re: Our LSU Basketball Team Needs Our Support

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nonstudent turnout hasn't been much better in my opinion than any recent year.

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You sre very wrong about this. Have you not payer attention the ladt few years? The pmac has bern dead for these games and had barely anybody in the upper decks. There are plenty up there this year and the crowd has been getting into the games.

When the student section is so empty that they put the 100 little girls from the tiger girl camp to sit in the lower part of the student section its a big problem.


And to the guy talking down the $5 ticket idea. They have done it before recently and actually sold a lot of the tickets.

Student attendance has been much higher this year than last. They just think they are too cool for the lower section behind the goal.

You can't draw conclusions from student attendance during the break, it always sucks. Even so, the UAB game had way more students than the Christmas week game last year.

Just my thoughts:

1. The student attendance has not been good. However, I'll defend them at bit to say that there are more students there than what you see in the most prominent part of the student section. The section as a whole isn't a very good viewpoint. Therefore, many of the student are scattered throughout the sideline seats because there are plenty of open seats not being used by season ticketholders.

2. LSU basketball has suffered because there hasn't been much consistency in the program. While Brady probably gets more criticism than he deserves (especially considering that he brough a team to the Final Four), his tenure at LSU is marked by extreme ups and downs. LSU would win the SEC one year ('00), only to finish near the bottom the next ('01). Or, they would make the tournament one year and then miss it the next two. Couple that with the fact that at the same time football was emerging as a national power, and baseball already was, many LSU fans lost interest in basketball

3. The non-student support for basketball has to primarily come from those in the BR metro area. Only a small % of people are going to drive up from a hour or more away on a Tuesday or Wednesday to catch a game.

4. After Jan. 1st, LSU will have a great opportunity to recapture some interest. Most fans are "dissapointed" with the football season and are already looking towards next year. Baseball doesn't start until mid-Feb. There's a month in a half gap where all attention can turn to basketball. The OOC results have generated a little buzz, but Jan. 7th vs. Tenn. will be a big game as far as fan support is concerned. It's on national TV. CFB will have just ended and people will be looking for the next sport to watch. LSU has had a few of these "barometer" games over the last few years ('13 v. Fla.; '12 v. Kentucky) and has fallen flat on their face. If they can beat Tenn., I think you see better and better turnouts from both students and non-students the rest of the year.

Tenn game on TV...look for poor attendance.

I'm there!

I've been to four basketball games this year and have yet to sit in the student section. There are more students there then you think, they would just rather not sit in those shitty seats.

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Mark it down now:

January 7, 2014 6pm ESPN
LSU vs Tennessee
PMAC

Fill up the PMAC on national tv.

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This is our chance to make a statement. Huge opportunity for our team and it would be great to have a packed PMAC. The lack of student attendance is alarming but the Roar Corps set up is pathetic and shameful. Once students start coming to games LSU will see that a change with the media location needs to be made

I was at LSU when Shaq was there and the stands were full. Just win baby win. People will come around.