ChiefCornerstone

Misinformed?? Spoken like one who buys season tix from the deceased.

Misinformed?? I don’t remember seeing you at the fundraisers with Coach Johnson, the TAF president and other high level boosters. NO corporations were involved. None were even mentioned at all. Trust me, if CJJ could have had some corporate money, he wouldn’t have bothered to meet with us, not once, but twice last year. I’ll call you next time. Bring your checkbook.

They absolutely did with football. There was one family with 50 fifty yard line seats. After the “re-allocation”, they gave up over half.

Just curious, how many corporations do you think are standing in line to buy baseball season tickets? The wait list for baseball is a joke. Why wait for something that isn’t going to happen. They want me to give 5 figures yearly for 5 years for, maybe just maybe, a seat or two somewhere will become available. No thanks.

By the way, follow Seat Geek next time we host a Regional and a Super Regional. You’ll see just how many “generational season ticket holders” out there who just sell their tix to the highest bidder. I’ll help. I’ve lived in BR for 12 years now. I have never had a problem getting seats for any game. There’s plenty. Oh they’re pricey. But they’re available.

I know I appear snippy about it but LSU baseball is losing money doing it the old way. Want more money/championships for baseball?? Reallocate tix and raise prices. Trust me. There’s plenty of us out here who will pay for those tickets.

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I’m just curious. I have a son that’s going to want to start going to games soon and I kind of want to cut to the chase to get in best position, if I can afford it. Hoping and waiting probably won’t turn into anything. I’m talking chair backs in Baseball

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I went through this with baseball 2 years ago. Even had lunch with the President of TAF. I was prepared to write a large check. NOPE!!

Don’t even try. The school has a 99.9% renewal rate of baseball season tix every year. They refuse to re-allocate tix. Point is, many baseball season tix are renewed every year to ticket holders who’ve been in the grave for decades or never go to games. There needs to be an increase in tix prices and a significant increase in TAF contribution. The school WILL NOT BUDGE. Coach Johnson wants a full ride scholarship for every player ($2.2M per year). That cost can be significantly covered with my plan above. NOPE!! The school is not interested.

Another poster said it well. Bank your contribution/pledge and buy online. BUT, please do what I did and make your voice heard to the TAF uppers and the school. When they realize there are enough people out there willing to pay more, then change may happen.

For those who think my plan is absurd, that is what football season tix looked like when Saban got here. When they rebuilt the upper deck and put on the Champions Club, they did exactly what I said above. I remember when it happened.

Scholarships - not all sports offer a “full ride”. Tuition, books, fees, room and board. Football does, Men’s and women’s basketball does. None of the other sports offer all that.

NIL - every school has NIL “donors” who they can call when there is an elite player the school wants. However, women have a much higher ceiling when it comes to actual/verifiable NIL, usually through social media. Example: 3 years ago, Instagram calculated a college athlete’s NIL value at 80 cents/follower/year. (Joe Burrow would have been worth $750,000 his last year here. Compared to Livvy Dunne who was worth millions).

Revenue sharing - all schools do it but there are lots of rumors that some sports will be left out in the future. (S.W. gave baseball $245K when the House settlement came out, that was raised to $450K after the NC. Verge recently upped it to over $1M. The top 10 SEC schools give over a million to baseball for revenue sharing).

Most believe the judges in the House settlement set things up to where college athletes will eventually be employees. The current model actually demands it (per FTC). We will see. If that happens, the schools are back in the driver’s seat. Good luck on developing a CBA with a bunch of HS students and college athletes.

Agreed. Serna looks like he’s miserable.

It was.

Gotta be a Boomer to get that one.
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Motherfricker, I just had to go in the other room for a few minutes and now its 5-0?

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Well, that loud bump you heard in the other room was Lawson’s HR hitting your roof.

Ouch!!

First page at 6:28??

Not gonna lie, I laughed when I read “Muggle Moments”.