2021 Game day Experience

[Duggie35]

Maybe its my own personal bias because I hate hate hate hate the "And that's another Louisiana...." thing over the PA. 1) We copied it from ULM, they were doing "And that's another Warhawk..." way before we did; 2) It sounds stupid on TV when you can't hear the crowd yelling "first down"; 3) It sounds stupid in general. Sounds like high school amateur hour every time we do something good on offense. End rant.

I agree 100%. That "It's Another ULM (or Louisiana) First Down" works for ULM because they traditionally only make a few first downs per game and fans don't have to hear it but a few times each game!

[bbhstiger5]

Game day management at UL sucks! No one knows what’s going on, there’s no basic-level customer service skills either. I remember when UL played Tulane in For the Cure Bowl, there was no guidance or direction as to where we could pick up our tickets, the staff were clueless, and all while the box office manager just sat there pretending we weren’t there.

We supposedly have an okay Hospitality program - why not have the students manage game day operations for ticketing and concessions?

[fanof71]

Hand ticketing over to Lierfield....

[Cajunsmike]

He was right to get out in front of this concession fiasco Saturday night. And, you can bet he also probably got an earful about PA and the rave music...

so what are his next steps, especially considering this is not the first time these issues have come up...

Is it going to be enough this time to just say those issues (as has happened in the past)
Have been taken care of without explaining how and why it happened as well as the steps he took to fix it...if it can be fixed.

He was on with Scott Prather for a few minutes this morning. He used the word "debacle" to describe the concession issue. From the tone of his voice you could tell he was still "disappointed" with what happened in that regard. He knows the problem was with bandwidth slowing down card transactions. Not sure what they can do about that in four days but that will be a pointed focus now.

[Turbine]

Since yall are complaining about the PA, let me throw in one other thing. I know this was just an ESPN3 production, not exactly the highest quality level. But the way the PA was drowning out the commentators was ridiculous.

Maybe its my own personal bias because I hate hate hate hate the "And that's another Louisiana...." thing over the PA. 1) We copied it from ULM, they were doing "And that's another Warhawk..." way before we did; 2) It sounds stupid on TV when you can't hear the crowd yelling "first down"; 3) It sounds stupid in general. Sounds like high school amateur hour every time we do something good on offense. End rant.

Exclamation point on that.

Dont forget the key difference though, ULM faithful had a question mark (?) on the end of theirs.

[Turbine]

I agree 100%. That "It's Another ULM (or Louisiana) First Down" works for ULM because they traditionally only make a few first downs per game and fans don't have to hear it but a few times each game!

Hah, beat me to it.

[RedTails]

He was on with Scott Prather for a few minutes this morning. He used the word "debacle" to describe the concession issue. From the tone of his voice you could tell he was still "disappointed" with what happened in that regard. He knows the problem was with bandwidth slowing down card transactions. Not sure what they can do about that in four days but that will be a pointed focus now.

Cash only registers. If LUS can stand up a bunch of merch tents with fast internet and provide WiFi for all of downtown during Festival International, I don't see what issues they could be having at CF. Maybe it's an issue with their POS vendor? Or maybe Cox sucks that bad (assuming they utilize Cox due to partnership).

[bbernard6]

I feel all of your pain I sit on the visitors side every game. The lines were long except the RCAF fast pass line this would be a great time to join the RCAF just saying.

I joined RCAF. Never got my card in the mail!

[JamesTheJeweler]

I guess when a university spends as much money as they did on the sound system, they have to use it at almost full volume. It's so loud you cannot even have a conversation with the person next to you. That's too bad. I agree. It needs to be turned down.

Coffee shops are good for conversation.

[Turbine]

He was on with Scott Prather for a few minutes this morning. He used the word "debacle" to describe the concession issue. From the tone of his voice you could tell he was still "disappointed" with what happened in that regard. He knows the problem was with bandwidth slowing down card transactions. Not sure what they can do about that in four days but that will be a pointed focus now.

LUS instead of COX