Grading the Game Day Experience

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Originally Posted by RedTails

I think they did this during Hud's tenure huh? Or was it just shuttles to/from Blackham parking?

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Think it was from Blackham parking.

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Originally Posted by cjr3888

Exactly! Another “great idea” thrown out that is already happening and has been for years.

Now, running the buses from campus to Cajun Field like during school days is a good idea if possible.

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Is there still a bus stop that drops off at the tunnel that goes under Cajundome Blvd in front of Lamson Park?

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Originally Posted by jaxmc1023

Is there still a bus stop that drops off at the tunnel that goes under Cajundome Blvd?

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There's one on Cajundome Blvd across from softball stadium and two in parking lot on east side of Cajun Field. Another issue is that Cajundome Blvd is closed for the team busses to park. Would basically have to drop off at the Reinhardt/Cajundome Blvd intersection.

My Game Day Experience

-parked my RV in my reserved spot that I gladly paid for
-parked my cars in "B" lot & RV lot that I gladly paid for
-visited with my RV friends
-tailgated all day with friends & family while dining on pulled pork, boudin & beer(s)
-walked over to the Alumni tent and had a bowl of pastalaya & some beer(s)
-listened to the band for a while
-enjoyed the Cajun Walk
-entered the game with my tickets stored in Apple wallet (no issues)
-sat in my reserved seats that i gladly paid for
-enjoyed a couple more beers from the concession area - no long wait time
-met all the new people in our seating area - lots of new player parents & friends
-enjoyed the halftime show but still not sure about that cake
-watched the Cajuns beat the Demons

All in All - A Great Day!! Nothing to complain about

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Originally Posted by BBcajun

My Game Day Experience

-parked my RV in my reserved spot that I gladly paid for
-parked my cars in "B" lot & RV lot that I gladly paid for
-visited with my RV friends
-tailgated all day with friends & family while dining on pulled pork, boudin & beer(s)
-walked over to the Alumni tent and had a bowl of pastalaya & some beer(s)
-listened to the band for a while
-enjoyed the Cajun Walk
-entered the game with my tickets stored in Apple wallet (no issues)
-sat in my reserved seats that i gladly paid for
-enjoyed a couple more beers from the concession area - no long wait time
-met all the new people in our seating area - lots of new player parents & friends
-enjoyed the halftime show but still not sure about that cake
-watched the Cajuns beat the Demons

All in All - A Great Day!! Nothing to complain about

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This guy gets it.

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Originally Posted by BBcajun

My Game Day Experience

-parked my RV in my reserved spot that I gladly paid for
-parked my cars in "B" lot & RV lot that I gladly paid for
-visited with my RV friends
-tailgated all day with friends & family while dining on pulled pork, boudin & beer(s)
-walked over to the Alumni tent and had a bowl of pastalaya & some beer(s)
-listened to the band for a while
-enjoyed the Cajun Walk
-entered the game with my tickets stored in Apple wallet (no issues)
-sat in my reserved seats that i gladly paid for
-enjoyed a couple more beers from the concession area - no long wait time
-met all the new people in our seating area - lots of new player parents & friends
-enjoyed the halftime show but still not sure about that cake
-watched the Cajuns beat the Demons

All in All - A Great Day!! Nothing to complain about

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Wait, I don't understand, you had nothing to complain about. How can you still be on Ragin' Pagin, if you had nothing to complain about. I think that is a prerequisite for posting on this board.

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Originally Posted by cjr3888

I’m there for a tailgate and a football game. UL won’t grow attendance with the current stadium that lacks amenities casual fans are looking for. Some people who don’t come to games say it’s because of parking. Parking is the easiest of any stadium I’ve been to. They’ve added the in stadium entertainment (Tyler). They’ve added the ribbon board. They’ve added food options. The stadium reconstruction is coming. Us fans that are there no matter what beating a dead horse with the same complaints then still not being happy when those complaints are addressed isn’t helping. I bring new people almost every game and none of them have ever complained. Probably because I’m not spending all day complaining about what the administration needs to do for them to keep showing up. It’s a never ending cycle with some fans, they wouldn’t be happy is we go 15-0 with packed stadiums every week.

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Seriously! They’ve taken baby steps and you’re touting them as if they were milestones. You also sound like Baldwin when it comes to the fans.

It is 100% on the University to do what is necessary to get fans to attend games. It starts on campus. They get a monster F in that category.

You talk about “we can’t put a bar in the north endzone, there’s a giant scoreboard”. It’s probably the smallest in the SBC. Also you absolutely could design in a bar. For example look at the Nashville Sounds stadium.

Parking passes should be consolidated to the paved parking areas. All grass lost should be paid per game ($10) at the gate. Then overflow to the free parking areas.

I’ll say it again! The casual fan isn’t coming to the games. Forget about them. Get 40% of the student body to the games. Do what you have to to fill the fenced in parking first! Make it appear to be an event, like the Hudspeth days.

