Students at TAMU must pay $200 a year out of pocket for a football pass, $300 for all sports.
And I know the inevitable response will be, "But we aren't TAMU."
1) Given what the Aggies are putting on the field this year, UL students are getting infinitely more bang for the buck.
2) We will never BE any of those universities if we don't start acting like them.
It is not about fairness, or free. As BOP said trouble was starting, and students had no claim to those spots, first come first served so to speak.
In retrospect probably they should have not sold those spots, instead just let them fight it out and place more security to stem the problems. Next year they should have sold those spots to the SGA and let the SGA decide how they would allocate them. I guess that is fair.
I mean Change has been elected by a wide margin. Change means getting stuff just because you exist. So while we may P-off those who have bought those spots the rest of this season, lets just create new ones for them where the visitors camp, and let the SGA handle it for the students in the most prime spots for sale. But the athletic department should get prime price since it is prime spots.
I went to Troy year before last, and this is what I recall.
I could be mistaken, but I believe there is no "organized tailgating area(s)". There are reserved parking areas, and a reserved area for RVs, which I'm certain allows the holders of these spots to tailgate there. Other than that it appeared to me to be a "crowded mess". If you are not the holder of one of the reserved parking spots you just park where you can....vehicles, RVs just park on the sides of the campus roads, most don't get entirely off the road.
I really don't know what to tell you other than to get there as early as you can and secure a parking or a spot to tailgate.
I wish you luck in findinding a tailgating spot.
Check your auto insurance to insure that it is in effect.
It's going to be nice for our football program to start having high class problems. They won't get solved easily, but I hope we stick together. There is no way we can elevate our program and not start insisting on more ways to exchange benefits for money and that includes tailgating spots and more.
Currently, there is a monumental amount of open range at Cajun Field. The tailgating area in question was never anyone's in particular, so I find the argument in question a little thin. There are going to be more cases where decisions will have to be made to price higher valued benefits for those who can pay. Students will continue, as they should, to get a phenomenal deal.
All of us are probably going to be challenged as to whether we would like to have a great seat at a bargain price to watch mediocre football, or get over our entitlement issues, ask for more money for improved benefits, and allow this program to elevate.
PS Students, if it softens the blow... you won't be a student your entire Ragin Cajun life... this message is endorsed by your mom, dad and girlfriend.
Don't students get free tickets?
Pony up the $50 and quit being babies....
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