re: Main reason fans empty is length of games

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Main reason is traffic.

No one wants to sit in the stadium for 3+ hours then sit in traffic for another 2+ hours just to get off campus.

I've been screaming this is in every thread like this. Find a way to significantly reduce the time it takes people to get off campus after games, and more people would stay longer.

And at the people blaming it on social media. Buncha senile old geezers. (and no I'm not a millennial)

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They would agree with you but they lost interest before your final statement and moved on to another topic.

The TV timeouts are brutal.

It kills any momentum from the team to the fans.

Start selling beer in the

Second half & maybe they stay?

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even if they are losing by 30 and their record is 0-10, people will still show up for games and stay to just about the end.

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Uh, no

I've been in there plenty UP by 30 and people still leave.

Again, not on LSU's level, but they do leave in droves.

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Start scanning the tickets leaving the stadium once the clock is zeros. Staying past the end of the game earns more TAF points and can let you bump people with better seats who never stay.

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LOL

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Last night it was the students and they cleared out at halftime. Can't blame that on the weather, the boring offense, game legth or anything else. It's time for them to lose seats. Move loyal upper deck fans down there.

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That's BS. The student section was more empty but the "paid" seats were emptying after halftime like they noticed that they were disproportionately full and were trying to catch up.

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you do realize that they have been playing football in Tiger Stadium for a long time and there has always been traffic? There has never been a mas exodus of the stadium like there has been the past few years. You cant blame it on traffic This post was edited on 10/2 at 11:07 am

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You do do realize that over that long period of time Tiger Stadium has expanded multiple times without expanding/adding roads right?

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you forgot to add spoiled millennials and social media addiction.

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Pretty sure there are some baby boomers and "greed is good" entitled crowd who there for the social aspects and can't be bothered with being passionate fans.

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You do do realize that over that long period of time Tiger Stadium has expanded multiple times without expanding/adding roads right?

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Um I'm pretty sure Baton Rouge has added and extended roads in and around campus and throughout the city to some extent in the past 10-15 years. It's all relative.

Ok here it is..

Back in the day, you can spend $100 for 3 tickets, show up at the stadium parking lot at 8am with a 10 cases of beer, and a 5th of bourbon to sneak into the stadium to avoid losing your buzz, while having have a good ole time in the stadium watching a quality opponent every week till the clock said 0:00.

Now, you need to spend triple that for tickets, it is harder to sneak stuff in the stadium, so people don't - and people don't get drunk like they used to out of fear of getting DUIs, so people leave early having their buzzes negated by either an inept offense or non-quality opponent.