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re: Question for older Tiger fans re: Spring games

Posted on 4/17/16 at 8:08 pm to
Posted by DBU
Member since Mar 2014
19059 posts
Posted on 4/17/16 at 8:08 pm to
quote:

It is embarrassing to only see 21,000 when the other SEC schools are putting 60,000 plus in the seats. Why is this? Festival season in Louisiana?





You're an idiot
Posted by HammerheadLincoln
The farther west the farther out
Member since May 2015
4871 posts
Posted on 4/17/16 at 8:12 pm to
Spring game attendance doesn't matter at all

Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
55994 posts
Posted on 4/17/16 at 11:28 pm to
quote:

It is embarrassing to only see 21,000 when the other SEC schools are putting 60,000 plus in the seats. Why is this?


that is because the schools that draw in a lot of folks to their spring game draw the folks to campus with a lot of other events like baseball games, concerts, etc.

for instance, this was Super Bulldog Weekend at MS State...
Posted by laftoothdr
lafayette
Member since Dec 2007
405 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 7:57 am to
Spring game is as useless as Big Cat Drill
Posted by Paratiger
Haughton, La
Member since Nov 2014
428 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 8:17 am to
Spring games are for the coaches and players, not the fans.
Posted by LSUGoose
Red Stick via St James Parish
Member since Jan 2006
5193 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 8:20 am to
I graduated from LSU in '84 and don't remember anyone ever giving a rat's butt about the Spring Game.

Gumps feel an obligation to go to their spring game just so they can brag about it and so that they're not out-attended by Auburn.
Posted by Chris Warner
Perdido Bay
Member since Jan 2009
5575 posts
Posted on 4/18/16 at 8:40 am to
Exhibition
Posted by Thorny
Montgomery, AL
Member since May 2008
1908 posts
Posted on 4/19/16 at 9:13 am to
I was at LSU from 85 to 89. I don't remember even having a Spring game in those years. I know the band didn't play in them, since I was in both the marching band and basketball bands and would have gone.

GEAUX TIGERS
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
202780 posts
Posted on 4/19/16 at 11:24 am to
The spring game is pretty useless for the fans. I have been to a few and it nice to see s little football. Coaches are watching for certain things from certain players. That's about it. I actually praise lsu fans for having other things to do. Ohio State had over 100,000 fans for a spring game..... Really???????
Posted by beauchristopher
new orleans
Member since Jan 2008
65865 posts
Posted on 4/19/16 at 3:41 pm to
I don't think it's all embarrassing
Posted by Malaysian Tiger
Manila
Member since May 2008
4732 posts
Posted on 4/19/16 at 9:55 pm to
The first one I attended was in 1968 and that was the year before the 9-1 Record in 1969. The team in 1969 was probably the best team that LSU had and especially the Defense. I tried to go every year and the last one I went to was in 2006 the year I moved out of the U.S. If I was still there I would be going to the Spring Games. I enjoyed just getting out and eating somewhere and talking to friends at the game. I always saw someone that I knew. One year and cannot remember the year, I got to sit with Benjy Thibodeaux. Jim Burks was there also who was Shawn's brother.
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