Louisiana vs. Grambling: Attendance 28,866

[CrazyCajun]

Scanners collect data of who bought the tickets that are being used and can be useful in marketing.

[Rainman66]

I don't think you get what I a saying. I said why scan. Just tear off the stub. If the attendance count is generated by tickets sold than you don't have to scan the tickets. Now with a turnstile you can get the exact count if that is what they want to report. In other word tickets sold and actual butts in seats. I turnstile is more accurate and those little devices they use that work maybe 3/4 of the time.

You are assuming they want to report accurate attendance numbers. It is a PR game and nothing else.

[Just1More]

Yeah i know, don’t you feel like an idiot. I’ve Known plenty of A students who were worthless and unemployable...but were great at turning in assignments they copied from C students and great at memorizing.

Sorry Crazy... but you are obviously not an engineer. It was a bad segway in an attendance thread... but if the subject is about getting good grades in engineering... it matters a lot. That's not to say there aren't high GPA engineers that aren't fit for many engineering jobs. And there is a sweet spot in many engineering fields where a blend of intelligence and personality take you very far... but an engineer's engineer is a high GPA guy. I'll take the risk of comparing it to medicine... but just like you want your surgeon to be a brainiac (no pun intended)... you want your aerospace engineer to be a brainiac as well. And unlike a lot of other college classes... engineering is going to part ways with "memorization" right off the bat. So... if your high school colleague was a straight A student due to the heavy memorizing in HS... they want to head away from engineering. You better have a strong analytical mind to get through engineering. Companies that hire engineers definitely want your GPA, other activities, and a gauge on your personality, before hiring you. Don't disregard the high GPA engineer against the C engineer with a personality. They aren't competing for the same jobs.

[CajunT]

Sorry Crazy... but you are obviously not an engineer. It was a bad segway in an attendance thread... but if the subject is about getting good grades in engineering... it matters a lot. That's not to say there aren't high GPA engineers that aren't fit for many engineering jobs. And there is a sweet spot in many engineering fields where a blend of intelligence and personality take you very far... but an engineer's engineer is a high GPA guy. I'll take the risk of comparing it to medicine... but just like you want your surgeon to be a brainiac (no pun intended)... you want your aerospace engineer to be a brainiac as well. And unlike a lot of other college classes... engineering is going to part ways with "memorization" right off the bat. So... if your high school colleague was a straight A student due to the heavy memorizing in HS... they want to head away from engineering. You better have a strong analytical mind to get through engineering. Companies that hire engineers definitely want your GPA, other activities, and a gauge on your personality, before hiring you. Don't disregard the high GPA engineer against the C engineer with a personality. They aren't competing for the same jobs.

Dude! Where have you been?

[Ragin9221]

If we beat Miss St. we will see upwards of 28k for the Coastal game.

[Just1More]

Maybe I am just overly optimistic, but the crowd was about what I suspected, I think I predicted 32k. Grambling and Southern will always bring in more Cajun fans than your normal FCS team, because of the bands. Not saying it is 2x the attendance, but I would guess 2-3k. Don't get the same attendance for Southeastern, Northwestern, Nicholls or even McNeese.

On another note, can we move the employment thread to it's own thread?

I thought the crowd was great. Grambling fans helped a lot. Cudos to them for showing up. I see the thread went into rain during the game versus not. A big hit on crowd sizes is always going to be the forecast itself. I don't bash fans. There's an element of fans that don't get out in traffic or enjoy getting rained on. They won't ever be inspired by bashing. Weather is a factor in attendance. I was pleasantly surprised at the Cajun fan attendance. I could have gotten there for the second half... but I chose not to get on the road.

[CrazyCajun]

Sorry Crazy... but you are obviously not an engineer. It was a bad segway in an attendance thread... but if the subject is about getting good grades in engineering... it matters a lot. That's not to say there aren't high GPA engineers that aren't fit for many engineering jobs. And there is a sweet spot in many engineering fields where a blend of intelligence and personality take you very far... but an engineer's engineer is a high GPA guy. I'll take the risk of comparing it to medicine... but just like you want your surgeon to be a brainiac (no pun intended)... you want your aerospace engineer to be a brainiac as well. And unlike a lot of other college classes... engineering is going to part ways with "memorization" right off the bat. So... if your high school colleague was a straight A student due to the heavy memorizing in HS... they want to head away from engineering. You better have a strong analytical mind to get through engineering. Companies that hire engineers definitely want your GPA, other activities, and a gauge on your personality, before hiring you. Don't disregard the high GPA engineer against the C engineer with a personality. They aren't competing for the same jobs.

He didn’t say straight A or C’s..B or C which isn’t much of a difference. A lot of people get extra points in school for various things, not sure why you would hold that against someone. If the teachers gives extra points for going to a football game, give me the engineer who is smart enough to go get those easy extra points.

[Just1More]

Dude! Where have you been?

Busy busy. I'm about to get busier... but my work schedule will change radically. Hopefully, it will give me more opps to get to Lafayette on some weekends.

[Turbine]

Sports attendance and sports comprehension should be required curriculum for all engineers.

If you can't 'engineer' a scoring drive, how are you going to survive in the real world?

[RaginScotsman]

SBC home team attendance:

Troy - 29,612. They had Boise, so good crowd.
Louisiana - 28,866. Awesome considering the weather. Would have been 30+ easily without the rain.
Georgia State - 23,088. If this is true, then that’s a great crowd for them. You could manually count the butts in the seats when they played at the Georgia Dome.
Arkansas State - 20,184. About average.
Georgia Southern - 15,260. Not great.
South Alabama - 13,457. Pretty bad as they hosted a CUSA opponent.
UL-Monroe - 10,137. You smell of lies, ULM. 4,000 or less actual.

[Just1More]

He didn’t say straight A or C’s..B or C which isn’t much of a difference. A lot of people get extra points in school for various things, not sure why you would hold that against someone. If the teachers gives extra points for going to a football game, give me the engineer who is smart enough to go get those easy extra points.

You don't give engineering students extra points for anything outside of engineering. If your Bs and Cs are explained by having a job, and some social focus, employers get a feel for if and what engineering you're suited for. I just wouldn't encourage an engineering student to slide on a B for a C. I'm an engineer... and I don't recall attending UL sports being a reason for my grades.

I don't even like the idea of giving any student, even someone in Kinesiology, "extra credit" for attending athletic events. I'm not a big fan of colleges being a social system in the classroom. Professors should be teaching from accredited textbooks (a broader subject for another day and time) and should know the subject matter and stick to it. What they think of anything else is irrelevant.

Knowing what I know of how pathetic our higher education system has drifted... has me taking your "extra credit" argument a little more serious than I'd otherwise.

[alum81]

He didn’t say straight A or C’s..B or C which isn’t much of a difference. A lot of people get extra points in school for various things, not sure why you would hold that against someone. If the teachers gives extra points for going to a football game, give me the engineer who is smart enough to go get those easy extra points.

How hard can it be to drive a train, its on tracks right.