Now, now, they are just being lame. I mean can they still not have secured all the seats that were ordered. You are correct they should be into selling them to you as your drive up.
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Now, now, they are just being lame. I mean can they still not have secured all the seats that were ordered. You are correct they should be into selling them to you as your drive up.
That is kind of sh&1!y, they did that to my dad this week. He ordered 2 more when he went to pick up his first order, they called the next day to pick up his second order. Pretty lame.
This station is one HUGE advantage Cox has over LUS in the Lafayette area and IMHO, will help them tremendously to keep good market share in the area.
Cox and LUS are both good options for all residents; I chose LUS because I need the fiber optic bandwidth they can provide, but Cox is still a very good option.
Congrats to them for expanding their Cox4 coverage; anything that helps the Cajuns is good in my book!
Geaux CAJUNS!
How are the student ticket sales looking? Will the "red zone" be there?
Anything over 10k is a success from their viewpoint. Anything over 15k is a huge success. Anything approaching 17k is mindblowing for this bowl.Quote:
Originally Posted by ragin2112cajun
You need to get a little reality. Check their previous record sales by a university.
------------Do you have that figure??? I just love to have the ammunition to brag about our school-------HUD can do it better than anybody---so just follow his lead!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunEXPRESS
Also note that those totals likely do not include suite tickets. All of the suites have to be purchased through the dome and UL does not get any credit for those sales. I know a number of local corporations have purchased suites for the game. In addition to the price for the suites they also have to purchase tickets for each individual to the suite. BTW, i believe all of the revenue associated with the suits goes to the Saints. That was part of the last deal to keep the Saints in New Orleans, IIRC..Quote:
Originally Posted by billbeck451
Now if they can just stay away from the ECHO L and the Lafayettes we will on a roll---Like Roll ON Cajuns!!!!
I remember watching an interview with the NO Bowl head on tv3 the next morning ... I heard him say that we had more ticket reservations (at that time also) than they had EVER SOLD to one team, total ticket sales!Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomer
Now it was early, but that is what I heard. I would expect more info to come out after the bowl game is over by their committee.
Geaux CAJUNS!
We seriously look forward to the game... as you can imagine. I was guessing from the start that SDSU would bring between 3k and 5k. I think you're ticket sales concept with the Marshall Faulk Foundation is a winner.Quote:
Originally Posted by k5james
Hillman is our biggest concern. We had a serious problem with a similar scat back in WKU's Rainey. I think we've made a personnel change as of late that is going to help us. When Hillman gets past the line, he may take a pop he's never experienced. We shall see. Our DL as a pass rushing unit has been helter skelter. We did better earlier in the season, but I think it had more to do with matchups at the line late in the season. Personally, I think you're going to depend heavily on Hillman... and we know it. I hope you're coach tries to overthink it and opens up early with passing. You don't want to play around with our defensive secondary. They will pick your QB at will.
Our offense depends a lot on our starting QB. He is a good passer and a good runner. Bigger than either of those two assets, his desire cannot be measured. He is a warrior. Our passing targets are phenomenal. If SDSU cannot put pressure on our QB... we're going to light it up. We also have a 6'6" very athletic first/second round NFL TE that is as good a receiver as any you've ever seen. He was injured for the better part of this year, but will likely be 100% for the bowl game. As great as our WRs have been this year, having him back to 100% is a tremendous advantage for us.
Our running game is good... again... if our QB is on the loose. We have a really solid freshman RB... good size and speed... and really good instincts for a freshman. We depend on the pass opening up the run for us. Our platoon of RBs are night and day from each other in styles. It will be interesting to see how we utilize their strengths against SDSU.
Most schools don't brag heavily on their kicker... but we have a really good one. He's deadly on FGs from any reasonable distance and he doubles as a punter. He's fantastic at pinning teams deep inside their own territory. You are also going to have to be concerned on every kickoff. You absolutely never know what we might do. It is not going to be as if we've decided early in the contest that we have to deploy some trickeration. Our coach may toss something at you anywhere in the ballgame.
It's interesting that you say that SDSU generally comes out slow but picks it up in the second half. UL is all about conditioning and out performing the opponent, especially late. I have a lot of respect for what your team has done this year. It will be interesting to see this matchup.
Went over 18,000 tics sold as of yesterday! FACT!! Still granting requests!!Quote:
Originally Posted by RaginDave
We won't have 10,000 at that game. Now we may sell 10,000 tickets.
-On Hillman and his backup Muema. I think they are going to have big days. But a lot will depend on if our passing game gets untracked early.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just1More
-I have heard about your interceptions. That is a problem for us. Lindley often make bad or should I say "odd" decisions that leads to interceptions. On the other hand, he will come up with some big plays that will kill teams. Ryan has a shotgun for an arm.
-The punting game? Wow, should be one heck of a battle. Our punter is very good too. Maybe not the type of punter that pins people well, but what a leg.
-Kickoffs...We have one of the strongest lickoff guys in the game. More often than not, returners do not even bring it out of the end zone. Now, I haven't seen him kick off in a Dome, but Qualcomm is one of the hardest places in the nation to get distance on kickoff and he does it there.
