Season Ticket renewals and overall commitment

I've had season tickets since the 70's. Read into it what you want.

Nobody stepped up last year on my 4 tickets and parking. Waste of about $3,500 for a couple of decent games

I've got double digit tickets. I quit going to games and sell them all. My kids may want them one day which is the only reason I keep them at all.

I still go to the games and I held on to those tickets when I lived in other states and even when I loved in Europe. It's simple. I'm an LSU fan. I don't care who the coach is, I don't care who is on the team. LSU is playing and that's enough for me.

Cannot give tickets away to some of the games away.
Know other long time season ticket holders that also complain about the outrageous traffic and the commercialism.

Well Grey then give yourself a pat and I anoint you best Tiger fan around and we salute you. However, most of us can't do this but we do care about the program and are critical of things that we think are not right but doesn't diminish our loyalty in any way!

I believe LSU is starting to price themselves out of the market.

They are raising prices at the same time they added capacity. That will do a lot of satisfy the demand. Add in the fact that several of the games are crap games, combined with the fact the team has gone down a notch, and it's easy to see the problem.

Traffic is horrible. Stuff in the stadium is expensive. Every home game has been on tv for a few years now - even the terrible ones.

My FIL had tickets for a number of years, gave them up, and then got them again in 2002. He gave them up before this season. $1,800 for 2 tickets was just too much for him. I had the opportunity to pay for them, but with my work schedule, I really can't make any games before mid-October. So I would be able to go to at most 3-4 games. And most of the games I would miss were the crappy ones that I couldn't sell.

Season tickets are a very bad investment. Secondary market prices are cheaper and no TAF fees.

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I see some people claiming they will not renew their season tickets and I wonder if that is just emotional ranting. Even though there is a lot of crap that challenges my fan hood, I could not bring myself to not renewing them, as i know how long it would be to try and reverse that decision. So, all these people who say they will cancel, I just don't buy it, and I don't think Alleva and others do either. We are emotionally-trammeled to the LSU football team. We aren't going anywhere. Maybe a small number would get fed up and cancel, but only if they have crappy seats or have access to tickets another way.

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Well, congratulations. You are truly a super fan. You're also the reason ticket prices continue to skyrocket and why LSU hasn't played a quality nonconference opponent at home in several years. The administration knows they can count on screwing the blind loyalists like you to help keep the money flowing. But if I still had tickets, another .500 or worse SEC season coupled with another year of QB play that would be embarrassing for a high school team would drive me to drop my tickets.

I have been on the wait list for years. I'm not even forking over the $10 for that anymore. I'll still donate to the university but not to TAF. I was kinda shocked TAF called me last week asking about a donation.

I'll buy my tickets on the secondary market from now on because I wouldn't pay those insane fees even if I got season tickets.