re: Death Valley has died

The slow death started with introduction of the big screen TV. and the loss of near stadium free parking. All other reasons given is just noise.

Lol

I’m bumping this after uga, loser.

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All you clowns sitting on your couch drinking cheap beer while yelling at your TV about the fans who actually spend money and time to support LSU can frick off.

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I don't live near Baton Rouge. Up until 2006 I used to fly in for about 4 games a year to go with my brother. (He gave up his season tickets for age/medical reasons). We didn't leave games early and we yelled our asses off.
Why bother having tickets if you aren't going to attend and support the team with your voices and attention for the entire game?
Buying a ticket doesn't mean shite if you don't participate.
The "most passionate fans in CFB" and intimidating venue myth has been exposed. That was a bygone era. It's about the party before, not the game itself.

You’re apart of he problem.... sheep

Thanks Alleva

Ooooohhh AH AH AH AH

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all this shite went downhill when we hired Alleva

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It all went downhill when the SEC Network was formed. Most people will rather stay home to watch in HD, drink good beer, eat good food, and be in the A/C than go to the stadium and deal with all the other BS.

It's hella-fricking convenient to have every game on tv, but it also took away from the whole thing too. Used to be, you had the 1's (ranking the crowd) showing up for EVERY game, because not a whole lot of games were televised and if they weren't on ESPN, it was on shitty Tigervision.

Now, you have a small percentage of 1's, and mostly 2's and 3's (hand me down tickets, newbies, freebies) going to these games. These people aren't diehard LSU fans. Most of them were given tickets for free and just decided to show up and make a day of it. By the time the game starts, they are so beaten down from the sun and the elements from tailgating all day, they do what they can to stay until halftime, and then they bolt for the exits. There is no motivation to stay because they don't care as much as the 1's crowd does. The 1's are the ones that stay to the end because they love LSU, some graduated from LSU and/or grew up on LSU.

As a one time season ticket holder from 1985 to 2014, I saw it with my own eyes. We had all the regulars in my section. Then, somewhere right after the 2007 National Championship, the 4 seats to my left and right were 4 different people every single game.

And the people that I saw who were different from the regulars were the ones who always ended up leaving early. And they were too busy taking selfies and making 3 or 4 trips to the concessions stand than actually watching the game. Getting them to particpate in all the cheers and yelling? Forget it. Nope.

(Cliff's notes - SEC network and every game being on tv destroyed the atmosphere by keeping the regulars home).

Tailgating has been better than the game for over a decade, and now tailgating is just getting worse and worse

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find some way to fix the fricking traffic after the game.

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Bingo. There's a big part of the problem right there. The access roads to Tiger Stadium are wholly inadequate to handle huge flow of traffic on game night. LSU increased the capacity of the stadium but nothing was done about the access roads. No brainer.

Plus Alleva et al has this lingering problem. How ya gonna keep'um down on the farm (LSU Stadium) after they've seen poor play?

As you were.

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Cliff's notes - SEC network and every game being on tv destroyed the atmosphere by keeping the regulars home

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For you maybe, but for me I would much rather be at the stadium with the atmosphere of the old death valley with family and friends. The game day atmosphere for me has been ruined.

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No alcohol

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Just bring in a flask (or two).