re: Does anyone here use wristbands for your tailgates?

It disheartens me that they even give people MIPs during gameday. If the kid isn't causing a scene, just let it slide. I get it when someone is being belligerent or acting like a jackass but other than that I wish the police officers would just focus more on making sure some madman doesn't start mowing everybody down or something.

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I'm guessing this is more for a student tailgate.

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Yep. We had to do it at our setup in college. It was getting out of control. Now, we would never think about doing it

Who monitors the wristbands and sends people without them off on their merry ways?

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Not a tailgate expert. But if its gotten so large you can't control the drink and eats perhaps there is your answer.

In the end some one or more will get so involved in policing, who's allowed in, money, food wrist bands etc that all the joy may be sucked out of a day that is meant to be shared and cherished.

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main problem will be if a minor gets a hold of a wristband and ABC wants to pursue it you have been contributing to the delinquency of a minor by selling to and allowing them to drink alcohol

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This right here. Make it BYOB as a stated policy and provide food for all and keg to those you know. Sucks that things are so PC now, but you gotta cover CYA!

We all do this with each other but it's grown substantially that we have people coming that we sort of know but not well enough that it's worth taking a substantial financial loss. We are in college.

The only thing is these aren't total randos. The core group is Our year in architecture and our very close friends. The wristbands would mostly be for the new younger architecture people we try to invite into the party. There's about 200 architecture people at LSU each year so if we even got 25% of them to come we would need a system to manage it. I 100% seeing it shrink even in the next 5 years. But we're in college and right now it is party time.

I'm the organizer! I'm the one fronting the equipment and cash (the core of the tailgate chips in more) and the stragglers we don't know to well are the ones who have to pay and get wristbands if they want to drink and eat.

Tailgating is not an entitlement. Unfortunately it costs to play. We have about the same 15-20 people pitch in for ours but there are constantly people coming through and grabbing this to eat or making that to drink. The friends of friends thing gets old but hey, it's a tailgate. Upwards of 100 people coming through. It's the nature of the beast. I promise you someone is losing money each week. But if it's not in your budget maybe you should rethink the size of your tailgate. Charging, IMO, just doesn't seem like the thing to do.