re: I Just Saved $3,000+ Next Year! What Will You Do With Your Savings?

Has Chavis been with LSU for 4 years?

I have also made the money saving decision to stop going to LSU games as long as the status quo holds.

Just wish I'd made that decision before yesterday's disgrace.

You finally grew up.

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Fair weather Fan

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yep.

My family and I went to all the games from the early 70's on. Struggled thru the really crappy years, tailgated like there was no tomorrow. Sometimes spending a $1,000 or more on a weekends worth of food to feed people including some of the visitors. We traveled to the away games like Washington, all the bowl games etc...

We stopped only recently because it became heartbreaking. Sure people will call me a negatiger but it's one thing to get your arse kicked by a better team and it's another to be on the wrong side of a bonehead call or series. Ever notice how often LSU is on the wrong side of those compared to the other teams we play?

It's like having an employee that gets all their work done by noon everyday and better than every other employee you have, but then once a month he does something that gets you sued.

We were leaving too many games with the focus being entirely on the coach and the decisions the staff made rather than the "team" if that makes any sense.

Now we just mainly make the home baseball games (been going steady since about 1990) where it's much more relaxing.

Either way I'm sure the second we didn't pick up our tickets someone else was in line to take them.

My dad did have a talk with the associate AD at LSU when we decided we were no longer renewing our tickets (talk was specifically about us not renewing, just casual conversation) and he basically said "at least it's not like Hallma, and we could go back to the Charlie Mac days". That really chapped my dads arse.

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Nice. I like this idea:

Share what you plan on spending your money on.

I'll go next:

The overall plan is a college fund. My kid will be in college in 13 years. 13 X 3K a year is going to be close to 40K. That should do it. I hope.

Immediate future, I plan on buying another green egg. Mmmmm. More rib eyes.

Miles may be the luckiest coach LSU has ever had but,He sure as hell isn't the best.Dude is a complete moron,take away talent and pure luck and what would his record look like?

This is the periodic cleansing of the fanbase that we need.
It's also part of ageing.
Let some young, die-hard blood in.
I applaud your decision. Be happy. Be elsewhere. Win-win for everybody.
I suspect that some day four five years from now my kids will be going to all the games in my stead.
My back and vocal cords will thank me.
I'll just pass it down, as my Father did, and then step aside.