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When the #6 team in the country is playing a JV team and are up 24 points you expect them to take care of business. Everyone left and the coaches diddlefricked around and didn't go for the jugular run play after run play,RUN IT THE FRICK UP AND GET THE STARTERS OUT OF THE GAME nobody wants to watch us go 3 and out to LA fricking Tech. We know what our team is capable of and we severely under achieve and play down to our opponents every-time during these games. Maybe people would stay if we didn't go into chew clock mode in the 2nd quarter with all the pitiful play calls

This.

People will stay if you run up the score and put in backups.

If we had been up 40 to 0 by halftime (something we are very capable of doing) and then put in back ups, people would stay to see how next years starters are going to do. People would stay and cheer for Brennan if he got some significant play time.

Nobody wants to see starters out there going half speed and not really giving a shite. (I don’t necessarily blame the starters for that. It’s hard to stay excited for hours in a game when you obviously outmatch your opponents skills. You get.... bored).

So get a big lead. Put the backups in. They will be excited about getting play time, even if it’s just mop up duty. People will stay to watch that.

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Posted by Big EZ Tiger

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Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:41 am to AshLSU

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So get a big lead. Put the backups in. They will be excited about getting play time, even if it’s just mop up duty. People will stay to watch that.

To be honest, I don't think they would. We've had big leads before at half. It's our fan culture now and has been for a number of years now. It's weird and I don't quite understand it, but many come for one half or maybe 3 quarters unless it's Bama or some highly ranked team.

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Posted by Michael T. Tiger

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Posted on 9/23/18 at 7:58 am to AshLSU

This is bull. Our fan base is no sticking around to see backups play when we are up by 40, by and large. The stadium wasn’t full to begin the game. East sideline wusses afraid it may rain stayed away.

Decades ago, we had traffic, terrible concessions, no alcohol, etc. stop using that crap as an excuse. We never left at halftime because we were up by 24 and expected the team to take care of business in the second half. What a shitty mindset as a fan.

A lot of this is self-inflicted by LSU with parking and moving tailgating the way it has. A lot of it is the pricing. Just look at the fleecing, $125 for Bama and Georgia...$50 for State, etc. Blame the arms race, and blame Title IX for equality, when no one is paying to see women’s sports on the whole.

There are many factors, but the reality is we have become soft as a fan base and as a society. I have season tickets. I go to every game, and I stay the whole game. I get a water and maybe popcorn at the game because I eat before. I wait for traffic to clear while enjoying the postgame show. My ride home is 30 minutes, which helps, but that wasn’t always the case.

Too many damn excuses from this fanbase, and the fact that we beat two top 10 teams and people are still bitching in the moment (not constructive criticism, outright bitching) is laughable. Especially when that is being used as an excuse not to show as a “fan.”

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