LSU Northgate-Highland/HBCU Homecoming shootings explained

Context: 42 yr old black man, attending LSU games regularly since '04, two daughters in college, one in band at Alcorn (where a murder occurred yesterday) other at Southern Miss. Games attended this year: Miss St @ USM, Alcorn @ Miss St, and LSU home games vs La Tech, Southeastern, and USC. Always would park in free lots by Alex Box but last 2 games parked by McKinley High for quick exit north. Ok, insightful blacksplain'....

LSU Northgate cant be saved. Shooting aside (I left game early after getting notified about Alcorn), its become the focal point of what we call YNs, who just show up anywhere where there isn't a paywall barrier of entry, smoke, loiter, be insanely loud and not care about the strain they put on others or the event. These YNs are NOT students.

The problem started after the Southeastern game. Northgate merchants allowed 2 smoke shops to come to that area. After that game, one smoke shop--the one essentially by Chiptotle--had a DJ outside which created a free block party scene in the street. YNs said, "duly noted, we will be back" and such enough, they were.
A funny irony: SU has successfully managed to keep this crowd away bc tailgating at SU is well organized now for old folks and there are not tikytok instagramable locales just outside SU campus for them to meet up (homecoming next week may change that).

Going through an insane college admission process for 2 girls at the same time (literally visited every SEC school) i understand what's going on in that area of northgate-highland. Kids are preferring to stay on campus longer, as evident with LSU running out of housing, and now off campus housing is now being forced to rent to anybody for the sake of occupancy. Northgate along highland, whether the old older houses or newer complexes have always mostly been college kids, regardless of race, who adhere to a college culture or ethic. Not anymore. Tigerland section 8 inhabitants migrated. This dynamic plus smoke shops has now made that area the new NoGo (north of government) at least during game days, where girls need to dress inappropriately and dudes need to get high and loiter. It will get worse bc these YNs have no other option.

The shootings at all these places and the degradation of culture is just uncontrollable YNs...and black folks know it bc we came up with the term and definition ourselves. It isn't students nor is it families or paying adults who all seek to contribute to the reason why we are all there. There are some exceptions. The LSU-SU game was just a logistics clusterfrick and though there was an insanely amount of weed smoke that day, it sure wasn't as bad as last night. The following year Grambling game was no issues, whereas their fan base is much older, conservative and rural.