LITTLE ROCK — An SEC football fan went over the edge recently when he called a recruit and talked to him for 5 to 10 minutes.

It was stupid, crazy, dumb, arrogant and maybe a little narcissistic.

He wanted to make sure Steven Nelson, a defensive back from College of the Sequoias in Visalia, Calif., hadn’t switched his commitment to Texas Tech.

It wouldn’t have been surprising if it had turned out to be an LSU or Florida fan, who bragged about what he did on a website until he was banned from posting on it and turned to Twitter.

He was from Georgia, which wouldn’t rank in the top five of SEC schools with rough and rowdy crowds.

The No. 1 SEC school with outrageous fans, call them passionate or bordering on lunacy, is easily LSU.

There’s a reason no one wants to play LSU on a Saturday night in a place known as Death Valley, where libations flow like punch at a Utah Boy Scout convention.

Every school has fans who try to show their loyalty through obnoxious behavior; well, maybe Vanderbilt doesn’t, and Kentucky’s are very limited in football but more than make up for it in basketball.

I’ve seen a little kid at LSU, before a game, run up to people in Arkansas Razorbacks gear and yell, “Pigs suck, pigs stink, pigs suck.”

That is learned behavior.

Florida fans are not far behind as they will pelt parents of visiting-team players with ice and yell obscenities at them.

Moving up on the scale is Alabama.

’Bama has always been a little arrogant, a little too self indulgent. But it appears every time the stadium expands,it attracts a different type of crowd, some whom seem to walk around the stadium before game time like a lynch mob in search of a bank robber.

The fourth-most aggressive fans are from Tennessee. Granted, I’ve never had anything but good experiences in Knoxville, but I’ve seen some things and heard about others that leaves no doubt some of the Vols Nation leaves their common sense at home.

Rounding out the top five would be the cow-bell ringing fans of Mississippi State, who love to send “Who Let the Dogs Out,” reverberating through the Golden Triangle.

Again, all schools havesome fans who don’t leave a good impression, including the Razorbacks, who would probably come in about eighth. That’s combined for both home fields although Little Rock seems to attract more hearty party people who don’t have tickets to the game.

In front of the Hogs would be Auburn, and closing it out would be Ole Miss, Kentucky and Vanderbilt. That’s just one man’s opinion, but that would mean Georgia is about No. 6, and not even this rogue fan could move them into the top five.

This guy was so outraged at being banned from the popular Bulldogs website Dawgvent, owned by UGASports.com, he sent harassing e-mails to staff members.

Steve Patterson, owner of the website, called Georgia officials immediately. Bulldogs officials reported it to the NCAA. But since the school was not involved, it probably won’t even be a secondary violation.

As for the fan, let’s just hope the next time Arkansas beats Georgia, he doesn’t shoot his son like an Alabama fan did in 2003 when the Razorbacks beat the Crimson Tide 34-31 in double overtime.

Sports, Pages 17 on 08/23/2012