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re: Tickets sold now at 39,500
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:35 pm to The Pirate King
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:35 pm to The Pirate King
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Because the $40 tickets are nosebleed seats. If the lower bowl tickets were $40 I'd have bought 4 for family and friends as gifts.
Just accept they got greedy and overpriced the tickets.
I guess you don't get out much...SEC tickets have been $75-$85 for years now.
so you are bitching about prices, yet your too good to sit in cheap seats...cant have it both ways
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Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:35 pm to TenTex
There is no walk up crowd. There are no tickets that will be sold cheaper than face for this one. There won't be 30000 for kickoff
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:38 pm to anne
What don't you understand about this not being a regular game?
I'm not doubting that face value for this game in a vacuum is worth $75. The circumstances around this game (short notice being the biggest) dictate that the price should be lower. Obviously about 50k other tiger fans agree with me, even if they don't want to admit it.
I'm not doubting that face value for this game in a vacuum is worth $75. The circumstances around this game (short notice being the biggest) dictate that the price should be lower. Obviously about 50k other tiger fans agree with me, even if they don't want to admit it.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:40 pm to Shane4689
Everyone keeps talking about this "real fan" bullshite. While less that half of the season ticket holders bought tickets.
EVERYONE SHUT THE frick UP AND BUY A TICKET, GET DRUNK AND GO TO THE GAME!!
EVERYONE SHUT THE frick UP AND BUY A TICKET, GET DRUNK AND GO TO THE GAME!!
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:40 pm to The Pirate King
That's bullshite. If the prices were $50 I highly doubt there would be a major surge in sales.
Face it, the people who want to go have purchased tickets already, and the people that don't want to go won't change their mind because of price. They'll find one of a million excuses as to why they won't go.
Face it, the people who want to go have purchased tickets already, and the people that don't want to go won't change their mind because of price. They'll find one of a million excuses as to why they won't go.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:40 pm to anne
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I guess you don't get out much...SEC tickets have been $75-$85 for years now.
Oh you mean the season tickets you purchase 6 months in advance?
Yeah, a 3 day notice game is pretty much the same
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:43 pm to slackster
Cheap tickets would've made a huge difference.
A night game would've made a huge difference.
The circumstances are what they are. I just don't want to hear the AD calling out the fans for it.
A night game would've made a huge difference.
The circumstances are what they are. I just don't want to hear the AD calling out the fans for it.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:44 pm to tigerfoot
Just for some perspective, in 2005, when Arizona State was hosting our "home" game...
--They had an extra day's notice more than we did
--It was their 2nd game of the year, having only played Temple
--It was a later kickoff
--The opponent was a top-5 ranked team
--They literally gave tickets away for free to anyone who wanted them (per an ASU fan posting on SECR yesterday or Wednesday)
And the attendance was officially listed as...
63,210 with probably much less actual
Considering we've had less notice, are in the middle of the season, with an early kickoff, against a struggling team we are favored to beat by 19, and tickets range from $40 to over $100, if we come anywhere close to 50,000 that would be a damned good showing by LSU fans.
--They had an extra day's notice more than we did
--It was their 2nd game of the year, having only played Temple
--It was a later kickoff
--The opponent was a top-5 ranked team
--They literally gave tickets away for free to anyone who wanted them (per an ASU fan posting on SECR yesterday or Wednesday)
And the attendance was officially listed as...
63,210 with probably much less actual
Considering we've had less notice, are in the middle of the season, with an early kickoff, against a struggling team we are favored to beat by 19, and tickets range from $40 to over $100, if we come anywhere close to 50,000 that would be a damned good showing by LSU fans.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:45 pm to Jar_Jar_80
Half, if not more, of the people complaining about people not paying to go to the game are more than likely not going to the game either. This thread be stupid. If Alleva wanted a good amount amount of fans to attend then the tickets should be cheap, a lot cheap, esp since LSU isn't even profiting from ticket sales. Makes no sense
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:45 pm to slackster
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That's bullshite. If the prices were $50 I highly doubt there would be a major surge in sales.
