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re: Open Letter to Chicken (Long)
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:00 pm to bayouprophet
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:00 pm to bayouprophet
quote:
To the OP - very well said
He complains about a "silent" majority making too much noise and THAT's "very well said"?
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Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:06 pm to WacoTiger
quote:
College sports are played by young men who are not getting paid.
Haha...If you only knew.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:28 pm to WacoTiger
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If my sons were good enough to play college football, there is no coach I would rather them play for than Coach Miles. I also think Coach Saban is a good football coach and he has been successful, but I would not want my sons playing for him. I like Coach Saban as a coach, but I don’t respect him as a person. I don’t know Coach Miles very well, but I respect him as a person and as a coach.
this basically sums it up.
you hate Saban because he isnt our coach
you love Les Miles because he is our coach.
it's called blind homerism. You love LSU, the university, the band, tailgaiting, etc, but its obviously clear that you don't know shite about football.
Typical casual fan. Adolph Hitler could be our coach and you would love him, simply because....HE is OUR COACH!!!
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:32 pm to oilfieldtiger
quote:What is even worse, it's very hard to notice, comment on what is noticed, then be berated, labeled, tarred and feathered and worse by ranters who call themselves positigers/negatigers, but who refuse to believe there might be even a little bitty problem with something on the coaching staff or team, or that something actually went really well at a given game or public statement or play-call.
we've seen the promised land. we're no longer "the sleeping giant" program. we know what kind of product we can put on the field. up until the early 2000's, you could look at the schedule and pick out the handful of games we had no chance to win simply because we weren't as talented as our opponent. that's no longer the case, and it's much harder... to keep listening to people rationalize how we should be satisfied w/ less than stellar performances from teams w/ elite talent.
It's why thread after thread is nothing more than a series of vulgar, name-calling, one-upsmanship contests that leave everybody disgusted and the part of the whole Tiger Nation that meets here completely polarized. When does it end?
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:35 pm to Lester Earl
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I also think Coach Saban is a good football coach and he has been successful, but I would not want my sons playing for him. I like Coach Saban as a coach, but I don’t respect him as a person
What?
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:41 pm to The Godfather
quote:
i beg to differ ma'am. We start threads bitching about the product on the field, yall start threads bitching about us..fact.
This is true.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:50 pm to WacoTiger
@WacoTiger's original post
Great post. I agree 100%. I don't think you can get another board. I would like an option to block posts from certain users from showing up in your thread. You could also choose to block threads started by that users from showing up in your return. It would be interesting to see who the most blocked users are and what they type.
Great post. I agree 100%. I don't think you can get another board. I would like an option to block posts from certain users from showing up in your thread. You could also choose to block threads started by that users from showing up in your return. It would be interesting to see who the most blocked users are and what they type.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:52 pm to chris44gwlsu
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You could also choose to block threads started by that users from showing up in your return. It would be interesting to see who the most blocked users are and what they type.
or you could just..i dont know...not read them..shocking thought, i know.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 3:58 pm to NaturalBeam
quote:FIFY
This whole mentality of "I think I know more than every coach on the LSU staff even though I never played/coached big time football" is growing tired.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 4:06 pm to WacoTiger
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Open Letter to Chicken (Long)
Dear Chicken,
Thanks for creating this board. I've been following LSU football for over forty-five years and, since graduating from LSU undergraduate in 1982 and law school in 1985, for the last twenty-five years I have been living in Texas. I was reading and posting on LSU internet bulletin boards before most of your users knew what one was. This is THE board for LSU football and I appreciate your efforts.
For the last two weeks, I get madder reading this board than anything else. Most of the posts I read I would be expecting to read on opposing teams bulletin boards, not our own. I now find myself attacking other LSU fans for posts they are making. I am sick and tired of defending our players and our coaches to our own fan base.
I would like to offer a suggestion. Would it be possible to have two different boards: (1) one board for those that (i) truly hate Coach Miles, (ii) wish him and the players would play poorly so that LSU will fire the coaches, (iii) feel the need to comment on our coach's interviews, his attire, etc., (iv) those that feel the need to criticize every play that does not go our way and (v) those that criticize every player that makes a mistake; and (2) one board for those that love LSU, that will root for and support our players and coaches every game, that will ask constructive questions, provide constructive critique, and those that will remember the good with the bad. I am sick and tired of reading posts on this board from those that I would classify as Board #1 posters. I am still interested in reading posts from Board #2 posters.
I,for one, am tired of the vocal minority of our fan base making the majority of true LSU fans look like asses in the public arena. Sure, the vocal minority says that “all of my friends at my tailgate hate Coach Miles” or “everyone at my office thinks Coach Miles is an idiot.” My suggestion for those posters, find another tailgate or find another job. Did you ever think that people are saying and talking like that because they know that you don’t like Coach Miles? As they say, birds of a feather flock together.
I am sick and tired of explaining to football fans in Texas why some LSU fans are so arrogant that they actually believe that if we don’t win a national championship every year that we have to fire our coach. Do you know the odds of a college program wining one national championship every ten years actually are? Do you know what the odds of a college program winning two national championships in five years actually are? Do you know what the odds of a college program winning three national championships in eight years actually are? I don’t know the odds, but I know that it is probably near impossible. Do you know how many college football fans in Texas would love to have two national championships in the last eight years?
