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10889 attendance today and 5 sections in the student section were 98% empty

Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:11 pm
Posted by T
Member since Jan 2004
9889 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:11 pm
3rd place team in the SEC
Battling for NCAA tournament seeding
A former tiger great getting his number retired.

Yet the students once again don’t show up. The middle sections of the student section were only half way full 10 minutes into the game.

Good job general public for coming out today to support the tigers. Students, time to shut up about your seating. You proved today that you don’t care about basketball.
Posted by Kramer26
St. George, LA
Member since Jan 2005
6401 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:14 pm to
I think the student seating capacity needs to be reduced.
Posted by Toki Wartooth
Mordhaus
Member since Mar 2019
743 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:14 pm to
Do we need these threads after every single home game?

We get it. The current students suck and you were better when you were a student.
This post was edited on 2/29/20 at 6:19 pm
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:15 pm to
Ok. Cool. Geaux Tigahs.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164048 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:16 pm to
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10889 attendance today

Tickets sold

It was maybe 8,000
Posted by Alt26
Member since Mar 2010
28256 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:18 pm to
I thought the same thing. Not only did they not fill up the upper two sections, but they couldn’t even fill the bottom section behind the goal.

Tell me why LSU should give up expensive sideline seats for kids who don’t show? Clemson is barely .500 and they had a ton of students rush the floor. LSU has so few at the games I think the 95 year old ushers dragging around their oxygen tanks could keep them from rushing the floor
Posted by pellietigersaint
Tiger Stadium
Member since Aug 2005
19043 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:18 pm to
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Do we need these threads after every single home game?


Absofrickinglutely we do
Posted by pellietigersaint
Tiger Stadium
Member since Aug 2005
19043 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:20 pm to
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Tell me why LSU should give up expensive sideline seats for kids who don’t show?


They shouldnt

Wtf are you assclowns doing on a Saturday at 11a.....not damn thing.

Posted by GoldenBoy
Winning!
Member since Nov 2004
42010 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:20 pm to
I just don’t get why LSU basketball can’t get good fan support. Tickets are cheap and games only take about 2 hours, yet the arena is rarely full.

Also, the student section is an abomination. They were sitting for the entire game today.
Posted by xiv
Parody. #AdminsRule
Member since Feb 2004
39508 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:22 pm to
They’re no different from the way they were in my day 20 years ago.
Posted by Toki Wartooth
Mordhaus
Member since Mar 2019
743 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:24 pm to
Ok. Well shaming people into voluntarily attending a sporting event seems like a poor approach. I’d love the place to be full but I don’t know what the best solution would be for increasing student attendance. Making threads on a message board about how much they suck probably isn’t it.
Posted by tigersbb
Member since Oct 2012
10279 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:25 pm to
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Students, time to shut up about your seating. You proved today that you don’t care about basketball.


The students are not bitching about their seating. Its the dumb vitriolic posters on this board who think their incessant posts game after game about the atmosphere in the PMAC is original. The PMAC has hosted eight SEC champions, three Final Four teams and 20 NCAA tourney teams. Quit complaining and just appreciate the games in a historic venue where some of the greatest players have called home. Your constant complaints certainly do not help recruiting.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
84831 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:25 pm to
Basketball crowds were cannibalized by the *ahem* Draconian Sanctions at a time when baseball started winning national titles. The culture at LSU changed & it will take years and years of competitive basketball to get the PMAC back to where it was when I was a kid
Posted by Imber
Member since Sep 2017
12998 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:43 pm to
I’m sure the ones without hangovers were there.
Posted by ElectricWizard0
Member since Jul 2017
2702 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:46 pm to
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A former tiger great getting his number retired.


None of the current students were even born when he was playing.
Posted by LSUsuperfan93
Member since Jan 2016
534 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:49 pm to
The students that actually gave a shite a couple of years ago were ridiculed and called freaks.so frick all you people that complain of lack of students.
Posted by pbro62
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2016
11270 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:52 pm to
Tell us about when you graduated from LSU frickwad
Posted by lsu2006
BR
Member since Feb 2004
39978 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:55 pm to
I'm not usually one to trash the student sections in football or basketball but today was truly pathetic.
Posted by lsu2006
BR
Member since Feb 2004
39978 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 6:59 pm to
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Basketball crowds were cannibalized by the *ahem* Draconian Sanctions at a time when baseball started winning national titles. The culture at LSU changed & it will take years and years of competitive basketball to get the PMAC back to where it was when I was a kid


My earliest LSU sports memory was the PMAC in 1994. The program had begun the slide but I remember it was absolutely lit up for the Kentucky game on fat tuesday that year. Hell the PMAC was awesome in 2000 for that SEC title run. But at this point the PMAC needs something to change in terms of seating overall, and drastically. And obviously being a consistent winner will help any program. I say go to a square-type layout and have the seats closer to the court. Get better spots for students and have some more expensive premium seating of some kind to make up the difference.
Posted by Stretch Suba
Member since Jun 2019
1300 posts
Posted on 2/29/20 at 7:05 pm to
The student section sucks. I’m tired of hearing about how the students have gotten screwed, that the atmosphere would get better if they had better seats, etc. Bull.

Their seats were moved because they took up prime courtside real estate that went to waste once they quit going to games. Again, when Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was at LSU as Chris Jackson, we earned our prime courtside seats as students because we were there every game and we were loud.

As an alum, I’m tired of hearing the current students whine and I’m tired of people whining for the current students. Even if your seat is behind a goal, it costs chump change to go to a game and if you live on campus there’s really no excuse not to be there.

Quit making excuses for the current students.
This post was edited on 2/29/20 at 7:08 pm
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