New Seating for 2014 Football Season

[RaginScotsman]

Totally related.

Kicking the students out of the traditional Red Zone was silly bordering on stupid. The move slowly but surely hurt student attendance.

It also stopped the new end zone bowl from filling up.

It killed the passion behind the opponents bench.

And while it is a stretch it may have cost UL a win vs LA Tech and App State. I say that because I know for a fact that the student section has rattled opponents in the past, so it may not be as big of a stretch at that.

jmo

That's one thing that made Cajun Field a difficult place to play. The opposing team was surrounded by students and could not get away from them. You could see players and students jawing at one another. Now, the players can just sit further down on the bench. While I'm all for making money by selling those seats, we lost a great tradition and good advantage in the process.

[CajunRebel]

That's one thing that made Cajun Field a difficult place to play. The opposing team was surrounded by students and could not get away from them. You could see players and students jawing at one another. Now, the players can just sit further down on the bench. While I'm all for making money by selling those seats, we lost a great tradition and good advantage in the process.

The thing is, there are some people on the first row of the new season ticket section who tried to keep the tradition alive and jaw at the players. Unfortunately, a few fans complained and the game day staff told them they couldn't yell at the players anymore. I couldn't beleive what I was hearing.

[zephyr]

I assume that most of the seats in the middle of the home side (chair backs)are for season ticket holders. And every game I look across from the student section and see those seats empty. I think it's time for a change. It's like those seats are never filled. What's the deal? I think at the beginning of every season the box office should look at the season tickets from the year before. If it shows that those tickets of season ticket holders were not scanned for at least "x" amount of games, they don't get those tickets back and somebody else can buy them. It is complete BS that we can't put 30K in the stadium every Saturday. And I am tired of looking across and seeing these awesome seats in the middle of the field not used. You can't make the game? Find somebody to give them to. If you're not going to go to the games, don't buy the tickets.

I see a lot more empty seats on the student side than the home side. I thought I had the answers to why we don't fill our stadium any better than what we do but I realized its a guessing game at this point. I walked outside at halftime to get something out of my truck and couldn't tell you how many people I saw sitting in groups at their tailgate just drinking and having a good ole time. Why even go to cajun field if you aren't going to go in?

[johnnyusa3000]

UL beat Arkansas State this year and they were "rattled", even went after a guy's knee at the end. How "rattled" was Arkansas State in 2012 when the students were behind them and UL got destroyed?
It's about the other side of the stadium and our players being ready to play, a few idiots yelling at the opposing team pales in comparison to Hud and crew getting them ready to play.

[johnnyusa3000]

The thing is, there are some people on the first row of the new season ticket section who tried to keep the tradition alive and jaw at the players. Unfortunately, a few fans complained and the game day staff told them they couldn't yell at the players anymore. I couldn't beleive what I was hearing.

You are watching a game and some classless Cajun fan has a beer and is yelling at the opposing players, looking like some kind of ape. Those mouth-breathing fools do not represent most Cajun fans. Yelling like an animal at student athletes? Totally pathetic! These guys should buy a purple shirt, a pack of corn dogs and head to the games in Baton Rouge.

[CajunRebel]

You are watching a game and some classless Cajun fan has a beer and is yelling at the opposing players, looking like some kind of ape. Those mouth-breathing fools do not represent most Cajun fans. Yelling like an animal at student athletes? Totally pathetic! These guys should buy a purple shirt, a pack of corn dogs and head to the games in Baton Rouge.

LOL. My two young kids were sitting right next to me. If they had said anything off color or offensive I would have been the first person to speak up and tell them to cut it out. But they didn't.

I'll never understand the people who get upset at people who yell at a football game.

[CajunRebel]

I see a lot more empty seats on the student side than the home side. I thought I had the answers to why we don't fill our stadium any better than what we do but I realized its a guessing game at this point. I walked outside at halftime to get something out of my truck and couldn't tell you how many people I saw sitting in groups at their tailgate just drinking and having a good ole time. Why even go to cajun field if you aren't going to go in?

It's not hard to figure out. The product on the field isn't good enough to make people want to go into the stadium.