It seems to me that a lot of people who reside in and around the BR area, along with the students are spoiled. I am NOT saying everyone is, but I can not imagine leaving TS early whether a blow out or being blown out. And if I lived in the area, I'd be at every game regardless of the opponent. Living in NWLA, I don't get the opportunity to attend a lot of LSU games, but the ones I did attend I got in the stadium early and hung out while the stadium cleared. To me it's the most complete venue in CFB. How it can be taken for granted is beyond me, especially with the programs success the last decade.
LSU doesn't care. If the tickets were sold, then it's money in the bank. They could give a rat's ass if we stay and watch, or even show up.
I think some of the "the seats aren't filled now" comes from the gap in the student section seats right below the NEZ scoreboard. This gap, which looks real bad onTV, probably come from students crowding down toward the field, meaning the lower sections are filled over capacity. That said, I am not sure expansion will ever happen. It would be interesting to see options for a new stadium, but the current location is too perfect. GEAUX TIGERS
Whether you like Joe Dean or not is irrelevant. The fact is that the lower bowl in Tiger Stadium is going to have to be replaced someday not far away, the endzone upper decks would never pay for themselves, and adding onto the existing stadium will be frightfully expensive and will not delay its eventual replacement.
I don't think the students are the main issue. The first people to leave are the people in the reserved seats in the east/west bowl. The students don't have the luxury of having guaranteed seats. There's usually a big mass of students outside the stadium at kickoff trying to get in because they don't let them in all at once. Every school has that problem though. Students are the same everywhere and at a party school like LSU it's even more apparent.
No, he's right. The students have whole sections missing at kickoff and they leave shortly after halftime, again in large numbers.
I'm not disagreeing, but know that there are a huge number of students trying to get in from the outside but the guards don't let them in until after kickoff. I've been in that crowd a couple times. The students are also the only ones in the stadium 3 hours before the game.
