Posted on 09/30/2005 9:59:04 AM PDT by Vote 4 Nixon
LSU athletic director apologizes for fans Story Tools: Print Email Associated Press Posted: 22 hours ago
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - LSU athletic director Skip Bertman has apologized to the Tennessee athletic director for the rowdy behavior of some LSU fans who pelted a Tennessee bus with beer bottles after the Volunteers' Monday night victory over the Tigers.
Officials from both schools and LSU police said people threw the bottles at the last of Tennessee's four buses after the convoy came to a stop near the stadium, resulting in three cracked windows. Some fans also rocked the buses, according to LSU Police. In his letter, Bertman congratulated Hamilton on Tennessee's come from behind 30-27 victory in overtime. He then went on to apologize to Hamilton, the school president and all Tennessee fans for the incident outside the stadium.
"As you know, there is unfortunately an element in every crowd that does not exhibit good sportsmanship," Bertman wrote. "And when crowds grow to the size of those on a football game day, it takes only a very small percentage of offenders to ruin the day for so many."
Bertman said the bottle throwers were not representative of all LSU fans.
"We are working hard to address the problem presented by the small percentage of people who, by their actions, damage the reputation of an entire University," Bertman wrote.
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LSU has a long sordid history of their stadium being full of crass drunken sots. Many of them took great pride in that. One of the reasons I've always rooted against them.
Then again, few schools can compete with Tenessee's athletic department when it comes to institutionalized corruption.
LSU is a top rated "Party School" on Princeton Review - No news here ...
Most of the fans are great. A few give us a bad name. I was at the game and saw nothing like was reported.
He's right. Sounds like those louts give the other 5% a bad name. ;-)
Is it true they allow fans to leave the stadium at half time and return?
No...
This is nothing compared to what will happen to Virginia Tech this weekend in Morganhole, WV. When the Mountthemsteers lose, they are going to go ape.
I would have pelted the bus with Donuts, so Fulmer would eat them all.
Yeah that will be a super game. I can't wait to see Alabama take on Florida.... Roll Tide!!
Should be a good one, this may be our toughest game of the year. Prothro scares the heck out of me.
Not only that, but a lot of their fans show up, too.....
yeah really... no couch is safe in Morgantown this weekend.
"Is it true they allow fans to leave the stadium at half time and return?"
No, but in this game the players left at halftime, but didn't return. :-)
Tennessee's AD and the coach's wives were in the bus where the windows were broken. I guess they picked the wrong one.
Still mad that we stomped A&M, eh? :D
Both schools have the classiest fans in the league....NOT
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I'm such a dumb@$$ sometimes. I posted a "Save the Couches! Go TECH Go!" comment earlier today.
I knew what I meant.
And, isn't this the last time Tech and WV will play?
This letter was posted in The Advocate, Baton Rouge's paper. Shows that not all fans are bad.
Tennessean praises fans he met at LSU
My wife and I are Tennessee fans, and we go to most every away game.
We were in the parking lot probably 3‰ hours before the game, and all of the LSU fans we met were extremely friendly, even the students who shared their beer and food with us.
We saw none of the stuff such as happened with the Tennessee team buses.
We only hope that the Tennessee fans will be as gracious when you come to Knoxville. We had at least a half-dozen people offer to give us a room for the night, if we took off the orange clothes, as we did not have a motel room. We had stopped in Birmingham on the way down and drove the rest of the way on Monday.
We wish now we would have taken them up on the offer. After the game we drove to Meridian and still had not found a room so we pulled over in a rest area between two trucks and slept from 3 to 6 in the morning and then drove the rest of the way home, 750 miles to Bristol, Tenn.
Again, we would like to say your fans were great, and we hope your area of the country can get back to normal as quickly as possible -- but for those 20,000 students-drunks who didn't have but a couple of hundred fans to pick on and wore my butt out with "Tiger bait, Tiger bait," before you take a big bite of old smokey dog meat, make sure it is not more than you can swallow.
Good luck for the rest of your season.
BRUCE HAWKS
Bristol, Tenn
I need a nap.
Not sure if this is the last time they play or not. In regards to classlessness, LSU fans are amatuers in comparison to WVU fans. Hang 50 on em VT.
CT
yup. last time
We were at an LSU game and many of the fans called out pretty disgusting language at us and we are not young chickens. We were never treated like that at any other school, except Georgia Tech when it was an all male school. (That gives my age away.)
We were told to leave early or late and not to leave with the crowd because it could be dangerous. Actually, we were so far ahead by the end of the game and there were no LSU fans anywhere around when we left. The only nice thing said to us was that at least we weren't Bama fans. That was from a drunk.
I wish I had had a better experience.
They got quiet when they saw the handwriting on the wall.
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