I have always thought and said for that matter that there are two ways to bring in the 35k+ crowds.
1. Bring in a top P5 school (Alabama, Florida, Clemson, Notre Dame.). People would flock to see a big time program play on our own field, especially if we have a chance to pull the upset.
2. Play those same top P5 schools at their place and whoop that butt. People would again flock to our stadium to see the team that just beat that top P5 program on the road. It wouldn't matter who we were playing at home then.
There is a 3rd way to fill this stadium, but it pains me to say it for obvious reasonsbring LaSU in.
I think attendance would have been in the upper 20k's this year had it not been for Covid. Though we wouldn't have played Iowa St., we would have started with Missouri.and Wyoming. And I think we would have beat both those two teams also. Not sure if we would have had the ranking we have now, but we would definitely have had the same amount of wins we do now. IMO that is.
GEAUX CAJUNS!!!