re: I think its safe to say that the once great LSU gameday atmosphere is now dead

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Man. How can it escape you that the raucous atmosphere outside translates to the raucous atmosphere inside?

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Because it doesn't? Because it never did? Because tailgating as an art-form as it is now is essentially a new phenomenon (say 25 years at most) and if Tiger Stadium really was louder and more terrifying back in the day, than it stands to reason it was so before the advent of tailgating as it has become? When I was a kid and came to my first game in 1982, I remember vividly showing up "early" for a game and parking in the now pay lots that would have certainly been free at the time that is between Nicholson and the football offices near the railroad tracks at probably 2 in the afternoon. There were no huge trailers, giant BBQ setups, huge generators or DJ's blaring music. There were groups and families in lawn chairs with ice chests or small BBQ pits tossing around footballs.

I'm not arguing at all that inside the stadium things are harder to get gong and harder to sustain. They are. I think LSU is being bullheaded about trying to force "atmosphere" by blaring shitty and ill timed piped in music during the game, for starters. I could go on about this, but because I'm not a whiny bitch I have no interest in picking thi scab the Monday after a loss to State.

Fans in 2014 are, sadly, not into the game as much as they were before. What's funny to me is that while you claim there's a correlation between that lack of interest and a lack on interest on the party outside the stadium, I'd argue that the lack of interest correlates in the exact opposite way to how good the party is outside.

Before nearly everyone outside the stadium had the ability to stream satellite TV in HD to 60" flat screen at their tailgate, equipped with shop fans and/or portable ACs and generators, people actually DID stay in the stadium to watch the game and they were louder when there.