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LSU's Tiger Stadium will start the '20 season with a "25% capacity limit" and tailgating "will not be allowed this year," according to Brooks Kubena of the Baton Rouge ADVOCATE. LSU became the 12th team in the SEC to announce "similar capacity plans." Only Kentucky and Vanderbilt remain. LSU AD Scott Woodward said that the school "could possibly pivot during the season." If trends "change negatively, stadium capacity could shrink; if positive, it could expand." But interim LSU President Tom Galligan yesterday said that he "doesn't expect capacity to change." Kubena noted single-game tickets "won't be available for purchase." The estimated 25,000 people who will be allowed into the stadium "will mostly be made up of season-ticket holders and students." Galligan said that students "will have to prove they tested negatively for COVID-19 to enter," in a program that "will be finalized later" (Baton Rouge ADVOCATE, 9/10).
MIAMI STARTING WITHOUT STUDENTS: In West Palm Beach, Tom D'Angelo noted while current Hard Rock Stadium protocols call for a maximum of 13,000 fans per game for the Univ. of Miami, which would be 20% of the stadium's full capacity of about 65,000, "none of those 13,000 will be students for the first two games." Meanwhile, alcohol "will not be served at UM games" and masks are "required whenever fans are not eating or drinking." Fans will sit in socially distanced seating clusters with "6 feet between parties and all other seats within that 6-foot perimeter covered" (PALM BEACH POST, 9/8).
