Cajuns are after 18th Win when they host Troy on Thursday

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Originally Posted by SlappyCajun

They used to give our t-shirts at one home game per year. Not sure if they still do that.

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Anyone remember the Red Dot shirts? I think I still have one somewhere.......

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Originally Posted by tetragrammaton

Anyone remember the Red Dot shirts? I think I still have one somewhere.......

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The stuff of legends.

https://forumeus.com/...?9178-Red-Dots scroll down to post #8 and then check out Jay Walker's explanation for how they came about.

Cool, funny, legendary.

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Originally Posted by cajunfan79

I'll have to disagree with you, my Dad starting to bring me to games in the Fletcher era and I have been going since. I Believe the crowds were great during the Evans era.

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Marty was here from 1986-1997. He holds 9 of the top 20 attendance records in the Cajundome, including the top 4 and 6 of the top 10. Jesse was here from 1997-2004, with 5 of the top 20 and 2 of the top 10. They averaged virtually the same season attendance, with Jesse averaging 4,965 in his 7 years, Marty with 4,963 in his 11. Both of them averaged above the 28 year average attendance of the Dome, 4,730.

Everyone will have their own preference as to what is a good number for attendance. For me, 50% of seating capacity is the minimum acceptable number for "good" attendance. Stated seating capacity for basketball in the Cajundome is 11,550, so, to me, 5,775 would be a good average attendance for the season.

Well since the Cajun Dome opened in 85 and Fletcher came a year later, I'm not surprised he is high on the list.

I think he got some of the blame for the loss of atmosphere after leaving Blackham even though he wasn't the coach that opened the Dome.

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Originally Posted by Turbine

The stuff of legends.

https://forumeus.com/...?9178-Red-Dots scroll down to post #8 and then check out Jay Walker's explanation for how they came about.

Cool, funny, legendary.

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Wow, that is cool. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Originally Posted by lcitsh

Marty was here from 1986-1997. He holds 9 of the top 20 attendance records in the Cajundome, including the top 4 and 6 of the top 10. Jesse was here from 1997-2004, with 5 of the top 20 and 2 of the top 10. They averaged virtually the same season attendance, with Jesse averaging 4,965 in his 7 years, Marty with 4,963 in his 11. Both of them averaged above the 28 year average attendance of the Dome, 4,730.

Everyone will have their own preference as to what is a good number for attendance. For me, 50% of seating capacity is the minimum acceptable number for "good" attendance. Stated seating capacity for basketball in the Cajundome is 11,550, so, to me, 5,775 would be a good average attendance for the season.

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50% is so arbitrary. So if we move tomorrow to an arena of 7,000...3,500 would be good?

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Originally Posted by CajunRed

50% is so arbitrary. So if we move tomorrow to an arena of 7,000"...3,500 would be good?

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Yes and if the dome fit 22k....9k per game would not be good. It's really a genius way to look at it.

Ok, I do believe that we put in crowds listed near 10k in Blackham Lamar era. Granted probably more like 7.5 k but regardless USL had around 10K students, Lafayette the city around 60K residents and the parking was atrocious. Seats sucked, and it was heaven. If you were a student and you did not get there at least an hour before the game, you probably did not get in.

To consistently put less then 6K in the dome is a shame. The university has 17k students, Lafayette the city 122k, great parking, great seating, and things just do not rock because the fans refuse to make it rock.

I am not sure the Lamar era team could stay on the floor with these kids today, but they blew the opposition away almost every game. No doubt Lamar, Ebron, and Payton Townsend could play today. Almost every game was a race to the century mark. And we were upsetting the established basketball world, especially the established basketball world in the South. It was great to be a troublemaker.

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Originally Posted by CajunEXPRESS

Ok, I do believe that we put in crowds listed near 10k in Blackham Lamar era. Granted probably more like 7.5 k but regardless USL had around 10K students, Lafayette the city around 60K residents and the parking was atrocious. Seats sucked, and it was heaven. If you were a student and you did not get there at least an hour before the game, you probably did not get in.

To consistently put less then 6K in the dome is a shame. The university has 17k students, Lafayette the city 122k, great parking, great seating, and things just do not rock because the fans refuse to make it rock.

I am not sure the Lamar era team could stay on the floor with these kids today, but they blew the opposition away almost every game. No doubt Lamar, Ebron, and Payton Townsend could play today. Almost every game was a race to the century mark. And we were upsetting the established basketball world, especially the established basketball world in the South. It was great to be a troublemaker.

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Remember, during the Lamar, Ebron, Townsend era, we were in Blackham watching a top 10 rated team. I guarantee you that should UL ever get back to putting a top 25 team on the court we won't be on this message board talking about lack of attendance. Big time winning solves all attendance problems!

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Originally Posted by CajunRed

50% is so arbitrary. So if we move tomorrow to an arena of 7,000...3,500 would be good?

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That's why I said this standard is for me. This is just my preference. Just to give you my particular scale, 85-100% average of capacity is excellent, 60-85% is very good, 45-60% is good, 30-45% is fair, below 30% is poor.