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

[Boomer]

Boomer could ring the fight song on the bell. Then we could hear what it is supposed to sound like.

----Hey, remember the old organs at the ball parks??? Just thinking my k-board and between innings??? Correct--correct fight song!!! lol

[MelRock]

----Hey, remember the old organs at the ball parks??? Just thinking my k-board and between innings??? Correct--correct fight song!!! lol

I would pay to have you play at baseball games.

[Stabil123]

This suggestion has always made me cringe. I'd rather not have the university be Nazis towards tailgating. We want to be "big time"? The big time programs don't do this.

Big mistake, some of the tail gaters who don't go in just might be significant RCAF doners. Do we want to drive them away, we just need to broaden our base, you do that by winning

[cajunfan337]

This suggestion has always made me cringe. I'd rather not have the university be Nazis towards tailgating. We want to be "big time"? The big time programs don't do this.

Big time programs also have tailgaters who don't go in. 2 things separate us:

1.) More often then not the huge majority of those tailgating outside the stadium simply can't get tickets
2.) The minority of those tailgating outside is a small percentage in the overall attendance compared to a moderate percentage of attendance with us.

I'll just go a step further and say having some 30 minute pre-game mandate for people either make their way into the stadium or leave the grounds is short-sighted and dumb.

Well what is your plan? Calling something dumb is not really constructive.

Technically, the parking lot/spots are reserved for tailgating before and after games, not during. There's been a problem over the years of people loitering around and stealing things out of ice chests as well as ice chests themselves. Cajun Field does not have enough Security personnel to monitor people still outside the stadium while the game is going on.

You want to tailgate all day and drink to your hearts content? Absolutely not a problem! We'd also love it if you make your way to the stadium 30 minutes prior to kickoff. If you don't feel like going to the game or you just want to drink and watch other football games, that's commendable but that can be done at any bars in the area.

[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.