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Have to agree, especially with the Tuesday Parades. Was out of the Mardi Gras loop for 20+ years...last year was my first back at the Lafayette Parade...nothing really changed in that time, same old fat cats in 2nd rate floats (compared to the lesser Krewes in NOLA) with no masks, cigars, and beers tossing stuff to their friends...And da trash...baw, like taking a swing through the Wispering Breeze Trailor Park...
I had friends in from Atlanta & Chicago for Mardi Gras. My kids are old and have moved away, so I have not been to parades in years. Since my guests had never been to Mardi Gras, we went to parades on Friday night, Saturday night, and Monday night. We skipped Tuesday and had a crawfish boil at our house.
My parade experience was different from others who have posted comments. We watched the parades on Johnston Street between St. Julien Ave. and W. Lewis St. It was not crowded or trashy. The people around us were all very courteous and kid friendly. Most of the adults who caught beads passed them off to the younger children. Maybe it was the area where we set up or the days we attended, but it was a nice experience.
See y'all at the Tigue tonight.
GEAUX CAJUNS!
We had a similar experience and we moved around a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatestStory
To me Mardi Gras has two things that most Mardi Gras parades have everywhere smells like beer and _urineQuote:
Originally Posted by Million$Mullet
Never understood the fascination of Mardi Gras. Seriously. The whole hassle of finding a place to park. Fighting traffic with 10,000 drunk drivers. Standing around a bunch of obnoxious, low vibration drunks fight for plastic trinkets. Watching ____ty decorated trailers go by with people throwing, basically trash, at you. No thanks. I'm good.
We came in for Mardi Gras this year and watched the Monday parade from Atrmosphere and had a great time, the crowd was nice the floats were great, the people were not rowdy. I rode as a guest in Gabriel Mardi Gras morning and all of the crowds were well behaved and lots of families just out enjoying the day. I saw no problems at all only one person who was making rude gesures to the floats and it appeared that his mother snatched him up for being a stupid punk.
Monday night after the parade we went to RocknBowl and watch the band and let my daughter get a taste of good Cajun music and my wife and daugter watched the parade on Johnston yesterday and had a great time and everyone around them was great. Overall I'd say Lafayette does a great job on Mardi Gras and it is a nice change since I don't do New Orleans Mardi Gras anymore
This just made me sick if all UL is getting is 8k out of this deal. https://gomardigrasrv.com/
IF true, somebody SOLD OUT.Quote:
Originally Posted by fanof71
I saw this the other day and didn't want to post it because it just seemed so unbelievable. So, we will generate more for parking at one football game (just the parking) than UL gets for the entire Mardi Gras weekend for all of the parking and RV spots.Quote:
Originally Posted by fanof71
Make no mistake, yesterday was the first issue we've ever really had. And it really was just about some unconscious, entitled yayhoos.
Its really just a big tailgating event for us. Nothing different from football season.
Ran the numbers. If RV spots were really sold out, and the price and number of spots is as advertised, that’s $156,600 just in RV spots alone.
Can’t even begin to fathom how many cars park there, but $20 a car probably raises a good bit of cash
Wait until y'all find out just how much we get fleeced by the Car Show..
Hint: It's worse than Mardi Gras.
All contracts have been requested.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
IIRC, it's not individual Car Dealerships making the payments. It's the association.
Reselling your land, is slightly different than selling my product on your land.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
I said this 5 years ago, and I’ll say it again today.
We treat our property like a recycling bin. Making a grand total of $20,000 from the car show and Mardi Gras combined proves we don’t know how to create value with what we have.
CF is a prime location in town. If only we knew how to capitalize on that.
Guarantee the leaders of that association as well as the SW Mardi Gras org all spend their dollars across the basin too, while getting a brother-in-law deal to park on UL's property.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
I can affirm this, with more than one person involved. Like Victory said, we have no interest in maximizing our assets. Wouldn't want to make anyone uncomfortable. Especially the people taking advantage of UL.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedTails
5 years ago someone in charge in fact heard you and interpreted your statement to be an edict to make up the difference on fans with a fixed income. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ULvictory
FOIA?Quote:
Originally Posted by LouisianaB
How is the university being taken advantage of? Just curious.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
I think a good question would be is the university getting fair market value? if not, why not?
Another option besides a rental payment could be a percentage of sales.
Regardless, it sounds like we have a public institution that may not be getting fair market value for its resources. Is that legal?
Ask the board of Moncus park and their rental of LCG Property. Or better yet, ask LCG.Quote:
Originally Posted by BayouRichard
UL is doing much better than LCG/Moncus. Much better. It’s posted somewhere on RP.Quote:
Originally Posted by lafman1
This is the kind of stuff that makes my fkin blood boilQuote:
Originally Posted by RedTails
This will never change according to Martin Hall when it was discussed.Quote:
Originally Posted by raginbeef