The Decline of Tiger Stadium Will Be Alleva's Biggest Failure (& Legacy)

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Idk I think closing in the endzone on one side was more of an improvement than a decline but maybe that's just me

Need more wins and excitement around the program.

And I'd argue Joe hurt tailgating more than helped which has made the atmosphere worse. Expensive parking, removing tailgating down Nicholson, etc.

I hate Joe Alleva but what do you expect him to do? Chain the exits on the west side shut to keep 60% of the student section and frat boys from leaving?

Piped in music, like you said, is becoming the norm. But seriously what does that have to do with fans being loud unless they are just sitting there bitching about "Mobbin'" playing on 3rd down.

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Rarely, do we play a marquee OOC opponent in TS.

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Most P5 won't play a home and home any more. Email Verge Ausberry...he'd give you insight on who they've reached out to. Think Oklahoma, Michigan, tOSU.

Plus how can people be loud and read their FB feed, update Instagram with a TS selfie or Snapchat somebody?

The interior of ye stadium needs a massive renovation. Ask anyone that visited Lambeau this year and they will tell you the interior of the place made the nostalgia second to none.

The restrooms in Tiger Stadium are shite. The lines for the concessions are shite. The absence of modern televisions in the concourses are shite. You spent hundreds of millions putting lipstick on a pig with the recent exterior renovations. It is time the interior got the same love.

If you renovate it, they will stay.

BEER!

I think it was kind of a deal with the devil that was in a way necessary.

Seems like back in the day the stadium was peopled with thousands of oil field roughnecks, plant shift workers, plumbers and even some Ozzy and Harriet working class white collar types. They didn't tend to tailgate all day but drive in from everywhere from Houma to Slidell to Lafayette, etc., stopping at one of convenience stores to get a half pint or a pint of whiskey to slip into their sock or even their back pocket. Students likely could sneak in booze too with not much problems.

To afford competitive facilities and construction, they almost had to go to a more corporate based system with suites, club levels, companies buying tickets in bulk and passing them out to customers, etc. and bigger money boosters. Tailgating flourished as companies and individuals made a day long party of cooking and drinking. Makes them less likely to stay full games and to risk embarrassment being flagged in a pat down. Some just sell their tickets or even give them away. Students too risk a several hundred dollar MIP charge trying to get in to the games with booze and I think even in some cases being singled out with in in tailgating areas.

Can't really said they shouldn't have done it. They needed to keep up with the Joneses. But it makes for a different atmosphere.

Of course I could be wrong about all of this.

Joe doesn't force 1/4 of the grown arse men to be staring at their phone all game. Or for the crowd to leave.

Put the damn phone down for three hours and actually cheer. You can live without it

You are correct sir.

We were crap during the late 70s and early 80s. And it was loud and intimidating.

People who have only been around TS since 2000 think it's about coaches and winning. And that is part of the reason the mystique is gone.