re: Let's talk solutions for the Tiger Stadium experience

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Put season ticket holders on a points system like the students. i.e. if half your tickets don't get used during the season, your chances of keeping your prime location could diminish.

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They have it in place already. It's called TAF donations. You don't pay you don't get tickets.

One thing that has shocked me is just how little room there is in the lower SEZ seats. I have the seatback installed. As does most on my row. In lower SEZ the seats touch. In upper SEZ where I sat last year there is a good 2 inches on each side of the same seat.

It's cramped as shite in there. Dude next to me is at least 6 foot 8 and he struggles. If fewer people start coming then they need to take out a few seats and expand amount of space you get.

That's BS. Tailgating is wayyyyyy wayyyyy down from what it was in years where we completly sucked. Fans didnt leave at halftime then.

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Get rid of the piped in music. Let the damn band play.

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I don't know why, but this is the worst thing to me outside of how terrible the team currently is.

The piped in music completely destroys what was once an incredible atmosphere.

Stop rap and other piped in music

Play more in State schools

Teach BRPD how to control traffic

I would definitely do something about people not going to games and leaving early. What idiots make the trip and spend time and money then leave early

JMO

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Not with 60 minute games lasting 4 hours

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This x500. I get that the TV networks paid millions of $ and need to recoup this in advertising but man, that's a long time. Throw in 2 hours before and 2 hours after to go a few miles and it's 8 hours minimum. All of a sudden, only the people who really like football go to the games and I can promise you, that's less than 100,000 which is just one of the reasons why the stadium isn't full.

It's 100% having every game on TV. With the Alabama's or Ole Miss 2014, you still get the crowd, the atmosphere, the tailgating. But whereas campus used to be full(ish) for the smaller matchups because that was the only way to see the game, now it's way easier to watch the game on TV until it's a blowout, then move on with your life. Or flip to the better matchups. Hell, even when you do show up to tailgate, it's often more fun and convenient to watch on your 55inch satellite TV with your pot of reasonably priced jambalaya and cooler full of cold beer.

Regardless of what everyone here - on this message board comprised of mostly die hard fans - thinks, most fans don't show up to the game to watch the battle in the trenches against Directional U. Most fans show up on gameday to have a fun weekend experience with friends and family, and to escape for just a little while from work and life's worries. When it becomes easier to accomplish this outside of the stadium, you see the disconnect.

Eliminating piped in music, fielding a better product, fixing traffic, and streamlining pricing and logistics are all fine steps forward. But if LSU really wants to return to the gameday experience of the past, they have to find a way to reintroduce some sort of scarcity into the in-stadium experience. Because that's rotting it from its roots.

If this is the new product on the field, then free beer and lap dances

Free WIFI, better traffic and parking answers (yeah right), alcohol sales, better food at the concession stands, designated smoking areas, etc would all help a lot in keeping people in the stands, which is why many leave early.