Cajuns hoops crowds top SBC

[Boomer]

False economy is a fact. The naysayers would argue not.

I ran a very successful retail business for a decade. I did not make marketing and promotion decisions on a small sample.

That's exactly what Farmer does when he said bigger names don't result in bigger crowds. You have to build your fan base one game at a time. Good ball vs good teams will build a Pavlovian stimulus and the fans will come.

----Well, finally we have a reason for that ugly "BELL TOWER"----Ring it and they will come!!!! lol

[CajunEXPRESS]

I ❤️ The tower. Don't be dissing her.

[LaCajunsFan]

I ❤️ The tower. Don't be dissing her.

I do too.

[ulXrunner]

Need to find a way to harness the students. Not sure how though!

[BabbForHeisman]

False economy is a fact. The naysayers would argue not.

I ran a very successful retail business for a decade. I did not make marketing and promotion decisions on a small sample.

That's exactly what Farmer does when he said bigger names don't result in bigger crowds. You have to build your fan base one game at a time. Good ball vs good teams will build a Pavlovian stimulus and the fans will come.

Totally agree. Kansas State on a Friday night got us, what 18K. Southern gets us capacity crowd. That doesn't mean we should schedule I-AA teams to maximize the crowds.

[VObserver]

Totally agree. Kansas State on a Friday night got us, what 18K. Southern gets us capacity crowd. That doesn't mean we should schedule I-AA teams to maximize the crowds.

1. Southern is an anomaly.

2. You don't build attendance with visiting fans, you build it by playing teams your fans [and local sports fans in general] want to see. [And by winning, which should be obvious.]

[BirdofParadise]

False economy is a fact. The naysayers would argue not.

I ran a very successful retail business for a decade. I did not make marketing and promotion decisions on a small sample.

That's exactly what Farmer does when he said bigger names don't result in bigger crowds. You have to build your fan base one game at a time. Good ball vs good teams will build a Pavlovian stimulus and the fans will come.

In basketball, this has proven to be a fallacy in modern times.

In the Evans era, we drew fewer than 4,000 fans for Mississippi State.
A nationally ranked Tennesse team came in and drew just over 5,000
Last year Louisiana Tech, coming off a 26 win season and a long time rival, drew 800 more fans than Louisiana College.

It has gotten to the point in the deep South that basketball season doesn't begin until after the bowl season is over. That isn't just here. That's all around the deep south, even with some schools in P5 conferences.

The numbers don't lie.

[CrazyCajun]

Win streaks bring people.., we had what about 8k for Denver towards the end if that win streak marlin's first year? And we were fighting to get to .500

[CajunEXPRESS]

In basketball, this has proven to be a fallacy in modern times.

In the Evans era, we drew fewer than 4,000 fans for Mississippi State.
A nationally ranked Tennesse team came in and drew just over 5,000
Last year Louisiana Tech, coming off a 26 win season and a long time rival, drew 800 more fans than Louisiana College.

It has gotten to the point in the deep South that basketball season doesn't begin until after the bowl season is over. That isn't just here. That's all around the deep south, even with some schools in P5 conferences.

The numbers don't lie.

You totally missed the point. Let me put it to you in a language you are familiar with "radio" !

Worst advertising medium I used. Then I started using it in much smaller bites. Name
/and type of products recognition instead of sales specials. That worked great.

You will not bring them back with one team a year and two none division ones. You have to invest over and over again like I did with radio.

You and Farmer can point out failed individual events all you want. Nobody cares at all about Louisiana College unless you lose to them. For sure that strategy has resulted in smaller and smaller core fan base.

[CajunRebel]

What would you do differently Express?