Unofficial Official President and Charter Member of the Paul Miller "Miller Time" Fan Club
If you leave tailgating hungry and thirsty, you're doing it wrong
I am so sick of the Bison already. Win this, win that, blah, blah, blah. I'd really, really like to know how they do it. I swear they have to be the luckiest sob's on the planet. Just sick of this bs, just fed up.
Unofficial Official President and Charter Member of the Paul Miller "Miller Time" Fan Club
If you leave tailgating hungry and thirsty, you're doing it wrong
I am so sick of the Bison already. Win this, win that, blah, blah, blah. I'd really, really like to know how they do it. I swear they have to be the luckiest sob's on the planet. Just sick of this bs, just fed up.
People would still line up just so they could be the first in and have their pick of spots.
I've said for several years they should pre-sell GA tailgating passes/tickets online or at the ticket office (or both) on a per game basis until they've sold enough to fill the GA lot. That way if you get GA tailgate passes/tickets you know you have spots and if you don't really care where you're at you can show up closer to when the lots open instead of having to get there the night before to ensure a spot. That would also avoid them having to turn people away because if you didn't get passes/tickets beforehand you're SOL so no need to line up. Again you'd still have some people line up so they can get their choice of spots but you'd eliminate the frenzy of everyone trying to get there earlier and earlier to gaurantee a spot for themselves the same as your suggestion would.
Of course they could run into an issue where the last few groups in don't have consecutive spots but that's just like any GA section inside of a stadium/ballpark. Don't show up late or risk there not being enough spots together for your whole group.
There will be a line up no matter what they do. The reserved tailgate lineup was ridiculous last week. But I could show up for that at 9:15 (15 minutes after the reserved lot allegedly opened) and still get my spots. I'd bet it would would be pretty similar if they pre-sold GA tailgating spots the week before each game. As it is if you're not in line for the GA lot either the night before or very very early gameday morning you're living dangerously (for early season games at least).
"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong" E. O. Wilson
"I'm not crazy my mother had me tested". Sheldon Cooper
My boss hates it when I shorten his name to Dick, mainly because his name is Steven.
Simmers was on the Insiders today. He encourage GA tailgater who don't get in to use the East. Got to give him credit, very cleaver thing to do as I am sure he knew exactly how people would take it and what they will do since it happened for MVSU. Perhaps the issue finally goes away. Think I actually see a light on this issue.
"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong" E. O. Wilson
"I'm not crazy my mother had me tested". Sheldon Cooper
My boss hates it when I shorten his name to Dick, mainly because his name is Steven.
Yep, another pretty simple solution. Similar to how they went to all reserved spots in the dome. Just hold ~250 tailgate spots per game for sale to the general public just like they hold the ~1500 tickets for each game and sell those to the general public. They could also avoid the cluster that the reserved lineup became last week since they could use both parking lot entrances for reserved tailgaters.