re: Alleva's monetization of LSU athletics killing the gameday atmosphere

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Honestly, I bet if O was released week 4, and Aranda immediately promoted to HC - Alleva might get to keep his job.

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Joe won’t be here to make that decision. If they tank the beginning of the year, Joe will be out.

You know it’s funny. Someone posted about the VTech game the other day and that’s probably the last truly big non conference game I can remember with an awesome atmosphere on campus. There had to be a quarter million people on campus that day. It’s the most people I’ve ever seen on campus. Tech travelled extremely well. And oddly enough we had no problem getting out after the game.

You could park wherever you wanted, and tailgating was going on from the lakes to the Box. People were everywhere.

This is what killed the game day atmosphere. First you block off the interior of campus. Then you heard 150,000 people to Nicholson. And you’re “shocked” when traffic problems that didn’t exist for 100 years suddenly pop up. And the atmosphere of the Parade Grounds, walking through the Quad towards the stadium is dead. Then you take those games away from campus, the essence of college football, and put them in NFL stadiums and charge three times more for the tickets.

And now we charge more for the few marquee games you get in Tiger Stadium too. Then we’ll go ahead and silence the band so we can pump in Rap music like “Bitch I’m from low-wheezy-ana” (because nothing says tiger football like La la low wheezy Ana.)

I’m pretty sure I was in the student section for the birth of Callin Baton Rouge, which I’m pretty sure they played for the first time during a rain delay against Oregon St and then started playing before every game after. Traditions are born organically. You can say what you want about Neck, but nothing gets the stadium more fired up outside of Pregame during the 4th quarter during a big timeout.

We won’t even get into the debacle of the hurricane game at Florida and how our genius AD let a school get away with the bullshite of all bullshite excuses to not play a game while giving away a home game because of whatever the hell it was.

All of these changes have come about during Joes tenure. And while I can understand these big offsite NC games bring in big dollars for the schools, you’re starting to see the swing back on the opposite end from the fans.

I’ll admit I’m spoiled. I attended LSU during possibly the greatest decade in LSU football history. I witness some of the greatest moments in Tiger Stadium history with some of the greatest players to ever wear the P&G. But I often find it amusing that fans that suffered through the lean years where tradition was all that got you through to scoff at claims that the tradition has taken a hit. You’d have to be silly to say otherwise.