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    Default Re: Lawmakers upset that Ragin' Cajuns snubbed by Independence Bowl

    Quote Originally Posted by Arkstfan View Post
    _ The theory when government funds tourist attractions is to bring visitors, preferrably from out-of-state but if it can keep in-state residents from taking dollars to other states then that is good.

    Northern Illinois will do well to bring a 1,000 fans. Each of those fans will have to spend in excess of $8,000 each in Shreveport/Bossier to recover the state's investment. If you count trapped dollars, ie. Tech fans spending in Louisiana rather than elsewhere and it attracts a total of 28,000 (20,000 Tech, 1,000 NIU, 7,000 local) each fan still has to spend $320.53 per person. If you aren't staying in a hotel that's a hard number to hit.

    By contrast the Cajuns or Red Wolves would have easily brought 10,000, most would have been in hotel rooms and reduced the recovery point to $242.57 per person. With hotels generally requiring a three day stay, that number is very easy to hit.

    More importantly it exposes a group of people to the region who logically are targets to become repeat visitors, especially the Arkansas crowd who tends to visit Mississippi for its casino experience rather than north Louisiana despite very similar drive times in central Arkansas. _
    I had a room reserved at Harrah's. It was only for 1 night but it was around $180 +tax. I'm sure my 2 days there would have cost me around $500 plus gambling losses. If the family would have decided to come it would have been closer to $1000. Oh well.

  2. Default Trade Shreveport


      The decision to ignore the UL Ragin' Cajuns when picking teams for the Independence Bowl proves what I have long said. The bowl game is in Shreveport, right? Shreveport is a fair to middling town but has more of a Texas flavor than does Lafayette and other great municipalities. Long ago, someone advocated trading Shreveport to Texas for Port Arthur. What a great idea, then and now.

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  3. #73

    Default Re: Lawmakers upset UL snubbed by Independence Bowl

    Northern Illinois will do well to bring a 1,000 fans.

    Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!


  4. Default Personal foul: Bowl whining


      The political football is being kicked around again, and that's never good.

    This time it literally is about football, as state Sen. Mike Michot said the PetroSun Independence Bowl's decision to invite Northern Illinois University, rather than the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is "a slap in the face to our university and to Louisiana taxpayers."

    Michot, who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said because the state gives $359,160 annually to the bowl game, it is obliged to invite teams from Louisiana.

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    Just1More's Avatar Just1More is offline Ragin Cajuns of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Greatest Fan Ever

    Default Re: University of Louisiana Snubbed

    How dare UL or Mike Michot question the integrity of the Indy Bowl!!! How dare! And how about all of those "volunteers"? Shout Out! This "big charity" function in Shreveport that donates to the Women's... the Children's... the Homeless... ahhhhh... the Shreveport Casinos (the economy gets a cut... the state gets a cut... the rest goes out of state)... is one of the most heralded of all bowl events "in the Nation".

    Do any of these journalists have even a smidgen of pride anymore. Not only has Mike Michot and those who represent constituents in Lafayette questioned the judgement of the Indy... but many will be pleased to know that other state legislatures (outside of Acadiana) have agreed to the audit. They aren't joining UL's claim of a snub... but given the data... they too think it warrants evaluation.

    The Huskies need to have over 7500 fans invade Shreveport, with cash flowing like a geyser, in order to squelch the audit. We shall see... we shall see.


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