College sports are played by young men who are not getting paid. They all make mistakes. Coaches get paid, but all coaches (NFL and College) make mistakes.
I have two sons in college and if my sons played football at LSU, there is no way that I would be reading any of these bulletin boards for the hateful, spiteful things that some of our so-called “fans” write when a player or coach makes a mistake. If my sons were good enough to play college football, there is no coach I would rather them play for than Coach Miles. I also think Coach Saban is a good football coach and he has been successful, but I would not want my sons playing for him. I like Coach Saban as a coach, but I don’t respect him as a person. I don’t know Coach Miles very well, but I respect him as a person and as a coach. He is our coach at LSU and I am damm glad that he is.
As fans, we have the ability to sit in the stands and watch football, a game that most of us love. We get to watch LSU on our "Fields of Gold." We get to smell the gin and bourbon from the stands, wear our purple and gold to the stadiums, let our kids experience our tailgate and football traditions and pass them on to the next generation. We get to root for LSU, win or lose.
Over the last forty-five years, I probably seen more losses than most of you have experienced as wins during your lifetimes. I get disappointed, but I get over it. Life goes on and on. The players will still walk down Victory Hill, the great Tiger band will play again and the next Saturday, it will be “Saturday Night in Death Valley” again.
I've seen LSU win and I've seen them lose. Of course, I enjoy it more when we win - but win or lose, I support LSU, our players, our coaches and our administrators. I would like to read more posts from our supporters than our detractors. I would like to read and post on Board #2.
Thanks for your efforts in creating this great internet board.
Geaux Tigers!
Danny Palmer
Class of 1982 (LSU), 1985 (LSU Law School)
Thank you for this. This brings hope that not all people on here are ignorant and unrealistic
Posted on 9/7/10 at 4:11 pm to HuRRiCaNe MiLeS
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Elite fans
"Elite" fans don't carp on every imaginable mistake made by players and coaches, and don't base their own sense of self-worth on the accomplishments of a team of 18 to 21 year olds.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 4:17 pm to tigerbacon
I love the letter.
LSU fans are the worst fans in the country. Miles gets criticized for not playing young players, then when the young players play and make young player mistakes, it Miles fault and what hell was he thinking playing these young players.
YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS
LSU fans are the worst fans in the country. Miles gets criticized for not playing young players, then when the young players play and make young player mistakes, it Miles fault and what hell was he thinking playing these young players.
YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS
Posted on 9/7/10 at 4:23 pm to WacoTiger
LSU is going nowhere with JJ, if your post makes you feel good well, put your hands in your pants and that will to. It is unbelievable what the QB situation is at LSU. A rotten recruiting effort if I ever saw one. QB is the only position they have no chance. Two scholarship QB's What????????????????????????
Posted on 9/7/10 at 4:24 pm to Pistol...2K4
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I disagree , but I do think that one is the product of the other(upbringing). For example throwing your kids under the bus when you make a mistake instead of owning it... I noticed that none of you has touched the meat of what I posted about underachieving given the talent.
Okay, let's agree to disagree then, because I don't think the fact that he throws people under the bus has anything to do with where he was born and raised. There are plenty of good and decent people from Ohio, and believe it or not from Massachusetts. It's certainly quite easy to name any number of Southerners who can't or won't accept responsibility for their actions and never seem to think they've made a mistake. On the Poli Board, I would mention a certain former president as a fine example. On the Rant, I'll just cite Tommy Tuberville, Steve Spurrier, Houston Nutt as a small sample of native born Southern coaches who routinely blamed their players for not carrying out their brilliant plans.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 4:28 pm to chris44gwlsu
Let's get rid of the First Amendment
Posted on 9/7/10 at 4:42 pm to tigercavor
quote:
Basically, he wants a "rant" kiddie pool where everyone wears floaties and plays nice with each other and is just happy that LSU fields a football team.
And is satisfied with second place S.E.C. West finishes.
BTW, L.S.U. Class of 82.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 4:47 pm to TigerBandAlumnus82
Les Miles gets paid an obscene amount of money.
Just throwing that out there to anybody who thinks his performance should be above criticism.
Just throwing that out there to anybody who thinks his performance should be above criticism.
Posted on 9/7/10 at 5:02 pm to WacoTiger
Dear Chicken,
Thanks for creating this board. I've been following LSU football longer (and have used the Internet longer) than the person who started this thread. I didn't graduate from law school but I'm sure I'd make a better lawyer than him, too.
Over the last 57 years I've seen pollyannas defend the ineptitude of several high paid LSU head coaches, but I get over it.
How about sticking with greatness?
Sincerely,
Rex
Thanks for creating this board. I've been following LSU football longer (and have used the Internet longer) than the person who started this thread. I didn't graduate from law school but I'm sure I'd make a better lawyer than him, too.
Over the last 57 years I've seen pollyannas defend the ineptitude of several high paid LSU head coaches, but I get over it.
How about sticking with greatness?
Sincerely,
Rex
Posted on 9/7/10 at 7:05 pm to Rex
quote:You're of the devil Rex.
Over the last 57 years I've seen pollyannas defend the ineptitude of several high paid LSU head coaches, but I get over it.
How about sticking with greatness?
Posted on 9/7/10 at 7:10 pm to Rex
I can't believe how much I am agreeing with Rex today. Pigs flying?
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