All of that has actually killed pregame activity/tailgating along with building where tailgate historically was and then making revelxp the only on campus option even if you show up early yourself.
Florida tailgating was far and away better than Texas when we traveled there. I would also say Michigan tailgating is far superior and I go to those games often.
Having an empty wine garden on bevo blvd or a half empty UT club walled off tent is fucking lame.
Texas Exes tailgate is also fucking terrible, and is for the social crowd not for the people who want to tailgate, watch football and talk about it crowd.
Bevo BLVD itself is pretty cool, but it's also stale. The same rides, the same games, the same shit every time and the entertainment at LCL has gone WAY downhill from peak LSU etc.
They are phoning it in and over commercializing it. It's part of what the majority of complaints are and why there was even a niche/gap in the market for our tailgate. A purists tailgate for everyone else.
Hornballs does a good job for generic, but theirs was 115 a head. Had shittier food and is way further away.