Bertman apologizes to UT AD and fans

[Greenhead22]

LSU athletic director apologizes for fans
Associated Press
Posted: 1 hour 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.

[camlock]

Don't reprsent all LSU fans????? Seems to be holding up the reputation perfectly if you ask me!!!

[mottlet]

No, it's not representative of all their fans. Or even all their student fans. But this cute little group of coona$$es has been behaving like this for years. When is LSU going to do something to these fockers?

mottlet

[camlock]

No, it's not representative of all their fans. Or even all their student fans. But this cute little group of coona$$es has been behaving like this for years. When is LSU going to do something to these fockers?

mottlet

They aren't. I know it doesn't actually represent all their fans, I live here and have some good friends that are die hard LSU fans, nothing like that...BUT LSU has more trashy fans, FAR MORE, than any other school....and even alot of them that aren't rude to you if you know them, they would be if you didn't...it's accepted there. I know at Ole Miss most adults that seen an Ole Miss fans acting that way would step in....at LSU they freaking participate...

[waterbug]

Pretty rowdy when you arrive at the game