-I think our defense is going to give you fits, but they are also susceptble big plays. Should be interesting.
My overall all take on this game is...IF our receivers have a good day catching the ball, Lindley and Hillman will be hard to stop. Aztecs wins by 10.
IF our receivers don't have a good day catching the ball, it goes right down to the wire.
Didn't your QB only throw like 5 ints the entire year? I don't think he's too prone to poor decisions...lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveAztec
I think that both qbs are very efficient and I have the feeling that one of them will be tested quite a bit in this game. I think whichever QB has the better game, that team will win. I just hope its ours.
----Is that a chin strap???Quote:
Originally Posted by raoul
I'm not sure, but I think we only got a limited set of tickets to the bowl. I know we had an initial set and immediately asked for a second set. Those handled most of the pre-orders and early sales. I believe we have ordered additional sets, but they may not be on hand. That being said for new ticket orders, there ARE some serious glitches in the process for those who ordered tickets way ahead of time, but had to wait until recently to actually pick up tickets. I am confident that those issues will be corrected for our next bowl game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Poppa
I'm not sure everyone that has ordered tickets has theirs yet. Those folks have to get theirs before they can sell them when you walk up. Otherwise, they'll run out of tickets before they get to the end of the list of people who have reserved those tickets. You fill the reservations before you allow walk-up purchases. if I go to a hotel that is booked with reservations, they'll turn me away even if they have 20 empty rooms.
That said, I like learning new things, like how to administer bowl tickets. Easy for me to say.... I have my tickets :)
The dome holds somewhere around 65,000. So they should have about 35,000 seats to sell to anyone how would like a ticket. So what's the deal about filling out a form and wait for a call. Give my break.
Everybody - you can go to Ticketmaster or the Superdome and walk away with tickets anytime. But UL does NOT get any credit (or money) for that. If you want the money to go to UL, then you HAVE to go through the UL process. The problem is, in part, that UL only has ON HAND a very limited number of tickets. They can't just spit out a ticket on demand. Now, have there been some problems with ticket distribution for the tickets they DO have? Yes. But for some reason, a lot of people seems to think that you can just walk up, fork over some money, and walk away with tickets in hand right there, just like it was a game at Cajun Field. This is a different process. It is very obvious that we haven't been to a bowl game since Moses was a small boy...
I just looked up his stats, he threw only 8 ints this year, but he also had the fewest amount of pass attempts in his career. His INT percentage is at the lowest of his career, (just over 2% of his passes were picked, compared to the last 2 seasons were around in the 3-4% range of his passes being picked. With that said, you're correct, that's still not a bad percentage, outside of the TCU game, stats don't bear out that he was the reason for any of their losses this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by zephyr
With that said, what does give some credence to their assertion, he has his lowest completion percentage of his career at just 52% on the season. He only had over 60% completion percentage twice this season, against Air Force, and New Mexico. Conversely, he was under 50% completion percentage 5 times, in those games where he was under 50% they were 2-3, and one of those wins was a squeaker over a less than steller 3-8 Army team. So keeping his completion percentage down would be a big gain for the Cajuns, which I like our chances with the DB's we have in Bentley and White.
So I see it this way, I think our offense will get our opportunities, we match up well against a 3-3-5 defense, which we've already shown, we need to get Harris cranked up which will allow our big playmakers down the field to do what they do best. If Harris is effective, then I expect Green, Lawson, and Peoples to be able to exploit some openings.
Lastly, the one factor that no one has noticed or thinks about, Rocky Long has not shown to be a good bowl game coach, he is 1-4 in bowl games with his only win being over a 6-6 Nevada team. There is something to be said about a coach who can keep his team focused on the game over the festivities of bowl week, some coaches are better at it than others. I don't know how HUD will handle it, we haven't seen him coach a bowl game yet, BUT, we do know Long's history in that situation.
I think if we come to play like we did against FIU, MT, Troy, I think we win this game.
The Ragin’ Cajuns football team will depart as a team from the Cox Communications Athletics Complex on buses on Tuesday at 1 p.m. to head to New Orleans, LA for the 2011 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
Fans are encouraged to come and send off the players as they are set to make the school’s first bowl appearance in 41 years.
The team is estimated to arrive at the Marriott hotel at 3:30 p.m. in New Orleans.
Also the UL Athletics Department has sold over 17,000 tickets for the 2011 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.
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He threw 8.Quote:
Originally Posted by zephyr
Hey, I am a huge Ryan Lindley fan. In fact many Aztec fans have dogged me over his 4 years for talking well about him. He does have two pretty big problems though...
-Poor decisions when being rushed (whether to throw it away or WHERE he throws it in bounds).
-Touch on his short passes.
See yall in Nola...GEAUX CAJUNS!
That's not an uncommon problem for strong-armed QBs. In fact, in the first few games this year, many Cajun fans were tough on Gautier about that same issue. He seems to have made some adjustments. That or the coaches have called much fewer short passes!Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveAztec
Here is a nice video on Ronnie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyNWPk7Oq90
Good reason he was the #1 RB in the country most of the year...
Highlites of Ryan Lindley our QB in last years Ponto Bowl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u_ucRw-rZQ