wtf happened to the fan base. i know its been bad for awhile. but we used to stay through the shit dinardo games til the end even with the ass kicking of our own in hand. that stadium tonight looked empty (again) after halftime. we were fucking winning pretty big werent we. id be partying til they ran me out the stadium. its embarrassing given the tradition of what that place once was. hell, im leaving work after kickoff trying to find the first local dive with a damn screen so i dont miss another play. then proceeded to stay til the end with a couple friends who showed up and a few coonasses from usl who joined the fun. fuck, its your money. i get it. Leave when you want. But damn its a conference game and a close one. and LF7 is a sight to behold even if it was a blowout- which is wasnt. no one is there for the outcome apparently. i dont get it.
They just talked about it on the after game show It's not just here but just about everywhere except in Tuscaloosa. A lot of it has to do with they have overbuilt and it's hard to put 100k asses in the seats. Only games that will fill TS this year are Ole Miss and Alabama
If LSU jumps out to an early lead next week watch how fast the Barners head back to their trailer parks
I put some of the blame on miles and some on ticket prices. Traffic doesn't help. It definitely sucks remembering the way things used to be (not sure how accurate I'm remembering it, though). There was a point MooU fans could be heard over LSU fans.
As someone that has been there since before Dinardo, I can tell you that the make up of the crowd in Tiger Stadium is vastly different from what it was before TAF. The days of the majority of fans staying until the end are over. Not knocking TAF, just stating facts. For all the good they have done, that's one major negative. The Tiger Stadium crowd is living off the reputation of its past. It's fairly tame and unimpressive these days. I wouldn't rate the crowd or the noise over any average SEC crowd or most other major conference teams.
I think tickets have gotten too expensive for many "true fans." I wanted to go to the LSU game at South Carolina some years ago. I was looking at $430 for the end zone, nose bleed. Hell, I would have gone two hours early and stayed two hours after. Even in Columbia. Could not afford it.
