re: LSU Basketball and PMAC Fans/Students Question

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my guess for the Memphis game attendance is it being a Friday night and tons of high school football being played.

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The Memphis game was on Tuesday. What lame excuse is the Rant going to come up with for LSU fans to convince themselves that they aren’t just bad fans?

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but I'm seriously wondering what the Hell has happened.

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Well outside a small handful of seasons we’ve basically been trash for the last 25 years

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but LSU's inconsistency over the last 20+ years has led to this.

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Once again, lame excuse. What happened the last 20 years means nothing for this year’s team. By your logic, let’s punish Will Wade for the sins of Brady, Trent and Johnny. #Weak

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Football is always going to be the main attention getter in this town. That's particularly true in November. Once December rolls around, most of the students have left for a month. But the reality is that if/when LSU becomes a consistent winner, the crowds will show back up en masse. No one gave a shite about LSU basketball in the mid 70's. Likewise, very few people even knew LSU had a baseball program in the early 80's. Once those two starting winning on a national level, the crowds started to show.

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So basically you are saying that the LSU fanbase is a non-loyal bandwagon for winners only fanbase? Amirite?

I think it’ll pick up for SEC play. I think the P Mac itself is not ideal but could be electric. Look at gymnastics, they have a great atmosphere.

I loved going to basketball games while in college. Have a few beers around Chimes then walk over. I have to be honest though, the upper section of the student section is not conducive for a student section. This is an exaggeration but it would be similar if we put part of the football student section in the upper decks. The atmosphere would not be the same.

LSU basketball culture began declining partially as the program waned but also partially because baseball started reeling off NCs almost every other year and a culture of support rose around it. I can’t think of another school where basketball isn’t the 1st or 2nd most popular sport. You can still fill the PMAC but you need a consistent winner to get that culture back. People only have so much time/interest to devote to LSU athletics and you’re talking about what is now the de facto 3rd most popular sport. It’s going to be fair weather.

LSU sells out the arena for gymnastics.

If you produce a winner at LSU, people show up.

I’ve said this before. The students aren’t getting the sideline seats back. Maybe they should, but those seats are sold to season ticket holders. LSU isn’t giving that money up.

Instead, move the press. I don’t care where. Just get them away from where they are. Give the students the bottom and middle sections on both baselines. Let the student sections challenge each other to be loudest. They can keep the call and response cheers going back and forth. There would be a hostile student section on both ends of the court to intimidate the opposing team.

The places that have packed houses and active, loud student sections have been consistent winners for the most part. When LSU has even two straight years of winning and NCAA tournament runs, our fans will return. Hell, I expect we will have sellouts in Jan-Feb-Mar of this season.

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Does anyone else hate the “pull out your iPhone and light em up” nonsense before the starting lineup is introduced?

It is so cringeworthy and gimmicky.

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On that note, the entire introduction sequence needs to be revamped. It is too long and the video they play before he player introductions for LSU bring any energy in the building to a screeching halt. It has never worked and they keep doing the same thing every year just changing the video content each year without making it any more exciting.

I’d really love to share my thoughts on the gameday procedure with the people who do ours. It’s as if they’ve never seen how good teams go about handling the whole thing.