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Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:02 pm to catholictigerfan
btw do you really expect 100,000+ people on a campus where parking isn't widely available to get out quickly?
BTW if you know where to park and get there early you can work your way around the traffic.
Also most fans will stay to the end of Florida and aTm. If Arkansas is a close game they will stay to the end of that.
BTW if you know where to park and get there early you can work your way around the traffic.
Also most fans will stay to the end of Florida and aTm. If Arkansas is a close game they will stay to the end of that.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:03 pm to Spankum
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I do have to admit, It a hell of a lot easier to deal with when we have a 6PM kickoff than the traditional 7PM...that extra hour makes a ton of difference...
I agree. I loved the 7 PM games when I lived in BR, but after moving to NOLA, I much prefer the 6 PM ones.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:04 pm to Jim Rockford
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End the excessive tailgating.
OMG yes you need to stop this. That'll show everyone. Woah now sir, stop tailgating or you'll never be able to make it during the game in a torrential downpour.
Do you realize how dumb this sounds?
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:06 pm to AlaTiger
The market is driving this. "
What?
"It is what it is"
NOT AGAIN!
What?
"It is what it is"
NOT AGAIN!
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:06 pm to catholictigerfan
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btw do you really expect 100,000+ people on a campus where parking isn't widely available to get out quickly?
Would help greatly if you had to show a game ticket to park on campus. LSU made a big error when they chose to encourage the tailgating culture. Now that the negative aspects are apparent, it's already ingrained and will be damn hard to eliminate or restrict.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:07 pm to AlaTiger
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The market is driving this. LSU fans no longer stay for the end of games. They all want to go home early and go to bed. They hate traffic. I have sat in two hours of traffic trying get out of Tiger Stadium myself. I live out of state now, but still travel back for games now and then. People leave early. It is what it is.
Scrap Saturday night in Tiger Stadium. Clearly, not enough people like it to stick around for the whole thing. Start games at 4pm so people can have the second half be dark and still be in their PJ's at home by 9pm.
It is what it is. LSU admin needs to see it and change or we will have this forever - a half empty Tiger Stadium in the 4th quarter of SEC games.
if tiger stadium is half empty for anyother game this year I will be shocked. (note maybe the arkansas game)
last night was a strange game, Auburn 0-8 last year in the SEC we are up 21-0, weather was miserable all half. I'm a die hard fan and I even thought about leaving early if the weather continued going as it went assuming LSU would go up big. While I wish more people stayed I don't blame people leaving that game early. If it was a standard night game in Tiger Stadium more people would have stayed.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:10 pm to Jim Rockford
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Would help greatly if you had to show a game ticket to park on campus. LSU made a big error when they chose to encourage the tailgating culture. Now that the negative aspects are apparent, it's already ingrained and will be damn hard to eliminate or restrict.
really you would want to do this?
many people don't have tickets so they try and buy one around the stadium. Plus LSU's tailgating is the best in the country, LSU game days would take a major step back if only fans with tickets where able to be on campus. a few thousand people go tailgate just hand around tiger stadium even though they don't have tickets.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:12 pm to The Mick
While I fully support a persons choice to go or not go and don't give a rats arse what this board thinks about people that done go, you're right about one thing. 50-60% of the people tailgating don't give a shite about the game. They just go out to drink all day they go to the bars that night. I know many of them first hand. People that have tailgated for 10 years and have been to 1-2 games in that span.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:15 pm to catholictigerfan
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many people don't have tickets so they try and buy one around the stadium.
Legit point.
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Plus LSU's tailgating is the best in the country, LSU game days would take a major step back if only fans with tickets where able to be on campus. a few thousand people go tailgate just hand around tiger stadium even though they don't have tickets.
This, I don't care about. Tailgating is out of control. I've been saying it for a couple of years. It's overshadowing the game and having negative impacts on the campus. It needs to be scaled back, and I don't care who it pisses off or how much money they've sunk into it. Nobody forced them to buy that $15000 tailgate rig.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:16 pm to Salmon
Salmon I almost felt bad for you the other night when people were doggin you about the cam situation but I guess you are just a lil bitch and don't know shite about what you are talking about. I been to Bama and Auburn game. I've been living in northeast alabama for the last 20 years and I'm still a diehard Tiger fan but yes it's true...I've never seen a Bama or Auburn game where the fans leave ealy
This post was edited on 9/22/13 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:18 pm to lsuhunt555
Serve alcohol in TS and I guarantee a lot more people would stay. We have a culture of drinking.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:28 pm to AlaTiger
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That is the only thing that might solve this. People look at the time, they are tired, they are drunk, they don't want to fight two hours of traffic, and they have been there for the social event since 10am eating, drinking, and sitting around. By 9pm, they are ready to go home. It looked like the game was in hand, so people left. It was stupid, but it is what LSU fans do now.
Some people like to bring their kids to games to pass the tradition on. But kids being kids their attention span is a little short when we're up by 21 and its raining or its 45 degrees. So before you criticize people for leaving know exactly why they leave, don't just lump everyone together.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:33 pm to rintintin
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Posted by rintintin Serve alcohol in TS and I guarantee a lot more people would stay.
