re: How is tailgating/fan attendance affected long term?

You say this now because of what is going on. The same amount of people will be there tailgating and going to the game.

1 - LSU is going to have to stop the war on tailgating (as was well said earlier)

2 - the era of stadium expansion is over...as was said earlier as well, time to reimagine the seating configuration, my first suggestion is to get rid of the first two rows (which were the box seats many years ago)

eventually, sometime in the 21st century, lower bowl East and West Stadium will have to be rebuilt...the first question is, do you simply tear down the original stadium or do you demolish the dorms and the seating built during the 1930's?

I could see a reconfigured Tiger Stadium in the 2040 timeframe seating around 90-95,000 people in greater comfort...

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My crew isn't tailgating. We're protesting outside Tiger Stadium. Our protests happen to coincide with LSU home games.

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Well you're in luck. Whether fans are allowed on campus or not, protesters are always allowed to assemble anytime, and anywhere.

The impact will be real. I run a medium size tailgate (20-40) and have missed 1 home game since 1996. If 2020 doesn’t happen, I am pretty much convinced I won’t need to go back in 2021. Sure, my mind could be changed when the calendar hits, but the fact that it is bouncing around my brain means the effect is real.

I say it will be bigger and better.

Absence can make the heart grow fonder.

Or people can be the glass half empty type.

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I’ll take those season tickets off ur hands for u.

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Nope. I live for tailgating and going to the games.

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However, the era of stadium expansion is over and was probably stupid in the first place.

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This times 1,000! Ten years ago you could see that football attendance was going to plummet. I could not understand the expansion projects of the last decade.

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1 - LSU is going to have to stop the war on tailgating (as was well said earlier)

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Their war on tailgting has its merits. For years and years tailgating went unchecked and unregulated on campus. At its height, it was a three ring circus. Every a-hole had an F250, generator, 2-3 tents, generator, BBQ trailer, and all the other tailgating accoutrements. LSU spends a ton of money upkeeping campus with landscaping and infrastructure maintenance. On gamedays you've got people driving their trucks and trailers through landscape areas, lawn areas, driving over and parking on oak tree roots, etc.

Also LSU has to maintain its parking lots and roads. There is no public funding for those things other than main arterial roads that are city/state maintained. It was time to reign the beast in and organize it. Too many people were packing campus that don't even attend the game and thus increasing the hell out of traffic and parking limitations.

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2 - the era of stadium expansion is over...as was said earlier as well, time to reimagine the seating configuration, my first suggestion is to get rid of the first two rows (which were the box seats many years ago)

eventually, sometime in the 21st century, lower bowl East and West Stadium will have to be rebuilt...the first question is, do you simply tear down the original stadium or do you demolish the dorms and the seating built during the 1930's?

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I agree with you here. What you will see is a move to take away packed bleacher seating, and usher in comfortable chair backs with more space. Adding in additional technology help, wifi, etc that brings a better experience to the user is on the very near horizon.

I would say tailgating comes back strong but actual game attendance was already steadily falling and this just gives them a means to say, I'd rather continue the tailgate at home and watch on t.v....cause all the games are on t.v. now.

The embracing the Marxist anti-American BLM movement will hurt LSU more than the virus. And that will be long lasting.