LSU football fans have a tough ticket choice

LSU fan and local resident Daniel Bergeron has been a football season ticket holder for 40-plus years and has been attending games since he was 7 years old.
This year, due to the threat of COVID-19, he has elected to take the option offered by LSU to roll his 2020 season ticket payment over to the 2021 season.
LSU officials recently released their seating capacity plan for Tiger Stadium for this coming season in which season ticket holders and students will receive first priority.
Season ticket holders were notified last week of plans for the upcoming season and of their options. They will be given one of four choices: to keep their seats (which may be moved due to the seating adjustments due to the pandemic), make a tax-deductible donation, roll the payment over to their 2021 season ticket payment or request a refund.
“I think I’m just going to let it ride until next year because even if you say you want to keep them, you don’t know what kind of lottery system or whatever they’re going to have to distribute the tickets to however many people they’re going to let into the stadium,” said Bergeron, who sits in the north end zone area.
The tax-deductible donation will be given to the Tiger Athletic Foundation’s Victory Fund, which was established to assist LSU Athletics with financial difficulties from COVID-19’s spread.
Those who select that tax-deductible contribution or the full refund will have the option of keeping their season tickets for the 2021 season. Those seeking the refund will have to pay a nonrefundable deposit, though.
For ticket holders who choose to retain their 2020 tickets, ticket distribution and seat allocation will be finalized once capacity allowances and the updated football schedule are determined. At that time, the LSU Athletics Ticket Office will contact ticket holders who choose to retain their seats regarding any changes to ticket prices and seat allotments.
“In order to decide how we are going to distribute tickets and to whom, we need to know our capacity first,” LSU Associate Athletic Director of Ticket Operations Brian Broussard said in a news release. “Once we know that and our final schedule, we can finalize our plans. We’ll keep our ticket holders up to date along the way.”
Tickets will be distributed through mobile delivery and can be accessed through digital wallets on smartphones.
As for what he thought the fan experience would be like this season, Bergeron was unsure.
“I don’t think it’s going to be the same,” he said. “We’ve kind of seen a little bit of it with the Major League’s attempt at having (baseball) games. What’s going to happen when one of these players turns up sick? So that team doesn’t get to play this week? … I don’t even see how the SEC’s going to pull off 10 games. I really don’t.”