Without question, the fans did their part last night..........

[Fighting Irish.sixpack]

The coaches and team did not......nor did Gameday operations and their grab *** post game traffic flow plan!!!

 

[57stratdawg]

The post game traffic is a total mystery to me. I have no idea how it takes 2 hours to get off campus to then see basically no traffic on the streets of Starkville.

 

[Drewbowski]

Where are you people parking that had such trouble?

 

[57stratdawg]

I was over around Allen.

 

[ShrubDog]

I had a guy in front of me wearing state gear and was cheering for LSU and cowbelling for them. It was odd.

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

I live less than 2 miles from DWS in Starkville. I left the stadium and was in my car by 12:15, and did not get back to the house until 2:30. I am honestly thinking i'm going to walk next time. Parking services has to do a better job.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

Keys to creating tail light traffic Hell:

1. Expand stadium, get more people in but DO NOT make any more parking spots or exit roads off campus.

2. Close a some of the FEW exit roads off campus and force the increased crowd to merge onto just a handful of open roads.

3. Did I mention the damn MERGING? Feels like driving around Atlanta and trying to get to an Exit about 3 miles away and the overhead electronic sign says "Exit 3 miles away, wait time 82 minutes".

4. Golf carts / Polaris / ATVs. Folks MSU needs to classify these vehicles as either Automobiles that ONLY drive on the roads or wheeled Pedestrians that ONLY drive on the sidewalks. Letting them jam up traffic on the road only to get inpatient and roll onto the sidewalk nearly hitting walking people and drive down the sidewalk for a while is complicating the situation.

 

[57stratdawg]

Does Uber not exist in MS? I didn't see any this weekend in Starkville.

 

[fedxdog]

the game ended so late and not as many people went to tailgate areas as they normally would...everyone headed to their cars and the fur ball ensued...i'm in lot 26 by the west side of the hump and the palmeiro bldg...it's hard to get out of there with so many lots emptying onto a one lane exit plan to hwy 12..

 

[memphisbulldog]

I was back in Memphis before 2:30

I live less than 2 miles from DWS in Starkville. I left the stadium and was in my car by 12:15, and did not get back to the house until 2:30. I am honestly thinking i'm going to walk next time. Parking services has to do a better job.

I was back in Memphis before 2:30. And I stayed to the end. I have a parking pass by Barnes and Noble and when the final horn goes off, I am already at the portal and start walking. Getting that jump on the traffic has me going 70 MPH within 4 minutes.

 

[tatedog]

I had a guy in front of me wearing state gear and was cheering for LSU and cowbelling for them. It was odd.

Coach34 sighting perhaps?

 

[The Peeper]

The whole key is to not be on campus in a lot, if you are you're screwed. You can park just about anywhere just off campus and cruise fairly easily. My kids over the last 6 years have been in the District, on Blackjack, and on Montgomery. We drop off tailgating gear, park at their apt or house and walk back and seldom have any problems.

 

[fishwater99]

Wow. You either need a better parking spot and/or escape plan. We park by bin 612 and are back to my friends place over towards Walmart in 7-10 minutes every game.

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

We parked behind the health center which is not where i normally park, but we were able to park there for free due to my wife's work.

Long story short, I will never park there again. Next time I will just leave the car and walk. I feel very bad for people who were parked in the lot that had to go back to Jackson/Tupelo/Memphis etc. It was probably damn near sunrise before some of them got home.

The university really needs to get a plan together to get people off campus in an orderly manner.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Lot 17, go figure. We ALWAYS tailgate a bit afterwards, listening to the post game show, etc., to avoid pointlessly sitting in traffic. It's usually an hour tops, before we crank up & leave. Sat night was 2+ hours. "Inconceivable!"

 

[dotcomdawg]

The campus should install contraflow for 90 minutes after a game. All lanes outgoing only.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

Too many people on campus, what a great problem to have.

I sat in the traffic for 2 hours too. The biggest problem I saw was the complete mismanagement of the game clock with 8 seconds left and a ******* ball to snap before the play clock ran out. I also was a little upset with the complete refusal to start throwing the ball until the second half when LSU had taken a 2 score lead on us at home. Other than that, the traffic was fine.

 

[drofdirt]

The campus should install contraflow for 90 minutes after a game. All lanes outgoing only.

Problem for many of us is parking in a lot on one side of campus, and then after the game having to fight traffic against the current outflow pattern to get back to your tailgate site and pickup your stuff. Then the problem reverses trying to get back out with the streets plugged with cars going nowhere because of inadequate lanes and inept traffic control by event security. We are still a university in the 20th century trying to deal with the increased traffic flow associated with football program success in the 21st century!! And we will have this problem as long as the football program is successful. The university and Starkville need to put some time and energy into alleviating traffic congestion related to the campus, especially for high-profile events.

 

[Bucksnort_Dawg]

Lot 13, and I got back to my house in Tate County at 5 o'clock.

 

[johnson86-1]

I live less than 2 miles from DWS in Starkville. I left the stadium and was in my car by 12:15, and did not get back to the house until 2:30. I am honestly thinking i'm going to walk next time. Parking services has to do a better job.

You definitely should walk. Or at the very least, park a mile a away and drive the rest. I have been on campus when gameday operations have done ridiculously stupid things, but the even if they didn't, we are not going to get 50k+ people on campus and have people that park in lots on campus get out reasonably quickly if people leave at basically the same time. You can basically only exit to the west and north. The only way to make gameday traffic bearable would be to make blackjack road a viable exit for people on the southeast quarter of campus. Even that you're still only talking about 7 total exits from campus and relying on people to know where they need to go and to park on a part of campus that roughly corresponds to where they need to exit (which I assume the parking passes are not set up to do, but instead are given out by priority to get people as close as possible to the game).