re: Off season topic- 1970's LSU football let's hear about it

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That's what I miss the most. It was the intense atmosphere of fan and student noise volume, combined with an unencumbered GBFTL.

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I've sat in TS before and after it expanded beyond 80k. At its peak TS today is MUCH louder than it was prior. The difference is it doesn't get to its peak all that often. 2007 Florida, last year's Alabama game. Hell, the Alabama games in 2008, 2012, 2014 rivaled any big game before it in terms of atmosphere.

The increased expectations have led to the inconsistency though. In the 70's, 80's, 90's, there were never any expectations of a championship team (hope, but not expectations). Thus, just about every game was a big deal. Since 2000 the fans walk into a game expecting LSU to beat the opponent in most games. That's because history has shown they will. That reduces the excitement level which is no reserved for only the "big" games. Like it or not, LSU is a victim of its own success in that regard.

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Tailgating was just a fun warm-up, but was secondary to the actual game.

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Agreed. VERY few people ventured out to campus just to tailgate. If you were on campus, you were going to the game. And the game was the event...not the tailgate. The tailgate was a fun pregame. But you weren't missing the game to stay at the tailgate. And you weren't leaving the game early to go back to the tailgate either. That was for two reasons: (1) no one was going to be there if you did, and (2) you weren't going to be able to watch the game at the tailgate.

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Many of these "Old School Rabid LSU Fans" have been priced out and the Coliseum is now predominately filled with Corporate Season Ticket Give-A-Ways, (The ones with no connection to the University and the ones that leave early) "

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You may have more "corporate seating" than you used to. But it is still FAR from predominant. There are many, many blue-collar folks in stadium. And just because someone may be a white-collar working doesn't mean they aren't rabid fans. I promise you, there were many doctors, lawyers, bankers, business execs, etc in the stadium in the 70's-90's.

Humans have ALWAYS longed for the "good old days" for as long as humans have existed. But many of the best and wildest atmospheres in LSU football have occurred in the last 20 years or so. It's just that beating Tulane, or Miss. State doesn't move the needle like it may have in 1983.