re: Alleva in Wall Street Journal- students attendance a big issue, LSU -5.5%

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Alcohol is not sold or consumed in the stadium.

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wait, what? of course it is.

it's consumed in the suites or snuck in.

It's hard to figure how they justified the south end zone expansion with the recent decline in attendance.

The south end zone expansion was all about suites and club seats pal...98% were presold and VERY high margins....you should read up on things before making uninformed posts

Does alleva REALLY want to make the game day experience the best in the country and keep butts in the seats?

here's some suggestions:

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1. wifi upgrades. People want to get on facebook. DWI.

2. beer sold before kickoff until halftime. more beer sold = less incidents and binge drinking

3. show highlights and scores of ongoing games during commercial breaks.

4. more mass transit choices around campus

5. better coordination of contraflow

6. one time re-entry into the stadium WITH your ticket

7. more available trash cans throughout tailgating areas.

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When I was a student I saw tons of the international/minority students, they love the spectacle of it. It's the white hipster crowd that is not coming.

Need to sell alcohol in the stadium, more concession stands and better parking and contra flow during gameday. Those three things will improve everything dramatically.

a seat sold does not equal a butt in a seat.

I agree to a point....it IS all about the $ now but, at some point the Ath. Admin. simply has to start thinking about the paying and attending fans !
More neutral site games,more shitty home OOC games, more season ticket price increases,less parking,more marginal concessions,less "use" of video boards to actually SHOW the ATTENDING fans, what else is going on in the conference/nation via video hi-lites,more things to entice people to come to and stay at the games...shall I go on ?
Granted, a few baby steps have been made i.e. great chance the bulk of our home games will be at nite { remember all the morons who claimed this could not happen because of TV contracts ?...Well what happened ? Aleva finally stood up and demanded something be done to protect some of LSU's traditions....suddenly the SEC is going to help..LOL...contracts ARE a negotiation by definition...about time the admins got off their keisters !!!

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have good wi-fi

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What do you need wifi for? It's not Starbucks.

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Just don't act like everybody and their mom is scared to play us at home because that just isn't true.

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I know not EVERYONE is scared. It's absolutely a factor, though. Do you really not see the motivating factors for the other teams? Big payday and don't have to play in TS.

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Alleva loves playing in these neutral site games in Texas. Call a spade a spade.

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He does. Money, exposure, marquee opponent and a great experience for the players that actually play the games. Sounds terrible. Of course I wish we could play marquee games in Tiger Stadium all the time. I also want us to go 15-0 every year for the rest of my life, so...

Just how is that dumb ?
The conference commissioner goes on record agreeing that LSU should have its' nite game tradition acknowledged and somewhat "protected" by the broadcasters ! Is this not what you heard/saw ?
For years and years, you never heard a peep about our traditions, only those of the conference elite. Finally, someone bitched enough to actually get some notice....