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Posted on 8/20/08 at 12:42 pm to Ghostfacedistiller
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So paying for all this new stuff woudl likley just raise ticket prices, and for what exactly? To take away the tickets from likely the people that pay the most to have them and put them in the hands of those that can't afford them as well?
Could not have said it better myself.Posted on 8/20/08 at 12:46 pm to STBTigerr
Each season ticket should come with a separate swipe card. You swipe that card and that ticket scan has to match. I don't think anyone would be scalping their ticket and lending their swipe card to someone they don't know - they probably wouldn't get it back and they would be screwed. You'd let a friend use your swipe card if you felt that he would get it back to you. Wouldn't be hard to do if they really cared or looked beyond the $$$.
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:21 pm to The312
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I sympathize with your sentiment, believe me. However, there would be no feasible way to enforce such a policy.
For example, some fans have to travel thousands of miles to witness a home game. I know that I do. As a result, I don't know if I would be able to attend the requisite 30-40% of home games. I would be mighty disappointed to lose my season tickets as a result!
Ok, to everyone syaing there would be no way to enforce....
Yes there is. LSU would have to do like Disney does and associate tickets with a fingerprint.
Second, if you have to travel thousands of miles to see a game.... Maybe, just maybe, you don't need ticket/s to every single game?
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:27 pm to Archie Bengal Bunker
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Ok, to everyone syaing there would be no way to enforce....
Yes there is. LSU would have to do like Disney does and associate tickets with a fingerprint.
Second, if you have to travel thousands of miles to see a game.... Maybe, just maybe, you don't need ticket/s to every single game?
That is ridiculous. Are you saying that someone can't be a season ticket holder because of where they live? Get over yourself.
As far as the fingerprint, scan car, bar code, etc. that you are all proposing...also ridiculous. I have four season tickets, are you saying that I have to pick the three other people that can use my tickets. Thats BS. I buy my tickets and if I want to sell all of them for all 8 games I can sell them to whomever I want for whatever price I want. I don't do that, but its my right.
Some of you act like you are the perfect fan because you stand the entire game or you don't miss a game. That's not true. Every fan is different and every fan enjoys LSU football in their own way.
This post was edited on 8/20/08 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:41 pm to LSUray
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As far as the fingerprint, scan car, bar code, etc. that you are all proposing...also ridiculous. I have four season tickets, are you saying that I have to pick the three other people that can use my tickets. Thats BS. I buy my tickets and if I want to sell all of them for all 8 games I can sell them to whomever I want for whatever price I want. I don't do that, but its my right.
No, only you have to be associated with the tickets, and only you have to attend x number of games.
If you feel you should be able to buy your tickets and then sell them all... no wonder you don't get.... This Thread Is About You.
Get over myself? I'll get all over myself. In my opinion, if you have intention of seeing 0-1 game you don't need season tickets. If you find that to be ridiculous I don't care; because, I find it more ridiculous that one tiger fan would screw another because of their teams success.
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:44 pm to LSUray
I completely agree that it's BS when so many tickets are sold to ticket brokers, scalpers and other companies, but like LSUray said, it's hard to stop that from occurring without infringing on the rights of true season ticket holders.
I don't like the fact that I have to donate a LOT of money just to be eligible to buy season tickets IF they are available when the people who had them before the TAF was started don't have to make any donations. Would it be fair to them to take their tickets away and make them build up points to get them back? Would it even be fair to say that they can't pass the tickets on to family or friends so that when they pass away, the tickets go back to the univerisity for someone else who is on the TAF list to get?
It's two sides of the coin and I don't think there is an easy way to make most people happy. It won't really stop until people stop buying tickets both from the brokers and from LSU. With the amount of donations required for just a chance to get tickets, I don't see the ticket brokers going away anytime soon. I will be forced to get tickets from them if I want to go to the games because in reality they are a lot cheaper than donating to TAF.
I don't like the fact that I have to donate a LOT of money just to be eligible to buy season tickets IF they are available when the people who had them before the TAF was started don't have to make any donations. Would it be fair to them to take their tickets away and make them build up points to get them back? Would it even be fair to say that they can't pass the tickets on to family or friends so that when they pass away, the tickets go back to the univerisity for someone else who is on the TAF list to get?
