What were the security lines like?

[dawgphd]

I've heard everything from basically walked in to 45 minutes.

 

[civildawg88]

Absolutely terrible from about 1 hour before to game time

 

[DocHolliday.sixpack]

Terrible! Got in line an hour early and still missed kickoff.

 

[kired]

Terrible. Just another case of creating a problem when there wasn’t one to begin with.

We’ve always gone in the northwest gate with students since we park & tailgate on that side of campus, and sit in section 6. But not again. We were basically in a 20 minute shoving match with drunk students- most of them drinking & smoking while “in line” (there is no actual line - just a mass of people). There are half full beer cans & cups everywhere on the ground. Pretty irritating when you’ve got small kids.

 

[civildawg88]

The added security and terrible traffic leaving along with our bad team is about to cause a perfect storm for attendance

 

[DamnitDog]

Well, after another loss to Auburn, you will not have to worry about lines for the rest of the season. It's so sad how low we have come in a short 2 weeks. Can't believe JoMo is destroying and will continue to slow burn a good program back into the Croom years...sigh...

 

[Seinfeld]

I’d estimate that we still had somewhere between 25-35% of the crowd still trying to get to their seats after kickoff, so yeah... it was a mess.

From what I can tell, for any big game, you better be in line an hour before kickoff or you’ll have no chance of getting to your seat in time

 

[bigiron.sixpack]

I’d estimate that we still had somewhere between 25-35% of the crowd still trying to get to their seats after kickoff, so yeah... it was a mess.

From what I can tell, for any big game, you better be in line an hour before kickoff or you’ll have no chance of getting to your seat in time

Which, while true, is totally unacceptable. I suspect the next grand scheme will be "VIP" or "Skip the Line" passes available for a nominal fee.

 

[dawgphd]

From what I can tell, for any big game, you better be in line an hour before kickoff or you’ll have no chance of getting to your seat in time

That will encourage me to watch from the couch.

 

[The Peeper]

I left my tailgate at 4:30, went through security w/ a bag, walked up the ramps to upper level seats, made a pit stop to pee and got to my seats w/ 13:20 left in1st Q so I missed only 1:30

 

[QuaoarsKing]

What I don't understand is how it can be so inconsistent around the stadium. I stood in line for about 5 minutes about an hour before kickoff

 

[Dawgbite]

We stood in line less than 5 minutes. Arrived at the stadium at 4:30 and I just assumed we would get to our seats mid first quarter. We went through security, rode the elevator, hit the head, and still made it to our seats in time for the STATE spell out. We have had very little wait at all three games.

 

[clintstone]

Terrible. Just another case of creating a problem when there wasn’t one to begin with.

We’ve always gone in the northwest gate with students since we park & tailgate on that side of campus, and sit in section 6. But not again. We were basically in a 20 minute shoving match with drunk students- most of them drinking & smoking while “in line” (there is no actual line - just a mass of people). There are half full beer cans & cups everywhere on the ground. Pretty irritating when you’ve got small kids.

Went it at northwest gate. Got in line at 4:29, and was through the line and in the gate at 4:38. No issues, no shoving, no smoking, and didn’t notice any trash.

 

[HotMop]

Very crowded getting into the East side by the Junction 1 hour prior to kickoff, that said, took about 30m to get through the line and get to my seats in the upper deck.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Got in line at about 3:50, in upper deck seats by 4:00. Walked right through. Gates across from Barnes and Noble, the Hump (north) end of the stadium.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

I nominated the little guy in the yellow jacket

Guarding my line for O-lineman of the week. He wasn’t letting anyone through

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Started heading in at 4, was In my upper deck seats at 4:25...so not bad at all imo

 

[kired]

We were a little later - got in line about 5 minutes after they announced "30 minutes to kickoff". Maybe there was a rush of students around that time, I don't know. Last game we walked right up to the metal detectors, no problem. I'll try a different one next week. We've just always used the student gate because the next one down --- either E or D, always seemed to take longer. May not be the case now with the metal detectors.

 

[dawgstudent]

They were fine at the SE gate. It was the same amount of people as the first week but much quicker.

I think the NE (Steve Golding) gate is the quickest.

 

[Bcash2]

SW gates 15 min before kickoff were fine if you didn’t get in the line closest to the bookstore. That line was wrapped around the block while the center lines were 15 people long.

 

[TrueMaroonGrind]

Terrible! Got in line an hour early and still missed kickoff.

We got in line an hour before kickoff and it took maybe 10 minutes. We went in the southeast gate.