward my A&M gear in Austin. Too many actual graduates, too many out of state transplants, and too high of an education level. Down in San Antonio, where hardly anyone has been to college and everyone who has went to UTSA and loves them some UT-Austin, it was a game to see if I could go to the grocery store without being accosted for wearing an A&M shirt - always by someone who needed a shower and a shave and probably some strong antibiotics.
This post was edited on 6/2/16 at 8:13 am
Posted on 6/2/16 at 10:20 am to Daigeaux
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For the most part, why do LSU and aTm fans get along...
...except for the one's on here?
Because people who post on a college football message board every day from January to September are lunatics, present company not excluded.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 10:33 am to Nuts4LSU
I have some LSU friends although, I don't acknowledge them if we meet in public.
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Posted on 6/2/16 at 10:37 am to Chill98
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IMHO...A bunch of the LSU fans are Texas lurkers or spent too much time on the Texas boards. They try to bring that crap over to the rant.
Yup. And the best part is that many of the LSU fans don't understand the nuance or the history of the many Aggy jokes, so they just try to ape what they saw and totally frick up the context.
It is pretty entertaining actually.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 10:40 am to Projectpat
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LSU fans threw a hissy fit after expansion was announced
I'm gonna need to see a link on that. Aside from the handful of traditionalists from several different fan bases who didn't want to expand at all, everybody from every school represented here was thrilled to add A&M to the SEC.
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we've been throwing gasoline on the fire ever since.
No question about that. I thought that was a uniquely Arkie thing, but y'all have sure managed to reach or even exceed their level of determination to become our rival.
Problem is, we just don't really do rivalries. There is never going to be a time when, in the midst of a 4-7 season, you will see LSU fans wearing T-shirts to games saying "Just beat so-and-so" when so-and-so isn't even the team we are playing at the time (as I saw in Tuscaloosa in 1997 when Alabama fans wore "Just beat Auburn" shirts to their game against LSU). And there is never going to be a reference to any other school in our fight song. There will never be a team you can point to and say that if the LSU coach manages to beat that team more often than not, he'll never get fired (or the reverse either, for that matter, re: losing to a given team more often than not).
Don't get me wrong, we're flattered by the attention and mean no disrespect when we don't share your enthusiasm, but it just isn't going to happen. Both programs will probably be strong and fairly consistent over time and it will definitely be a big game most of the time, but it will never be a true blood rivalry.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 10:57 am to Daigeaux
Because as a big brother, we have to be nice. But we still beat the shite out of our little brother every time he challenges us.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 11:32 am to Daigeaux
I've been to A&M a bunch and have never really had a bad experience with the fans. There were a few red asses, but you get those everywhere you go. Looking forward to watching the game from my uncle's Founders suite this Thanksgiving.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 12:05 pm to Daigeaux
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..except for the one's on here?
Simple explanation. A large number of the A&M alumni are, physically weak, a little insecure… your typical Revenge of the Nerds type….. so in person they are pretty amicable, very unthreatening. They are a lot more aggressive behind the anonymity of an internet board.
Posted on 6/2/16 at 12:18 pm to r2d2
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A large number of the A&M alumni are, physically weak, a little insecure…
And a large number of SEC fans on here are frat house morons that think their juvenile "alpha" act is justified because they are affiliated (maybe) with a successful football team that they themselves never actually played for.
And in case you haven't noticed, being a nerd is cool in 2016. Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Big Bang Theory ratings, apps on your phone, etc. Nerdiness is mainstream, alpha jock crap is played out except on this forum.
This post was edited on 6/2/16 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 6/2/16 at 12:19 pm to r2d2
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They are a lot more aggressive behind the anonymity of an internet board.
This doesn't describe any other fanbase on here at all
Posted on 6/2/16 at 12:33 pm to GFaceKillah
It's kind of like when you settle with a collection agency for 50 cents on the dollar when you can't pay off your credit card balance.
Yes, the two parties reached a settlement, but you still stiffed them. They will be reluctant to do business with you in the future, and rightly so.
The buyout price written into the contract was a lot more than $100K.
Yes, the two parties reached a settlement, but you still stiffed them. They will be reluctant to do business with you in the future, and rightly so.
The buyout price written into the contract was a lot more than $100K.
This post was edited on 6/2/16 at 12:36 pm
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