re: Old front 9 tailgating is finished? Maybe not this year.

You assume all this “revenue” goes into one pot of money. It doesn’t. Auxiliary services work differently than the academic side of things. Parking money goes to athletics as well as maintaining parking lots, streets, etc.

It doesn’t just go into a university account and get distributed.

Also said 250k bring their own food, drinks, and then a good many leave before the game even starts. They’re only there for the party. At least if they charge them to park, the university gets something out of the deal.

Are you saying the entirety of the Old Front 9 will no longer be available, or that the parts still available will be pay?

I have no problem walking and I'll park in the hayfield lots and walk from there, I'm not paying for parking and will walk as far as it takes. But the Old Front Nine was very convenient for me so I'll certainly miss it in that aspect.

This is the 2025 map that was released in July. Is it not accurate?

I would hope the map is accurate. But a friend that drives through there daily told me it looked like the entire Old Front Nine is roped off for equipment and material. It doesn’t make sense for the ENTIRE Old Front Nine to be used for that purpose since the construction site is not that close. I can understand a portion of it but not all of it.

He was going to give me a report today by driving down the street that bisects the Old Front Nine and give me an accurate report.

LSU did say that parking spots for the displaced student parking from the dorm area will be added. If "added" means putting in a paved lot, then game over for Free. they will make that permitted. And if they build the New Arena, then the lot will probably continue to be a laydown yard for that project. It is blocked off on the Burbank and South Quad entrances. No project has ever been completed in 3 weeks, so this seems to be here for awhile. Why would LSU give out a parking map in June and not reference the OLD front 9. i won't be moving to another area because i'm sure that will infringe on other tailgaters . It started for us on Nicholson sidewalk 25 years ago and it will end this year. sa-la-vie

For anyone wondering, the lot will be open for football season. No restrictions on tailgating in the area as far as I know.

This is what I saw years ago when I went to games. The unwashed masses need be kept away.

New Orleans and Baton Rouge boast among the highest murder rates in the United States. So there’s that.

I do. And that money funds every other sport we have plus football. So any chance they can get to monetize something, they will. I’m not in favor of it.

But I am in favor of fans assuming some of the cost for the havoc they cause on gameday. There isn’t any “profit” off parking money. It’s mostly a wash as the AD basically pays back the university to make repairs to parking lots and spaces around campus that get f’d up during the season

They’re building a “temporary” gravel lot for the offset of the parking being lost by new dorm construction. I think that’s already been stated in the thread

They’re supposed to be complete by the first game