Southern @ Louisiana Attendance Prediction Thread

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Originally Posted by cajunhawk

Is that 20k after halftime?

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LOL that's cute, I'm starting to see where RaginEd's sarcasm came from. I'll be sure not to respond in kind, lest I too be labeled a troll, but in any case, there's a good reason the sale of the tickets was limited to this week. Don't get me wrong, it was an absolutely brilliant thing to do, but it was done for good reason nonetheless.

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Originally Posted by sujags06

LOL that's cute, I'm starting to see where RaginEd's sarcasm came from. I'll be sure not to respond in kind, lest I too be labeled a troll, but in any case, there's a good reason the sale of the tickets was limited to this week. Don't get me wrong, it was an absolutely brilliant thing to do, but it was done for good reason nonetheless.

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You might think its cute, but it's based on experience the last time SU visited Cajun Field. About half the SU crowd left after the band's halftime performance ended. The SU football fans stayed until late in the third, early fourth when the outcome was obvious. Still a good crowd regardless of why they attended.

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Originally Posted by sujags06

LOL that's cute, I'm starting to see where RaginEd's sarcasm came from. I'll be sure not to respond in kind, lest I too be labeled a troll, but in any case, there's a good reason the sale of the tickets was limited to this week. Don't get me wrong, it was an absolutely brilliant thing to do, but it was done for good reason nonetheless.

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Are you implying that we purposefully held tickets back so that Southern wouldn't get a chance to purchase them? Is this an alternate universe where one week isn't enough time for Southern fans to buy tickets? Do you need two weeks to figure out if you are gonna haul your ___ to a football game? No...that ____ is cute.

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Originally Posted by Just1More

That's cool... and we're glad to host you guys. I still believe, regardless of good weather or not, you will have about 20% of the fans in attendance. If we top out at 42k, you'll have just over 10k of that crowd. I think you would have had another 5k if we hadn't sold so many to our own already. It isn't a matter of SU fans not knowing to buy tickets in advance. It is a matter of so many UL fans that are more interested in attending our games than they were in 2009.

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I agree that there's far more interest in your program than there was when we last played, and the growth of the team under Hudspeth has been remarkable. That being said, even 10K would be an impressive showing and a good sign of our level of fan support.

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Originally Posted by sujags06

LOL that's cute, I'm starting to see where RaginEd's sarcasm came from. I'll be sure not to respond in kind, lest I too be labeled a troll, but in any case, there's a good reason the sale of the tickets was limited to this week. Don't get me wrong, it was an absolutely brilliant thing to do, but it was done for good reason nonetheless.

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The reason individual ticket sales started this week is because ticket sales had been limited to season ticket sales and maximizing that number

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Originally Posted by cajunhawk

Are you implying that we purposefully held tickets back so that Southern wouldn't get a chance to purchase them? Is this an alternate universe where one week isn't enough time for Southern fans to buy tickets? Do you need two weeks to figure out if you are gonna haul your ___ to a football game? No...that ____ is cute.

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With the demand on both sides, a day or two would have been plenty, but we both know that's not the point. Again, it was a brilliant thing to do, but let's not pretend it was done against us (and La Tech) and not against, say, Appalachian State, with no intent behind it.

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Originally Posted by sujags06

You might can smack McNeese about their attendance, but our level of fan support is pretty well established. We averaged over 20K at home last year, third most in the state. I won't guess as to how many fans we will bring, but I'm sure we'll be more than well represented in the stands.

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I know you will be well represented but I know you won't bring 20k, at least not to the game

20k is impressive for a school of that size. Looks as though the only thing that sells out faster than Law Degrees at Southern are football tickets.....

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Originally Posted by zephyr

I know you will be well represented but I know you won't bring 20k, at least not to the game

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I never stated that we would bring that many.

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Originally Posted by sujags06

With the demand on both sides, a day or two would have been plenty, but we both know that's not the point. Again, it was a brilliant thing to do, but let's not pretend it was done against us (and La Tech) and not against, say, Appalachian State, with no intent behind it.

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For one thing you are talking apples and oranges, that is two in state schools where opposing fans ticket demands will be higher versus a school near the eastern seaboard. Secondly, since that game is yet to occur we don't know that the ticket policy for visitors will be any different given our fan demands.

But for comparison, what has been the ticket policy for SU fans when playing of comparable in state D1A teams?