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re: How to get LSU fans to stay a whole game and restore Tiger Stadium to Death Valley?

Posted on 11/3/25 at 11:24 am to
Posted by m2pro
Member since Nov 2008
29918 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 11:24 am to
It's cultural.

To those types that just leave, it's just a party. Another place to go get drunk and have fun. I think the problem is selling out tickets if they don't sell to those types. If you have more than enough people to buy tickets, maybe drop the price and try to find a way to minimize the younger audiences.
Posted by Run DMC
somewhere in Louisiana it's tricky
Member since Jan 2007
6248 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 11:34 am to
1. You have to let the students have their chants
2. Take the piped in music out and have the band play more
3. Have student/fraternity contests, etc on the field between the 3rd and 4th quarters
Posted by Jdixon1234
Member since Nov 2014
493 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 11:35 am to
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Get rid of that god-awful DJ and let the band play


Gives me a terrible headache by halftime.

The DJ is killing Tiger Stadium.
Posted by broadhead
Member since Oct 2014
2562 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 11:37 am to
Traffic leaving the stadium. Contra flow outbound everything but have ride share (lyft, uber) access for people needing a ride.
Posted by Old Money
LSU
Member since Sep 2012
41799 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 11:39 am to
Easier said than done but the traffic. The 1 game a year I go to it is unreal
This post was edited on 11/3/25 at 11:40 am
Posted by JEPjr
Houston
Member since May 2016
7 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 11:40 am to
The cell phone issue can be rectified, albeit at a cost to the service providers. It’s not just the 100000+ fans in the stadium, and residual tailgaters, but the student population as well. (Here we go), the NRG stadium complex here in Houston, has the same problem for football games and the 30 day rodeo season, with about the same total users. So the powers to be contracted with the cell providers to put up temporary cell phone boosters and antennas to rectify the cell issue. But that does not guarantee that fans will remain in the stands, winning does cure some of the apathy, but not all.
Posted by rpg37
Ocean Springs, MS
Member since Sep 2008
54603 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 11:58 am to
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The infrastructure surrounding campus also has not been upgraded to help people off campus quicker.


I live three hours away. It is hard as frick to get from the stadium to home in less than four hours for me dealing with the walk to the car, the ridicuous route to exit BR, and then finally hit the highway leaving.
Posted by chaso
clinton ms.
Member since Aug 2006
3293 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 12:16 pm to
Take away upper east and west sides! Seriously! All we did was make room for the opposition, just for the revenue but we were better off with our 70,000 SRO days!
Posted by chaso
clinton ms.
Member since Aug 2006
3293 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 12:23 pm to
Winning means nothing, times have changed. Too many big screens in every house, too expensive and the younger generation doesn't give 2 F's about the game, it's just "the in thing" to be in Tiger Stadium for the 1st half
Posted by NatalbanyTigerFan
On the water somewhere
Member since Oct 2007
8601 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 12:40 pm to
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How to get LSU fans to stay a whole game

I don't give a damn who leaves or stays, I'm there to watch the action on the field.
Posted by QB
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2013
8482 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 1:58 pm to
Did anyone ever leave in 2019? I was there until the prayer at the end of the game...the answer is no. Give fans that product and LSU fans will revel in being there to watch it all. Give them crap in any sport, and no one will come and stay.
Posted by Keltic Tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2006
22034 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 2:54 pm to
"No one will come & stay"? LSU led the Aggies at half & fans were leaving at half time. LSU led South Carolina at half & fans were leaving at half. This has happened more than these 2 games in recent games as well.
Posted by LnStrTiger
Member since Jan 2023
1 post
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:03 pm to
Not long after Mack Brown came to Texas, the athletics dept. launched the campaign, “Come Early. Be Loud. Stay Late.” It was on the Jumbotron, t-shirts and everywhere around the stadium along with a video from Brown played at the end of the second quarter urging fans to stay for the second half when the team really needed them. Over time, it made a difference. Of course, it helps when the team wins, when restrooms are updated, when the food is decent, WiFi works, etc. But a direct message to fans, repeated over and over, can make a difference over time.
Posted by La Place Mike
West Florida Republic
Member since Jan 2004
31417 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:04 pm to
quote:

Well this is just a dumb idea and an easy way to lose fans.


People want your seats, baw.
Posted by whoa
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2017
5922 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 3:27 pm to
Traffic has been an issue for as long as I can remember so I don’t understand all the bitching about it.

At the end of the game, we would head back to our tailgate and tailgate a little longer while traffic died down.
Posted by Kingshakabooboo
Member since Nov 2012
1910 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 8:22 pm to
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In this day and age with sports betting, it’s prevalent.


I guess. And look, I’m as bad as anyone about being on phone all the time. Hell, I’m on it now and have been for past hour on TD.
But I can honestly say, when I’m in Tiger Stadium it never leaves my pocket. Only get to go to one or two games a year and I am glued to the action in front of me.
Posted by Darth Aranda
Naboo
Member since Dec 2016
3122 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 8:24 pm to
You’d have to push out all of the corporate and boomer seating in the East and West sidelines, which will never happen since they are footing the bill.

The North and South endzones are core Death Valley, and this is coming from someone with seats on the West sideline
Posted by WHATDOINO
Member since Dec 2008
7052 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 8:34 pm to
Traffic. Traffic and traffic. When I have a two to three hour ride home plus the one and a half hours to the interstate, I’m leaving as soon as I know the outcome.

Fix traffic in and out and I’m much more apt to stay to the end.
Posted by optout2020
Member since Dec 2020
138 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 9:05 pm to
A&M QB said in post game interview that Tommy Moffitt told the team that if they started kicking LSU’s butt the stands would empty out. Which is what happened in the 3rd quarter. LSU fans are 100% what have you done for me lately. Tiger stadium not what it used to be
Posted by LuckyTiger57
Member since Dec 2015
1726 posts
Posted on 11/3/25 at 9:09 pm to
Winning cures everything!
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