Cajun Field Construction

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Originally Posted by ULvictory

It’s all about “selling the event.”

When you walk into Lamson and The Tigue, you feel like you’re at an event that goes beyond just the play on the field. Cajun Field and basketball games….not so much.

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Bingo. You have said that over and over again.

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Originally Posted by ManAboutTown

Thank you for bringing this up.
Our "cheap, disloyal, sucky, disinterested" fans in the diamond sports sure didn't have a problem paying pretty high prices (comparatively speaking, of course) when the new stadiums were being discussed and into today. Our "suck ass" fans didn't have a problem opening their wallet to Lotief & Robe when it came to donations for even the most basic ____ that Martin Hall wouldn't pay for. Our "horrible" fans sure don't have a problem showing up in droves on the road when our (usually) nationally relevant diamond sports are playing elsewhere. Our "loser" fans don't struggle to sell out of season tickets, DESPITE 7 year hiatus from postseason play (in baseball's case).

There is a reason for that. Tony built baseball. The Lotief's & what's her name built softball, DESPITE Martin Hall or the athletic department. OUR SUCK ASS fanbase built those pearls, and that's why the fanbase is so strong, participatory, loyal, gracious, mostly trusting and supportive of the diamond sports.

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How they think the new scoreboard and outfield wall at Lamson Park got replaced. Wasn't because of Martin Hall.

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Originally Posted by Cajunfever

Maggard is leading athletics into a death spiral. He is ultimately responsible to get our budget higher, he is responsible for fundraising. The RCAF is under his leadership. Ticket sales is under his leadership. Game day experience is under his leadership.

Why do we have less than 2K RCAF members—look no further than the RCAF board of directors. What are they doing to get membership up? Nothing……look at who is on the board of directors…the ultimate social club (more then the rebounders club) is the RCAF board of directors…maggard has hand picked the board of directors.

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Do you think Maggard has autonomy with regard to any of that? If you do, I have some ocean front property in Arizona for sale. Maggard answers to Martin Hall and the Foundation. Bryan can only do what he is allowed to do.

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Originally Posted by ManAboutTown

Do you think Maggard has autonomy with regard to any of that? If you do, I have some ocean front property in Arizona for sale. Maggard answers to Martin Hall and the Foundation. Bryan can only do what he is allowed to do.

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He skipped over post #65. And needs to read your post.

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Originally Posted by JMVCAJUNS

He skipped over post #65. And needs to read your post.

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Whose job is it to get our budget higher? Is that not Maggard’s responsibility? He oversees the RCAF. He oversees every aspect of the athletic program. We keep complaining about the same things for the last several years with no improvement…..if he truly has no power to run the department, fire him and save $400k per year.

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Originally Posted by Cajunfever

Whose job is it to get our budget higher? Is that not Maggard’s responsibility? He oversees the RCAF. He oversees every aspect of the athletic program. We keep complaining about the same things for the last several years with no improvement…..if he truly has no power to run the department, fire him and save $400k per year.

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You think that is his pay? It doesn’t matter if he gets the budget hire if they take money from sports to bring over to the academic side.

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Originally Posted by Cajunfever

Whose job is it to get our budget higher? Is that not Maggard’s responsibility? He oversees the RCAF. He oversees every aspect of the athletic program. We keep complaining about the same things for the last several years with no improvement…..if he truly has no power to run the department, fire him and save $400k per year.

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If you want more money raised, then start by donating more money and direct it to where you want it spent. Maggard has had to survive coming off of two covid years of reduced revenues and having to reduce his budget. No different than many other G5 programs with shrinking economies outside of Texas, Florida, Georgia and a few other states.

I've always said if you want to grow athletics further, then they would have to stop beating the same RCAF top donors to death and raise corporate money. The fact that they have been able to raise corporate money for the stadium in this environment has been surprising. We've had two top notch ADs in my lifetime, Terry Don Phillips and Bryan Maggard. When he's gone, fans are going to wish he was still here. He's not perfect, but given the Culture he has had to deal with in Martin Hall, he's accomplished more than any of his predecessors. People have a short memory of all the dysfunctional and unqualified people that have run the UL athletic department over the years.

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Originally Posted by CajunT

We've had two top notch ADs in my lifetime, Terry Don Phillips and Bryan Maggard. When he's gone, fans are going to wish he was still here. He's not perfect, but given the Culture he has had to deal with in Martin Hall, he's accomplished more than any of his predecessors.

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Same here. Between those two gentlemen, nobody has come close.

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Originally Posted by CajunT

If you want more money raised, then start by donating more money and direct it to where you want it spent. Maggard has had to survive coming off of two covid years of reduced revenues and having to reduce his budget. No different than many other G5 programs with shrinking economies outside of Texas, Florida, Georgia and a few other states.