Nailed it.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:35 pm to Retrotiger
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I've never seen a Bama or Auburn game where the fans leave ealy
because you don't watch the games when Bama or Auburn play shitty teams, but I assure you, they still leave early
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:38 pm to Jim Rockford
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This, I don't care about. Tailgating is out of control. I've been saying it for a couple of years. It's overshadowing the game and having negative impacts on the campus. It needs to be scaled back, and I don't care who it pisses off or how much money they've sunk into it. Nobody forced them to buy that $15000 tailgate rig.
LSU has been tailgating for years and years I really don't think its changed recently. There are just some but hurt fans after half of the stadium left in a 21-0 game when it was pouring down rain for a entire half of football. Auburn happened to find life in the second half. If LSU blew them out and never let them back in the game people wouldn't complain.
Plus if people have money to spend why do you care how they spend it? Tiger stadium is one of the greatest atmospheres in the country taking away from that would take away from the atmosphere and would take away from the game. Tailgating has no impact on how LSU plays on the field. Tens of thousands will tailgate against Florida aTm and Arkansas and the stadium (assuming it doesn't rain) will be packed to the brim and if the games remain close 98%+ will stay in the stadium.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:46 pm to AlaTiger
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That is the only thing that might solve this. People look at the time, they are tired, they are drunk, they don't want to fight two hours of traffic, and they have been there for the social event since 10am eating, drinking, and sitting around. By 9pm, they are ready to go home
I agree with all of this.
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We need to stop having night games
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The traffic situation needs to be fixed
Its a game where 90,000 people show up for. There is no fixing this.
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And, LSU fans need to stop be a national embarrassment.
Why does this bother you so much?
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Obviously, LSU fans can no longer handle staying out past 9pm on a weekend.
There is more to life than LSU football.
Posted on 9/22/13 at 2:53 pm to AlaTiger
Here are a few things that would make more people stay (when it's not raining).
1. Schedule less shitty OOC home games and more at least average ones. Instead of Towson, play Utah. Instead of Kent State, how about Duke? Let's play two bottom half teams from BCS conferances (NC State, Kansas, Iowa, UConn, Utah, ect), one instate FBS team (ULL, ULM, Tulane, or Tech), and one big matchup (Michigan, Notre Dame, Stanford, Oregon State, Louisville, Florida State, ect)
2. serve alcohol in the main part of the stadium. Why do people bail out so early? To go drink more once their buzz wears off. How do you keep them there? Serve them beer (at an affordable price with a valid id of course).
3. Fix the traffic.
a. 4 lane Nicholson past Lee (possibly as far as bluebonnet) with left turn lanes at every traffic light intersection
b. just get rid of 90% of the Game Day traffic cops. They don't actually direct any traffic and they just take up lanes with their cars and collect overtime. Traffic really doesn't start to move until they leave.
c. I-10 East needs an on-ramp at Dalrymple
d. Traffic light on River Road @ Skip Bertman Drive if only for Game Days.
e. Add Left turn lanes in all directions for intersections of Burbank at Jennifer Jean and Burbank at E. Boyd.
f. re-connect West Parker to Nicholson
g. stop blocking traffic from crossing Highland at Parker
h. either make it a 4-way or put a light at Parker @ Stadium drive by the UREC
i. 3 lane (2 travel lanes and a turn lane) Highland Road with committed left turn lanes at every major intersection the entire length of Highland Road where it is not yet 3 or 4 lanes.
1. Schedule less shitty OOC home games and more at least average ones. Instead of Towson, play Utah. Instead of Kent State, how about Duke? Let's play two bottom half teams from BCS conferances (NC State, Kansas, Iowa, UConn, Utah, ect), one instate FBS team (ULL, ULM, Tulane, or Tech), and one big matchup (Michigan, Notre Dame, Stanford, Oregon State, Louisville, Florida State, ect)
2. serve alcohol in the main part of the stadium. Why do people bail out so early? To go drink more once their buzz wears off. How do you keep them there? Serve them beer (at an affordable price with a valid id of course).
3. Fix the traffic.
a. 4 lane Nicholson past Lee (possibly as far as bluebonnet) with left turn lanes at every traffic light intersection
b. just get rid of 90% of the Game Day traffic cops. They don't actually direct any traffic and they just take up lanes with their cars and collect overtime. Traffic really doesn't start to move until they leave.
c. I-10 East needs an on-ramp at Dalrymple
d. Traffic light on River Road @ Skip Bertman Drive if only for Game Days.
e. Add Left turn lanes in all directions for intersections of Burbank at Jennifer Jean and Burbank at E. Boyd.
f. re-connect West Parker to Nicholson
g. stop blocking traffic from crossing Highland at Parker
h. either make it a 4-way or put a light at Parker @ Stadium drive by the UREC
i. 3 lane (2 travel lanes and a turn lane) Highland Road with committed left turn lanes at every major intersection the entire length of Highland Road where it is not yet 3 or 4 lanes.
This post was edited on 9/22/13 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 9/22/13 at 3:10 pm to Jim Rockford
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End the excessive tailgating. When the social event is more important than the game, priorities are out of kilter.
I've got an even better idea. Instead of having just to pay to get into the game, how about a fee for people to get out of the game, too!***
Divert some of those 6,000 undercover cops checking for underage drinking to guard all of the exits.
***Heart attack victims and women going into emergency labor eligible for a discount.
This post was edited on 9/22/13 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 9/22/13 at 3:20 pm to AlaTiger
I agree with this. Saturday Nights in DV have become a social event more than a football game.
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