Full disclosure: before LSU I went to Southeastern. Despite my transferring out, I loved it. Southeastern is a good school in a fun town with great fans. And I get the feeling that many people in the area have the same general feelings toward the Lions from Hammond, America. But they're in the Baton Rouge Regional so,
Southeastern is, let's call a spade a spade, a commuter school in Hammond just a skip down I-12. Established as Hammond Junior College in 1925 it achieved full university status in 1970. Today it has an enrollment of around 15,000 and during the 90's it was the fastest growing college in the nation, and it's still changing rapidly.