Alumni Tailgate party

[TrojanFan2]

The Alumni office is having a tailgate party at the Village located in the outfield of the Alex Box baseball (doesn't make sense to me either --- a village in the outfield of the baseball stadium) from 5:00 PM until 6:30 PM.

It says that you must bring invitation to get in. and to RSVP the alumni office at 334-670-3318

[TrojanFan2]

By the way --- if someone gets there early please save me a place to park. I'll have my wife with me and she constantly fusses if I have to look for a parking space close to the stadium. It gets worse if I can't find one!!

[lsu76]

I have no clue what the Village is in the outfield of Alex Box Stadium. ALex Box is hallowed ground. Unless our AD has granted your ALumni special permission to be in the outfield, I have no idea where your alumni party is. In fact, the parking around Alex Box Stadium is reserved. Check out the map that is listed or linked.

The only Village I know is Touchdown Village...RV/Motorhome Parking Lot.

AS for saving a parking place....forget about it. There is 90,000 fans coming. We have a large expansion project underway and parking has been displaced. Print the map and find a spot and walk.

Link to parking info and PDF maps
http://www.lsusports.net/fb/pdf/04fbparkingmap.pdf

http://www.lsusports.net/ad/sportlink.cfm?pagecode=fb-parking

If you find out where the Village is, let me know.

[Trojan1998]

I just spoke with Faith Ward in the alumni office and she said that the reason that invitations are being required for admittance, is because some company out of Birmingham (Colonnade) is the entity responsible for putting on the tailgate party and as a result, their people don't know the Troy alumni and fans and since they're responsible for checking folks in, they need for people to have an invitation.

[TrojanFan2]

Tell Colonade the Trojan fans will all be dressed in appropriate Trojan wear involved in intelligent conversations, and the LSU fans will be the ones with tobacco spital on the front of there shirts talking about the possum they ran over on the way to the game that is now on the grill for their tailgate party. Should be easy enough to tell the difference.

[lsu76]

Just found out from LSU board that the Village is called Homerun Village...just outside of left field and centerfield.

[lsu76]

Tell Colonade the Trojan fans will all be dressed in appropriate Trojan wear involved in intelligent conversations, and the LSU fans will be the ones with tobacco spital on the front of there shirts talking about the possum they ran over on the way to the game that is now on the grill for their tailgate party. Should be easy enough to tell the difference.

Couldn't you come up with something original??? We have heard every lame story about inbreds, stupid, incestuous, obnoxious, corn-dog smelling, road kill eating and now tobacco spitting LSU fans.

You can't be a Troy fan..you got to be a closet Auburn fan or a reject Ole Miss fan.

[littlebittyschool]

Corn dog smelling? Never heard that one. Is that a reference to LSU fans working at the state fair or something? Carneys rule! "Hey kid, two tickets to ride this ride." "You must be this tall." "Do you wanna go faster?" "Shower, what's a shower?" "Teeth, what are teeth?".

Heh, I guess growing up in Alabama and going to the fair a lot, I swear every Carney and ride operator had a Bama hat on.

I actually lived in Louisiana for a year. But not in Cajun land, I was a yankee. Lived in Monroe. I tell people if you only have a year left to live, you should move to Monroe, Louisiana because everyday there seems like an eternity.

Louisiana is a great state though. I love how you're not supposed to drink and drive there, but I can go into a drive through Daquri store and get my 44oz bubble-gum and mango flavored drink for $3.50 and then they hand me a straw through my car window. If you get a DUI in Louisiana, then don't complain, you deserve it. A DUI there means you are the drunkest one on the road and if you're the drunkest one, you have no defense. Heck, you probably shouldn't be alive.

Go Trojans! We shall hang tough for 2 and 1/2 quarters and then the kitty cats will either pull away or get pulled down!

[lsu76]

with alcohol. I think you can still buy it buy you can't drink it or open it.

Brought some consultants in from McLain, VA and New York and they got the biggest hoot out of drive through daquiri stores.

As for corn dogs, it something an Auburn fan started. Its stupid. But we are used to that crap from Auburn fans. They smell like chicken wings.

[RedEdgeTrojan]

are you sure thats chicken wings or chicken uh hmm doodoo. :wink:

[TrojanHoarse]

The Alumni office is having a tailgate party at the Village located in the outfield of the Alex Box baseball (doesn't make sense to me either --- a village in the outfield of the baseball stadium) from 5:00 PM until 6:30 PM.

It says that you must bring invitation to get in. and to RSVP the alumni office at 334-670-3318

Perhaps it is a little small-school mentality, but it seems odd to have an alumni tailgate tent that doesn't open up to TROY fans until 5:00pm (there is a special invite-only party the hour before that). LSU has done surveys and found that 2/3 of all LSU football fans tailgate for more than 5 hours prior to the game. 5 hours! Not show up at 5 for a 7:00 game. At Troy, you can tailgate until the toin coss and still make it to your seat in the stadium club before kickoff, but at Tiger Stadium , they tell people to head into the stadium as early as an hour before the game to make sure you can get to your seat. The gates can get very crowded, and they have "portals" that lead to the gates on the west side because of construction. That leads to long lines and crowd bottlenecks on the west side. That happens to also be the side of the stadium where the Alumni tent is set up (not by Troy's complete choice I'm sure), which means that TROY fans sitting in the visitor section wil have to work their way around that crowd to get to the visitor entrance on the southest side of the stadium.

Don't get me wrong, I am very happy that the Alumni association is setting up a tent and I look forward to seeing everyone there, but if they wanted to do this right, they would have opened it up around 2pm, not 5pm. I really do appreciate them doing it, I just wish we would have more time to get together there (safety in numbers).

Think Big folks, WE ARE D1.

:?: That said, is anyone taking an RV or setting up a tent where TROY fans could congregate before the Alumni tent is opened up at 5? Let us know.

[lsu76]

That's not so bad to start at 5, TH. Gives Troy's fans a chance to get around campus and take in a few TIGERBAIT's.