re: I am sick and tired of the empty seats in the student section / west side

It wasn't just the student section. The students at least showed up to start the game. The paid seats had a lot of empties from the get go.

The crowd was actually bigger than I thought it would be after the Bama loss.

Hanagriff talked about this last night. He pointed out that a lot of people don't care about football. They go for the tailgating, to see and be seen, etc. It's always been this way but it's worse now. Last night there were a couple of kids sitting in front of us, looked like high schoolers on a date. The girl scrolled through tik tok literally the entire time. The boy halfheartedly paid attention to the game in between the girl showing him things on tik tok. They left in the third quarter.

I will also point out the traffic situation is getting worse, not better, both before and after the game. While I would never leave early and think it sucks, I have a tiny bit of sympathy for people trying to avoid that shitshow.

The traffic plan is illogical and the cops enforcing it are indifferent, surly, or both.