Football Season Tickets Question

When calling LSU never speak to a student. Ask for a supervisor. The students could care less and you are only a pain in the arse to them.

TAF donations will be deductible going forward. Tradition fund donations will not after 2017. Since you don't have tickets you can't contribute to the tradition fund so don't worry about the timing. Call TAF tomorrow and ask them what you need to do. If you want to contribute to TAF in 2017 that's fine and you will be able to deduct that donation for your 2017 return. I'm no CPA but that's the way I understand it. I did pay my tradition fee in 2017 for the 2018 season at my CPA's suggestion. I hope this helps.

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Can anyone explain to me what I need to do in order to get good football season tickets. Do I donate to the tradition fund or the Tiger Athletic Fund?

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There is no Tiger Athletic Fund. There is a Tiger Athletic Foundation which puts you on a waiting list to get good tickets. You can get crummy nose bleed tickets from them with a first donation, not sure how much.

Once you have your good tickets that you want, you no longer have to pay the TAF but you must pay the LSU Tradition fund a donation (which has been 80% tax deductible but I hear Congress has done away with that) to be given the privilege of buying your tickets at the Ticket Office. So you have to pay twice for Season Tickets at about the same time you pay your income tax. It sucks.

Would seem to me that TAF would give people the option of donating to the Tradition fund (non-deductible)or an increased amount to the TAF General Fund (deductible). Both could insure that your seats were reserved.

Would have to be worded carefully due to the new tax act but might be able to make it work, at least for a year or two. Maybe a donation to a special "academic fund" would waive your Tradition Fund donation requirement. Put our best tax lawyers on it!

Football tickets are picked by potential purchasers by computer and the timing that people are allowed to pick is based on a system of points called TAF points. basically, the more you have donated, the more TAF points you will have and get to pick earlier. Honestly, unless you donate one hell of a lot of money, you will not likely get tickets that most would consider "good".

I would recommend you join TAF at the $100 level, get on the wait list so you can figure out the system and then try to get good tickets next year. Meantime, you can find some tickets that someone has to sell pretty easily if you will give them their cost (face value plus donation).

I sell 2 on the 50 every year w/parking

Because of the mandatory donations, season tickets run you quite a bit more than face value. I have 4 but often have more family in town than that. Only paid face value for one game this year and not more than half for all the other games.

Just something to think about. I keep mine more for posterity than anything else.

You get more TAF points before the deadline for 2018 tickets by donating both in 2017 and then again in 2018.

If you did 5k this week and 5k in January, you might have enough priority points for lower bowl season tickets for 2018.