Gates to the Swamp ( SwampGate Project )

[RaginCajunEQM]

all they have left is 2 more gates like that

they should just do it !

[DaddyCajun]

Gerald has said, that he has TWO sponsors for the gates that are up that should sign the 5 year contracts at $12,500/year soon. As soon as one signs Gerald will take some of the money and match with the monies raised by you guys and start construction.

I agree there should have been some way to start the projects so they are finished by football season and would then avail opportunity to TWO additional sponsors.

Gerald will get a phone call Monday A.M. from me to belabor that point exactly!!!


Dan Hare of the Alumni association and I caught up with one another Thursday and he agreed to start a call team at the Alumni Phone bank to raise the MATCHING money from Alumni!


DaddyCajun!!!!

[Turbine]

DaddyCajun (Troy Sonnier) contacted Dan Hare Thursday to talk about the Alumni Association matching the funds raised though the Univerity of Louisiana fan message boards.

Dan Hare came up with the idea of establishing a phone bank team to contact alumi with the goal being to match or exceed the Delphi and RaginPagin fundraising push for the SwampGate project.

[Turbine]

Sorry DaddyCajun I had clicked Post Reply a half hour ago but didn't click submit till just now so I didn't see your post.

There is a link to a Dan Hare page

[Oldman]

it was very dissapointing to see how little support at the stadium (volunteer workers)this past weekend, here i thought people were getting excited about the program and was willing to help......silly me, where is my brain or wait! where am i? but it's the same old thing we are going to wait until they win, no need helping out losers, after all there's no pride, no drive, no attitude, don't worry.....someone else will do it, or i made a donation why should i go out there! i guest i get worked up over the same old thing nothing changes here status quo, how foolish of me.....sorry!

[CajunNation]

Originally posted by oldman
it was very dissapointing to see how little support at the stadium (volunteer workers)this past weekend, here i thought people were getting excited about the program and was willing to help......silly me, where is my brain or wait! where am i? but it's the same old thing we are going to wait until they win, no need helping out losers, after all there's no pride, no drive, no attitude, don't worry.....someone else will do it, or i made a donation why should i go out there! i guest i get worked up over the same old thing nothing changes here status quo, how foolish of me.....sorry!

Do you understand how bush league "volunteer days" are? Now, this is not a put down on you or the people who showed up with you or the previous "volunteer" weekend. You guys are exemplary fans.

This is a knock on the University. Small upkeep type work for a 1-A university should be done and paid for by the university. End of story.

Many people won't show up because of this. Even when we are winning year in and year out, people won't show up for things like this.

[RedBug58]

I respectfully disagree.
I've been to almost all of the work days and see many people taking ownership in our school and facilities. There were close to 200 people out on the first work day, mostly painting the student side of the stadium, the red zone, murals, and other areas. It was extremely successful.

It was a beautiful sight that day when Coach Robe asked for a little help in dismanteling the left field bleachers. About 100 or so guys showed up with close to 10 compressors and air tools. It was gone in less than 5 hours.

There were several other occasions where volunteers performed work to get things done quickly to help UL move along faster and allow the money saved to go into recruiting. I understand your feelings this year though. We didn't have 200....we had less than half of that. I see 2 reasons. 1) All the hype was not there from the big coaching change of 2 years ago. 2) It was the weekend before the start of school in Lafayette Parish. (also, it was publicized, but not far enough ahead of time & there were no "banner/impact" type projects)

Hey, I know where you want to be, but we can get there a lot quicker with volunteer help from the community at this point. I think picking the right date & the right kind of communication will improve the event. And,Yes, you are correct, winning is a huge part of the solution.

[DestinCajun]

"I've been to almost all of the work days and see many people taking ownership in our school and facilities."

You nailed it, 'bug. I was very happy to be at them too and maybe more people simply need to figure out the true value of these opportunities.

[Turbine]

I think volunteer days are the coolest.

I also think there was virtually no promo of this past saturday. Voluteer days should have no less than 3 weeks of buildup.

People will not show up out of the blue.

[RaginFan2]

Oldman, I share your sense of disappointment. I have been to one volunteer day this year and one last year. I didn't go this past weekend. The reason I don't go more often is I live in Mandeville and it's about a 2+ hour drive. Also this past weekend I a commitment for a fund raiser for my son to go to the National Boy Scout Jamboree next summer. I would love to be able to go the each volunteer day, plus the QB Club, and other UL events. But it is tough to do living so far from Lafayette. I'm sure many people living in Lafayette also have to deal with conflicting schedules as well. I know many LSU fans who also have such conflicts and can't make it to events they'd like to go to. However, they have hundreds of thousands of fans, so the missing folks aren't too noticeable. We are dealing with more like tens of thousands of fans, so missing people are much more apparent.