What's THis? Eat Lafayette, Sport Baton Rouge

[Turbine]

This might be the worst excuse for a newspaper article I have ever seen. Sorry Dan.

Since you graduated from UL last year and now work for NASA, I wanted to speak up for you.

I miss the UL sports articles you wrote in the Vermilion, they were always positive, had great angles and yes they made me want to go to the games. . . even more.

[Sonsissymia]

For a moment there, I thought that the person who titled this thread had the same unpleasant experience as I did Tuesday at Subway on Ambassador across from the Mall. (This may have happened at other area Subways as well, but the one on ambassador is where I just so happened to walk into on Tuesday for lunch).

I get in there, and the employee helping me out is wearing some Subway/LSU shirt. I make my comments about it and move on. Well then I see that the supersize cups for upsizing your combo has LSU crap all over it. So not only were subway employees wearing a shirt supporting another school that is NOT EVEN IN OUR CITY, but the shirt and cups were officially endorsed by Subway. Needless to say I wrote a double letter, one to the corporate office and one to the individual restaurant. Ticks me off....................

And as far as attendance goes, eventually we will get better crowds if our success continues to grow steady like it is. And when we manage to get a rare big crowd for a home game, and manage to win that game instead of layin a big fat egg, we'll really start doin better.

God Bless

GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can i keep wearing my Saints stuff--i mean, they're not in the city.
before the "we're talking colleges, and lsu isn't in lafayette and ul is" posters come back, save your time. i understand. but this is La. and lsu is in La. and you have to be big enuff not to begrudge La. people from wearing/selling what the heck they want to wear/sell.

[Sonsissymia]

Is the news on UL always so negative? Kind of worries me. In the comment section the players are referred to as the product that is not up to par. That in itself is just wrong. Has it gotten better here? I haven't read anything positive really. Perhaps that is part of the problem. Don't know. New to all of this.

ma'am, i think you're the mom who has a son coming to play on a uellell scholarship--that is great, having a child playing d1 football must be a dream come true. i wish for him great things.

about the negativity. unfortunately, insofar as football goes, the school is at the bottom of the barrel. it is the only "charter member" of d1 never to be in a d1 bowl game. the program's signature win, i mean the one they are still talking and gushing about, was over a 6-6 team from a decade ago. assuming uellell and troy win this weekend, i think the team will be the only one with 7 wins in the whole country NOT in a bowl game this year [might be wrong on that, and i'll defer to the resident research analyst, turbine, to correct me]. in the computer rankings, there's d2 teams ahead of them. with a winning season in the balance, jay walker says on the radio there couldn't have been many more than 6,000 people in the stadium saturday--that's not a good basketball crowd.

these are facts that are hard to spin, and there's no way to avoid at least some negativity in relation to same.

but the program is seemingly on the upswing, and if they win this sat and have 7 wins, it surely is. the lsu and a&m games were not winnable, despite the fantasies you may have read of on this site. therefore, as regards the games that were really in contest, they went 7-3, an excellent result by any measure unless a fan got seduced by the pre-season publications and were just set on nothing but a conference championship/bowl guarantee.

i predict your son will play on championship teams, and get to bowl games.

[El Sidonio]

can i keep wearing my Saints stuff--i mean, they're not in the city.
before the "we're talking colleges, and lsu isn't in lafayette and ul is" posters come back, save your time. i understand. but this is La. and lsu is in La. and you have to be big enuff not to begrudge La. people from wearing/selling what the heck they want to wear/sell.

You just don't seem to understand that 1.) LSU is not in Lafayette, 2.) Every university in this country depends on the support of the community, 3.) Saints represent the whole state (as LSU only wishes it did), and 4.) there's a huge difference between an individual choosing to support a particular school outside the city & a business who has responsibility to support the community that supports it, who still chooses to jump on the bandwagon and support another school.

Your reasoning is transparent at best. Have a good day sir.

God Bless

GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!!!

