As I sit hear at Cajun field looking at the dirt mound that covers my TG spot and my 2 neighbors, the real reason for this change has just occurred to me. Looking over the tailgate area I see that about 70% of it is dirt today on August 7th, there is no way possible to have good grass by the 30th. I don't see it in the budget to lay sod in a parking lot. If it rained and you had typical TG traffic cars would be making ruts and bogging down all over.
Note to all TG'ers in the event of rain don't expect to drive to your spot at all unless you have a 4x4. Even then you may be blocked in order to not make ruts.