Quote Originally Posted by confucius say View Post
The flaw in your argument is attendance doesn't = passion. Nobody disagrees that Lsu has more fans than state. Probably twice as many. That has nothing to do with passion.

But if you want to argue attendance, the attendance numbers relative to total number of fans shows a much larger percentage of our fans attend games than theirs.
Well then who's to say Vandy doesn't have the most passionate fans in the SEC? They have a loyal base of 500 fans or so that show up to every game. Nobody questions that our fans are passionate. But no one should question that about LSU fans either. And going back to the Vandy example, Nashville is the largest metro area in the SEC yet Vandy has the smallest stadium and smallest attendance in the conference. Gainesville, Auburn-Opelika, and Tuscaloosa are also very large metro areas (200,000+) with huge schools and fanbases that, just like LSU, double us in number of alumni, fans, etc, and yet they struggle to draw more than 4000-5000 fans per game on SEC weekends. It takes more than a big city and large fanbase to create what both State and LSU currently have, so saying that is the only reason LSU is where they are wouldn't be accurate.