Louisiana vs. Grambling: Attendance 28,866

[CajunJeaux]

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.

An engineer who brings a common sense/practicality approach to designs...I like it...

[CajunJeaux]

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

LMAO!

[CrazyCajun]

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.

Regardless if we agree with it, it happens a lot and considering all the crap force fed down people’s throats from educators today..I’ll take going to a football game over some of the other crap that probably is given in exchange for extra credit.

[Just1More]

An engineer who brings a common sense/practicality approach to designs...I like it...

We had a professor at UL that taught Thermodynamics. He was Pakistani. The first day of class he challenged that if any student could beat him in tennis, he'd give them an A and they didn't have to attend class or take any exams. I got to know him and I asked him if anyone took him up on it... or better yet... beat him. He said, "I'm not that good... but I always beat young guys... they cannot help themselves but to hit the ball too hard. I just volley until they make a mistake... no one has ever beat me." I thought about getting a friend of mine on the UL tennis team to trash him as a joke. I already blew my cover... but I knew a guy in class Dr. Nourani wouldn't know from Adam. That's the only and last time I've ever heard of "a deal" or "extra credit" in engineering.

[Just1More]

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

I was in a plant one day a long time ago and a technician looked at me and said, "You hear that?" (a train was sounding the horn as it backed up into the plant). "A real engineer is about to enter the plant." Pretty funny stuff.

[Just1More]

Regardless if we agree with it, it happens a lot and considering all the crap force fed down people’s throats from educators today..I’ll take going to a football game over some of the other crap that probably is given in exchange for extra credit.

I hear ya. But while we give students "extra credit" for attending sports functions... those knot head professors are going to double down on their dumb opinion laden lectures.

Oh... Napier just called and said, "We won't need the students that need extra credit to attend football games... all of the seats will be taken by good students that want to be there."

[Cajunrunner]

I was in a plant one day a long time ago and a technician looked at me and said, "You hear that?" (a train was sounding the horn as it backed up into the plant). "A real engineer is about to enter the plant." Pretty funny stuff.

LOL.

But to digress, the attendance of Saturday was a disappointment. This was bound to happen when we hit the reset button and blown up all the momentum Hud was building, and we’re now staring down the barrel of a 2-10 season instead of a 10-2 one.

[Just1More]

LOL.

But to digress, the attendance of Saturday was a disappointment. This was bound to happen when we hit the reset button and blown up all the momentum Hud was building, and we’re now staring down the barrel of a 2-10 season instead of a 10-2 one.

LOL

Maggard stole the reset button Hilary gave to Russia?! Grambling is going to claim UL colluded with Russia to win the game! I see another pointless high dollar waste of tax payer money Special Councel investigation! Maggard's yard man and the lady that cut his hair 15 years ago will end up with jail time!

[covcaj]

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.

Thank you. I am not an engineer. Used that example because I sense there are a lot of engineers on here. Thought I might be speaking Chinese cause I couldn't get him to understand. For a profession like engineering I eWorld think that critical thinking skills are important much more than social skills. Although not a straight correlation you are much more likely to find good critical thinking in the 3.5 student than the 2.3. Critical thinking cannot be found in any book.

[Frenchie35]

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

No, I am assuming that scanning tickets is useless if you don't use it for attendance. Just tear the stub of the ticket if they use tickets sold for attendance. which they do. Hell they just about know what the attendance is before the game starts. They don't have to use the number through the turnstiles for attendance reporting, but you can get a pretty good number how we stand as for as fans in the stands....

[Frenchie35]

Turnstiles are antiquated and will never be installed. L'auberge casino had them when it first opened and had enough complaints that they took them out.

Turnstiles at a casino. Been to L'auberge and never seen turnstiles. Been to Vegas, no turnstiles...but not saying you didn't see them......

[Jeaux]

I hear ya. But while we give students "extra credit" for attending sports functions... those knot head professors are going to double down on their dumb opinion laden lectures.

Oh... Napier just called and said, "We won't need the students that need extra credit to attend football games... all of the seats will be taken by good students that want to be there."

Students don't need extra credit to get them to the game. They got $2 beer in the beer garden. Half of them don't even know yet. 2 DOLLARS. For all you old timers that's like 50 cent beer back in the your days when you adjust for beerflation. We just gotta win and the students will show up.