I've always said if you want to grow athletics further, then they would have to stop beating the same RCAF top donors to death and raise corporate money. The fact that they have been able to raise corporate money for the stadium in this environment has been surprising. We've had two top notch ADs in my lifetime, Terry Don Phillips and Bryan Maggard. When he's gone, fans are going to wish he was still here. He's not perfect, but given the Culture he has had to deal with in Martin Hall, he's accomplished more than any of his predecessors. People have a short memory of all the dysfunctional and unqualified people that have run the UL athletic department over the years.

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Thank you agree 100% I much rather Dr Maggard running the ship then the guy he replaced remember that clown

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It all comes down to control. TDP and BM were exactly the men we needed at a certain point in time. The problem they had to overcome was two fold.

1) An administration that had not a clue how to wholly trust them

2) An administration hell bent on control, especially when the money was rolling in. Hence, never giving up autonomy for RCAF.

I hope “The Current” after they finish with LCG’s hole digging ventures tackles the Cajundome vendor contract. Not a fan of their politics but Ms Turk and company can research like crazy.

Fundraising for the stadium redo can't be afraid to pick up pennies, i.e. smaller fundraising in addition to the corporate fundraising. Why not sell personalized bricks at 'new' OLOL Cajun Field like at main campus? A number of things could be initiated to put more funds in the bucket.

👆 This guy gets it!

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Originally Posted by Duckster

Fundraising for the stadium redo can't be afraid to pick up pennies, i.e. smaller fundraising in addition to the corporate fundraising. Why not sell personalized bricks at 'new' OLOL Cajun Field like at main campus? A number of things could be initiated to put more funds in the bucket.

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every student gets a brick on campus, only time you might buy a brick is if you want one for your home

Hud would like to have a word with you

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Originally Posted by billbeck451

every student gets a brick on campus, only time you might buy a brick is if you want one for your home

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People donated $100 to the baseball stadium renovation, and their names are on a plaque inside the stadium. Yet for some reason with this evidence in our face 30+ times a year walking into the Tigue our top paid officials either haven't thought of it or are too scared to ask. Next excuse on why this won't work...

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Originally Posted by Cajunfever

Whose job is it to get our budget higher? Is that not Maggard’s responsibility? He oversees the RCAF. He oversees every aspect of the athletic program. We keep complaining about the same things for the last several years with no improvement…..if he truly has no power to run the department, fire him and save $400k per year.

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You think it's the Athletic Director's job to get our budget higher? Riddle me this: How can the AD "get our budget higher" when the people he gets money from won't allocate salary to hire dedicated fundraisers, creative staff, sales force, promotion and market teams with any amount of man/woman power? We don't even have a dedicated ticket sales team. Never have (officially). We don't even collect data on where our best ROI is coming from. We can't even tell you where we're most successful selling tickets. No one has ever taken the time to compile the data. We don't have a targeted marketing campaign to any specific demographic. We have absolutely no freaking plan when it comes to geo-fencing or digital outreach. They just post ____ on social media and expect you to interact. Hell, during Napier's final season, Ragin Review was doing more Twitter traffic than the official school accounts. (We were told and shown this by someone in the department) A dinky little fan podcast with no video presence at the time. We just bothered to show up every week and "spread the brand across the land."

The business of Louisiana Athletics is run like the Brazilian Government. Throw ____ against the wall, see what sticks, show the people just enough "commitment" to keep them close, only to pull the rug out from under them when you're on the brink of real buy in. OR, when times are good, clutch your pearls, curl up in the fetal position and hoard the money. God forbid we actually make waves.

And btw, our budget has increased over $10 mil since Maggard took over AND we've raised record number of capital dollars. Multiple different school records broken with regard to corporate donations. Where's the money...

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

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Originally Posted by JamesTheJeweler

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

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That's why I screen shot as much as possible on threads like this.

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Originally Posted by JamesTheJeweler

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

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That's unfortunate and is a problem with this site on occasions. I don't have to agree with everything posted on this site, but unless someone crosses the threshold of slander or attacking a family member, I don't believe post should be deleted.

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Originally Posted by JamesTheJeweler

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

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Makes it an unreadable site at times.

Where are my posts . . .

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Originally Posted by zeppelincajun

People donated $100 to the baseball stadium renovation, and their names are on a plaque inside the stadium. Yet for some reason with this evidence in our face 30+ times a year walking into the Tigue our top paid officials either haven't thought of it or are too scared to ask. Next excuse on why this won't work...

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We can also sign a five year commitment for a thousand a year. How many season ticket holders I don’t know, but at 5K named holders that’s 25 million dollars. Should have done that five years ago.

Dr Maggard is not the problem. Quite frankly I’m a bit surprised he is still here and hasn’t left for a better job yet.

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Originally Posted by JamesTheJeweler

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

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