How tone deaf is Joe Alleva when it comes to this corporate tailgating company?

Quit tailgating

GeorgetheDerp

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There is no feasible way that this can turn into some sort of large scale deal that engulfs the entire campus. It just isn't logistically or physically possible

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I think you’re grossly overestimating the size of our campus. Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and thus far good ole Joe has found a way to go completely overboard on the monetization of every single thing related to LSU football including parking and concessions.

It isn’t hard to take the campus map, divide it into sections, and assign a dollar value to each section and require everyone who uses those sections to pay up. It would be fricking stupid, but then again so is almost everything he’s done since he’s been our AD. I certainly wouldn’t put it past him

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I think you’re grossly overestimating the size of our campus. Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and thus far good ole Joe has found a way to go completely overboard on the monetization of every single thing related to LSU football including parking and concessions.

It isn’t hard to take the campus map, divide it into sections, and assign a dollar value to each section and require everyone who uses those sections to pay up. It would be fricking stupid, but then again so is almost everything he’s done since he’s been our AD. I certainly wouldn’t put it past him

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So you think this company is going to buy 10,000 tents and hire 10,000 waiters or whatever they are called, and buy 10,000 fans/heaters and 10,000 table and chair sets and just completely over-run the area around Tiger Stadium? I really don't think that is their intention and I don't think this is part of the business model of this group, and I sure as hell don't think there will be a huge demand for this service. I understand the concern, but paranoia has taken a hard grip on some of you.

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So you think this company is going to buy 10,000 tents and hire 10,000 waiters or whatever they are called, and buy 10,000 fans/heaters and 10,000 table and chair sets and just completely over-run the area around Tiger Stadium?

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Do you think that, hypothetically, if Joe were to *shockingly* be a greedy frickhead and decide that everyone who wanted to tailgate in the premier/densely populated spots had to pay an annual fee that it would even matter? You do know that their campuses undergo a massive transformation peformed by thousands of employees for gamedays anyway, right? What would adding a few hundred employees for a few hours each mean to them if they were to net hundreds of thousands of dollars per game off of the decision? There would still be a large percentage of the fan base who would just pay to tailgate and the athletic department would be making more money than they currently do off of it, and that seems to be Alleva’s only concern.

How exactly am I being paranoid by pointing out the fact that, at this point, it’s glaringly obvious that Alleva’s approach to LSU football is purely based off of crunching bottom line numbers and choosing the option that grosses him more even if it’s detrimental to the fanbase and the gameday experience?

The Board of Supergarbage needs to be called out here personally every day until Alleva is replaced. Boycott their businesses, take action.

You guys don't get it. shite like this is just the beginning.

Oh well it won't get worse than this. Everytime something changes you hear this from people. Give them an inch, will take a mile.

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How exactly is this service hurting you? Just do what you normally do on game day, and everything will be fine.

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There are at least 6-10 fairly large groups that have been tailgating in that area for a long time. Most of it is new green space but not all of it. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out with this shitty home schedule this year.

You mean fans like Castpuncher?

This is just LSU’s continuing the war on tailgating. They would just get rid of it if they could