Security at Russo Park

[LaCajunsFan]

Here’s the other side of it. I was at the game Saturday and went inside the stadium club to get a drink and come back to my seats with people sitting in them. Should I ask them to move or find other seats? I heard a few people who had stadium club passes complaining about longer lines waiting to use the restroom.

Sorry, but I will never understand why people not only think it would be ok to sit in more expensive seats that they did not pay for, but even get upset when the staff prohibits them from doing so.

That said, I do remember more than a couple of times last year during a wet and cold games, and very people left in the stadium, they not only let people sit anywhere they wanted, they even opened up the club house. So they can be flexible at times.

[Dad04]

aside from rubbing fans the wrong way - what does this do to the budget? How much money are we paying 30+ people to sit in a chair and guard a section with hardly anyone in it? When have we ever had a real problem with a fan sitting in someone else's seat and that fan refusing to move? To me that's when you get security involved. Not before.

Wild guess. $10 an hour and 5 hour minimum x 30 = $1500

[CajunVic]

Here’s the other side of it. I was at the game Saturday and went inside the stadium club to get a drink and come back to my seats with people sitting in them. Should I ask them to move or find other seats? I heard a few people who had stadium club passes complaining about longer lines waiting to use the restroom.

I try to make every game. I have 4 seats in the grand stand. I usually drive up right at game time. On several occasions this year and last, I got to my seats and there were people sitting in my seats. As usual, there were no one sitting in the 15 seats immediately next to above or below me. I sat where there was an available seat and was elated to have someone new sitting next to me to enjoy the game with. In the current climate where probably only about 1500 to 2000 people are showing up for games, we need to make every effort to make those showing up welcome. JMO

[Ole Colony]

Well I asked to move over two seats and they looked at me like I was an _______ for wanting to sit in the seats I paid for.

[CajunVic]

Well I asked to move over two seats and they looked at me like I was an _______ for wanting to sit in the seats I paid for.

Well shame on them. The courtesy should go both ways and definitely in favor of the guy that pays if he wants to sit in his seats.

[CajunRage]

IMO, security should only take action if there are complaints from a paying customer. In Ole Colony's case here, he should be able to ask the security guard to check that guys ticket and have them ask him to leave the section. If everyone is happy and no one is complaining, have at it. Security should not insert themselves where there isn't a problem.

[Dad04]

Well I asked to move over two seats and they looked at me like I was an _______ for wanting to sit in the seats I paid for.

Last week I got there late and there was a group of 4 or 5 sitting in our seats and others. Whatever. Nobody else in the entire section so I sit a couple seats away from my seats. After an inning some dude walks up behind me, back row downstairs, where people are routinely shoooed away by yellow shirts, having a conversation with a lady sitting in my seat at jet engine full throttle volume. This goes on for two innings. No yellow shirt shoooing away, of course even though they are standing 10 feet away.

I decide to move to the next section where nobody is sitting. Not one person. "Sir, Sir, Sir, Sir, can I see your ticket? Sir, you are supposed to be in that section over there." I left and went home.

If you are sitting in my seat when I get there, you are moving.

[GeauxLouisiana]

If only there was a simple way to fix this. Like having a decent product on the field and having the stands 3/4 full so that the security guards which actually have a reason to do the jobs they are paid to do.

You also can't give these security guards the autonomy to make decisions like that just because the stands are 1/5th full. Their policies are uniform. Either you have a ticket to sit in the grandstand or you don't. Either you have a ticket to sit in a patio box or you don't. It's up to UL to open up areas to others when the need arises, like Saturday with the weather. They opened up the grandstand and stadium club.

[CajunT]

If only there was a simple way to fix this. Like having a decent product on the field and having the stands 3/4 full so that the security guards which actually have a reason to do the jobs they are paid to do.

You also can't give these security guards the autonomy to make decisions like that just because the stands are 1/5th full. Their policies are uniform. Either you have a ticket to sit in the grandstand or you don't. Either you have a ticket to sit in a patio box or you don't. It's up to UL to open up areas to others when the need arises, like Saturday with the weather. They opened up the grandstand and stadium club.

Winning cures a number of problems. But I do find it interesting that no one mentioned the stadium club was open for all in attendance Saturday until you mentioned it.

[Dad04]

Winning cures a number of problems. But I do find it interesting that no one mentioned the stadium club was open for all in attendance Saturday until you mentioned it.

Was it announced at the game?