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re: Declining Student Attendance Hits Georgia (Wall Street Journal)
Posted on 9/26/13 at 11:23 am to More beer please
Posted on 9/26/13 at 11:23 am to More beer please
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Kids are an entitled bunch of arse hats these days.
true
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And thats not the parents fault at all...
True, the parents make them this way
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Posted on 9/26/13 at 11:44 am to LSUrme
Life is a tradeoff. If you want all the students (and other fans) there and interested, stop playing cupcakes who don't require a return game. Play nothing but home-and-homes against big name teams. Prepare to lose a few more than you want. But you'll pack the stadiums.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:22 pm to Daigeaux
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Too many tickets are obviously allocated to the student sections
It's COLLEGE FOOTBALL. You know, where STUDENTS are enrolled. The football team would not exist without the students. Get off your fricking high horse.
Also, 99% of stadiums would be nothing without the students. The students make the atmosphere.
I am an alumni BTW, not a student.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:23 pm to rintintin
LSU should open it up to our sister schools like LSU-A, LSU-S, LSU-E, and the health science center if they are not doing that already.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:28 pm to LSUGrad9295
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Why is it that people can't have fun without consuming alcohol?? I have never once consumed an alcoholic beverage at any sporting event, yet I still manage to not only have a good time, but save tons of money in the process.
I have more fun than you
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Y'all should try it sometime
No
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:28 pm to rintintin
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It's COLLEGE FOOTBALL. You know, where STUDENTS are enrolled. The football team would not exist without the students. Get off your fricking high horse.
Problem is the students aren't coming to most games. They need to get off their high horse about reasons not to go and go support their team.
I can understand somewhere like tenn that has a huge stadium but has been crap for a team lately. But for Georgia to have trouble getting the allotment of students to show up when they have been very good is sad. I would rather have people in the stands then reserve sections that the students won't fill up.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:30 pm to Bandits
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LSU should open it up to our sister schools like LSU-A, LSU-S, LSU-E, and the health science center if they are not doing that already.
That's a good idea if they can't sell all the student tickets, but I bet they do sell all the tickets just some students with tickets decide to no show.
When we get our new south end zone upper deck, if those don't sell out regularly then I'm all for opening those up to sister schools.
This post was edited on 9/26/13 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:31 pm to PoppaD
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That's a good idea if they can't sell all the student tickets, but I bet they do sell all the tickets just some students with tickets decide to no show.
I didn't realize that the students don't show. I thought they just left at halftime.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:32 pm to PoppaD
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I would rather have people in the stands then reserve sections that the students won't fill up.
Give me a fricking break. There are more regular season ticket holders that dont show up to games than students. Get off your high horse grandpaw
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:33 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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I didn't realize that the students don't show. I thought they just left at halftime.
Articles not about lsu and I would venture a guess that lsu has high student participation.
Article says Georgia allots 18,000 tickets for students but has trouble getting 15,000 to show up.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:35 pm to PoppaD
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I would rather have people in the stands then reserve sections that the students won't fill up.
Well good thing you don't make the decisions.
The student section certainly fills up for the big games, and without them the stadium would be a snooze fest. Also, in many games it appears that it is more barren than it truly is because there are no seating assignments, therefore more students cram in the lower sections.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:39 pm to PoppaD
UGA is trying all kinds of things to fix it. They just took 2,000 seats away from students and gave them to "young alumni." They also dispense punitive measures for missing games. That is, if you do not donate your ticket to another student before the game and miss it (you have to do it 3 times though), you're ineligible for away game tickets in the future. You may even be given lower priority for home games, I'm not sure. But honestly they should give out more student tickets and use some sort of statistical projection to determine how many students will come. I know plenty of folks that didn't get full season packages that would love to be at the games.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:49 pm to LSUrme
Easy solution. Sell alcohol at games.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 12:59 pm to More beer please
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Give me a fricking break. There are more regular season ticket holders that dont show up to games than students. Get off your high horse grandpaw
Read the article young whippersnapper, and get off my lawn with your crazy hip petty hop pity music. (By the way I'm 34)
Georgia has 39% of the student section no show. Some of the reasons given were they can't get twitter in stadium, would rather be at bars, would rather stay home, etc.
I doubt that 39% of the regular season ticket holders that are thousands in the hole for tickets just simply no show.
I'm for all the students that can showing up, but when 40% don't on a regular basis they should quit reserving there spots and get those tickets to people that will come.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 1:06 pm to PoppaD
It used to be at LSU that you could get in on your student ID, can't do that anymore and you have to have a student ticket...
combine that with the 21 year old drinking age...
combine that with the 21 year old drinking age...
Posted on 9/26/13 at 1:11 pm to LSUrme
Richt has lost control of the students.
Posted on 9/26/13 at 1:13 pm to PoppaD
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Georgia has 39% of the student section no show. Some of the reasons given were they can't get twitter in stadium, would rather be at bars, would rather stay home, etc.
I doubt that 39% of the regular season ticket holders that are thousands in the hole for tickets just simply no show.
I'm for all the students that can showing up, but when 40% don't on a regular basis they should quit reserving there spots and get those tickets to people that will come.
Who the hell cares about how shitty UGA's students are
Posted on 9/26/13 at 1:13 pm to PoppaD
To be fair, the article had a lot of discrepancies. For starters we do not have 18,000 student seats reserved. That is simply wrong. It's closer to 16,000, so I'm wary of trusting anything the writer says if they can't get something that simple correct. Second, the photo they used for the story is a cropped photo of our overflow student section. The crowd was pretty good for a rainy day against a rent-a-win. Third, I never got the impression that she conducted some extensive survey to discover that a lot of students don't go to games because of cell-phone service. As far as the article tells us she asked one student. I'm not trying to say that attendance isn't down, and that we don't need to seek some sort of solution; but I would suggest that the problem is not as bad as some of you would like to think.
This post was edited on 9/26/13 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 9/26/13 at 2:02 pm to DawgTigerFan
Cell phone service 
Posted on 9/26/13 at 2:30 pm to TK421
What do you think it would take to get alcohol in the stadium?
Fellow Louisiana schools are seeing positive results from it...
ULL has sold beer for 3-4 years and the attendance has increase for both students and alumni. And at the ridiculous cost of one, someone is making bank.
Even ULM, in the heart of God's Country, started selling beer this season. I never thought I'd see that day!
LSU can't let the Sunbelt lead the party... It's just wrong.
Fellow Louisiana schools are seeing positive results from it...
ULL has sold beer for 3-4 years and the attendance has increase for both students and alumni. And at the ridiculous cost of one, someone is making bank.
Even ULM, in the heart of God's Country, started selling beer this season. I never thought I'd see that day!
LSU can't let the Sunbelt lead the party... It's just wrong.
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