I wonder if I could get him to hire me as a gasoline tester. All he would have to do is pay for my gas and I'll send him weekly reports on what kind of mileage I get.
I am a high school student working 2 jobs trying to be able to afford season tickets. You gotta do what you gotta do. Geaux Tigers!
The sad reality of it is that many lifelong fans can no longer afford those great tickets they have had for years and years but without the money generated by "donations" or seat licenses or whatever they want to call it LSU would not be able to stay in the big leagues. If we want to continue to compete for SEC and National Championships its absolutely imperative that they have the money to stay on the same playing field as the Floridas, Miamis, Florida States and Tennessees of the college football world. Without this money we couldn't afford to pay Nick Saban the highest salary in the NCAA or to upgrade Tiger Stadium and the football facilities. If it comes down to it I would rather watch most of the games on TV and attend a select few games while the Tigers make an National Championship run than to have cheap season tickets to go to every game for a team that could only compete at a Vanderbilt type level because they couldn't afford any better. Most of us have bills to pay and families to support as well as other hobbies than LSU football that cost money. If I could afford it I would get a suite in the Club Section that will be on the west side after the renovations but since I can't afford that I'll just have to be happy to go to a few games a year and see the Tigers win on TV for some games. There is nothing like a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium but its also greatly enjoyable to "tailgate" in my back yard or whip up some great food in the kitchen for when "all my rowdy friends are coming over" with a large supply of something they don't sell in Tiger Stadium - BEER! I do feel the pain of longtime loyal fans who are being priced out of their prime seats but the money to play in the big leagues has to come from somewhere.
Just to make this easier, let's say the face value of a ticket is $50. But the guy that has season tickets has another $800 per seat invested in them. If he cannot make a game and has a friend try to sell two tickets for him, does he ask the fifty bucks (face value) or around $125 to get his money back? When you or I ask over face value, we are scalping and can get burned. When the school charges over face value, they are NOT scalping? I could afford to go to a couple of games still, but I'm not sure I would pay that price. And would a LSU/Vanderbilt ticket ticket be worth what a LSU/So.Cal ticket would cost? I'm favoring my big screen tv more and more.
When you sell your tickets can you the individual charge a surcharge for the oppourtunity to buy your tickets while the price of the ticket stays at face value? Any lawyers out there have an answer? :shock: :shock: :geaux: :lsug: :champs:
They might be reworking all that scalping stuff and it might soon become legal in the state of Louisiana.
Don't count on it. Unless the politicians of this state can figure out a way for them to get a piece of the pie it will be a non issue. The best and probably only hope for the fan is to find a legal loophole that allows him to sell his tickets for what it actually cost him. Could you auction them off for a charity like your childrens college fund outside Tiger Stadium and start the price at what they cost including the percentage of the surcharge? Come on we have posters here that claim to know everything about everything and we can't figure out how to get around this? :geaux: :lsug: :champs:
