Originally posted by Bengal E
SS,
What would be an adequate amount of time for the gates to be opened before the game?
I realize that you only have experiences with the SU game, but do you think that your time should be general or on an as needed basis? (For example 4 hours for SU because of 60K people, 1 hr for PV 17K people)
Other than the gates and the Diet Coke issue, was your experience satisfactory?
Thanks so much for your very intelligent, non-sacrastic, legitimate questions:
Other than those two issue Bengal E, it was a stone gas baby, as per usual!!! We love the trip over to Jackson!!! This year was unusual because I was suffering with a migraine so we left the hotel late and didn't tailgate this year. By the time we got there the lots in the stadium were LOCKED DOWN. We had to park down the street by a restuarant down the street, Que Sera Sera, and ate there after the game. I don't have a complaint about that because we did not get there early enough to park in the stadium lots. I know that is the nature of the beast that is SU-JSU games.
My experience is always MORE than satisfactory with the one exception...they don't open the gates early enough for the size of the crowd. And us I think because of the size of the crowd there should be more than 2 gates and that they should be opened 4 hours before kickoff. Now when Bama State and Grambling bring that little bitty crowd, let them march on in with their bands, but you see how many we bring each year. It is non-sensical to have 10,000s of 1,000s of us standing outside until an hour before the game. I missed the Boom marching in and I look forward to that each time. We always go in and get seated early, to watch the team warm up, get situated in our seats and then Confederate seats are general admission, not reserved so that is the REAL REASON we come early so we can get a good seat.
You know the Jaguar Nation comes in big numbers to Jackson, right? Hell in 2001, there were 32,000 plus in a THUNDERSTORM, remember? That is how great the JSU-SU game is because both our two schools really follow/support our teams. It is most disconcerting to stand for HOURS at the gates and can't get in. The FACT is that it happens EVERY TIME, EVERY YEAR! And I have it from other people's first hand experience that gates are in fact opened on the home side. And I know from my own personal experience that EVERYONE of the 60,000 do not enter from the visitor side.
On to the Diet Coke issue, there were NO vendors selling Diet Coke on the visitors side on October 18, 2003. Not the beginning of the game (prior to kickoff), not during the 1st quarter, not during the 2nd quarter, not during the 3rd quarter, not during the 4th quarter, not after the game. There were 2 main concessionaries with no Diet Coke and one Pizza concessionary with no Diet Coke and another concession stand with chicken on the stick, etc. and they had no Diet Coke. As I have said 3-4 times early on this thread, we will bring our own Diet Coke in to Confederate Stadium. We have health issues that REQUIRE Diet Coke and that is not any of your problems. We will bring it with us! Sure as hell don't want anyone to provide a simple service such as this. Hope that settles that issue because I sure as hell didn't know folks draws where going to be bunched up like this.
Thank you for not being so sensitive and defensive and take my complaints against the stadium you do not own and have no control over as an attack on jstate. Can you take this message to the Confederate Stadium Commission and help a sister out?
And when you come to Mumford, I will GUARANTEE you a good seat and my son will take you to the bathroom!!!
And thanks to Taylor Made. Let me know WHEN I can contribute to that campaign fund! :tup:
..........SINCE WHEN DID SU SEND MORE THAN 2500 TICKETS TO JACKSON WHEN THE GAME IS IN B.R.