It will take 10-15 graduating classes, to cultivate a new fan base from the current students. If we fail to do that, then we are done. Because our current fan base is mostly over 50, with a handful of mid 30’s thrown in there.

Who is to blame there? The fans? Come on man. Get real.

1. The university must get students to relate to Cajun athletics and have athletics tie them to the university.

2. Our coaches have to be good/great coaches and even better salesmen.

3. Win!

4. Make the game experience fun and painless. I mean like really fun and morphine like painless.

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Originally Posted by RaginDave

Wait, I don't understand, you had nothing to complain about. How can you still be on Ragin' Pagin, if you had nothing to complain about. I think that is a prerequisite for posting on this board.

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Honest question for those complaining about the complainers, if this is not the place for those who are frustrated to voice their opinions/thoughts/etc, then where exactly is that place? Social media? email? pen a letter?

This is the perfect place for that. Seems to me admins read this and it creates the most dialogue, so not sure why people get so upset about it. Yall are right, some people will never be happy but that does not mean they dont want what is best for our programs or the potential that they see. When we stop having people caring and complaining that is when we really have a problem.

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Originally Posted by cajun4life

4. Make the game experience fun and painless. I mean like really fun and morphine like painless.

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First 4,000 fans get delta 9 gummies. No one gonna be on here complaining.

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Originally Posted by RedTails

First 4,000 fans get delta 9 gummies. No one gonna be on here complaining.

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Haha…wouldn’t change the atmosphere on the west side of the stadium.

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Originally Posted by cajun4life

Haha…wouldn’t change the atmosphere on the west side of the stadium.

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Hahaha

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Originally Posted by CajunJack55

Honest question for those complaining about the complainers, if this is not the place for those who are frustrated to voice their opinions/thoughts/etc, then where exactly is that place? Social media? email? pen a letter?

This is the perfect place for that. Seems to me admins read this and it creates the most dialogue, so not sure why people get so upset about it. Yall are right, some people will never be happy but that does not mean they dont want what is best for our programs or the potential that they see. When we stop having people caring and complaining that is when we really have a problem.

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My response was a joke. This is the forum for some of that and should always be, unfortunately there are plenty on here that would rather find trouble where there may not be.

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Originally Posted by cajun4life

Seriously! They’ve taken baby steps and you’re touting them as if they were milestones. You also sound like Baldwin when it comes to the fans.

It is 100% on the University to do what is necessary to get fans to attend games. It starts on campus. They get a monster F in that category.

You talk about “we can’t put a bar in the north endzone, there’s a giant scoreboard”. It’s probably the smallest in the SBC. Also you absolutely could design in a bar. For example look at the Nashville Sounds stadium.

Parking passes should be consolidated to the paved parking areas. All grass lost should be paid per game ($10) at the gate. Then overflow to the free parking areas.

I’ll say it again! The casual fan isn’t coming to the games. Forget about them. Get 40% of the student body to the games. Do what you have to to fill the fenced in parking first! Make it appear to be an event, like the Hudspeth days.

It will take 10-15 graduating classes, to cultivate a new fan base from the current students. If we fail to do that, then we are done. Because our current fan base is mostly over 50, with a handful of mid 30’s thrown in there.

Who is to blame there? The fans? Come on man. Get real.

1. The university must get students to relate to Cajun athletics and have athletics tie them to the university.

2. Our coaches have to be good/great coaches and even better salesmen.

3. Win!

4. Make the game experience fun and painless. I mean like really fun and morphine like painless.

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I was asked my opinion and I gave it based on attending games on multiple campuses. No need for your thesis. These baby steps as you call them is the university doing what it can to add anything they can before the stadium rebuild. If they didn't do anything and just waited, people would complain about that.

Speaking of that bar people want, you writing a check to design and build? You do realize it's on a hill so would need major foundation work. Also would need to be ADA compliant while not taking away from exit walkways for Fire Marshal regulations. If you have a few million laying around, I'm sure they'll take that idea and run with it.

I agree with you on the paid parking inside the gate. However, how are we collecting this money? How are we dealing with the traffic back up that will happen? This includes hiring more workers to man each gate collecting (card only obviously) and more security to handle traffic flow.

I'm not blaming anyone, just pointing out the fact that some complainers will never be happy with anything the university does.

Brainstorming ideas to enhance gameday experience isn’t complaining. It’s brainstorming. Coming up with ideas to make the parking lot full to change the perception of how activity looks is a good thing. Making sure our mobile tickets scan is a good thing.

I understand that change can be scary, but it also welcomes a ton of opportunities.

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Originally Posted by RedTails

First 4,000 fans get delta 9 gummies. No one gonna be on here complaining.

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At least half of those people will be sleeping in their seats by the end of the 1st quarter.

