Where does Mizzou end up in divisions?
I had to read up on Baton Rouge history when writing my Book 3.
I'm no help there. State history was 8th grade, and I got moved to GA for that, so I learned all about Georgia, and never about Louisiana. Formally, anyway. I've got some books I bought in my 20's because I felt like I missed out on something.
I still remember miscellaneous facts about GA from 8th grade. Don't know why. Maybe because I spent the whole year irked that I was forced to learn about a state I planned on leaving asap. Moved back to LA between 9th and 10th grade and resumed being a coonass. I thought it was a wasted 2 years at the time.
In retrospect, there was a fair bit to like about GA. Speaking as an old fart, the seasons were better. Macon had an actual fall and the leaves turned some nice colors. Also some nice hills, which I like. You don't get that around here.
It is where I uncovered the SEC family snob mentality, though. This was the earlyish 90's, LSU was pretty bad, my dad used to try to change the subject to baseball when people talked sports, LSU was dominating that at the time. But occasionally he'd encounter a Tech fan and roll his eyes and explain to me afterwards that "we" can abide UGA fans, because they're of our tribe, but Tech is just an SEC throwaway that played in a wuss conference, against wuss teams, and was in no way to be thought of in the same sense as UGA. In other words, if UGA give you grief, well, our home team is just going to have to do better, take your lumps and wait for fortune to turn. If a Tech fan yaps at you, they are not worthy, throat punch them if they don't shut up.
Well....okay, that's not what he said, but that seems to capture the overall gist.