re: Bummed out thinking about tailgating this year

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Just saying, renew your tickets, don't renew your tickets, park, don't park, it doesn't matter, LSU will sell out ALL of their season tickets and fill up every lot, as long as LSU is winning.

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That is patently absurd. There is no such thing as a truly inelastic demand. Eventually, LSU will price themselves out of sellout attendance. There is no way 92,500 people would pay (hypothetically) $10,000 per game per ticket to come to Tiger Stadium. At some point, the rising costs will/would decrease attendance.

I think this specific cost hike will impact attendance, especially at the lesser games, due to the huge erosion of the gameday atmosphere. Once you kill off the campus environment (which this will obviously do in short order), then you are left with zero appeal except the quality of the game. And who is going to pay $110+ for nothing more than the opportunity to sit in uncomfortable seats in a hot stadium to watch LSU crush Northwestern State in a game they could watch at home for free?

ETA: Nevermind, just looked up the new policy, and it'll suck, but it's not that bad. I'm an idiot for listening to Rantard alarmism.