LSU admin is proving they don’t care about men’s bball & I’m not even talking about Ws&Ls

The product on the court is bad, but it the total lack of caring by the LSU athletic department that just pisses me off.

During the North Florida game the lights over the court were off until about 5 minutes into the game. There were no stats on the scoreboard until midway through the 1st half. Then once they turned the stats on they put up stats from the previous women’s game. A couple minutes later they finally got the current game stats on.

For the Kansas St. game Mike the Tiger was nowhere to be found. This was at least the 2nd game this year with no Mike the Tiger. There was a family sitting near me whose kids were looking for Mike the whole game and were pretty aggravated that he wasn't there. People may not think its important but its a big deal to families with kids.

Basically no promotions this year. I think they did a 1st 100 students get a free t-shirt game. That brought in about 25 students. They did an after the game meet the players and poster signing. Usually this is meant for kids, but they did this for an 8:00 game. Very few people stayed after. No other promotions.

When the product on the court is as bad as it is, you have to do something to generate at least some interest. In the Johnny Jones days some people would go to games just to get a Cousin Eddie hat, a mike the tiger snow globe, or other random stuff you could only get at a game. And now they can’t even have Mike the Tiger attend every game. The one thing LSU basketball has going for it is kid interest. Kids love going to games. Start losing them and you lose about half the people who are normally there.

I won’t get into the condition of the PMAC because they won’t start caring about it until someone trips down the uneven lower level stairs, gets seriously hurt and sues the hell out of LSU. It’s just a matter of time before that happens.

LSU basketball needs to stop being an afterthought of the athletic department.