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What % of Season ticket holders are not fans?

Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:40 am
Posted by Catman88
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2004
49125 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:40 am
Why doesnt the university try to get the tickets directly into the real fan's hands? Im sick and fricking tired of seeing so many tickets going to brokers that are scalping them back to the people that didnt make huge donations only because that donation amounts to only 10% of their profits from scalping them. This is happening all over sports and needs to stop.. Its simple REQUIRE the REAL owner of the tickets to attend at least 30-40% of the games in at least one of their seats. If you NEVER attend a game then you shouldnt have season tickets.
Posted by The312
I Live in The Three One Two
Member since Aug 2008
6967 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:43 am to
I sympathize with your sentiment, believe me. However, there would be no feasible way to enforce such a policy.

For example, some fans have to travel thousands of miles to witness a home game. I know that I do. As a result, I don't know if I would be able to attend the requisite 30-40% of home games. I would be mighty disappointed to lose my season tickets as a result!
This post was edited on 8/20/08 at 10:44 am
Posted by LSUray
Shreveport
Member since Sep 2003
1407 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:43 am to
Yeah, because everyone would love having to show their id as they enter the stadium. Those lines would be short.

If I can't attend a game, I try and sell my tickets to friends or Tiger fans. That is the way it should be.
This post was edited on 8/20/08 at 10:46 am
Posted by hashtag
Comfy, AF
Member since Aug 2005
32685 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:44 am to
your boss should require that you work atleast 30-40% of the time that he/she pays you for. if you don't, they should fire you and get someone in your job that really wants to work there. if you don't work completely for atleast 30-40% of the time you are at work, you shouldn't have that job.
Posted by Valhalla
Member since Apr 2008
812 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:44 am to
Maybe the most ridiculous thing I have read on here since I joined.

How do you plan on enforcing this rule? You gonna check ID's at the gate?
Posted by STBTigerr
Mandeville/New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
5364 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:46 am to
There's no real solution. They would have to make everything electronic to even come close to enforcing this. A debit card-like system with the season's worth of tickets on it like they were talking about doing for students would be a way, but too complicated.

Different subject on tickets, how do they keep breaking the previous year's record of season ticket sales if every year they sell out and no expansion has taken place. I know they moved the band around and all, but is that what opened up seats?
This post was edited on 8/20/08 at 10:49 am
Posted by hashtag
Comfy, AF
Member since Aug 2005
32685 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:48 am to
there would be no way to enforce it. even with ids. last year for the students, if you had any student ticket and any student id, you could get in the games. the names on the ticket and id didn't even have to match. the ticket takers don't have time to check everything with them.
Posted by The312
I Live in The Three One Two
Member since Aug 2008
6967 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:50 am to
P.S. So long as we are making unreasonable demands, I would appreciate it if the administration could find some way to force the doddering, slatternly old blue hairs on the east and west chairbacks to get to the game on time and actually cheer loudly for the Tigers.

Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
15751 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:50 am to
quote:

Why doesnt the university try to get the tickets directly into the real fan's hands?


because all they care about is money. Since they hiked everything up after the last NC in '03, I've seen the 'atmosphere' of Tiger Stadium decline. Sure, it's there during huge games during huge moments, but I've seen more of people 'showing up' at the game in the second quater and leaving in the third just for the 'social event'. Try going to a game when we play North Texas now and see the 'Death Valley' atmosphere of 30,000 fans.

Posted by el tigre
your heart
Member since Sep 2003
49712 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:55 am to
we should all get a microchip implanted behind our left ear when we get our season tickets. Also, if we have more than one ticket we get additional metallic bracelets with the same info as our microchip. We pass out these bracelets to our guests at games.

Now, we need to outfit laser sensors on the edges of each gate of the stadium. When we pass through it automatically records our entry. This is much easier than a guy waving a hand sensor.

This seems pretty simple.

Also, LSU could make ticket info sensor earrings. Sterling silver in the shape of our old cool Tiger logo. They would sell like hotcakes, and maybe be more practical than the bracelets.
Posted by Ghostfacedistiller
BR
Member since Jun 2008
17501 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 10:58 am to
I agree with the sentiment but as stated, no way to enforce. I also don't like the blue hairs, but all of us will be blue hairs one day too, and I don't think we would appreciate being booted if we had 20, 30, 40 years of owning season tickets.

My bigger overall fear is that with this success and demand for money, the average fan (that can afford seaosn tickets) will be sqeezed out for corporate interests. Not sure if anyone has ever been to a Redskins game at FedEx Field, but that pregame scene is my biggest nightmare - more suits and trust fund kids with pastel popped collars than jerseys and t shirts.
Posted by LSUray
Shreveport
Member since Sep 2003
1407 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:00 am to
quote:

Try going to a game when we play North Texas now and see the 'Death Valley' atmosphere of 30,000 fans.


That is not a recent development. I've been going to games for a long time, and crappy games have always emptied the stadium early on. I'm as big a Tiger fan as they come, but frankly I get bored after a while with those games.
Posted by Catman88
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2004
49125 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:07 am to
Yea hard to enforce but they can try something anything to reduce this.. Almost all state issued licenses have barcodes now.. Force people to scan their license through for the game. You can make it voluntary for each game just tell season ticket holders you have to do it at least ONE time in a year in order to get season tickets the following year..

Is that so hard?
Posted by Catman88
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2004
49125 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:10 am to
Hell they could put kiosks inside the gates and tell people to sign in with their ID or CC used to purchase their tickets.. Do this X amount of times a year where X = the required num of games to attend and you have your solution.
Posted by STBTigerr
Mandeville/New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
5364 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:11 am to
Just use the same technology that toll bridges use for toll tags.
Posted by Catman88
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2004
49125 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:14 am to
Well my point is that it can be done.. I dont care if you have had tickets for 80 years.. If you do not attend a single game then why should you continue to receive tickets? Hell if you wanted to really be PC then no games in 1 year you get put on probabtion.. No games in 2 year then you are out.
Posted by Papa Steve
New York, NY
Member since Jul 2007
9962 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:17 am to
I think LSU kinda does this by the TAF fees. I mean, they are getting up there. Its cheaper to buy tickets from game to game bases ALOT CHEAPER.

These scalpers are starting to pa ALOT for these sideline seats and in a few years, I imagine it not even being worth it. Of course, not buying the tickets from them would help.
Posted by Lou
Modesto, CA
Member since Aug 2005
8614 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:18 am to
quote:

brokers that are scalping them back to the people
the only way it will stop is if people quit buying tickets from scalpers.

Posted by Ghostfacedistiller
BR
Member since Jun 2008
17501 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:18 am to
Again, I don't disagree with the sentiment, but...

Y'all are arguing that LSU pay to install technology that would scan people's IDs to verify that they go to enogh games and if they don't they lose their tickets.

So paying for all this new stuff woudl likley just raise ticket prices, and for what exactly? To take away the tickets from likely the people that pay the most to have them and put them in the hands of those that can't afford them as well?

It seems like a hell of a lot of effort and money for not much gain.
This post was edited on 8/20/08 at 11:21 am
Posted by CptBengal
BR Baby
Member since Dec 2007
71661 posts
Posted on 8/20/08 at 11:44 am to
Nah SBTTiger, they keep on jacking portions of the student section.....thats how they get around part of it.
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