. . . let’s just call this CP and let it rip . . .

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Originally Posted by cjr3888

I was asked my opinion and I gave it based on attending games on multiple campuses. No need for your thesis. These baby steps as you call them is the university doing what it can to add anything they can before the stadium rebuild. If they didn't do anything and just waited, people would complain about that.

Speaking of that bar people want, you writing a check to design and build? You do realize it's on a hill so would need major foundation work. Also would need to be ADA compliant while not taking away from exit walkways for Fire Marshal regulations. If you have a few million laying around, I'm sure they'll take that idea and run with it.

I agree with you on the paid parking inside the gate. However, how are we collecting this money? How are we dealing with the traffic back up that will happen? This includes hiring more workers to man each gate collecting (card only obviously) and more security to handle traffic flow.

I'm not blaming anyone, just pointing out the fact that some complainers will never be happy with anything the university does.

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I’m sorry, but there is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent parking from backing up. If everything was as successful as we could hope to be and we get 60-70,000 people out to tailgate and half of those go in the games. You don’t think parking will be backed up? Get out of here with that nonsense excuse.

You want a solution? Go see Chick Filet. Get more people with scanners at each gate. Have the traffic come deeper into the parking area to have multiple scanners. Park lost D & E simultaneously with two lines.

Holy hell Batman, I just solved the parking back up issue. Took me 5 minutes.

Also, the gates open at 08:00, ideally those lots would be full no later than 15:00.

Then overflow parking for the late arrivals can go to the parking areas across congress.

Simple solution.

We had our lowest attended game in 2 decades last year against a top tier conference opponent coming off the heels of our winningest season in program history. Our fans are looking for things to complain about the same way the guy who cleans port-a-johns has to sniff to find out where the _____ is located.

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Originally Posted by zeppelincajun

We had our lowest attended game in 2 decades last year against a top tier conference opponent coming off the heels of our winningest season in program history. Our fans are looking for things to complain about the same way the guy who cleans port-a-johns has to sniff to find out where the _____ is located.

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. . . restaurant parking lots . . . gummie bears . . . Port-a-johns . . . this place is now off its rockers . . .

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Originally Posted by cajun4life

Seriously! They’ve taken baby steps and you’re touting them as if they were milestones. You also sound like Baldwin when it comes to the fans.

It is 100% on the University to do what is necessary to get fans to attend games. It starts on campus. They get a monster F in that category.

You talk about “we can’t put a bar in the north endzone, there’s a giant scoreboard”. It’s probably the smallest in the SBC. Also you absolutely could design in a bar. For example look at the Nashville Sounds stadium.

Parking passes should be consolidated to the paved parking areas. All grass lost should be paid per game ($10) at the gate. Then overflow to the free parking areas.

I’ll say it again! The casual fan isn’t coming to the games. Forget about them. Get 40% of the student body to the games. Do what you have to to fill the fenced in parking first! Make it appear to be an event, like the Hudspeth days.

It will take 10-15 graduating classes, to cultivate a new fan base from the current students. If we fail to do that, then we are done. Because our current fan base is mostly over 50, with a handful of mid 30’s thrown in there.

Who is to blame there? The fans? Come on man. Get real.

1. The university must get students to relate to Cajun athletics and have athletics tie them to the university.

2. Our coaches have to be good/great coaches and even better salesmen.

3. Win!

4. Make the game experience fun and painless. I mean like really fun and morphine like painless.

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How about you apply for a job with the administration/marketing department? Seems to me like you have the answers to everything. I mean you are the reason that Russo park was built after all.

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Originally Posted by RedTails

First 4,000 fans get delta 9 gummies. No one gonna be on here complaining.

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I know a guy.

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Originally Posted by Million$Mullet

I know a guy.

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. . . it’s like a bookie . . . everybody has a guy . . .

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Originally Posted by Million$Mullet

I know a guy.

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Dude. It's Delta 9. You don't need a guy for that.

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Originally Posted by JayWalker

Dude. It's Delta 9. You don't need a guy for that.

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I’m fishing.

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Originally Posted by BBcajun

My Game Day Experience

-parked my RV in my reserved spot that I gladly paid for
-parked my cars in "B" lot & RV lot that I gladly paid for
-visited with my RV friends
-tailgated all day with friends & family while dining on pulled pork, boudin & beer(s)
-walked over to the Alumni tent and had a bowl of pastalaya & some beer(s)
-listened to the band for a while
-enjoyed the Cajun Walk
-entered the game with my tickets stored in Apple wallet (no issues)
-sat in my reserved seats that i gladly paid for
-enjoyed a couple more beers from the concession area - no long wait time
-met all the new people in our seating area - lots of new player parents & friends
-enjoyed the halftime show but still not sure about that cake
-watched the Cajuns beat the Demons

All in All - A Great Day!! Nothing to complain about

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Awesome

Things are looking up