Did we break even? Lose money? Or did we somehow make money with this terrible new SBC rule?
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Did we break even? Lose money? Or did we somehow make money with this terrible new SBC rule?
They actually choose the super conference members, even with .500 records, because they are a national TV audience draw. In addition, regardless of how poor their fans travel, the majority of lower conference programs aren't going to travel any better or sell more tickets. If you matched Georgia (in a down year) with Florida State (in a down year)... neither school may sell large numbers of tickets, but the bowl may sell local tickets at a good clip, and TV audiences (ratings) will still be large.Quote:
Originally Posted by moorecajun
UL is currently unique. We're hungry for seeing our football catching some limelight. We will travel massively to "local bowls" and we are likely to travel fairly well to moderate distance bowls. Our leadership needs to recognize that the NO Bowl situation has some conditional repeatability, and they must capitalize on what we achieved over the past two years... immediately.
That must be why ALL the prime seating at the New Orleans Bowl was allocated to UL and ECU.. sarcasm off.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajuncorkdork
No, but that is one big reason we were on the VISITORS side this year; the NO Bowl has blocks of seats on the home side which did not allow us to seat as many in prime locations as this year. No sarcasm needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by VObserver
Sponsor seating does not comprise that many seats. The I Bowl has chosen to retain a large portion of premium seating for local sales. It's their decision to do so. In certain cases, it burns the bowl. In other cases, not. It always irritates the participating programs' fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajuncorkdork
maybe im wrong but im sure the conf that are looking to expand or add teams like the cajuns cant just look at attendance...i am excited about the possibility of moving to a biiger conf...but i think it may take longer than we all think...more than a couple of winning seasons would help the most imo...but with all of the conferences making so many changes I hope im wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by CajunEXPRESS
I saw nothing but ECU fans in the core premium home side seats. Cajun fans flanking them on one side and bowl ticket distribution (sponsor and otherwise) flanking the other side. I agree that we were seated on the visitor side in order to accommodate us with an entire side. It only makes sense to allocate the least participating program fan base primary seating on the same side as sponsors and other ticket distribution.Quote:
Originally Posted by moorecajun
You bring up a good point. Some bowls may be able to sell tickets locally, with these tickets being a higher price than the ones iven to the two teams. This works if it works (kind of like Yogi Bera) because it alows them to maximize their profit (and if the state will subsidize them, so much the better).Quote:
Originally Posted by Just1More
This is why I think we are spoiled now by the New Orleans Bowl ... they have catered to us because we have made money for them. In the process people have gotten upset by not getting "prime" seats ... the best seats in other bowl games may not be as good as the worst in the Superdome that we got.
If we were going to Detroit, might not be too bad a rule. Guess it depends on whose ox is being gored. Only the BCS schools benefit from rules like this. Not us.
Wow, you just make these things up as you go?Quote:
Originally Posted by cajuncorkdork
Actually the I-Bowl exists, in part, because of state subsidies. Maybe a better theory I that those redneck _______s that run the I-Bowl don't know what the ____ they are doing. If they want to come beg for us to sell 20,000 or more tickets to that game they better be ready to change their seating allotments or give UL a guaranteed payout to offset poor ticket sales due to allotted seating areas.