Basketball Attendance

[cajun4life]

You shouldn't have to promote a basketball game as an event to students! That is just another excuse. We have 17000 students and couldn't get 25% of them to show up, that should be the minimum for each home game. We should expect a great crowd every game due to the students. Look at schools lik New Mexico, Utah St, Witchita St, UNLV, and mizzou St all mid majors who have unbelievable student support. That is the type of support we should EXPECT. This is a failure of the dean of student affairs and the Greeks, it is a damn shame. That we only had maybe 600 students in the dome.

Now some of you may defend them and ask about non student support, that was pathetic as well. We should be able to draw at least 2% of the Lafayette metro pop IMO.

It is flat out embarrassing to play in the cajundome at less that 25% capacity. That is just as bad as Tulane football.

[Cajunsmike]

You shouldn't have to promote a basketball game as an event to students! That is just another excuse. We have 17000 students and couldn't get 25% of them to show up, that should be the minimum for each home game. We should expect a great crowd every game due to the students. Look at schools lik New Mexico, Utah St, Witchita St, UNLV, and mizzou St all mid majors who have unbelievable student support. That is the type of support we should EXPECT. This is a failure of the dean of student affairs and the Greeks, it is a damn shame. That we only had maybe 600 students in the dome.

Now some of you may defend them and ask about non student support, that was pathetic as well. We should be able to draw at least 2% of the Lafayette metro pop IMO.

It is flat out embarrassing to play in the cajundome at less that 25% capacity. That is just as bad as Tulane football.

7 years since we have had a winning season is a big reason for the lackluster attendance. Many steady fans have lost interest in that time. A better product on the court is needed to get many of those to return. Also note this crowd was about average for the CIT. Even a basketball school like Indiana State had virtually the same crowd. Part of the problem for a game like this is that the corporate season tickets are not used. My company has six and an extra game like this would require the PR Dept. to approve it. Of course that did not happen and is probably an issue for all CIT schools.

[Boomer]

Well it should have been promoted as our B-ball Bowl game ---remember NO-----get the folks thinking---I posted this well before but our DA guy was on an ordered furlough---------WOW---I think this is what Jay posted!!!!NOT GOOD!!!!

[bustleup]

No matter how it should've been promoted there would've been just as many people there. No one has supported this team through the whole year and they weren't going to start last night

[ynkfan42]

Student section was packed just saying.

[I Cajun Me]

Student section was packed just saying.

I wouldn't say so. Isn't the seating behind the goals student section?

[ynkfan42]

I wouldn't say so. Isn't the seating behind the goals student section?

And the two sections behind the visitor bench which was pretty packed considering there was literally no advertising and compared to the rest of the attendance it was pretty packed

[CajunCrazy]

You shouldn't have to promote a basketball game as an event to students! That is just another excuse. We have 17000 students and couldn't get 25% of them to show up, that should be the minimum for each home game. We should expect a great crowd every game due to the students. Look at schools lik New Mexico, Utah St, Witchita St, UNLV, and mizzou St all mid majors who have unbelievable student support. That is the type of support we should EXPECT. This is a failure of the dean of student affairs and the Greeks, it is a damn shame. That we only had maybe 600 students in the dome.

Now some of you may defend them and ask about non student support, that was pathetic as well. We should be able to draw at least 2% of the Lafayette metro pop IMO.

It is flat out embarrassing to play in the cajundome at less that 25% capacity. That is just as bad as Tulane football.

I understand your concern but I think your wrong for calling out the Dean of Students and that office. They are a great group and to worry about getting students to a basketball game shouldn't be their problem. Instead, it should have been groups like UPC trying to push the issue. However, I am not surprised since it seems like UPC has really separated themselves from athletics lately. Honestly, I am not really here to bash certain groups. I think that no matter what was done, there was no big following from the start. Like someone mentioned earlier, it wasn't going to happen over night.

[Turbine]

The last AD allowed/created the 7 year void.

In collegiate sports the on campus fan base rolls over every 5 years.

Athletic Directors cannot allow a hippocampus gap in showing the fans you demand a winner.

A whole generation of fans were taught that basketball doesn't matter. It will take a selling job to prove to them it does.

[Oiler]

The last AD allowed/created the 7 year void.

In collegiate sports the on campus fan base rolls over every 5 years.

Athletic Directors cannot allow a hippocampus gap in showing the fans you demand a winner.

A whole generation of fans were taught that basketball doesn't matter. It will take a selling job to prove to them it does.

No amount of selling would have made a difference. Putting a consistent winner on the court is the only thing that is going to fill the Cajundome.