re: per Hunt Palmer, FSU didn't directly sell out its 30k ticket allotment; 10k tix sold

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But we lose a home game. 100k tickets at $50 is $5mil. FSU game would sell for ~$100/ticket probably $125, then we get concession sales etc...

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Jacques Doucet tweeted it the other day but LSU would probably have made $500,000 from a game like this. Superdome lower bowl seats outright go for $300 on LSU’s site when I checked. Our student section at LSU doesn’t even pay $100 for access to all home games, so that’s several thousand seats available for sale.

Does it benefit Baton Rouge as a whole with tourism? Yes. But LSU doesn’t have to pay for staff for concessions, security, etc. Their only added expense is travel and a hotel. They get discounts already for booking rooms for 200 something people. It sucks for the fans that want to go to Tiger Stadium and get the full LSU experience, but you’re not going to turn down a 1000% profit on less work.