CONTEST: Best ideas for getting more people into the stadium on game day

[Just1More]

We do more damage than good harassing tailgaters that don't come into the game. Our program screwed itself by not having the best product possible inside the stadium for a decade and more. It created a culture of staying at the tailgates. That's a hard thing to break - eating, drinking, socializing. I'd look for ways to promote tailgaters into CF. Winning is obvious.

I wish Hud had the time before kickoff to walk through very specific known large tailgates and ask them to attend the game. I used to think we should do a live cam deal where a former well known football player would walk around and ask people (well after kickoff) why they aren't inside. We tell these people that we're posting the videos on the big screen as part of a future halftime presentation, unless we see way less of this behavior. But again, I don't think negative selling works.

[CajunNation]

Go around selling 50/50 tickets to the tailgaters. Must be in the stadium to win.

[Lexhead]

Go around selling 50/50 tickets to the tailgaters. Must be in the stadium to win.

Stamp a number on each program book and use that for the drawing. Increase the price of the program book by $1 and use that money for the drawing. (But I suppose there is nothing preventing some enterprising future CFO from selling the program book to tailgators outside of the stadium.)

[Turbine]

"Swamp Stories"

3 hours at 2' below sea level is something to tell your friends about.

[Lexhead]

"Swamp Stories"

3 hours at 2' below sea level is something to tell your friends about.

This has the makings of an excellent bumper sticker.

"I survived 3 hours at 2' below sea level

The Swamp

Louisiana Football"

[Turbine]

A verifiable ticket scanning system.

Over time, tailgate groups who prove their tickets were used move closer to the stadium.

Non game attendees slide to the fringes.

[Redgineer]

Ticket winners get a chance to wrestle a bull alligator in The Swamp while wearing Samurai blow-up suits. All at 2' below sea level.

[Duckster]

Send some staffers around pregame taking photos of folks tailgating telling them pictures of tailgaters are being 'posted' on the video board instead of the silly cartoon car race. Then tell'm "see you at the game". Better yet let students post their own pics. Subject to editing of course. Most like to see themselves on TV or better yet a loved one! Kids, babies, etc. showing these fan pictures throughout the game when there is time to do so. Hokey, but it might pull in a few more photogenic UL fans.

[BabbForHeisman]

There is never going to be a way to force people into the game. Rather than force, you have to entice them to want to come into the game early.

As an example, why is Tiger Stadium always full prior to kickoff? It's not because they love football more than we do. It's because no one wants to miss the band's entrance on to the field.

We need something like that. I don't know what it is, but we need it.

[Ragin9221]

We can not shame people, or guilt people into submission, the reason why the band goes around the tailgating area is to remind people that they need to go in, but that doesn't compute to the average tailgater.

We just need a signal telling people that the game is about to start, and they need to start heading towards the gate (Air Raid Siren).

I say we take the Alligator out of the swamp and parade him around Cajun Field. That could be our live mascot.