They would certainly sell More tickets.
If they wanted to really move them, they'd drop them to about $30, but alas they don't want to move the tickets. They're content with 40k full price as opposed to 80k half price.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:50 pm to HollierThanThou
Night game I agree with you, but the price being lower doesn't solve the problem IMO.
People are bitching about the price, but there are cheaper tickets available. When they announced the venue change people decided whether or not they were going to be able to go. I can honestly say I don't know a single person who has the ability to go to the game but isn't going because of the price.
People having other plans/obligations and the opponent are by far the biggest issues this weekend. Price is way down the list.
People are bitching about the price, but there are cheaper tickets available. When they announced the venue change people decided whether or not they were going to be able to go. I can honestly say I don't know a single person who has the ability to go to the game but isn't going because of the price.
People having other plans/obligations and the opponent are by far the biggest issues this weekend. Price is way down the list.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:53 pm to slackster
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Night game I agree with you, but the price being lower doesn't solve the problem IMO.
People are bitching about the price, but there are cheaper tickets available. When they announced the venue change people decided whether or not they were going to be able to go. I can honestly say I don't know a single person who has the ability to go to the game but isn't going because of the price.
People having other plans/obligations and the opponent are by far the biggest issues this weekend. Price is way down the list.
I'm not even complaining about the price. I just don't want to hear fans called out for shitty attendance in a circumstance like this. If they wanted more people they should've made the event more attractive in this case.
Personally i've had fishing plans for weeks and will be watching the game from our camp.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:55 pm to slackster
As someone said on an earlier Baton Rouge sports talk radio, time for a few big time LSU corporate sponsors to pony up and do like Shoetown used to do for Tulane and buy up a block of tickets and just hand out for free for high school football teams, YMCA, Youth organizations and help get some butts in the seats. Again as the Radio Host said , Not telling anybody what they should or should not do with disposable income but a few local sponsors could help out. As Ossie Brown used to do on the Jerry Lewis telethon , "Okay so and so time to give that big donation." No matter just wish I could be there to go to the game. After living in Montana for 8 years , man do I miss that LSU game day experience. Let's Geaux Tigers. 
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:57 pm to Shane4689
I remember all the threads referring to neutral site games, and how awful it was to be screwing the local fan.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:58 pm to Oyster
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4. Hot weather
Lulz, 84 is not hot
Posted on 10/9/15 at 4:59 pm to The Pirate King
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but alas they don't want to move the tickets. They're content with 40k full price as opposed to 80k half price.
I'm shocked joe said what he did because I believe our resources are a little strained for tomorrow too. This is a good way to manage the number of people on campus
Posted on 10/9/15 at 5:05 pm to Mr.Perfect
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This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 5:46 pm
Posted on 10/9/15 at 5:05 pm to Mr.Perfect
Most people not in college need more than three days notice even if their calendar was open that day. I am more shocked at only 7k student tickets sold than anything but I guess a lot of them made plans to go home this weekend?
Posted on 10/9/15 at 5:08 pm to saintsfan22
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Tickets should be free and I should be allowed to run on the field with the team.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 5:12 pm to etm512
It's not that $40-75/ticket is unaffordable, it's that most people don't see that much value in the ticket. Let's be honest, the majority if Louisiana is poor as shite. The fans who would most benefit from these available tickets are the lower middle class people who would take a wife and let's say 2 kids. Even for the $40 tickets, you are looking at $160 in tickets alone, plus concessions for the family. It suddenly becomes a $200 affair for a family of 4 in the upper deck. While everyone on TigerDroppings pulls in 6 figure incomes, the majority of LSU and Baton Rouge specifically doesn't earn enough to easily justify $200 out of the blue for a weekend event.
Those tickets would be gobbled up in a more affluent area of the country with more disposable income, but they are probably still slightly overpriced for what LA can afford.
Those tickets would be gobbled up in a more affluent area of the country with more disposable income, but they are probably still slightly overpriced for what LA can afford.
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