re: Why do people support LSU when Baton Rouge is such a nasty place?

Why do LSU fans support LSU? Interesting question, would not read again.

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I didn't think Baton Rouge was that bad when I visited.

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But you’re comparing it to Columbia, SC.

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Baton Rouge is a nice place with the exception of a certain part to the north. You can always identify the poors who have never been able to afford a ticket to a road game.

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Very easy to identify someone who has no knowledge of the outside world and thinks that Baton Rouge is a "nice place." Four trips for football, and four more for baseball, have definitely left an impression on me. Now, not all of Baton Rouge is Mogadishu west, and they actually have improved some areas on the edge of campus, but I have to imagine that every recruit they fly into BTR is driven to campus in a vehicle with heavy window tinting so that they aren't able to look out at what the northern half of Baton Rouge has to offer.

The folks in Southern Louisiana should just be thankful that the federal government (through the Corps of Engineers) has kept the Mississippi from leaving its channel and taking a more direct route to the Gulf, as it's been trying to do for 100 years, which would leave both Baton Rouge and New Orleans sitting on a mud flat with no purpose.

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But you’re comparing it to Columbia, SC.

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Columbia has a much nicer downtown than Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge is a shithole and it was a shithole 20 years ago too. The LSU folks that defend it have never lived anywhere else and it’s all they really know.

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very easy to identify someone who has no knowledge of the outside world and thinks that Baton Rouge is a "nice place."

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I spent 30 years in the Air Force at a variety of installations, and when I retired in 2013, I moved back home to Baton Rouge to be near family. I’ve seen plenty of the outside world and can say there are places that are far worse. Aside from the northern part of the city, I think it’s a nice place to live, and I don’t regret my decision to move here.

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This is not a troll. Genuine curiosity.

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I grew up out of state and toured 15 schools (many of them in the SEC) and chose LSU.

LSU had one of the nicest campuses of any I visited and some of the areas around campus (LSU lakes and Highland Rd south of campus) were as nice if not nicer than any other areas of the towns I visited.

North BR is awful and some pockets around campus are too (past north gate and back of Tigerland/Gardere), but overall South BR/St. George is pretty nice and I enjoyed living there minus the traffic. I've lived in TN, FL, GA and LA now and the culture/people in LA blow the other three states out of the water.

LSU campus is incredible, no doubt. But outside of that, there ain’t much else to write home about I’m sure BR was awesome in the 70s,80s, and even 90s but the 2000s and Katrina overwhelming BR and its infrastructure with refugees harmed it a good bit I feel.

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culture/people in LA blow the other three states out of the water.

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Agree with this. I moved to Baton Rouge right out of college in ‘81 and the food and culture blew me away. I was in Louisiana for 7 years and I still use terms like neutral ground instead of median.