ULM attendance

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Originally Posted by CajunT

Good points. Let me also say the 3 Greatest Years in the history of the Ragin Cajun Football program does not make a tradition. If you don't believe that, go back and look at Appalachian States record over the past 20 years and compare it to UL. They didn't build tradition with 3 great seasons. We are laying the foundation for a great tradition and a cULture of winning.

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Bingo. We are "new" to consistent winning. Even the first four years of Hud were followed up with 3 straight losing seasons which got us Napier in the first place. Let's see if we can maintain a decade of 8+ win seasons with a few more Top 25 rankings, and then we will see whether or not we can muster decent support.

I went to the game and the weather sucked…I manned up and have been through a lot worse, but I can understand why someone would have passed.

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Originally Posted by CajunRebel

Really pathetic. I was looking back at some old pictures this morning from the hud era and Cajun Field was legitimately packed. I’m at a loss as to what changed.

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Maybe hud was sleeping around more than we thought. Could you see more females in the pictures??

Maybe all these bad tv crowds will make espn back off putting us on the schedule so much. Then we can go back to Saturday games.. sweet. Haha.

I’ll say this, back too/still have a huge problem with people staying out tailgating instead of entering the stadium. That crap wears me out. I love cajuns sports but am not a tailgater. I walked in 15 minutes before kick probably passes 100 people walking out of the Cajun field parking lot!! And another 100 tailgating that didn’t look to be moving anytime soon.

If Billy’s gone, good for him. I pray his exit speech goes something like this. “ it’s not about the money or the SEC status, it’s the lack of fan and community support for this program.”

Three 10 win seasons and ranked 2 years in a row and can’t get 25k.

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Originally Posted by Jacob81

Maybe all these bad tv crowds will make espn back off putting us on the schedule so much. Then we can go back to Saturday games.. sweet. Haha.

I’ll say this, back too/still have a huge problem with people staying out tailgating instead of entering the stadium. That crap wears me out. I love cajuns sports but am not a tailgater. I walked in 15 minutes before kick probably passes 100 people walking out of the Cajun field parking lot!! And another 100 tailgating that didn’t look to be moving anytime soon.

If Billy’s gone, good for him. I pray his exit speech goes something like this. “ it’s not about the money or the SEC status, it’s the lack of fan and community support for this program.”

Three 10 win seasons and ranked 2 years in a row and can’t get 25k.

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……..can’t say for sure and not apples with apples BUT, the LSU SEATS WERE NOT FILLLED…..and for UL there is no marketing to push it……the paper is gone, the tv station is not ours, and social media they p5 dominate!

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Originally Posted by irokcj5

That was only one of the criteria. We’re still considered minor league, fun to go tailgate at a buddy’s spot but leave before the game or watch another game on TV, good to go party at NO bowl game, but not a fan enough to show up at games or even buy and wear Ragin’ Cajun gear, but glad to wear the purple and gold even when they never attended the school. We have great 3 years of wins, but win ugly more than any team I can remember. Simply Acadiana area does not revere the Cajuns…yet.

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Exactly, people will drive an hour down the interstate to see LaSU but not 10 minutes down Johnston to see Louisiana. Until LaSU needs us on their schedule, ie Florida vs FL State, Ole Miss vs Miss. St, Alabama vs Auburn, Michigan vs Mich. St., OK vs OK St......, Acadiana will not fill this stadium. UL is not there yet, and hopefully the new coach will keep the momentum going and making this university a prominent fixture not only in the polls, but also in this state.

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Originally Posted by Esqueleto

Zero factor. 100% excuse

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Yea U Right!

People in Lafayette don’t show up because it’s not the “cool” thing. It’s “cool” to show up at a Conference Championship Game or a Bowl Game, but it’s below them to show up to a regular season game. The cost of tickets is a b-s excuse. Family Four Pack comes out to $12.50 per ticket with a free meal voucher on top of that. Kids 12 & under got in free all year long! Recent grads can get season tickets for $55! There’s tons of deals when it comes to tickets and parking is free. Could there be better promotion of these deals, yes. However, the athletic marketing department has been gutted after the Covid year. The current staff puts in tons of work and communicates as much as possible with fans. There’s only so much they can do because most of the Lafayette area only cares about appearing “cool” to their friends and not supporting the university.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafa...rea,_Louisiana

There are 478,000+ living in the Lafayette MSA. Do the math to put 30k in Cajun Field, it's too early for me to try...i guess we're to assume nearly all of them are from the oilfield and broke?
One good assumption is that UL has touched the lives of nearly each of those people in some way and in most respects has had a greater direct impact on their lives than LSU. How many students graduate each year from UL? Times 10? The numbers work in ULs favor. The football culture of this area doesn't. That has to change...

We drive 1 hour and 30 minutes(well not quite that long) one way to go to games in Lafayette from CenLA. It’s hard to understand why people in and around Lafayette don’t go to the games. It’s a gem to have UL sports in your back yard. We have nothing like it in Cenla anywhere or anything even close. Support UL athletics. That light rain yesterday wasn’t ____!