How much $ does it take to buy a quality home game?

[CajunRebel]

The real question is how many season ticket holders are you willing to lose by year after year putting horrible home schedules together? What part of the budget? Basketballs part... Marlins pocket, I don't really care..figure it out. As a program they owe it to the supporters to bring in some better games.

How many season ticket holders do you think we lose out on because our out of conference schedule is weak?

[ManAboutTown]

How many season ticket holders do you think we lose out on because our out of conference schedule is weak?

Home schedule as a whole***

[CajunT]

The real question is how much money are you willing to lose by inviting quality opponents to the Cajundome. And what part of the athletic budget are you willing to take that money from? And if someone chimes in saying they can raise the money, who around here is willing to pay <100k to see Houston play in the Cajundome?

Easy question to answer Cajun Rebel, UL is not making money in athletics. So it's no different then football or any other sport. Go out and raise the money, just like every other coach. No one said it will be easy, but it's something that is required of every head coach in the program.

[CrazyCajun]

How many season ticket holders do you think we lose out on because our out of conference schedule is weak?

Are we breaking season ticket sales records? Like we are in other sports?

[BirdofParadise]

I've said it many times. History will bear me out.

In the last 20 years, attendance for home basketball games before January 1 is bad no matter who you bring in.

In another thread, MAT talks about Tennessee and Nevada. Tennessee was a top ten team and we had to play them three for one. We drew fewer than 6,000 fans. Nevada drew less than 5,000. The last SEC team before Tennessee was Mississippi State. We didn't draw 4,000.

The hypothesis that a better schedule equals decidedly better attendance is a myth. The numbers don't lie.

[ManAboutTown]

Financially, I get the trade off. But if people don't think that dull home slate after dull home slate won't affect the long term interest in basketball, I don't know what to say. It's killing us.

[Turbine]

Does anyone recall the marketing effort exerted for Tennessee, Nevada and Mississippi State games.

[IberiaCajun]

FWIW
http://www.ragincajuns.com/sports/20...ME.aspx?id=501
"The largest crowd to date for a Ragin’ Cajuns basketball game in the facility came on Dec. 16, 1992, when 11,479 fans watched UL defeat Loyola- Marymount, 87-73."
"The 11-game win-streak to end the 2010-11 season (Marlin's first year, if I am not mistaken) rejuvenated the fan base and attendance at the Cajundome rose to an average of 6,126 the final month."

[BirdofParadise]

Financially, I get the trade off. But if people don't think that dull home slate after dull home slate won't affect the long term interest in basketball, I don't know what to say. It's killing us.

I'm going to disagree. Our fans haven't paid much attention to hoops before Jan. 1 in many years. Game vs. App State drew more than games vs. McNeese or UNO. And, those are schools we should draw against no matter what.

If you pay a team 80,,000 to come in and you only sell 500 more tickets, is it worth it?

Because you're not going to "buy" a big name team. If they aren't SWAC or SLC they probably aren't coming.

Honestly, I'd like to see us start playing the teams that left the league: Middle, WKU or UNT. Middle considered it this year, then passed. They've started some dialogue with WKU. North Texas won't even return their calls. Neither will Southern Miss.

Heck, I'd even be willing to start home and home with FIU and FAU again.

[CrazyCajun]

Current season ticket holders deserve bette than
Mississippi college
Louisiana college
Spring hill
Loyola
I don't car how you try to justify it, people that pay to be entertained deserve better. Yes, I think the SLC and even the swac are better than those schools.

[Just1More]

Sorry if this is a dumb question... but can you do like you do in conference play and play an OOC opponent in a home and away in the same season?

[BirdofParadise]

Sorry if this is a dumb question... but can you do like you do in conference play and play an OOC opponent in a home and away in the same season?

Yes, and we've done it in the past. I remember doing it with Bradley one year. And, we did it with someone else more recently if I recall.