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Should being a long time season ticket holder count for anything?
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:24 am
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:24 am
I know a guy who has been a LONG time LSU football season ticket holder, even through the really shitty years. He has had 6 tickets for as long as i can remember. Well, he's kinda fallen on hard times as a small business owner and doesn't contribute any money to the TAF outside of the fees for his tickets. He was very disappointed to not get tickets to the BCSCG and I don't blame him. Shouldn't being a long time season ticket holder have some weight in determining if you get bowl tickets? It's pretty shitty IMO.
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Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:26 am to JonTheTigerFan
So he can buy $5000+ a year worth of tickets but not add $100 to that to receive 3 TAF points?
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:26 am to JonTheTigerFan
You would think, but no.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:27 am to JonTheTigerFan
What do you think the guy that donates a professor's salary to LSU would have to say if he got passed on with tickets by a guy that hasn't donated a dime outside of paying for season tickets?
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:28 am to JonTheTigerFan
Yes, it should count. I am in the same boat. I applied for tickets to our both of our prior BCS Championship Games and missed both times. This year is my third strike. There needs to be some type of method where if you are not that big of a doner, and you receive tickets one year, you should go to the bottom of the list that revolves upward.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:30 am to JonTheTigerFan
I've had season tickets since 1986. Filled out my form and got a nice "tough noogies" e-mail last week.
Wished I'd gotten them and yea I had them all through the Curley years, but honestly I donate as little as possible.No way on Earth I can rationalize how I should get them.
Wished I'd gotten them and yea I had them all through the Curley years, but honestly I donate as little as possible.No way on Earth I can rationalize how I should get them.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:30 am to JonTheTigerFan
It needs to if LSU wants to ensure a more steady cash flow in the lean years. In the current environment, season ticket holders pay more to attend games than fans who buy seats in the same locations on StubHub, the coming BCS NCG excepted. If you want people to pay a premium for being season ticket holders in lean years, however, there has to be some expected reward that it will payoff in good years.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:40 am to JonTheTigerFan
Yes, he should get tickets based on tenure alone, and there should be no way for relatively "new" Tiger fans to get BCS tickets. 
It's a business. Not a meritocracy.
It's a business. Not a meritocracy.
This post was edited on 12/16/11 at 11:42 am
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:41 am to JonTheTigerFan
I guess he never upgraded to the sidelines during the Hallman years..6 sideline tix on the same account would have resulted enough points to get tickets by the required donation alone.. and if he ever gave to the taf as suggested before the "hard times" he would have even more points.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:44 am to JonTheTigerFan
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doesn't contribute any money to the TAF outside of the fees for his tickets
Ive contributed the min. with my tickets since 2000 and Im sitting at 3000.
Your friend was buying his tickets at a cut rate for years while people like myself had to pay TAF fees just to get in the gate. I feel no pity for his lack of Championship tickets.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 11:47 am to JonTheTigerFan
This thread is full of whining about being poor. If you don't like it, make sacrifices in other areas of your life to afford the necessary donations.
If you don't want to make that kind of sacrifice, you can't act like you're entitled to something. I really want a Lamborghini, but I recognize that I can't afford it. Does that mean I want to abolish the government of Italy? No.
If you don't want to make that kind of sacrifice, you can't act like you're entitled to something. I really want a Lamborghini, but I recognize that I can't afford it. Does that mean I want to abolish the government of Italy? No.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 12:01 pm to JonTheTigerFan
Theoretically if someone was a ticket holder for a long time via taf they would have the points. Unfortunately no one knew in the 80's what taf would become. I think there should be some account taken for longevity.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 12:13 pm to JonTheTigerFan
You can buy a BCS LSU poster for $3
Posted on 12/16/11 at 12:18 pm to JonTheTigerFan
Should count but doesn't. LSU athletics is a money making corporation. Gotten any consideration from any of them lately? I bought my first Mac computer in 1992. Supported them all through their lean years, got friends to convert, etc. Did I get a free iPod when they took off? Ha, ha, ha, good one , huh?
Posted on 12/16/11 at 12:22 pm to JonTheTigerFan
I've only been a season ticket holder less than a decade since I graduated and I got 2 tickets. If I can do it, you'd think a long time holder could too. If not, enjoy watching at home.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 12:32 pm to JonTheTigerFan
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Shouldn't being a long time season ticket holder have some weight in determining if you get bowl tickets?
Sorry, buddy, we're going with the younger guys because they make more noise.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 2:27 pm to JonTheTigerFan
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Shouldn't being a long time season ticket holder have some weight in determining if you get bowl tickets?
It's because of TAF and large donations that we're competing for our 3rd BCS title in 9 years. If LSU was running on a bunch of people who make minimal donations we'd still be in the really shitty years of LSU football.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 2:46 pm to JonTheTigerFan
Awhile back, I did some work at an older gents house and in his den, he had a lot of LSU memoribilia. I asked him about it and he said that he started buying season tickets in 1946 after he was shipped home from WWII. He said that he still gets them, but only goes to one or two games a year and lets his grandkids use them. If anyone deserved priority points for longevity, it would have to be him.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 2:54 pm to JonTheTigerFan
Seems a shame, but LSU can't run a business that way. Otherwise, nobody would contribute to the points system.
Posted on 12/16/11 at 3:52 pm to JonTheTigerFan
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He has had 6 tickets for as long as i can remember. Well, he's kinda fallen on hard times as a small business owner and doesn't contribute any money to the TAF outside of the fees for his tickets.
I've had 2 tickets since the mid-90s and began contributing the minimum to TAF in 2001 ($100/yr) when Skip Bertman basically said that contributions would matter in the future. I've since added 5 tickets in the last 5 years, pay the minimum Tradition Funds and received BCS tickets in 2003, 2007 and this year. Have received tickets to every BCS game as well as Alabama, Auburn and Florida game ever requested.
Why should younger fans be penalized for their later birth?
There was also a time when bowls would pass on LSU because they didn't travel well to away games. The younger generation of LSU fans has changed that.
The sense of entitlement of older LSU fans puzzles me.
Loyalty didn't pay for any stadium expansion or upgrades not to mention the new Academic Centers, Mike's habitat and a long list of things. TAF donations did.
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