re: The worst thing the LSU Ath Dept has ever done...

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I disagree. I think it weeds out the fair-weather fans - the same fans that leave trash all over campus because they have no real ties to LSU.

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that is the stupidest thing I've ever read. no it won't they will still show up

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I think it weeds out the fair-weather fans

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It weeds out some riff-raff for sure, but not all of them. It also weeds out people like my mom, or my buddy's wife, that would come out for a couple hours to hang out, experience the day, and take in what makes/made the LSU tailgate tradition/spectacle that it is.

I don't mind having to pay to park to support the university, I think it's generous of them to allow us to use their facilities/land to have our own little festival six to eight times a year. However, I do think the $40/$50 price tags are raping people. They basically said what's the most we can charge, and still get people out here? But hey, that's economics, you charge what the market will bear. The biggest thing that bothers me about it, they are charging the fans to do what has made LSU great for so many years, they're taxing us to be ourselves. It all seems very William "the Longshanks" to me.