Anyone here ever been to an LSU game before the Skip era?

My wife claims to have been to a game which would have been 82 or 86.

To me, the box was across the street from where we parked to go to football games.

Had a good friend who was a manager for the baseball team around '80 to '82, so I'd go to a few games. Remember seeing Ole Miss, I think on a Friday afternoon, and there were just a few girlfriends, relatives, and a couple of old timers. Jake Gibbs was the OM coach at the time, and I remember one of the old timers heckling him on a trip to the mound, telling him to just go ahead and punt the ball The Box was a better place to study than the library in those days.

In the early 80s for Saturday afternoon games there were so few people in the bleachers that we would routinely drop a rope over the fence and hoist up an ice chest. As far as I can remember, there were so few people sunning out in the bleachers that nobody ever bothered us about the ice chest or the beer.

I remember going to a game when Lamabe was coaching and they had Don Drysdale (?) or some legendary pitcher out there.

I went out quite a bit as a kid in the 70's. By quite a bit, I mean four or five games a year.

It was usually a few hundred people and some little leaguers. When they started winning, it was a gradual thing, we would walk out there from our dorms/frat houses as the momentum started picking up.

Albert Belle and Ben McDonald were key to getting people out there in the early Skip years.

I recall going as a kid, grammar school, and literally sitting anywhere we wanted to sit in the grandstands. I think there may have been a small set of bleachers down the third base line. Don't think there was anything on the first base side.

First game I went to was in '73 as a high school senior, during a visit to campus (maybe for JamJam?). Don't remember who we played, but remember Big Red bellowing in the stands and the late Mike Miley making a diving stop and flip to start a game ending double play. The next fall, we were cheering him on the football field. Coach Mac seemed to be only the person who didn't know he would leave in the baseball draft and our revamped offense didn't work too well without him. Then there was the tragic car wreck that ended his life.

I certainly attended more football, basketball and even gymnastics than baseball during my time at LSU, but we went to a few. Nothing at all like the current situation and I could have never imagined what LSU baseball would become.

yup.. remember only parents and friends of players in stands.. and..... LSU was one of weakest college programs in state...

I went to the opener in 89 (well after Skip was hired and we had been to 2 CWS), Ben McDonald started, I bet there was not 100 people there.

Yeah, I went to a few in the late 70s early 80s.

Never more than a couple of hundred folks. It was just the main grandstand, and the bleachers were wooden. Folks used to bring in ice chests, and picnic lunches, without anyone batting an eye.

The most vivid memory, though, was that Big Red used to go to all the games, and would belt out a loud military style "HUT, HUT, HUT, HUT" anytime an opposing coach would go out to the mound. Good stuff.