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re: LSU cashes in again - new space at LSU sold to tailgate company for games
Posted on 5/30/18 at 8:16 am to TaderSalad
Posted on 5/30/18 at 8:16 am to TaderSalad
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Real talk - this is all about reducing the athletic department. JBE aint a fan and this is how you start to kill it.
LSU football brought in $56MM in profit last year. This has nothing to do with JBE or politics outside of the university. Like most, I assume that the goal is to bring in more corporate money based on the pricing. But I’m not 100% sure, since there are still rules preventing any type of corporate signage unless the company is a sponsor. From what I’ve seen, the companies that shell out for sponsorships typically have way better tailgating locations close to the stadium.
Regardless I’m not that worried about it right now. If it brings more people onto campus for game day it’ll be an overall boost to the tailgating atmosphere. I’m saving my outrage for when they start doing this to existing tailgating spots.
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Posted on 5/30/18 at 8:17 am to jbgleason
Step one. We'll be leasing 12x12 spots to tailgate by 2025.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 8:20 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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So those poor wittle coonasses can easily afford to go to the games
yeah not sure why some keep saying the "little guy" or the "true Tiger fan" can't afford to go to a game. There are plenty of tickets available outside the stadium most games. Walk up and buy one.
IN addition to everything already posted here, the tailgating experience is suffering because the whole game day experience (including the game) really isn't that special anymore. TV has killed it. I can watch LSU and every other game I want to see from the comfort of my own home. Drink and eat all I want, piss wherever/whenever I choose and not get blasted by shitty music while sitting next to some fat slob on a shitty aluminum stadium seat while old red gloves stops play to run 47 commercial for CBS. Ironic that the same medium that allows me to watch more football, makes me not want to watch football.
Sorry, but live TV and a lot of other factors have made the whole thing too much of a pain in the arse to deal with.
And we won't even address watching CEO underperform against rent-a-wins as well as ranked opponents.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 8:38 am to tigerinthebueche
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I choose and not get blasted by shitty music while sitting next to some fat slob on a shitty aluminum stadium seat while old red gloves stops play to run 47 commercial for CBS. Ironic that the same medium that allows me to watch more football, makes me not want to watch football.
Sorry, but live TV and a lot of other factors have made the whole thing too much of a pain in the arse to deal with.
And we won't even address watching CEO underperform against rent-a-wins as well as ranked opponents.
quote:And if you just want to show up to go to the game and bypass all the tailgating, you still have to show up three hours early and finally get moving back home an hour after the game.
I choose and not get blasted by shitty music while sitting next to some fat slob on a shitty aluminum stadium seat while old red gloves stops play to run 47 commercial for CBS. Ironic that the same medium that allows me to watch more football, makes me not want to watch football.
Sorry, but live TV and a lot of other factors have made the whole thing too much of a pain in the arse to deal with.
And we won't even address watching CEO underperform against rent-a-wins as well as ranked opponents.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 8:41 am to tigerinthebueche
quote:they want primo seats for cheap like their grandpaw got in the 70s. It's entitlement.
yeah not sure why some keep saying the "little guy" or the "true Tiger fan" can't afford to go to a game. There are plenty of tickets available outside the stadium most games. Walk up and buy one.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:03 am to tigersownall
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No one stopping me from walking in with a cooler.
Oh I promise they will
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:17 am to GreatLakesTiger24
don't know if its so much entitlement as just plain jealousy over the fact that corporations or even individuals have the money (and are willing to spend it) to have a big tailgate and take the premium spots to do so. No one is stopping the "little guy" grilling out of the tailgate of his truck while drinking a few dozen beers. You just have to do it over by the dairy. But that doesn't mean the "little guy" can't participate.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:19 am to jbgleason
For all the talk about corporate and making the experience more corporate, the dirty secret is that over 80% of all donations are made by rich individuals, corporations make up a very small amount of donations. Everyone thinks of these giant corporations as banks, but they have shareholders and those people want their money, only way a corporation is giving one red cent to LSU is if they can get two in return, if that is through marketing or some other way, but the belief that corporations are cutting huge checks day in and day out is crazy old rich alumni are the ones cutting the checks.
This post was edited on 5/30/18 at 9:20 am
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:48 am to Loungefly85
We have been tailgating here for decades and the last several years we have bounces around from the front back to side of PTH during the construction. Last 2 years we have been tailgating under the new canopy and last year the new sod area after the construction fences were taken down. We have invested thousands of dollars in tailgating equipment like others. We decides to stay in parking lot 305 because that’s where have been for years many were not so lucky to stay in 305 as many of the lots were removed for addition and sod area.
