Real fans

The reality of the empty seats is as follows:


1. People are ticked off at the performance of the team (not at the players, this cannot be stressed enough, it's not the players) I've never played a down of football in my life but I know what sort of talent the LSU players are, and can be. That's a big part of people being ticked off. The players are not getting the coaching they need IMO.

2. When #1 happens, people begin to become apathetic, uninterested, they'll continue to support the team but it's cheaper to stay at home and watch it on the tv. Tickets are expensive. People are not going to pay $75 face value for a ticket to go to a game when the outcome could possibly be in question in a game where we should win by at least 3 touchdowns. Goes back to #1, again.

In a nutshell, the coaching the players have gotten, so far, has been disappointing and people aren't going to pay their money to have it go to mediocre coaching when there's insane talent at the coaches fingertips.


I'll always be behind the team, but the coaches are paid a ton of money to use the talent that is available to them and that has not been done, in my opinion.

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a social event not football.

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A football game is a social event. People aren't there for a family reunion, they're there to see LSU whip some arse.


Now read my prior post. It's hard to argue with the empty seats, at least at this point in the season. And I'm all for seeing it do a complete 180.

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1. People are ticked off at the performance of the team (not at the players, this cannot be stressed enough, it's not the players) I've never played a down of football in my life but I know what sort of talent the LSU players are, and can be. That's a big part of people being ticked off. The players are not getting the coaching they need IMO.

2. When #1 happens, people begin to become apathetic, uninterested, they'll continue to support the team but it's cheaper to stay at home and watch it on the tv. Tickets are expensive. People are not going to pay $75 face value for a ticket to go to a game when the outcome could possibly be in question in a game where we should win by at least 3 touchdowns. Goes back to #1, again.

In a nutshell, the coaching the players have gotten, so far, has been disappointing and people aren't going to pay their money to have it go to mediocre coaching when there's insane talent at the coaches fingertips.


I'll always be behind the team, but the coaches are paid a ton of money to use the talent that is available to them and that has not been done, in my opinion.

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I can’t speak for everyone, but as a season ticket holder who leaves early pretty often these last few years, the above quote is basically exactly how I feel. I go to games to have fun. It’s only fun when we see the team perform as expected. When they don’t (which is pretty much all the time these days) it’s frustrating and the event is no longer fun. So why stay? It’s not a revolt. It’s not a lack of support. It’s plain boredom and disappointment. I used to never leave early, but this feeling of apathy has been building for years now and it gets stronger every week with every shite performance. It’s frustrating to me bc I know it’d go away completely and the excitement would return if someone would turn this program around. We just can’t seem to get over that hump and I don’t believe any of the personnel in place now can do it. I believe a lot of fans feel similar to the way I do. When lsu football returns to glory, the fans in the stadium will stay longer.

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I can’t speak for everyone, but as a season ticket holder who leaves early pretty often these last few years, the above quote is basically exactly how I feel.

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I'm a season ticket holder as well and you took the words right out of my mouth.

The real dumb fans like you dipwad