DR. Maggard on BEV 8/20/19 3:00 P.M.

[Big Buds]

A few thousand Cajun fans is pathetic...very disappointing.

[CajunDreDog]

Maggard said, about #Louisiana vs. Miss St, on BEV today both teams have sold ~11,000 TOTAL TICKETS!!!!
With Miss St almost doubling the Cajuns. That equates to about:
LA ~3500
MSU ~7500

THIS IS OUR HOME GAME #CAJUNNATION and we're gonna be outnumbered and doubled up....ugh

— 🤟#CajunNationNews🤟 (@CajunDreDog) August 21, 2019

[Cajunsmike]

Maggard said, about #Louisiana vs. Miss St, on BEV today both teams have sold ~11,000 TOTAL TICKETS!!!!
With Miss St almost doubling the Cajuns. That equates to about:
LA ~3500
MSU ~7500

THIS IS OUR HOME GAME #CAJUNNATION and we're gonna be outnumbered and doubled up....ugh

— 🤟#CajunNationNews🤟 (@CajunDreDog) August 21, 2019

Hopefully the Cajuns have a large walk up crowd.

[CajunJeaux]

Interest will follow, when a the team warrants that attention from the casual fan.

No one can argue with this...people showed up at NOLA Bowls bc we had a shot to win...until we actually compete with the big boys, don’t expect people to drive 2 hours to basically watch a name school

[BrockMeaux]

No one can argue with this...people showed up at NOLA Bowls bc we had a shot to win...until we actually compete with the big boys, don’t expect people to drive 2 hours to basically watch a name school

Honestly, this is a big part of it for a lot of people. And nobody wants to hear it and will say we have bad fans. But I’m not blaming anyone for not wanting to spend a couple hundred bucks to drive their family to New Orleans to watch us (possibly) get demolished when you can do the same thing at home. If this were at Cajun Field, those numbers would be inexcusable. But the added cost and travel didn’t do us many favors. It’s still a very poor showing on our part, but there is some rationale behind it.

[CajunJeaux]

Honestly, this is a big part of it for a lot of people. And nobody wants to hear it and will say we have bad fans. But I’m not blaming anyone for not wanting to spend a couple hundred bucks to drive their family to New Orleans to watch us (possibly) get demolished when you can do the same thing at home. If this were at Cajun Field, those numbers would be inexcusable. But the added cost and travel didn’t do us many favors. It’s still a very poor showing on our part, but there is some rationale behind it.

No doubt...my last road trip was to Ole Miss couple years back...while it’s all fun pre-game, it’s absolutely ____ing miserable watching our team get pounded, then have to drive home or spend several hundred more dollars to stay the night...

[ZoomZoom]

Honestly, this is a big part of it for a lot of people. And nobody wants to hear it and will say we have bad fans. But I'm not blaming anyone for not wanting to spend a couple hundred bucks to drive their family to New Orleans to watch us (possibly) get demolished when you can do the same thing at home. If this were at Cajun Field, those numbers would be inexcusable. But the added cost and travel didn't do us many favors. It's still a very poor showing on our part, but there is some rationale behind it.

This essentially puts the nail in the coffin for any good P-5 coming to CF in the near future even if at 3 for 1. We've given the big boys reason not to come by not making the NOLA trip financially feasible for MSU. They could have made more staying home playing a FCS program.

When the deal was cut, many on this site thought it was great. Not defending SF, but if on field performance had been better the last 2 years, we're probably not having this discussion.

It's not we have bad fans. Every program has a core of deeply committed fans, another group of casual fans that show up if it's the thing to do, and a group that falls in between those two. Winning fixes all three. Seasons like last year, abet an improvement, does not move the needle. It feels like were at a crossroad, where soiling the sheets against teams like Boise are immediate turn offs after all kind of hype and bravado. We say we belong, have to prove it.

[Oiler]

We desperately need a signature win in the modern era. A win against MSU in NOLA would be absolutely huge for our program. We’d see a twofold increase in attendance for every other home game this year. Getting blown out in NOLA would likely do the opposite.

The days of moral victories are no more. Fans want to see REAL progress in the program.

[Cajunrunner]

Foote is one of the best sports writers in this state. IMO. You don’t like him? Way better than Buckley.

Yes, way better than Buckley. Just wish he would stop writing about the $50 ____. Stop putting it back in the news.

[Cajunrunner]

We desperately need a signature win in the modern era. A win against MSU in NOLA would be absolutely huge for our program. We’d see a twofold increase in attendance for every other home game this year. Getting blown out in NOLA would likely do the opposite.

The days of moral victories are no more. Fans want to see REAL progress in the program.

100% agree.