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Why are all us common fans called upon
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:03 am
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:03 am
What happened to all the big shots out there snatching up 2nd, 3rds, and 4ths at a shot of bowl tickets? What happened to those that have so many extra tickets that they want to take the extras and give them out to business clients that have zero affiliation with LSU much less even care who wins the game?
So now that LSU isn't "the thing to do", all of us common people are called upon. And when I say common people, I'm talking alumni and faculty of LSU, people that have had season tickets for 20+ years but don't have the money to donate thousands to LSU every year, even though our tuition and season ticket money has equalled that.
And now people like us are the "bad guys"? I don't get it.
So now that LSU isn't "the thing to do", all of us common people are called upon. And when I say common people, I'm talking alumni and faculty of LSU, people that have had season tickets for 20+ years but don't have the money to donate thousands to LSU every year, even though our tuition and season ticket money has equalled that.
And now people like us are the "bad guys"? I don't get it.
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Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:06 am to Paul_LSU_passion
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:09 am to Carolinacajun
How many state representatives are buying their allotment this year? 
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:11 am to gr8bigLSUfan
NO shite!
+85,000
+85,000
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:18 am to AustinTigr
This is what kills me when I read posts on here daily about how we're all "such terrible fans" for not going to Atlanta.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:18 am to AustinTigr
We aren't the bad guys.The same thing will happen in basketball just like it happened in baseball. When they win the athletic dept wont need you. When they dont win, the athletic dept will play on your loyalty to get the money.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:30 am to agdoctor
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We aren't the bad guys.The same thing will happen in basketball just like it happened in baseball. When they win the athletic dept wont need you. When they dont win, the athletic dept will play on your loyalty to get the money.
you jealous grunts just don't get the laws of supply and demand. I don't get preferential treatment like some big TAF donors, but I don't begrudge them the special treatment they get because their financial contributions do more for LSU than the common fan. Quit your crying.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:31 am to agdoctor
I agree, I have 6 season tickets and for the past few years I have tried to get bowl tickets and was not high enough on the TAF list. I will agree to buy bowl tickets this year if LSU will agree to sell me 6 bowl tickets every year as long as I am a season ticket holder.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:31 am to Paul_LSU_passion
Great post
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:33 am to Stevo
So why aren't the big TAF donors stepping to the plate and buying tickets? And why aren't people looking at them instead of us?
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:34 am to SprintFun
ill be going...but i do agree that it does suck about how much season tickets are...and then people criticize LSU fans... especially when the home schedule was less than spectacular
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:37 am to Paul_LSU_passion
$$$Money ruins EVERYTHING$$$ 
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:43 am to jledet
I'll gladly pay for season tickets b/c it's one thing I love in life (hence, my screen name). I'll gladly pay for bowl tickets too. But in the years past, I wasn't even given a shot (not even for the Cotton Bowl). And if I wanted a shot, I had to wait for the scraps of those that went through the line 3, 4, sometimes 5 or 6 times snatching up tickets (if I wanted to pay less than a 500% mark up on Ebay). So in other words, I wasn't even given a realistic shot.
And that's not just me, that's the entire LSU fanbase. But now, LSU is stuck with a gob of tickets, and those of us that are given the middle finger every bowl season is given the finger this year, but for a different reason. So, in other words, we can't win. And then we're pasted on this board by some of the members for being "the bad ones" in this situation.
I told myself after last year, "I'm just going to accept the fact that I will never go see a bowl game". Again, that's not just me. I think most of LSU fans reached that point.
And that's not just me, that's the entire LSU fanbase. But now, LSU is stuck with a gob of tickets, and those of us that are given the middle finger every bowl season is given the finger this year, but for a different reason. So, in other words, we can't win. And then we're pasted on this board by some of the members for being "the bad ones" in this situation.
I told myself after last year, "I'm just going to accept the fact that I will never go see a bowl game". Again, that's not just me. I think most of LSU fans reached that point.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:43 am to Paul_LSU_passion
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This is what kills me when I read posts on here daily about how we're all "such terrible fans" for not going to Atlanta.
well, if someone is not going based upon who may or may not start at qb,,,then yeah you are pretty shitty fan IMO...(what DD said yest) and some here agreed.
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So why aren't the big TAF donors stepping to the plate and buying tickets? And why aren't people looking at them instead of us?
probably b/c we outnumber the big doners 1000/1
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:45 am to Paul_LSU_passion
"Desperate times call for drastic measures"
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:46 am to BT
If we outnumber the big donors, they why wasn't that the case last year? Or for that matter, in 2002/2007 Sugar Bowl? There wasn't a 1000:1 odds of us getting a ticket then. More like 1:1000.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:46 am to Paul_LSU_passion
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So why aren't the big TAF donors stepping to the plate and buying tickets? And why aren't people looking at them instead of us?
why should they have to? You can't question that they've already put their money where their mouth is.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:48 am to Stevo
Stevo, I promise I'm not a jealous grunt. In fact I gave away my National Championship Tickets in 2003 to someone who would never get the chance to buy them.I did the same with the SEC Championship tickets last year.If you had a clue how the system works you would see how the average fan gets screwed.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:50 am to Stevo
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why should they have to? You can't question that they've already put their money where their mouth is.
No, you're right. God bless TAF. But my point is don't blame the working middle class for not having the money to just throw down for a philanthropic effort at buying a set of bowl tickets this year just to prove a point that we're a great fanbase. Chances are the big donors could afford to do that more than we could.
Posted on 12/14/08 at 10:52 am to Paul_LSU_passion
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If we outnumber the big donors, they why wasn't that the case last year? Or for that matter, in 2002/2007 Sugar Bowl? There wasn't a 1000:1 odds of us getting a ticket then. More like 1:1000.
see the word priority points.
priority means money.
big doners have the big money, henceforth they have the priority. pretty simple concept.
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