re: Make Tiger Stadium Great Again

This is just a guess, but might it be the sheer size of the stadium and number of seats? I'm pretty sure it's over 100K to fill Tiger Stadium.

I don't know how that compares to the other SEC stadiums that we are talking about, but it is a big stadium.

Rather than penalize season ticket holders for not going to games, reward those that do with priority points.

The reality is that the median income in Baton Rouge does not match with the cost of attendance.

What 22-35 year old has season tickets in their own name? I know of almost none. The overwhelming majority of people that have season tickets are older or they are corporate tickets. My tailgate is squarely in this age demographic. We go out and tailgate for every game, and less than half actually go to the games. They will go when they get free tickets, or for the big games. Why shell out $100 to go to the Ole Miss game when you can put some of that money towards going to Bama? I can sit at the tailgate with good food and good beer and watch the game with all my friends with 2 other games on TVs, or I can go into the stadium pay $9 for a michelob ultra, getting highlights on random games once a quarter (often multiple scores behind), and wait in line for a shitty hamburger just to find out they ran out.

I go to every game, but I understand why people don't.

If you want to bring Tiger Stadium back to its peak, you have to make it more affordable, and you have to make it more fun... But instead, LSU will focus on trying to make more money, and I get it, they have an $80 million coach to pay along with covering losses on basically every other sport. Also, we have to honor the 2017 sec champion volleyball team at every break, so they will never make breaks in the action more enjoyable.

I like the incentive angle but would also figure out a stick for season ticket holders who regularly no show nor give them away/sell them if they can’t go.

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There were drunks, fights, LSU fans cussing out opposing fans

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This isn't necessarily a good thing. In fact, the drunks are usually part of the problem because they usually leave early or pass out and have to be carted out.

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Now it’s more corporate and family-friendly.

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I'm not a fan of the corporatization of the stadium, but LSU does that on their own by selling out fans for the almighty dollar. As far as Tiger Stadium being family friendly, what do you propose...telling people they can't bring their kids? frick that.

Everybody talks about peripheral issues like parking, costs, corporate seats. They are all a factor. But to me the last 10-12 years the home schedule is awful. Yes you get a rotation of the SEC teams and rivalries, but years ago you always got at least one premier game verses an OOC opponent. Usually those games were played at night so you had a really great atmosphere. Now we play these games at neutral sites for $$, or when we schedule them we have to travel to their place first and for some reason the wiggle out of the return trip. As a season ticket holder you usually get one ranked opponent at night, and maybe another one that gets moved to the daytime, or 11:00 like this year. Then you get 4 or 5 non interesting games. I wonder why I still buy tickets, for over $3000 for two tickets for one game.

“From LSU's perspective, the ticket was already sold so they've already made money. They could care less that a sold seat wasn't an occupied seat.”

While there may be some in admin who don’t care if ticket holders show, though I doubt it, I find it especially hard to believe that the AD or BK don’t care or don’t want a full stadium which helps produce wins and draw recruits. Long term a great atmosphere and full stadium is financially prudent and helps produce and sustain a winning program. If I can see that, LSU Athletics does too.

At least show up

Can we do like USC and put chairbacks for every seat. Knock the seat capacity down a bit, and make everyone comfortable. That would be so great. Even empties would look good on TV.