re: Would a roof on Tiger Stadium keep butts in seats?

Saturday Night in Tiger....Dome? Doesn't sound right to me. Now if we could install a retractable roof, I could get on board with that.

A roof would make no difference. The PMAC has had a roof everyday it has existed. Championships bring butts to seats. Quality opponents bring butts to seats. Good game times bring butts to seats. Lower ticket and concession cost, keep fans help keep attendance up. Getting rid of the 50 commercial breaks would help too. Everything else doesn't matter.

Be honest, who wouldn't go watch a Great LSU team play a great Alabama, Georgia, Auburn or Florida team at 6:30PM on a Saturday night if you could get tickets for less than 40 bucks, and still be able to get a coke for $3, a beer for $4, and a hotdog for $3.50?

Okay same question but change the opponent to Rice, put it at 11am with the temp being 95 degrees on a sunny day, charge the same amount per seat, and increase the cost of concessions to $5.50 for the Coke, $8 for the beer and $7 for a hotdog. And but a line out the door for the Men's room.

You keep your roof and I'll stay home.

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Traffic and Parking and Cell Data

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I agree with the fist two, but why is cell phone data an issue? You're at the game to, presumably, watch the game. Is it absolutely necessary to have good cell phone coverage?

IMO, the proliferation of cell phone is a HUGE reason why people leave games early. I began going to LSU games before cell phones were common place. That meant you had to plan things ahead of time. When to show up at the tailgate, when you were going into the game, AND when you were leaving the game. However, once you were inside the stadium your contact with the outside world (other than the people sitting with you) was virtually non existent. Thus, you didn't know your buddies sitting in another section had left. You didn't get a text from someone who didn't go to the game asking you to come over to their house/party, etc. All you knew is that you were meeting up with your buds after the game at a certain predetermined spot and you didn't leave early because you ran the risk of being left outside by yourself. So you just stayed until it was time to go.

Now, it's not uncommon at all for the people sitting around me to get a text during the game saying "Hey, come over to ______" and those people to get up and leave. You weren't constantly looking for the next entertainment option because you had no means of looking for that option.

Case in point. Last year for the UGA game I rode to the game with a friend. He and his wife were sitting in a completely different section than me. The plan was essentially to meet up at his car after the game to go home. However, early in the 4th quarter I get a text from him saying he and his wife are leaving and to meet them at the car. I didn't want to leave, but that was my ride. So I stuck around as long as I could, but finally had to leave early. Without cell phones he would have likely stayed because he had to bring me home and had no way to tell me he was leaving early.

The roof would take "one reason" away...
there are probably at least another 6 reasons that cause people to leave early, so no.