Empty stadium at Baton Rouge/ Four years later and LSU is back to being LSU (Merged)

jdatide

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Did anyone else notice the empty stadium at baton rouge during the fourth quarter today? The famous lsu "fans" gave up on the team. I am sure their visiting recruits noticed. Actions speak louder than words.
 

TDBama78

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

after the pounding they took from bama the lsu buss has run off a cliff. the luster is off lester for sure. give it another season and lester will be at meechigan ,where he was headed till lsu threw good money after bad.
 

BigEasyTider

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

Eh, honestly that's not too shocking. The stadium was never completely filled today, and at the end of the Troy game last week there were only about 15,000 people left in the stands.

The LSU fans certainly deserve a lot of credit for being loud when the game is close, but honestly that has never been a fanbase that would stick out through some not-so-close games. They usually have a good number of people leaving early even when it is them winning big, and when they are losing by a good margin, that place empties out like a bomb threat was phoned in. If things start to look bad late there, you had better have your head on a swivel if you're near an exit...
 

tidemaniac

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Les Miles would have to win the West next year, and RR have another year like this for him to be able to high tail it back to Michigan. Sorry, if I was a Michigan fan I wouldn't be so happy if that did happen. LSU fans used to be like this in the 80's, maybe just maybe they will return to 2-4th best in the West. Ole Miss might have given up one year to early on the big O.
 

CrimsonSEC

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Les Miles would have to win the West next year, and RR have another year like this for him to be able to high tail it back to Michigan. Sorry, if I was a Michigan fan I wouldn't be so happy if that did happen. LSU fans used to be like this in the 80's, maybe just maybe they will return to 2-4th best in the West. Ole Miss might have given up one year to early on the big O.
and Lester will lose 19 seniors this year..Bwahaha.
 

dave12

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

Did anyone else notice the empty stadium at baton rouge during the fourth quarter today? The famous lsu "fans" gave up on the team. I am sure their visiting recruits noticed. Actions speak louder than words.
Yeah, and CNS is licking his chops. Do i smell another #1 recruiting class?

RTR:BigA:
 

Bamaball2001

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

West

Alabama
Ole Miss :eek2:
LSU
Auburn
Miss St.
Arkansas

Lsu now falls below Ole Miss in the West. The Lsu fans have lost trust in the team and the team has lost its will to win. The fans left to avoid the rush after a loss.
Yep; and instead got caught in the rush because everyone was leaving around the same time. :biggrin:

:BigA: RTR!
 
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rolltidescott

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

I understand it clearing out. 4 loses, including a whipping by Ole Miss...
 

Bamabuzzard

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

LSU has more issues at than just at qb and after watching Jefferson they really don't have anymore issues there. He appears he is the front runner for the job in 09. Defensively they are undisciplined and poorly coached. the co defensive coordinator junk was a joke when Miles first announced it and it is even more of a joke now. Also, for their sake they better hope the players on the defensive line leaving are replaced by much better talent with the ones coming back because they aren't very stout up there like they have been the past few years.

It's been a noticeable change in LSU this season that goes far beyond the impact of just losing a starting qb.
 

silentsam74

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

Did anyone else notice the empty stadium at baton rouge during the fourth quarter today? The famous lsu "fans" gave up on the team. I am sure their visiting recruits noticed. Actions speak louder than words.
I'd say its been noticed.

andthevalleyshook.com

A lot of people don't agree with that, that fans can weaken a team, but if you believe that a good group of fans can strengthen a team, why is it so hard to believe that a bad group of fans can weaken it? After all, a good crowd is the essence of a home field advantage. And I think pretty much everyone will agree that the home field advantage exists in sports at least to some degree. If good fans give you a home field advantage, why can't bad fans give you a disadvantage? Or at least minimize the advantage?

And then there's the recruiting angle. If the raucous Tiger Stadium crowd is a recruiting draw, why can't a dysfunctional and overly critical crowd be repulsive to recruits? If you believe that being a good fan can help your team, you absolutely have to believe that being a bad fan can hurt it.
Black eye for Tiger nation

However, it would be unfair to single out Blakeney and the Tigers as a whole for their shortcomings last Saturday. Another group that had a subpar night wasn’t even on the field. It’s the elephant in the room and someone has to say it: the display from Tiger nation was equally pitiful.

Just a few incidents witnessed were the thousands of empty seats both around the stadium and in the student section, the booing of a certain player during pre-game introductions, and last, but not least, the mass exodus of fans at halftime scrambling to their cars like Titanic passengers to lifeboats.
 

Littlewing

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

LSU has more issues at than just at qb and after watching Jefferson they really don't have anymore issues there. He appears he is the front runner for the job in 09. Defensively they are undisciplined and poorly coached. the co defensive coordinator junk was a joke when Miles first announced it and it is even more of a joke now. Also, for their sake they better hope the players on the defensive line leaving are replaced by much better talent with the ones coming back because they aren't very stout up there like they have been the past few years.

It's been a noticeable change in LSU this season that goes far beyond the impact of just losing a starting qb.
shows you how good dorsey is and how important he was for their D
 

chris

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Re: Empty stadium at baton rouge

This has been an issue for a long time. I attended the Bama games there in '89,'92,&'94,all Bama W's, and the same thing occurred!
 

BamaGoose

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This has been an issue for a long time. I attended the Bama games there in '89,'92,&'94,all Bama W's, and the same thing occurred!
Exactly but the reason now they are saying something is the recent success the mud buggers have had. Back in the day 6 and 5 was a good season with Curly Hallman. :)