How much is Billy Napier really making?

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Ragin' Cajuns head football coach Billy Napier's new contract doubles his salary to $2 million annually, according to documents obtained by The Advocate.

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[LaCajunsFan]

Best damn money this school has ever spent. And I’ve been around for a while.

[CRAWFISH61]

How much is Billy Napier making? A hell of lot more than me and he deserves it.

[Esqueleto]

Sad thing is his success should translate into stadium sellouts and unprecedented demand for everything Louisiana football, but the opposite is true. Damn shame.

[Boomer]

….,.and so the Texas game becomes the biggest ever in Louisiana football history!!!

[R1Letterman]

was it approved yet by state board? or are they busy vetting az baseball coach?

[Scott Malkinson]

Sad thing is his success should translate into stadium sellouts and unprecedented demand for everything Louisiana football, but the opposite is true. Damn shame.

I bet there will be a ton of walk ups if you start out hot. Hard to justify buying season tickets for only 3 weekend games. I have my season tickets and will probably only make 3-4 due to work obligations.

[Turbine]

Sad thing is his success should translate into stadium sellouts and unprecedented demand for everything Louisiana football, but the opposite is true. Damn shame.

No shame on the fans.

We have no idea what last year's "no worries" attendance could have been, would have been, only what it should have been, could have been.

[Esqueleto]

I bet there will be a ton of walk ups if you start out hot. Hard to justify buying season tickets for only 3 weekend games. I have my season tickets and will probably only make 3-4 due to work obligations.

Hard to justify buying season tickets to support a top 15 team and the best coaching staff and group of players we will likely EVER see here in Lafayette because 3 of the games are mid-week?
I hate to say this, but if this team and coaching staff were at LA Tech with this amount of preseason hype and anticipation coming off of the year we had they'd probably have a waiting list for season tickets in RUSTON.
This is not a jab at you, Scott, but I just won't ever understand this line of thinking.
If a region the size of Acadiana doesn't have 30k people willing to spend a couple hundred dollars a year to support these winners, why even bother upgrading the stadium? Go take a look at the amount of prime seating that's available. It's really sad.

[fanof71]

I bet there will be a ton of walk ups if you start out hot. Hard to justify buying season tickets for only 3 weekend games. I have my season tickets and will probably only make 3-4 due to work obligations.

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[fanof71]

Hard to justify buying season tickets to support a top 15 team and the best coaching staff and group of players we will likely EVER see here in Lafayette because 3 of the games are mid-week?
I hate to say this, but if this team and coaching staff were at LA Tech with this amount of preseason hype and anticipation coming off of the year we had they'd probably have a waiting list for season tickets in RUSTON.
This is not a jab at you, Scott, but I just won't ever understand this line of thinking.
If a region the size of Acadiana doesn't have 30k people willing to spend a couple hundred dollars a year to support these winners, why even bother upgrading the stadium? Go take a look at the amount of prime seating that's available. It's really sad.

Hard not to agree with this line of thinking. CF should be 60% sold out at this point and close to 75% at the end of July.

[cajunref]

Hard not to agree with this line of thinking. CF should be 60% sold out at this point and close to 75% at the end of July.

With all the streaming options, it has and will continue to adversely affect attendance unless you are a football blue blood. We will be fortunate to average 20k.