It's two sides of the coin and I don't think there is an easy way to make most people happy. It won't really stop until people stop buying tickets both from the brokers and from LSU. With the amount of donations required for just a chance to get tickets, I don't see the ticket brokers going away anytime soon. I will be forced to get tickets from them if I want to go to the games because in reality they are a lot cheaper than donating to TAF.
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:44 pm to Catman88
I agree. I saw 4 tix in the endzone to the LSU/Bama game on ebay sell for $1380
4 tickets to the LSU/UGA game for $2800.
Anyone that would pay that is stupid.
4 tickets to the LSU/UGA game for $2800.
Anyone that would pay that is stupid.
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:47 pm to LSUray
Amen. If they belong to you, do what the hell you want to do with them. Wipe your arse, burn them-it is nobody else's business.
As for people getting to the game in 2nd qtr., and leaving in the 3rd, in some 30 years I have not seen that happen. But if they desire to leave, it is their business, so STFU.
As for the blue hairs-these are the same people that made Tiger Stadium a feared place to play in past years, so STFU.
As for people getting to the game in 2nd qtr., and leaving in the 3rd, in some 30 years I have not seen that happen. But if they desire to leave, it is their business, so STFU.
As for the blue hairs-these are the same people that made Tiger Stadium a feared place to play in past years, so STFU.
This post was edited on 8/20/08 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:55 pm to crowder40
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B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S
Crowder. I am sure you have heard this before, but THOSE in your Avatar might be the most beautiful I have ever seen!!
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:58 pm to Catman88
wow.....you are a fricking moron
and a communist
and a communist
Posted on 8/20/08 at 1:59 pm to Ghostfacedistiller
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My bigger overall fear is that with this success and demand for money, the average fan (that can afford seaosn tickets) will be sqeezed out for corporate interests. Not sure if anyone has ever been to a Redskins game at FedEx Field, but that pregame scene is my biggest nightmare - more suits and trust fund kids with pastel popped collars than jerseys and t shirts.
Ghostfacedistiller is dead-on correct. The NFL experience for a fan is as close to that magical experience of college football as Ted Kennedy is to being a good driver.
The OP is right in the sense that something should be done. What? I don't know, but we are headed in a direction where we'll absolutely despise what the Tiger Stadium experience becomes... or at least long for the better days of old.
NFL games bore the living shite out of me. I hope it doesn't come to that.
Posted on 8/20/08 at 2:00 pm to Archie Bengal Bunker
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Second, if you have to travel thousands of miles to see a game.... Maybe, just maybe, you don't need ticket/s to every single game?
I am not sure why I should be precluded from owning season tickets merely because I live far from Baton Rouge. When I don't attend the games, I simply give my tickets (gratis) to friends and family in Louisiana. It's not as if I am shamelessly profiting off of LSU football or gouging other LSU fans.
I love LSU football. The very first thing I bought when I got my first job was...LSU season tickets. Buying season tickets is really the only way that I can ensure that I will be able to obtain tickets to the premium home games, tickets to away games, and tickets to bowl games.
As I said, I don't think your system is practicable. What happens if I am an STH and I get sick for a season? What happens if I have to be out of the country for work one fall? What happens if my wife gives birth to twins and I can't attend games? Do I lose my tickets in those instances? Do I have to petition the LSU AD for a special dispensation?
I agree with your underlying objection. I despise ticket "brokers" who purchase LSU season tickets simply so that they can turn around and sell them to true fans for obscene prices. However, the solution you propose isn't realistic. I think it would be much more efficacious to simply identify the worst offenders and either blackball them or prosecute them.
This post was edited on 8/20/08 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 8/20/08 at 2:04 pm to seawolf06
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Would it even be fair to say that they can't pass the tickets on to family or friends so that when they pass away, the tickets go back to the univerisity for someone else who is on the TAF list to get?
New Rules:
You can only transfer tickets to a spouse or child. Also, you must transfer all TAF points acquired and all tickets associated with that account.
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