re: Only 6000 tickets sold to Tiger fans for Outback Bowl

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LSU holds back tickets for player families, staff, students, etc. Then when there's not the demand they thought, they release the better seats.

Here's an example: I ordered tickets to Arkansas last year in Fayetteville. I got upper deck seats even though I've got a pretty decent TAF ranking. Later a friend was able to go on LSU's website and buy tickets in the lower level.

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All of this is exactly why my FIL (who has been a season ticket holder for 30+ years and used to go to several away games a year plus the bowl game) no longer cares about the bowl. I don't think it's just him either. I think there is a large portion of the fanbase that think the same way.

Simply put, they're tired of getting the royal screw job on seats. LSU started getting greedy with the whole bowl ticket process starting in the 2003 BCS National Title game, and has never looked back. Many people don't want the headache of buying tickets, finding out they're shitty seats, waiting and hoping till the last minute, buying better tickets when available, selling first set of tickets, etc.

If LSU would just be straight up and sell the tickets naturally on a first come/first serve basis, I think more people would go to the bowl game -regardless of opponent, regardless of how LSU performed this season, etc.

This year and last year is a byproduct of a screw job year in/year out since 2003. It has been building to this. It's not just that the fanbase sucks, it's not that the fans are spoiled or uninterested in the bowl, any of that. The fans that LSU relies on to show up on the road are just tired of getting screwed over.