Red Dot Club

[Zeebart21]

Hey, it's always better to run with the "young" crowd.

If you were a Red Dot, then we must know each other... I know Cliff, Marty, and some of those other knuckleheads...

Z.

[Geaux clotille]

Whoever wants to do it again, just call them the "Red Spots" or make it a line across the front of the shirt and call them the "Red Line."

How's that work for you?

[gorcajun]

I have never been a "Red Dot". But the posting is reminiscent of many years ago at Acadiana High School. On football Fridays, there was always a Mass to start the day. We had pretty good attendance considering the wide spectrum of players. Most players attended with the numbered jerseys and then went on to school.

With those two items in mind, the promotion & marketing (let me say it louder) PROMOTION & MARKETING, (I still cannot hear you), PROMOTION & MARKETING OF THE RED DOTS INDICATING THAT THERE IS A GAME TODAY/TONIGHT.

WHO WOULD ASK "WHY ARE YOU WEARING THAT RED DOT SHIRT AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"

[ljr3721]

I wore my red dot shirt to work that day. Out of about 10 people who commented on it, about seven thought it was a Japanese flag. The rest thought it was the 7-up dot. Now they know...

By the way, it's not an original red dot shirt...it's from a promotion (by SGA perhaps) from about 8-10 years ago. And yes, that is me in Turbine's picture.

[DaddyCajun]

A group of us had a serious talk about bring back the Red Dots or starting some sort of club for students at the basketball games. I don't think we can be known as the Red Dots because it would hard to live up to the expectations of being a Red Dot. Any suggestions?

Several years ago a few sponsors bought some of these shirts, like a 1000 or so and would shoot them into the crowd, I still have mine will wear them at the next home game!!!

DaddyCajun

[reddot]

If you were a Red Dot, then we must know each other... I know Cliff, Marty, and some of those other knuckleheads...

Z.

Z,
Knucklehead! I resemble that statement. The t-shirts were bought at Good
Hope printing for 50 cents. We first wore them to a road game at UNO.
The game was broadcast back to Lafayette from the Chamber of Horrors.
We got a good bit of airtime that nite(plus they sold beer there in a side
classroom).
So I guess you could say:
Red dot shirt...... 50 cents
Cold Beer........... 1 buck
Pulling for the Cajuns with your best buds..... Priceless

[Zeebart21]

Z,
Knucklehead! I resemble that statement. The t-shirts were bought at Good
Hope printing for 50 cents. We first wore them to a road game at UNO.
The game was broadcast back to Lafayette from the Chamber of Horrors.
We got a good bit of airtime that nite(plus they sold beer there in a side
classroom).
So I guess you could say:
Red dot shirt...... 50 cents
Cold Beer........... 1 buck
Pulling for the Cajuns with your best buds..... Priceless

I know dude, I have been corrected numerous times.... My apologies!

ya'll kicked sss...

Z.

[reddot]

I know dude, I have been corrected numerous times.... My apologies!

ya'll kicked sss...

Z.

no apology needed...I took it as a compliment

We had some fun ...I remember the night we took over
the Lake Charles Civic Center....we were so good we were bad
..or is it so bad we were good

[cypremort]

If you were a Red Dot, then we must know each other... I know Cliff, Marty, and some of those other knuckleheads...

Z.

Know the names but don't know them personally. Ronnie Owens is the person who gave a few of us in SGA the shirts back in the mid-80s and we started sitting with the group.

By the way, I am just getting back from Chicago late last night. It was snowing and the low was 15 in St. Charles (on the Fox River). Glad to be back where it is just in the 40s!

[NewsCopy]

It all started very innocently, and like most college students and those just out of college, it happened out of economic necessity. At the start, the guys and gals who made up the "Red Dots" didn't know that they were creating the most famous clothing items in the University of Louisiana's athletic history. "It was only going to be a one-time deal," said Rich Jenks, who along with Cliff Broussard unwittingly became the founders of a loosely-knit organization that became as recognizable in Blackham Coliseum as sawdust floors and Bo Lamar. For several seasons, the "Red Dots" were the unofficial ambassadors of mayhem in the Blackham stands, constantly coming up with new ways to show their support of the Ragin' Cajun basketball team, capture the attention of Cajun fans and bedevil the unsuspecting opposition. "We had a group of people that always sat together," Jenks said. "We were caddy-cornered from where the football players sat and gave the other coach a hard time. It was a good mix." "It was a bunch of guys that had been going to the games for a while," Broussard said. "We'd go out and have a good time." Jenks and Broussard celebrated Cajun basketball along with Randy Morgan, Marty Levasseur, Tim Stafford, Danny Fontenot, Gary Hebert, Tim Viator, Rex Moore (later of local television sports fame) and several others. Assorted girl friends and future wives ("If we had dates, they'd come with us," Jenks said) were part of the crew. They were all just fans, boisterous but anonymous, until a weekend in January of 1982 when several of those friends were planning a trip to watch USL play the University of New Orleans in UNO's dreaded "Chamber of Horrors" gym. Jenks and Broussard were driving in north Lafayette one day before the game, and passed a place called Good Hope Printing which was advertising $1 T-shirts. "There was a festival in Savannah, Ga., and they were printing shirts for them," Jenks said, "but they got the dates mixed up and the shirts didn't get printed until the festival was over. There they were with all those shirts, so they just put this big giant red dot on them and were selling them for a dollar. We couldn't miss that." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[Crowley Cajun]

The Reddots should be brought back. It would be great to see them again in Blackham and then move them to the dome.

[oddtbone]

In respect to a "club" for students that go to bball games, I have recently been exposed to another method used to get students to games. I am in my first semester of grad work at umiami(fl), and they have a decent promotional tool for students. Like they have done at UL for a while, they give out shirts to the students at the first home game. The catch is that you also get a punch card, that gets punched for every game you attend. On the back of the card is a list of incentives recieved for the amount of puches that you have. Most of them are 10% discounts on pizza, oil changes, dry cleaning, etc, but as the number of games goes up, they get to some decent stuff. The last three, which are for 20-25 games attended, you get entered in a raffle to win a hotel stay and a plane ticket for the 25th game. I think this is a pretty good idea to get a few more students to games, though we have not had enough home games for me to really judge how well it works. A big plus is that the (recently sponsored) bank united center is on campus, so i can just walk over after class and catch the games.