Alleva: visiting fans in Tiger Stadium to be moved "close to Pluto"

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  1. Tiger_fan

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    Alleva got the biggest applause of the night when he talked about other changes happening around LSU: upgrades to the facilities. He said one of the main goals of the south stadium expansion of Tiger Stadium is to make the facility less friendly to the opposing fans.

    "There's 1,500 seats that are going to be at the very, very top, close to Pluto," he joked. "We're going to move the visiting team up there. That'll free up seats in the bowl for our fans to take advantage of those seats."

    http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2012/05/lsus_football_team_eager_to_bo.html
     
    Tiger_fan, May 23, 2012
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  2. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    What kind of seats do visiting fans get in other SEC stadiums?
     
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  3. lsudolemite

    lsudolemite CodeJockey Extraordinaire

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    From what I understand, pretty much what Alleva wants us to do. Spread them out so that you don't have what we have now in TS, which is a large mob of opposing fans hovering directly over the south end zone making more noise than they should be able to.
     
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  4. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    LSU and Auburn were pretty much the last SEC stadiums to sit visitors all together in good seats in the lower bowl. LSU has been taking some visitor seats and moving them to the upper deck with both of the last stadium expansions. Now they are doing it again, so there will likely be much less visitor seating in the lower bowl. Other SEC teams separate and seat visitors all around the stadium. Alabama is the worst at separating visitors into small scattered sections and diluting their cheering.
     
    red55, May 23, 2012
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  5. stevescookin

    stevescookin Certified Who Dat

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    All's fair in love hate and war
     
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  6. MLUTiger

    MLUTiger Secular Humanist

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    IIRC, at Bama the fans sit in the lower bowl in the corners...
     
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  7. Celtic Tiger

    Celtic Tiger Tiger Stadium West Dorm

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    Heres to home team advantage.
     
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  8. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    And also in the upper decks.
     
    red55, May 24, 2012
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  9. LSUTiga

    LSUTiga TF Pubic Relations

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    I had a map of each stadiums' visitor seating. If I didn't delete it, it's on my computer at home. Here's Neyland's.

    http://www.gridscape.com/facilities/stadium/virtualneyland/

    Would be a great sticky thread to have for each SEC stadium- perhaps in the Ticket Forum.
     
    LSUTiga, May 24, 2012
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  10. gumborue

    gumborue Throwin Ched

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    i hate this. split up the visitors but dont make give them bad seats. i dont want to be treated this way at other places.
     
    gumborue, May 28, 2012
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