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re: Why can't LSU force ticket holders to use their tickets?
Posted on 10/14/13 at 9:20 pm to meauxjeaux2
Posted on 10/14/13 at 9:20 pm to meauxjeaux2
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3 strikes and you're out kind of thing?
Sure, maybe they can send the police to arrest the miscreants. 
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Posted on 10/14/13 at 9:28 pm to TexasTiger08
Well what is the excuse for these fans when LSU sucked and season tickets were available?
Posted on 10/14/13 at 9:54 pm to mkibod1
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It's funny how we have attendance problem as soon as LSU changes the parking policy. I think one thing people do not take into account is people often times sell off/buy tickets on game day around campus. A lot of people use to show up with the intention to just tailgate, but then would buy tickets pregame or be given them. Those people, thanks in large part to new parking policies, are more and more discouraged from coming in town to tailgate and possibly buy tickets/occupying a seat. I think that has a lot to do with empty seats. I also think the new student ticket policy and how strict they are on usage of IDs has hampered student section attendance.
This parking policy has been the biggest inconvenience for me and my party and I know others as well. Not because of the fee, but mainly the hassle it presents when we all arrive at different times. All the other reasons mentioned such as "rain", "too late", "too early", "traffic", or "time"', when combined with the "parking policy" crap factors as one too many inconvenience as far as I'm concerned. Too much hassle leads to too much empty seats.
Posted on 10/14/13 at 10:03 pm to meauxjeaux2
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Why can't LSU force ticket holders to use their tickets?
I think forcing people to use them would basically just indirectly discourage people from buying them...
now, if they were to give some incentive to use them, that would be another story...maybe give points towards the right to purchase post-season tickets????
frankly, half of mine will go unused for furman and the other JV-type games...but if you give me some other incentive to be sure someone was sitting in my seats, that may just do it...
Posted on 10/14/13 at 10:14 pm to meauxjeaux2
We may not go to every game but i always give them to family or friends that i know will use them
Posted on 10/14/13 at 10:19 pm to gmrkr5
I think they should have an immediate tally on how many tickets have been scanned. After 5 min into the first quarter, they will let 3/4 of the open capacity left in the gate for 30 per person.
If someone comes in late and has ticket proof that someone else has taken their seat, that person just finds another one.
If someone comes in late and has ticket proof that someone else has taken their seat, that person just finds another one.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 12:20 pm to meauxjeaux2
U SO STOOPID! 
Posted on 10/15/13 at 12:36 pm to Spankum
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now, if they were to give some incentive to use them,
What a sad day it is that LSU fans need to be incentivized to attend a football game.
Maybe LSU fans just aren't good fans.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 12:37 pm to meauxjeaux2
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3 strikes and you're out kind of thing? They know what tickets aren't being used. At the least it would make these people get rid of them if they're not using them.
It really is sad how the public education system is failing America.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 1:07 pm to baobabtiger
wow, never seen a dumber post OP 
Posted on 10/15/13 at 1:24 pm to BobBoucher
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Isn't that what already happens? Can't make grades if you're not in class. So classes get dropped and the student can't stay enrolled. That system takes care of itself.
My degree says otherwise.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 1:44 pm to DORSEYmakesTEBOWcry
I've sat in the NEZ for 20 years and the realization is that TS is a shell of itself. Besides one or two games a season the atmosphere is nothing special. I don't take friends of mine that visit from out of state to anything less than a huge game if I can swing the tix. I hear all the reasons and some are valid but the fact is that our fans leave good, still competitive games after the second quarter consistently no matter what time the game starts or the weather. I'm not preaching and you can do with your tickets what you want but the result is that the in-stadium experience that was once the best in ALL of sports is now mediocre at best except for one or two times a year.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 2:43 pm to NicoBlues
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I think they should have an immediate tally on how many tickets have been scanned. After 5 min into the first quarter, they will let 3/4 of the open capacity left in the gate for 30 per person.
If someone comes in late and has ticket proof that someone else has taken their seat, that person just finds another one.
Like where this idea is going. Make it $20 per person and a guy could take his 2 kids to a game for $60 and fill some seats. The University would actually get paid twice on those seats so makes financial sense.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 3:28 pm to EPORE
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Like where this idea is going. Make it $20 per person and a guy could take his 2 kids to a game for $60 and fill some seats. The University would actually get paid twice on those seats so makes financial sense.
And then the guy who was held up in traffic and just found a parking spot and finally made it to Tiger Stadium finds his seats have been sold.
Yeah, sounds like a great idea.
This whole idea of fan policing is absurd. The tickets are sold to someone, and after that, the athletic department pockets the money and goes on its business. You think it cares about concession sales? That's the vendor's problem - they already paid the athletic department for the right to sell the food, perhaps there's something in the contract that if a certain level of sales is not met, the athletic department pays the difference so they break even, but even then, the money's made.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 3:34 pm to EPORE
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Like where this idea is going. Make it $20 per person and a guy could take his 2 kids to a game for $60 and fill some seats. The University would actually get paid twice on those seats so makes financial sense
Problem with that is that guy could have easily bought Florida tickets for that much BEFORE the game starts. Or if it's an OOC opponent that sucks, like Furman or UAB, he can stand around and literally pick tickets up off the ground for free. It's not like there's a scarcity of tickets to be found.
Posted on 10/15/13 at 3:34 pm to meauxjeaux2
COMMUNIST I see 
Posted on 10/15/13 at 4:17 pm to Methuselah
I have worked in live TV for 8 years: Grammys, MTV VMAs, Spike TV Guys choice awards, Miss Universe, many concerts and so on. All of these shows have the same problem LSU is having. There are people that buy tickets through corporations, people who buy tickets but can't make it, and people who buy tickets and don't want to come. My experience is a lot of times wealthy types and celebrities will get tickets and then not show. All of this creates an image problem for live telecast. So these shows fix the issue with seat fillers.
It's simple. LSU needs to create and staff a department for live tv that administrates filling seats. They pick a timeframe after kickoff where they see which tickets weren't scanned at gates. They then turn to a group of individuals who are the actual seat fillers (bodies) who would have a game day arm band and would essentially sit for free and watch the game. They could be military, high school, low income or simply volunteers willing to watch the game. If their seat is claimed late, they report back to administrators for new seating assignments.
This insures all seats are filled and ticket holders are still happy. Ticket holders would need to sign a consent that acknowledges that this will be done if they fail to occupy seats.
It's simple. LSU needs to create and staff a department for live tv that administrates filling seats. They pick a timeframe after kickoff where they see which tickets weren't scanned at gates. They then turn to a group of individuals who are the actual seat fillers (bodies) who would have a game day arm band and would essentially sit for free and watch the game. They could be military, high school, low income or simply volunteers willing to watch the game. If their seat is claimed late, they report back to administrators for new seating assignments.
This insures all seats are filled and ticket holders are still happy. Ticket holders would need to sign a consent that acknowledges that this will be done if they fail to occupy seats.
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