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I think the better question is: Has interest in attending live college football games peaked ?

HD TV, multiple games on at one time, SECN and travel expenses have made it more enjoyable to stay at home. Schools with 100K Stadiums are going to be fighting these issues for the next few years.

Winner, Winner, chicken dinner... I purchased tickets for the first time since I graduated from undergrad this year, e.g. 4 years ago. I went to every game in my...um... well cough 4 1/2 years of college. However, I couldn't afford to go until this year.

With that being said, I am somewhat regretting it already. The tickets themselves aren't really to detriment or overly expensive. It's every other cost associated with a somewhat diminished product at LSU. Tail gating isn't what it used to be since, PARKING. Once they removed virtually all of the free parking, that experience has diminished. Now that may be for good reason to keep riff raff out, but it's killed the only thing they had going for them. The game day experience.

The game day experience just is not what it used to be. It was nice to go out and sit around having a good time with food, drinks and watching games waiting on THE GAME. However, the rising costs associated with maintaining that experience are too high and quite frankly not worth it; when I can do the same thing at home and still have time to complete any other things i need to do.

It's the game day experience that is dying and that interest in participating in game day will eventually kill more of the ticket sales, at LSU at least. You couple that with ever increasing prices across the board from tickets, parking, and tailgating, it's just easier at home.

When it's so easy to watch at home, why go?

This post was edited on 8/25/14 at 12:14 am