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re: The worst thing the LSU Ath Dept has ever done...
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:30 am to Sheep
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:30 am to Sheep
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This could quite possibly be the worst argument in the history of arguments.
Last year: 2,000 spots - all full - $0 revenue
This year, even if only ONE person pays to park: 2,000 spots - 1 spot occupied - $40 revenue.
Winner? This year.
And when I walked through campus on Saturday, every lot was at least 75% (ish) full.
I don't know where you walked but the entire S.Stadium Dr. area was basically deserted. Hell, even the spots on the street weren't full. The row of parking by the Swine Palace was pretty empty. The lot behind the building we tailgate by only holds about 15-20 cars and Saturday we had 2. We'll just have to wait and see how things look for the Florida game. If the interior of the campus looks the same we have a problem.
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Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:30 am to TIGRLEE
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TIGRLEE
You know how I know you are poor?
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:30 am to W
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You called me out on my personal opinion, so what?
personal opinions can be wrong, and yours was stupid
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:30 am to MOT
Season passes could be distributed the same way the others are, no need for a lottery.
Yes they could, which means you start ponying up to TAF and get on a list. Otherwise how do you pick and choose among long-time tailgaters who have been parking for free and don't contribute? A serious question I am not looking to flame.
Yes they could, which means you start ponying up to TAF and get on a list. Otherwise how do you pick and choose among long-time tailgaters who have been parking for free and don't contribute? A serious question I am not looking to flame.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:31 am to Cash
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Compared to what a season pass cost, $40 a game is cheap
and?
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:32 am to Sheep
Just wait for the big games when people are parking in the neighborhoods around Stanford Place, University Hills, etc and walking to the games - clogging up those neighborhoods, urinating in bushes, leaving trash, etc.
When the affluent neighbors start getting pissed off. . . . that's when the kicks in.
When the affluent neighbors start getting pissed off. . . . that's when the kicks in.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:32 am to Eighteen
Who made you chief?
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:33 am to Sheep
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Last year: 2,000 spots - all full - $0 revenue
This year, even if only ONE person pays to park: 2,000 spots - 1 spot occupied - $40 revenue.
i'm not saying we need free parking, i'm saying if you set the price point above what people will reasonably pay, you are minimizing profit.
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And when I walked through campus on Saturday, every lot was at least 75% (ish) full.
bullshite.
my wife went and said there were plenty of spots, the other people i talked to said there were plenty of spots, and the pics on the news showed nearly empty lots.
but i guess we will see when it comes to marquee games.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:33 am to Eighteen
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How would you distribute the season passes?
Make it available with your season tickets.
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What happens if more people want to buy them then there are spots, how do you decide who doesnt get them?
First come first serve. Same thing that happens right now when they run out of passes.
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Then it woudl create a underground parking pass "ticket exchange" for people who get the season passes then don't want to go to every game...it has to be individual game by game to leave the tailgating tradition somewhat intact
Then so be it....
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, they already sell season parking passes
Yeah, for PREMIUM spots.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:33 am to Lakefront-Tiger
I walked through the lot by the EE building at about 3:30 and there was a grand total of about 4 cars in it. Seriously, I have never seen it so empty.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:33 am to W
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I think it weeds out the fair-weather fans
It weeds out some riff-raff for sure, but not all of them. It also weeds out people like my mom, or my buddy's wife, that would come out for a couple hours to hang out, experience the day, and take in what makes/made the LSU tailgate tradition/spectacle that it is.
I don't mind having to pay to park to support the university, I think it's generous of them to allow us to use their facilities/land to have our own little festival six to eight times a year. However, I do think the $40/$50 price tags are raping people. They basically said what's the most we can charge, and still get people out here? But hey, that's economics, you charge what the market will bear. The biggest thing that bothers me about it, they are charging the fans to do what has made LSU great for so many years, they're taxing us to be ourselves. It all seems very William "the Longshanks" to me.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:33 am to TIGRLEE
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Compared to what a season pass cost, $40 a game is cheap.
Compared to what a Tiger den suite costs, east upper tickets are cheap.
Yeah good point spots behind the mounds are around $800 for the season and a whole 200 feet closer than some of $40 a game spots.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:33 am to tritiger
I got a feeling they'll be tweaking the parking regulations soon though.
This is what we speculated when they first implemented the pay to park plan. Tailgating will be pushed from the interior of campus to the outskirts. People are now tailgating in spots that werent normally designated tailgate areas before and thats causing the cleanup crews to be spread out.
I understand the parking fee but instead of $40 why not $20? I know several groups that tailgated for every single home game and now will only be tailgating for Florida and Auburn this season.
This is what we speculated when they first implemented the pay to park plan. Tailgating will be pushed from the interior of campus to the outskirts. People are now tailgating in spots that werent normally designated tailgate areas before and thats causing the cleanup crews to be spread out.
I understand the parking fee but instead of $40 why not $20? I know several groups that tailgated for every single home game and now will only be tailgating for Florida and Auburn this season.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:35 am to tritiger
We tailgate by Memorial Tower and the "vacancy rate" was very evident, especially surrounding Coates Hall. Parking spaces that are usually full by 10:00 AM stayed empty all day.
I think you will start to see "selective tailgating" with these areas filled for big games, but empty on lessor games.
I think you will start to see "selective tailgating" with these areas filled for big games, but empty on lessor games.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:35 am to Eighteen
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Compared to what a season pass cost, $40 a game is cheap
and?
And $40 a game isn't out of line from what LSU has been charging for pay parking for years. If it is out of line it is too cheap.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:36 am to W
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Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:36 am to Tigerdew
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Tigerdew
i understand you COULD do it like that, but my argument is more that creating that system would really take away from the tailgating tradition by turning the entire inner campus into business parking passes with people showing up right before the game to park and not actually tailgate. But after this past weekend it looks like they killed all tailgating in that area now anyway so might as well
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:38 am to DanglingFury
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DanglingFury
I dont like you all that much,,, but with this I agree with you 100%.
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:39 am to Mudminnow
mudminnow, how big is this group and do you know what their approximate tailgating budget is (for the season or weekly)?
Posted on 9/12/11 at 8:40 am to DanglingFury
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It weeds out some riff-raff for sure, but not all of them. It also weeds out people like my mom, or my buddy's wife, that would come out for a couple hours to hang out, experience the day, and take in what makes/made the LSU tailgate tradition/spectacle that it is.
I think LSU sees your mom as a drain honestly, and is trying to price her out of coming. To the university, she's an extra car and extra trash generation, but since she doesn't step foot into the stadium she's not a source of any revenue to the school.
It's totally myopic in the sense that people who are on campus are much more likely to decide last minute to go to the game, or be impressed enough with the experience to plan to attend other games. Yet LSU seems determined that only the 92500 people with tickets actually show up.
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