re: Football Season tickets observation...

We fired LSU's winningest head coach and promoted our defensive line coach to head coach, what did you expect?

I gave up 4 in SEZ also. I just always go to our out of town feature opening game so I decided to just use the ticket money on the trip! Will work out quite well. I save about 4500 and don't have to even hassle with paid parking.

The home schedule sucks. And it will always suck having 4 conference games a year that are the supposed good games. The other 4 are terrible. Always.

After 30 years, I am going to spend the annual outlay on travel, nice TV's and the comfort of my living room.

Again, just a lot easier and more pleasant to watch from the comfort of the recliner in front of the HDTV with the bathroom ten feet away.

With all these ads, video, and light show, I feel like I am inside a pinball machine at Tiger Stadium, not to mention all the TV timeouts. As someone said, games used to have a "rhythm." Now they are disjointed with interminable pauses.

I agree. This bubble is about to burst. By watering down the product, raising the prices, taking fans for granted re: parking, etc., the Athletic Department has sowed the wind.

They're about to reap the whirlwind.

Dropped ours 2013. Had been in the family since the late 50's

Really just got tired of paying for games like New Mexico St and a few others while the big matchups are being played in Houston and Dallas.

I get the exposure part and am not knocking it. But I figured I'm come out better paying $500-$700 for the 2-3 games I wanted to go to vs paying the taf fees and season ticket costs for a slate of games that 60% of them were boring.

Also as I've gotten older, tailgating from 6am Saturday morning till 1-2am Sunday morning gets tougher to recover from. I'd be hurting on Tuesday still. This 6-8 times a season whooped my arse. Just easier to watch it on a big screen now and go to the ones I want to.

Instead of leaving at halftime, LSU fans just getting a jump.

Pretty eye opening thread... feels like we're at a tipping point.

Years of terrible schedules, price increases and a general stagnation starting to take its toll.

I have a question for regular season ticket holders.

This is the first year I attempt to buy them through LSU (not second hand).

The price for a season ticket this year is $425 for 6 home games. Is this less than last year's price for 7 games?

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Mentioned there are lots of seats available in the South End Zone particularly.

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no one wants to sit there, all the people I talk to want west club section first and south club next , and there's a waiting list a mile long for those .

Why does EVERY Good OOC game have to be at a remote location? Do it every other year at least so loyal fans stay season ticket holders.

It will be very bad when there is a bad schedule and you dont get to take advantage of season ticket holders any more. Fans are beyond pissed when we pay for 7 and get 6 games while having a shite schedule to boot.

SEZ since 95' but have had tickets in several sections over the tears. It has been a toss up the last two years as to whether I keep them or not. LSU as a whole no longer cares about season ticket holders, simply because the tickets will sell if you give them up. LSU has for the most part killed the atmosphere of the past for a more pay to tailgate crowd. The paying crowd today is not what made tailgating at LSU the best in the world they just inherited it from those that had little but put it all into Tiger football. Say what you will but the old get there early and grab the best spot made for enthusiastic campus from one end to the other and it was a Mom and Pop feel.

Money rules but that does not make it equal to what came before. There is no going back, but I believe the attendance over the next three to five years will cause changes. People like the ones posting here are going to stop going in greater and greater numbers which will require them to sell the game day atmosphere.
It will be fascinating to watch how they go about this because SEC money can float the program but not the six to ten million per year to the academic side. That will cause Vice Chancellor Aleva employment woes quicker than "O" going 7-5.