Halftime Retention

[jcstewart]

The Boise game also kicked off at 11 (IIRC) which drives off the casual fan. That marquee matchup was screwed from the beginning.

[ManAboutTown]

The Boise game also kicked off at 11 (IIRC) which drives off the casual fan. That marquee matchup was screwed from the beginning.

Respectfully disagree, JC. Lafayette hasn't cultivated a football crowd, but Lafayette is certainly a bandwagon town. People will get up early and often to be a part of something special. This program is a strong season and a marque win away from filling the stadium again. If we go up to Tulsa and WIN, watch the crowd double against ULM. Better yet, if this team were to somehow beat A&M, the buzz would be back, and the azzes would be back in the seats at CF.

[Turbine]

As long as the marketing subject remains "Lafayette" the crowds will lack numbers.

Not a broad enough base.

The invitation, attraction, and mention needs to be Acadiana and Louisiana at large for any chance at growth.

jmo

[ManAboutTown]

As long as the marketing subject remains "Lafayette" the crowds will lack numbers.

Not a broad enough base.

The invitation, attraction, and mention needs to be Acadiana and Louisiana at large for any chance at growth.

jmo

Beat a team that even the most casual sports fan recognizes and the marketing will take care of itself..

[Turbine]

Beat a team that even the most casual sports fan recognizes and the marketing will take care of itself..

You left out "at home," because if you didn't experience it, it didn't happen.

[ManAboutTown]

You left out "at home," because if you didn't experience it, it didn't happen.

Obviously experiencing it at home would add to it, but if our guys could win a P5 game and get national coverage for a week, the stadium would be SRO.

[KajunKrazy]

From a "things to pay attention to" perspective, it doesn't get better than a 35-35 halftime score.

The ones that left at half, now think football is 100% scoring all the time.

Seriously though, keeping interest is a responsibility of the half time activities and these days people have super short attention spans.

Maybe they are fans of good defensive football teams and just couldn't take anymore.

[KajunKrazy]

You should not underestimate the whole trump video and response debacle when looking at crowd size this year. In just last week I personally talked to several long time fans who did not renew their tickets because of it.

[cajun4life]

We would need to win 8+ games for a decade and win 90% of our home games. If we did that then we would slowly build a base of 25-30k fans.

We won't ever draw 40+ in a G5 league.

[cajunfan79]

How do you propose bringing better teams in?

I have no proposal, but just stating the obvious.

[Turbine]

How do you propose bringing better teams in?

Independent.

You have 12 opportunities to create opportunities as opposed to 3 or 4

[cajunfan79]

Its more than that. We started with McNeese last year, at team that we sold out Cajun Field the last time they were here plus some. We had roughly 24,000, maybe a tad more to start the season. We've had Kansas State and Oklahoma State in here, neither time did we even come close to a capacity crowd. Its more than just bringing in better teams.

25,881 for Oklahoma state at the time about 5k short of capacity, also on a weeknight.