re: Only 6000 tickets sold to Tiger fans for Outback Bowl

Your daughter does.

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Thats just awful. LSU brought 8/9 thousand this year to Athens. LSU can do better than this

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6000 tickets. 1000 legit LSU fans and 5000 Corporate tickets to be distributed to the Cheezer Nation so they can wine and cheese themselves silly while seeing and being seen.

The legit LSU fan base aint excited about the program right now. Could care less about the Steak Bowl.

Losing to the vastly inferior Black Bears, not showing up in the second half against "The Process" and needing a miracle last gasp drive to beat a god awful R-Kansas team tends to banish excitement. Most of us know who we are and don't like it one bit. Not real excited for the future either, even if all the recruiting blocks fall our way. The Man will find a way to lose 2 or 3 regardless of whom takes the field in athletic competition for Louisiana State University.

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You reap what you SOW

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FIFY

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LSU holds back tickets for player families, staff, students, etc. Then when there's not the demand they thought, they release the better seats.

Here's an example: I ordered tickets to Arkansas last year in Fayetteville. I got upper deck seats even though I've got a pretty decent TAF ranking. Later a friend was able to go on LSU's website and buy tickets in the lower level.

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All of this is exactly why my FIL (who has been a season ticket holder for 30+ years and used to go to several away games a year plus the bowl game) no longer cares about the bowl. I don't think it's just him either. I think there is a large portion of the fanbase that think the same way.

Simply put, they're tired of getting the royal screw job on seats. LSU started getting greedy with the whole bowl ticket process starting in the 2003 BCS National Title game, and has never looked back. Many people don't want the headache of buying tickets, finding out they're shitty seats, waiting and hoping till the last minute, buying better tickets when available, selling first set of tickets, etc.

If LSU would just be straight up and sell the tickets naturally on a first come/first serve basis, I think more people would go to the bowl game -regardless of opponent, regardless of how LSU performed this season, etc.

This year and last year is a byproduct of a screw job year in/year out since 2003. It has been building to this. It's not just that the fanbase sucks, it's not that the fans are spoiled or uninterested in the bowl, any of that. The fans that LSU relies on to show up on the road are just tired of getting screwed over.

That's the flip side of the bcs, the other bowls have become even less meaningful than before. They should just dump all the bowls and have a 16 (or 24 team with a first round bye for top 8) playoff or go back to old system.

IMO it's cyclical. What would cure the malaise would be a few really shitty seasons with no bowl game. Then, if LSU got into a bowl, the fan base, starved for something positive, would show up in droves. We are victims of our own success....now it's all or nothing....upper tier bowls are boring because our fan base has grown to expect more. We were excited as hell to play Michigan State in the Indy Bowl back in the 90's. Filled up the stadium. Yep, some shitty years would cure most problems. (Ticket prices...parking costs...etc.). ...at least for awhile....until the program got big again and the cycle repeated. Oh...and now it's all about winning whereas it used to be about the experience. We don't win, nobody shows up. That being said, I don't want to have any shitty years.

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fans are more informed than they used to be as well. if you buy in early to help the school look good you tend to get punished by paying a higher price for the same or worse seats than you can get by waiting. there's a spoiled fan issue as well - but that's hardly limited to LSU fans. Florida didn't sell very well for the Sugar Bowl last year after an 11 win season.

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Bowl games generally give the participating schools their least desirable seats, thus these seats are in the corners and end zones. The schools then sale them at a premium price. If you want decent seats just wait as close as you can to game time and buy them online.
The problem with bowl games now is the price of fan participation vs watching it at home. I find it a rather interesting dichotomy that TV networks have increased fan interest to all time record levels yet fan interest in attending the actual game is decreasing.

fans are starting to outsmart the system. you can buy tickets for cheaper prices and get better seats through buying tickets on the secondary market. look at the chick-fil-a bowl last year. we bought 10,000 tickets, but easily had twice that many in the ga. dome. i sat near mid field in the clubs for almost the same price i would have paid to sit in the upper deck endzone if i would have bought it through lsu.

also, our fans dont seem pumped to play iowa, even though they are clearly a better team than michigan and nebraska.

our fans are so up or down. we can bring 20,000 to seattle, have 40,000 plus ticket requests to the rose bowl in 24 hours and bring 70,000 plus to dallas against oregon and then pull this crap. mark my words tiger fans, this will bite us in the arse in the future, and youll have noone to blame but yourselves.

This is why LSU should have begged for a game against Michigan, whethe in the Outback or Gator. Fans would have made more of an effort to see one of the top 5 name programs, IMO.

I've been to pretty much every bowl game past 10 years.
The thrill is gone for me, especially as you said for some crap Iowa team.

My tv and lazy boy are hard to beat.
Free too.