re: I think its safe to say that the once great LSU gameday atmosphere is now dead

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For the first games you could not really judge the atmosphere because of the bad opponents, heat, chance rain, etc, but saturday was a perfect game to see just how it is. You had a fired up up and coming SEC team, great weather and no other big events going on in the BR area. I got to campus around 12pm and there was no traffic and plenty of parking around the ag center. I haven't been to this side of campus in a few years but I still thought that seemed weird. then I noticed that there really weren't a lot of people tailgating. around 3pm I decided to walk from the ag center to the track. I've never seen a deader/smaller tailgating crowd for a big sec game before. from empty to half filled parking lots to quiet, low key tailgates. I really was shocked. the gameday atmosphere on campus is about 1/10th of what is was 4 or 5 years ago and cannot even compare to 15-25 years ago. It really is amazing just how much the tailgating rules traffic procedures and price increases have destroyed a once great thing. I won't get into how poor the in stadium experience has gotten. I think even the tv viewers realize how unentertained the lsu fans are during games. i know catering to the big donors, corporations, suite owners and stadium club ticket holders is lsu's main focus but they really need to get their act together and remember what once made lsu the best gameday atmosphere in the country. lsu is on a slippery slope right now. i think winning is the only thing that is keeping these once die hard fans around right now. if the team starts losing 4 or 5 games a year there is no telling how empty campus will be. it really is a shame.

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