2016 NO Bowl Ticket Sales?

[CajunAmos]

Call it like I see it buddy. Very encouraging news on all fronts. And that's coming from King of the Cynical.

I've got a story for you about Alden and Gary Pinkle. I'll pass along in NOLA. It'll fire you up.

Maybe Mel will pass it on to me.

[ManAboutTown]

THIS is why you get so damn upset all the time. 3 years from now when we aren't in an access bowl you'll want to fire everyone in sight once again because we didn't miraculously rise to elite status.

Among numerous other posts, you just stated on this board that Farmer deserves "praise" for the Tigue. I can not think of a more ___ backwards statement. Now you, hilariously, find something wrong with me, the eternal "pessismist", saying things are headed in the right direction?

And you wonder why you get swatted around here like a housewife on Lifetime channel...

David F? Is that you????

[cajun4life]

THIS is why you get so damn upset all the time. 3 years from now when we aren't in an access bowl you'll want to fire everyone in sight once again because we didn't miraculously rise to elite status.

The bar for the program is 8-4 in the regular season. If you fail to do that then you are failing. Good scheduling and luck could place us in the access bowl.

[TheFan]

Russians

That's the answer to a lot right now...

[ZoomZoom]

That's the answer to a lot right now...

Didn't they bomb Pearl Harbor???

[Ragin4U]

Didn't they bomb Pearl Harbor???

Germans

[Cajun90]

Germans

Well whoever it was they ended up being nothing but a bunch of zeros......

[Just1More]

THIS is why you get so damn upset all the time. 3 years from now when we aren't in an access bowl you'll want to fire everyone in sight once again because we didn't miraculously rise to elite status.

You would make a perfect anchor person on MSNBC. You've become a loon.

[UL_Cajuns]

That is very much a part of it. I want more Cajun supporters to buy tickets and show up. But there were a multitude of reasons that "the Cajun fan base" isn't responding to this bowl as well as the past bowls. The economy, the flood, bowl eligibility on the last game played, Hud's screw ups this year, Hud's screw ups last year, the NO Bowl for the 5th time.

I'm extremely happy the team made it to a bowl... and I'll be there. We do not need to "chastise" the "fan base". There is no such audience to hear it. They are attracted, each to a person, by their own life decisions. They are not bound to do anything with their own money and time for an athletic function. You either attract them, or you do not attract them. I am not them. You are not them.

Praise the fans that will be in the dome on Saturday... and work on the things that we "can control" that attract a bigger group in the future.

Similar to Religion?

[HoustonCajun]

Other than some of the program related issues talked about over the past few months, I think the biggest factor in the potential "decline" in ticket sales is the fact that this team did not become bowl eligible until the last regular season game. In previous bowl appearances, we fans knew that the team would be going several weeks before the end of the season and we had more time to prepare and make plans. I personally put the NOLA Bowl date on my calendar prior to each season just to make sure I can go if the team makes it. Not everyone does that. Therefore, this time I only needed 2 tickets as opposed to the 6 or 8 I purchased in previous years. Others that have come with me in the past, claim the short notice and already having other plans in place is a major factor.

Wasn't USM in a similar situation? Had to win their last game to be bowl eligible at 6-6 and did so by beating LA Tech. Got the bowl invite when we did with little advance time. Fans are likely feeling the same economic crunch as ours. Already sold 10,000 tickets, from what I read. Would hate to seem them have more fans than us. Hope our walk-up crowd comes through again.

[billbeck451]

USM had an extra week than us

[Ragin4U]

Well whoever it was they ended up being nothing but a bunch of zeros......

That joke bombed.