[evangelinetiger]

You just don't seem to understand that 1.) LSU is not in Lafayette, 2.) Every university in this country depends on the support of the community, 3.) Saints represent the whole state (as LSU only wishes it did), and 4.) there's a huge difference between an individual choosing to support a particular school outside the city & a business who has responsibility to support the community that supports it, who still chooses to jump on the bandwagon and support another school.

Your reasoning is transparent at best. Have a good day sir.

God Bless

GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!!!

The only people in lafayette that do not see LSU representing the whole state are insane nutjobs like the six or seven people on these forums. Businesses are supporting LSU b/c LSU is a top caliber program and it is profitable to support them. For every idoit that complains, there are probably ten that are supportive. When your fanbase can't even put 10k in the stadium when there is nothing else to do, then your program has WEAK support.

Believe what you want pepperfan, but LSU just came up with 32k ticket requests for the Rose Bowl (I booked my room and plane tickets this morning) and the peppers will not be able to sell 10k if they get a bowl bid.

[Kal]

For a moment there, I thought that the person who titled this thread had the same unpleasant experience as I did Tuesday at Subway on Ambassador across from the Mall. (This may have happened at other area Subways as well, but the one on ambassador is where I just so happened to walk into on Tuesday for lunch).

I get in there, and the employee helping me out is wearing some Subway/LSU shirt. I make my comments about it and move on. Well then I see that the supersize cups for upsizing your combo has LSU crap all over it. So not only were subway employees wearing a shirt supporting another school that is NOT EVEN IN OUR CITY, but the shirt and cups were officially endorsed by Subway. Needless to say I wrote a double letter, one to the corporate office and one to the individual restaurant. Ticks me off....................

And as far as attendance goes, eventually we will get better crowds if our success continues to grow steady like it is. And when we manage to get a rare big crowd for a home game, and manage to win that game instead of layin a big fat egg, we'll really start doin better.

God Bless

GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You think that's bad, try the same thing is happening at the subway across from Cajun Field. I sent emails as well. Its absolutely disgusting for them to do that since that location on Bertrand's business is mostly made up of UL students.

[evangelinetiger]

You think that's bad, try the same thing is happening at the subway across from Cajun Field. I sent emails as well. Its absolutely disgusting for them to do that since that location on Bertrand's business is mostly made up of UL students.

Most ULL students don't care about ULL aths. that is why there is less than a 1k of them at the games.

Pepperfan, time to know your place.

[RedCajun]

You think that's bad, try the same thing is happening at the subway across from Cajun Field. I sent emails as well. Its absolutely disgusting for them to do that since that location on Bertrand's business is mostly made up of UL students.

WTF? I go to that location often and have not seen that crap there. That is BS

[Clutch0364]

WTF? I go to that location often and have not seen that crap there. That is BS

They were giving out lsu cups.

[Kal]

WTF? I go to that location often and have not seen that crap there. That is BS

It was happening about a month ago which was the last time I was in there. I got so angry that I sent emails to the company and I swore I wouldn't go to that Subway anymore. So I'm not sure if they are still doing it, but they were not too long ago. The cups were endorsed by subway with the LSU football schedule on them.

[TGK4LSU]

You just don't seem to understand that 1.) LSU is not in Lafayette, 2.) Every university in this country depends on the support of the community, 3.) Saints represent the whole state (as LSU only wishes it did), and 4.) there's a huge difference between an individual choosing to support a particular school outside the city & a business who has responsibility to support the community that supports it, who still chooses to jump on the bandwagon and support another school.

Your reasoning is transparent at best. Have a good day sir.

God Bless

GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!!!

Nice attept to spin this issue. Now here is a dose of reality. Go anywhere in the country and ask the common sports fan what football/sports team do you associate with Louisiana. It won't be "UL" for sure and it won't be the Saints. It will be LSU. The Saints are more associated with New Orleans than Louisiana. Lafayette is in Louisiana and LSU is the favorite school of its citizens, like it or not. Lafayette is simular to other cities that house Universities in Louisiana. The University in that city will be most peoples second favorite school, with the exception of a few die hards. Businesses in the city and the media know this and aren't about to change for a few knuckleheads writing letters or boycotting them.

[CDeb]

Subway sucks anyway.

Old Tyme is the bomb.