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re: Fans leaving early - Notre Dame comparison
Posted on 9/15/19 at 7:28 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Posted on 9/15/19 at 7:28 pm to Byrdybyrd05
quote:At Notre Dame, they have elderly nuns with wooden rulers at all the exits after halftime.
Big brother i mean saban is watching them!
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Posted on 9/15/19 at 7:33 pm to hsgeoboy
Party school students want to leave to party. Notre Dame is not a party school.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 7:35 pm to hsgeoboy
This isn’t just an LSU thing. From what I have seen working around College Station, their problem is much worse.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 7:55 pm to hsgeoboy
In my opinion, a whole bunch of them are just spoiled assholes who have no appreciation for the hell these kids go through getting ready to play a game...I always stay til its over because I think the players deserve it...one big excuse is traffic...B.S.! Getting out of Tiger Stadium is not any harder or harrier than any other big sports venue...
Posted on 9/15/19 at 8:05 pm to hsgeoboy
Guess there’s nothing else to do in South Bend except go to Mayor Pete’s house
Posted on 9/15/19 at 8:09 pm to hsgeoboy
I downvote not because of the subject or context but for the use of “cuz”.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 8:12 pm to hsgeoboy
can’t believe people still respond to these threads.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 8:31 pm to cypresstiger
Spot On...In fairness, ND has a terrific game day experience and most fans stay to the end. However, Eddy St. is limited so there is absolutely nothing else to do.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 8:42 pm to Solo Cam
I understand perfectly. Imagine if the gov't had said we are issuing tracking devices that will listen in on all of your conversations which we can use as we see fit. Would there have been any takers?
Posted on 9/15/19 at 9:59 pm to hsgeoboy
So I actually have a similar perspective to OP - went to LSU for undergrad and finished my Ph.D. @ ND a few years ago. Notre Dame attendance has a few things going for it:
1. When the game starts, all on-campus tailgates at ND have to shut down. There's no going back to the Powalski's (or whatever midwest last name) tailgate to eat brats and simultaneously watch the Irish beat down the Lobos AND watch USC lose to BYU on the second TV.
2. There's not too many places to go right near campus to go do something else. Things improved massively during my tenure there but still there's only a handful of places (Brother's, O'Rourkes, the Backer, ?) right at the edge of campus to eat/drink/watch football.
3. Most of the undergrads live on campus so the alternative to leaving the game is to go back to the dorms. Added to this is since most of the students graduate in four years, about 50% can't legally go out and get boozed up.
4. Most of the non-student tickets are people from out of town. I knew a lot of the season ticket holders would come in from at least Chicago, a big part from well beyond there. If you're making the trip, you're watching the game.
Idk, overall its just a different atmosphere. Tailgating is a little stale sometimes - you could only set up tailgates in the parking lots, drinking games on campus are banned, but you really can't beat the scenery and the history. It felt like college football Disney World sometimes. Night games there where pretty tight though and things could get rowdy.
1. When the game starts, all on-campus tailgates at ND have to shut down. There's no going back to the Powalski's (or whatever midwest last name) tailgate to eat brats and simultaneously watch the Irish beat down the Lobos AND watch USC lose to BYU on the second TV.
2. There's not too many places to go right near campus to go do something else. Things improved massively during my tenure there but still there's only a handful of places (Brother's, O'Rourkes, the Backer, ?) right at the edge of campus to eat/drink/watch football.
3. Most of the undergrads live on campus so the alternative to leaving the game is to go back to the dorms. Added to this is since most of the students graduate in four years, about 50% can't legally go out and get boozed up.
4. Most of the non-student tickets are people from out of town. I knew a lot of the season ticket holders would come in from at least Chicago, a big part from well beyond there. If you're making the trip, you're watching the game.
Idk, overall its just a different atmosphere. Tailgating is a little stale sometimes - you could only set up tailgates in the parking lots, drinking games on campus are banned, but you really can't beat the scenery and the history. It felt like college football Disney World sometimes. Night games there where pretty tight though and things could get rowdy.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:03 pm to hsgeoboy
The interest in people's hearts to stay and watch through a whole live college football game is just not what it used to be. Period.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:07 pm to damnedoldtigah
The heat excuse is BS. How long have you been watching LSU football? I’ve seen people leave on a picture perfect Saturday night in late October because it was “too cold” when temps dropped into the low 60’s.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:09 pm to hsgeoboy
I’m not sure there’s much else to do though in South Bend, IN other than go to Notre Dame games
Posted on 9/15/19 at 11:24 pm to NimbleCat
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I am pretty sure that ND loses about 1/3 of their fans at halftime. The seat spacing is so close that you just can't notice on TV.
I’m not saying from the TV. From the band stands, I never have seen people swarm to leave no matter how up we are. It’s just not the culture here and I wish the same could be said for LSU
Posted on 9/15/19 at 11:49 pm to hsgeoboy
Notre Dame is a different animal in this regard. The vast, vast majority of their alums live nowhere near South Bend. Most come back for one game a year. Obviously, if you're only making one game a year, you're less likely to leave early. Stupid to compare Notre Dame with LSU or Alabama or Georgia.
Posted on 9/16/19 at 12:22 am to LSUfan4444
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Los Angeles traffic is brutal every day, yet people go to work.
Congrats...you just compared apples to monkeys
Apples to monkeys huh? No you fricking idiot. 8 days of traffic per year for something you wait on all year long and “supposedly” love compared to even worse traffic on a daily basis for something you “have” to do 250 times per year. Apples to monkeys? We’re talking about 8 fricking times a year clown. The Louisiana in me will never leave. In pains me to see how pussified my home state has become when they bitch about “traffic” for 8 days a year for an LSU GAME.
Posted on 9/16/19 at 12:31 am to hsgeoboy
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fans leaving early a common thing and ND just does better at it (
it's south bend, where tf they gonna go?
Posted on 9/16/19 at 12:39 am to TigerBert
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When you 1: Pay the effectively $200 per ticket for me -AND- 2) Get me a helicopter flight outta post-game traffic chaos/horrendousness. THEN I'll hear you out Otherwise, I can't hear you
Honest question, if you are so dead set on leaving early, why go to a game? No, I’m not talking about games like last night, but bigger matchups that are better games. Why not stay home and save yourself the hassle of sitting in traffic?
Posted on 9/16/19 at 1:11 am to LSUfan4444
LSU needs to fix their Sound. Too loud in the North and can't hear it in the south!
Posted on 9/16/19 at 1:16 am to Bengal26
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if you are so dead set on leaving early, why go to a game? No, I’m not talking about games like last night, but bigger matchups that are better games. Why not stay home and save yourself the hassle of sitting in traffic?
I've stayed.
The main problem to me is the contraflow. It's supposed to make everything run smoother and does the exact opposite, so people leave because they don't want to deal with the aggravation.
I pay for the tickets as does anyone else and I get that the players need support (which is why I got the season tickets in the first place. That and a more sentimental reason which I'll keep to myself) but the contraflow makes people want to rip their hair out.
Close off roads right at LSU then. I'm able to get to it but a few hours after I park, the same place every time, that road is now closed. I don't plan on leaving for a few hours so do that.
No need to barricade Nicholson and Highland all the way up to I-10. It just makes it awful.
It's partly the traffic but it's more the contraflow that's the problem.
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