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Was Skip the AD that started the regulations for tailgating?
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:38 pm
I can remember free parking and camp trailers...
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Posted on 4/19/22 at 10:03 pm to tigersnip
Yes it all started with putting the metal barriers by the amphitheater. The game day experience has essentially been death by a thousand cuts since then.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 10:25 pm to tigersnip
Joe Dean started all the anti tailgating bs.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 1:19 am to tigersnip
Yep. Skip killed tailgating as us now older folks knew it. Great times fighting for spot, shoving as many cars in an area and going nuts before the game. Skip sucked as AD. They kept using trying to save the trees as part of the reason.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 7:03 am to tigersnip
Skip started the rules, but Alleva was the one who turned tailgating into a revenue source with ridiculous parking fees.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 7:15 am to SpeckledTiger
Skip was AD when these things started. He didn’t start them he was used to ease the fans’ anger for things such as this, including the introduction of seat licensing fees through TAF.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:06 am to SpeckledTiger
People laugh at me when I say tailgating as we know it now is living off a legacy. Nothing comes close to the 04-08 days.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:07 am to tigersnip
Alleva...
Tailgating 01-07 night and day to what it became 08-19.
Tailgating 01-07 night and day to what it became 08-19.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:08 am to tigersnip
Alleva in i think 2010 was the biggest changes by far
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:57 am to SpeckledTiger
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Skip started the rules, but Alleva was the one who turned tailgating into a revenue source with ridiculous parking fees.
The University was screaming at the AD to assist in the cost of cleaning up after football games. I believe a significant chunk of the campus tailgate parking fees (not parking lot tailgating such as TD village) goes directly to campus.
This was right when the Jindal budget cuts to higher ed meant the university was scrambling for cost savings wherever they could find them.
This post was edited on 4/20/22 at 8:59 am
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:58 am to tigersnip
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Skip the AD
Worst decision LSU ever made.
2nd: not naming Bill Arnsparger AD
3rd: letting the LSU football team have a say to get Mike archer hired as Head coach.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 10:45 am to tigersnip
When Skip was AD black posts went up all over campus so you could no longer park on grass. Believe it or not, before that most everyone actually was able to park in the middle of campus on gameday.
Alleva took it up a notch when he stopped allowing parking on any grass anywhere near campus (Nicholson, Burbank, Parker) by putting up yellow ropes everywhere. Inside campus was already dead, but this killed tailgating in areas like the Old Front 9.
Alleva took it up a notch when he stopped allowing parking on any grass anywhere near campus (Nicholson, Burbank, Parker) by putting up yellow ropes everywhere. Inside campus was already dead, but this killed tailgating in areas like the Old Front 9.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 11:09 am to BlackPot
The biggest tailgate game in LSU history was 2007 Florida.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 1:32 pm to tigersnip
It's always been about the $$$
Posted on 4/20/22 at 1:39 pm to tigersnip
Skip may have started the ball rolling, but tailgating was still awesome when I was there in the 2000s. It was Alleva that truly put the worst restrictions in place and priced people out from even attending.
If there’s a bigger fanbase-hating, blowhard failure than old Joe that’s been a major university AD in recent times, I’m not aware of them.
If there’s a bigger fanbase-hating, blowhard failure than old Joe that’s been a major university AD in recent times, I’m not aware of them.
This post was edited on 4/20/22 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 4/20/22 at 2:00 pm to Ponchy Tiger
We floated the first Keg at 8 am for that game.
I was 14...
I was 14...
Posted on 4/20/22 at 2:09 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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The biggest tailgate game in LSU history was 2007 Florida
2018 Bama
This post was edited on 4/20/22 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 4/20/22 at 4:48 pm to Simplemaaan
quote:I don't think so, Joe was very much in favor of a good tailgate
Joe Dean started all the anti tailgating bs.
True story, btw:
Dean had offered to pay for something publicly, I think some campus group having a tailgate event. They turned him down because of his drinking history. I think it was something like $500 for some little event.
My roommate wrote a letter to the Reveille, tongue in cheek, saying if those guys were too good to take his money, HE sure would, and throw a keg party for the next home game at our place in Southdowns (we had one of the little cottage rentals for students).
Dean tracked him down and gave him a check for $500
He threw a big keg party and BBQ
Posted on 4/20/22 at 5:12 pm to mikelbr
It got out of hand. Too many people who had no tickets or any intention of going to the game. Having a guard on horse back with a rifle as inmates picked upped an extremely filthy parade ground was a terrible sight on Sunday morning. Give an inch and folks took a mile. It had to be done!
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:02 pm to tigersnip
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Was Skip the AD that started the regulations for tailgating?
Depends upon what specifically you're talking about here:
Joe D. made the RVs move way out to the periphery of campus, where they remain to this day.
Skip made numerous rules for how and where to park and tailgate, in designated areas only.
Joe A. made the bulk of available parking areas on campus subject to parking fees. I believe that this was billed as only a temporary measure, until the 2007-09 recession ceases.
On a side note, all of the above contributed in some sad way to the overall detriment of LSU's national reputation for tailgating. LSU's already excellent tailgating history peaked in the early 1990s, when the product on the football field had grown so difficult to watch that the fans had to more than make up for it in their pre-game partying routines. Kind of like the "Animal House" movie party scenes on steroids. Going to the football games those evenings almost became an afterthought to all of the daytime partying by that point. It was truly an epic time, and I'm very sorry that so many here are too young to have witnessed and experienced it.
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