UL-Southern a sellout!! 41,357 attend!!

[TravlnCajun]

_ it's a good problem to have to solve. _

Slight correction...Its the best problem to have to solve. Here's to crowding issues next week for K-State too

[Just1More]

_ This 4 oclock arrival needs to be a thing of the past...Brick needs to get his sssss in gear....noon eta for you guys.

Z _

You're right... it's shameful... but, like I told you on the phone, it was 4pm EST (where you were)... it was 3pm here. Still shameful... I know. Brick's always got some kind of kid juggling thing going on. I'm going to get out there a lot earlier this coming Saturday.

[CharlieK]

Also nice to see people at the top of the sections checking tickets to make sure you belonged in that area. It was nice not to have to shoo people out of my spot.

Great game. QB looked great, RB play was spirited, defense was OK after 1st quarter. I'm hoping we just took out enough to win on the defense, and we blitz more against K-State.

I liked when Sails busted the safety (or LB not sure) at the end of one of his runs near the goal line. I think he gave blew the t-train wistle after that one too!

Awesome crowd, awesome halftime show. We should schedule them every year.

[Zeebart21]

You're right... it's shameful... but, like I told you on the phone, it was 4pm EST (where you were)... it was 3pm here. Still shameful... I know. Brick's always got some kind of kid juggling thing going on. I'm going to get out there a lot earlier this coming Saturday.

Look forward to seeing you!!

[LuLu]

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I, too, would wish that we could have 41,000 at each home game. However, we had a very unique situation last night.

#1 Many people there were there to see the Southern band. Evidenced of the exodus after half time. Yet, they did come in and they did pay for a ticket. How many other teams will bring a band that will have such a draw?

#2 Southern is one hour away. There is a big Southern fan base in Acadiana. Did you notice the number of blue shirts in the stadium? They took up most of the Red Zone. They were on the hill, they were on the press box side. They were everywhere. The red shirts were a plenty, but take out the blue shirts and how many red shirts came to the game?

#3 LSU was playing away, but on tv at 9:30. This is the farthest that LSU has ever been to play football. How many games will they have at home and/or on tv at the same time as our games?

Don't get carried away. This was a very special and unique situation. In all probability, it will not happen again this season, or maybe ever. Do not build a 50K stadium for a one time unique situation.

[cajun4life]

Hope we had some talented high school seniors for recruiting purposes, it doesn't get better than that. _

I have heard that we had up to 70 potential recruits at the game. I think it went a long way in the perception of the program for those juniors and seniors that were at the game.

[cajun4life]

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I, too, would wish that we could have 41,000 at each home game. However, we had a very unique situation last night.

#1 Many people there were there to see the Southern band. Evidenced of the exodus after half time. Yet, they did come in and they did pay for a ticket. How many other teams will bring a band that will have such a draw?

#2 Southern is one hour away. There is a big Southern fan base in Acadiana. Did you notice the number of blue shirts in the stadium? They took up most of the Red Zone. They were on the hill, they were on the press box side. They were everywhere. The red shirts were a plenty, but take out the blue shirts and how many red shirts came to the game?

#3 LSU was playing away, but on tv at 9:30. This is the farthest that LSU has ever been to play football. How many games will they have at home and/or on tv at the same time as our games?

Don't get carried away. This was a very special and unique situation. In all probability, it will not happen again this season, or maybe ever. Do not build a 50K stadium for a one time unique situation. _

Your right, you do not build a 50,000 seat stadium for a one time deal. But in the past 3 seasons we have topped 95% of capacity for 4 games. We do need to expand and you are foolish to think we shouldn't.

You're a big softball fan right? Well why are we rebuilding in softball? We never fill it to capacity unless we are playing LSU at home. But we are still undergoing a complete ground up rebuild. The reason is simple, it is time to upgrade. Recruits and fans want better facilities. The same goes with football.

It is time we get serious about football and build to meet our expectations. Bowl the tunnel endzone, remodel the current upperdeck and build a matching upperdeck on the students side. Raise capacity to around 45,000.

[ULGrad@HOU]

_ I have heard that we had up to 70 potential recruits at the game. I think it went a long way in the perception of the program for those juniors and seniors that were at the game. _

Wow, that would be great if we had that many. The more that was able to see it, the better. Maybe we can snag a couple of those hard-to-sign guys.

[billbeck451]

My observsations of this weekend, the campus looks better than I have seen it in many years, the cajun field area looks greatly improved also. These things go a long way to impressing people who come to the area. The fans were outstanding, I did not see any problems before or during the game. I sat in the student section and it was one of the larger student attended games that I've seen in a while. the hospitality in the tailgating was great as always and I am greatful to all of the people who make me feel welcome when I come to town. Parking was almost full when I arrived a 12 which showed the interest in the game and people were tailgating everywhere. I did not do any concessions but the lines did not seem overly long for the number of people. All of the Southern fans seemed to be well behaved and one of the most impressive things was how clean the tailgating areas were this morning when I drove through with the exception of the student tailgating area. I am looking forward to the next trip to my second home city with the family in tow next time

[ATXCajun]

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I, too, would wish that we could have 41,000 at each home game. However, we had a very unique situation last night.

#1 Many people there were there to see the Southern band. Evidenced of the exodus after half time. Yet, they did come in and they did pay for a ticket. How many other teams will bring a band that will have such a draw?

#2 Southern is one hour away. There is a big Southern fan base in Acadiana. Did you notice the number of blue shirts in the stadium? They took up most of the Red Zone. They were on the hill, they were on the press box side. They were everywhere. The red shirts were a plenty, but take out the blue shirts and how many red shirts came to the game?

#3 LSU was playing away, but on tv at 9:30. This is the farthest that LSU has ever been to play football. How many games will they have at home and/or on tv at the same time as our games?

Don't get carried away. This was a very special and unique situation. In all probability, it will not happen again this season, or maybe ever. Do not build a 50K stadium for a one time unique situation. _

Dr. Authement, is that you? Stop trying to cement our boots.

I have no stake or opinion regarding stadium expansion at this time. However, this post basically says "the Cajuns will never put a winning product on the field, ever." If you believe they can, then you know that even 50k won't be enough. It's ok to believe. Try it. You might even find it empowering.

More to the point, nobody builds a stadium based on a one-time unique situation. It gets built for the future, based on expectation.