The confusion comes when “School and company officials say the move won’t displace any existing tailgaters. As part of a recently completed Patrick F. Taylor renovation project, the Old Forestry Building was demolished, creating the green space, said LSU spokesman Ernie Ballard.” But when I contacted Madi Reisdorf with Blockparty Presents she states “We will be tailgating on all of the land surrounding PTH.”
So at this point who do you believe, where do existing Parking Permit Fans tailgate of Blockparty is taking all the land sounding PTH, can’t tailgate on the sidewalk or the street.
Do we just move or do we just give up parking pass and season tickets.
Would love to get a call from someone at LSU that really cares about existing fans and resolve this.
Thanks
The confusion comes when “School and company officials say the move won’t displace any existing tailgaters. As part of a recently completed Patrick F. Taylor renovation project, the Old Forestry Building was demolished, creating the green space, said LSU spokesman Ernie Ballard.” But when I contacted Madi Reisdorf with Blockparty Presents she states “We will be tailgating on all of the land surrounding PTH.”
So at this point who do you believe, where do existing Parking Permit Fans tailgate of Blockparty is taking all the land sounding PTH, can’t tailgate on the sidewalk or the street.
Do we just move or do we just give up parking pass and season tickets.
Would love to get a call from someone at LSU that really cares about existing fans and resolve this.
Thanks
This post was edited on 5/30/18 at 11:37 am
Posted on 5/30/18 at 10:13 am to jbgleason
IMO tailgating already took a hit with all the parking passes. I'm over it. You start realizing just showing up to a game, isn't all that bad since you don't have to pick up a truck load of stuff.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 10:27 am to CoachChappy
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Posted on 5/30/18 at 12:52 pm to MightyYat
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Anyone who doesn’t think the gameday atmosphere has changed drastically in the last 10 years doesn’t know what campus was like in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. It’s a shell of its former self.
We used to tailgate under one of the oaks between the Indian Mounds and lot J. We didn't have a parking pass, so we'd roll everything up there Friday night after work and chain it to the tree. Nobody would bother it. Early Saturday, we'd get there and park in a spot where we could get back to lot J later, walk to the tailgate spot, set everything up, get the TVs going, get the food rolling and the beer and whiskey flowing. We'd tailgated next to the people around us for 15 years. Nobody had a permit, but everyone back then knew who tailgated where and wouldn't try to steal spots and would watch each others' stuff. We'd be there until 2 the next morning just watching football and having a blast cutting up with all of our football friends around us. Then after we could get the truck back into lot J, we'd grab the truck, break our shite down, pack and clean up, and head home. We'd do that 8 weekends out of the year, then we wouldn't see our tailgate neighbors for another year, when we all came back for the home opener rager that we'd collectively throw. It was fricking glorious.
Then they started that shite in 2011 where you had to buy game by game parking to park anywhere near the place or even enter the area on gameday. On top of that, they started selling the passes at noon on Friday when everyone was at work. We realized that LSU was trying to strangle dollars out of any free tailgating/gameday experience and the juice wasn't worth the squeeze anymore, so we quit doing it. That was that. A 20-25 year tailgate gone.
I can't tell you how much I miss having a place to stage before and after the game if I had tickets or having a place to watch football all day long in the shadow of the stadium. What's sad is that we all agreed to pitch in whatever money we needed for parking, but realized that the logistics just made it impossible for us to keep it up. With work and kids, getting down there Friday afternoon to buy a first-come first-serve parking pass just wasn't feasible. We'd tried for years to get a reserved parking spot in lot J so we could just back up to our tailgate spot, but we never were able to get one.
This post was edited on 5/30/18 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 5/30/18 at 1:09 pm to jbgleason
My gameday plans remain unchanged:
Leave the house 2 hours prior to kickoff. Buy food and drink on the way to L'Auberge. Board the shuttle at L'Auberge no more than a half hour before kickoff. Sneak food and drink into stadium. Watch the game. Return to shuttle. Drive home.
No money spent for parking or stadium concessions.
$10 paid to CATS for the shuttle service.
Leave the house 2 hours prior to kickoff. Buy food and drink on the way to L'Auberge. Board the shuttle at L'Auberge no more than a half hour before kickoff. Sneak food and drink into stadium. Watch the game. Return to shuttle. Drive home.
No money spent for parking or stadium concessions.
$10 paid to CATS for the shuttle service.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 1:19 pm to TheHarahanian
To play devil's advocate.....LSU is a bucket list trip for lots of college football fans. Big groups always come in just to say they've been to a game in Death Valley. For those that don't know any better, this may be the perfect set up.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 1:23 pm to HoopyD
So LSU is catering to the once in a lifetime crowd to the detriment of season ticket holders, alumni and locals? That's not a good plan.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 1:29 pm to HoopyD
That is easily the dumbest argument for this that I’ve heard
Posted on 5/30/18 at 1:54 pm to jbgleason
I can't wait to destroy all those rented TVs.
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