re: LSU cashes in again - new space at LSU sold to tailgate company for games

Not sure if it has been mentioned in this thread, but University of Alabama has done something similar with renting out spaces/tents on the quad. It has always grinded me the wrong way, trying to make a buck off folks just hanging out. At first, though, it wasn't a real bad deal. You could get the cheap package which included a tent set up for you and some chairs for nominal rate. You could look at it as saving you the effort of setting it up for yourself and not having to clean up, either.
Fast forward to now, and it costs considerably more, where it is now virtually all corporate tailgating

And not much else ruins good ole tailgating with the fellahs than having to "behave" at one of the company tents.

Those prices are nutz

Just told my wife if anyone gripes about our tailgate charge this year just send them a copy of this price list. Makes ours look cheap . But I predit the day where LSU will have a map and you will have to pay for your tailgate spot.

They want greenspace?bulldoze everything from weinershnitzel to Washington st.(except businesses of course)

Anyone who doesn’t think the gameday atmosphere has changed drastically in the last 10 years doesn’t know what campus was like in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. It’s a shell of its former self.

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The problem with this is that large corporate environment isn’t even selling out all the season tickets, and corporations only want to buy tickets because their clients want to go, but when that stops it all goes down hill. You lose the atmosphere that the corporations want to be a part of and they stop buying huge allotments of season tickets. Remember they didn’t get to be huge corporations by throwing away money.

I’m really curious to see how many customers they are anticipating, and how many actually sign up.

What happens to this space that will benefit the University during the remaining 355 days in the year? They used taxpayer money to tear down a building dedicated to education to make a green space that will generate money 10 days a year?

No it isn’t. It’s Joe Alleva and yet another money grab.

The rub is that new green space could’ve been simply allocated for public use. A great goodwill effort for LSU athletics. He’ll, even brag about doing it!!!

But, no. It’s the Duke reject’s way of continuing his plow through LSU. It sickens me to see him in his purple blazer......he is no LSU man. He is simply an employee failing at his job. An employee who had no business being hired. How Verge doesn’t lose his mind dealing with him is beyond me.