re: I am sick and tired of the empty seats in the student section / west side

Go back to school and sit there, rally your friends..

This is what happens when lobbyists and corporate cronies hand tickets to politicians families who might attend if it’s convenient at that time. Maybe just limit the number of season tickets per person and drop the prices so the everyday working person has a chance

Yeah, good luck with that.

Then open seats to all students.

Fwiw worth season ticket holder on home side lower section … things have changed since the covid year… idk what but just not the same level.. I figured it was due to coming off championship high into a few years of chaos… home side fills up but visitors side is never full.. especially the top section.. people scattered throughout regardless of seat leave earlier… students leave earlier and earlier .. all the complaints are valid.. food.. seats.. day games(heat)… traffic.. looks loos wanting to “visit” a game …

I guess bring back a consistent top team and the crowd will go back to as was.. but sorta think it is to big.. to expensive and turned into a social event to get a few photos for posting..

Regardless I will be there early and stay late and have fun… but they should react to what is happening in the seats along with the field..

Geaux Tigers

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Fwiw worth season ticket holder on home side lower section … things have changed since the covid year… idk what but just not the same level.. I figured it was due to coming off championship high into a few years of chaos… home side fills up but visitors side is never full.. especially the top section.. people scattered throughout regardless of seat leave earlier… students leave earlier and earlier .. all the complaints are valid.. food.. seats.. day games(heat)… traffic.. looks loos wanting to “visit” a game …

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Agreed

Like is said a page or so ago, it has become socially acceptable to leave the LSU game early.

Note to many who don’t know, the section on the West side (LSU sideline) near the student section, but looks like season ticket holders, is the recruiting section. Recruiting not just for football but for all the LSU sports. That section clears out a good bit in the second half as a lot of them go back to the Lawton Room for catered food and watch the game on tv, or many of the other sport recruits leave and head on to other activities.

That area always looks bad on tv, but I don’t know what to do about that.

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I think everyone underestimates the number of people LSU pissed off in 2020 that will never be back.

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Are they only pissed off enough to miss 1/2 a game?

If the discussion is "why won't more than 85k show up for games", then your premise would probably make a lot of sense

But what's unique here is that a very good crowd shows up to start, and then just leaks out over the course of the game, regardless of opponent, situation or score.

That's what you don't see at other games. People who put the effort into showing up actually stay for the game

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They showed the lower west side once and quickly panned away. Think it was the third quarter. Looked half empty to me. I don't normally complain about this and I know those people pay good money for those seats.

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I have been saying this for a long time… they need to change the seat colors to purple on the sidelines. The EZs are bleachers and to the casual observer it is hard to see an empty seat. Those gold/yellow sideline seats stand out like a beacon when nobody is sitting in them

I'm not sure why the talk is about the west side. The east side is perpetually half-empty by halftime of almost all games. (Easily seen since the cameras for television are on the west side).

I try to make one game a season and when I go I stay until the clock hits 0:00. But yeah that traffic is demoralizing. They gotta do something better