2021 Game day Experience

[Crawfish]

The concesssions were handled terribly. The concession stands were inadequately staffed and there were not enough of them. I brought my 2 grandsons then my SIL came with one of the others when he got off from work. We went to the consession stand at the end of the 1st quarter and we got back to our seats midway into the 3rd quarter. I wanted to bring the grandkids so they will want to go to games when they are grown. This disaster did not help the cause.

Sad

[JMV JustMyView]

When you say opend CD parking. Does that mean the were letting anyone park in the lots?

Yes for free.

[fanof71]

When you say opend CD parking. Does that mean the were letting anyone park in the lots?

Parking was free at Cajun Dome and only the cajun Dome

[CajunJeaux]

Yes for free.

This is f’in bull____.

Edit: they opened “CD” as is Cajundome parking or “CD” as in lots C & D?

[cajun4life]

Parking was free at Cajun Dome and only the cajun Dome

There was more free parking than just the Cajun Dome. Across Congress was all free.

[JamesTheJeweler]

The volume was fine, boomers. The concessions however was abysmal! They beg people to go to the games, then give us that crap? If you want 30+ thousand fans at a game, make sure that you dont fail with only 20. My girl went to concessions at the end of 2nd quarter.....didnt return til the beginning of the 4th quarter!!!!! Thats the entire halftime and an entire quarter!!!! Like wtf???? Talk about s__ing the bed! That is unacceptable.

[facelessjonmoon]

Regarding the music volume is this because of the sound coming from 1 location and has to cover whole stadium vs speakers being spread around stadium?

Is this something that will be addressed in stadium renovations?

Personally I enjoy the bass, but the sound could be turned down a tad. Maybe the players on the field enjoy the music being loud when we sometimes have ____ty crowd involvement. If the band could play more instead of the piped in music, that would also help

[HelmutVII]

The PA was way too loud. Thank God I have Work tunes hearing protection. I listen to Jay on built in radio. At times I felt like I was getting an internal heart massage. That totally unnecessary.

[Louisiana84]

We didn’t cook at our tailgate. Thought we’d eat inside the stadium. Didn’t happen.

[Jacob81]

Is it not obvious?? The long time fans predict it every time. Game day experience is still bad, maybe the worst it’s been.

Last years problems have only gotten worse. Spend all the time and resources to get a good crowd to the game to support a good program,and the administration fails to support the crowd. People waited in line for 45 min at the concession stands. Not only is it unacceptable, it’s unbelievable. Why wasn’t the beer stand separate from the food stand?? Don’t tell me 25,000 people are too many to handle in a timely manner in a 41,000 seat stadium. You were at Missouri. They seat about 65,000. People must have waited 2 hours over there. (bet not)

This happened at soccer Thursday night as well. Social media push for a record crowd. Cajun rush soccer night. 1 guy working concessions. Got in line score was 0-0 walked out of line and stadium 30 minutes later when the score was 3-0.

Good news, bad news; good news is you don’t have to worry about this the rest of the year.

Bad news is you get one shot the first game of every season to gain fans and y’all screwed it up again. We’ll be right back to our diehard 15,000 fans.

I had my wife and 2 kids at the game. Good news; I’ll be solo the rest of the season.
Bad news, 3 less butts and probably $50 a game the school could make.

Also PA is obnoxiously loud, music selection is bad, band doesn’t play enough, and fireworks in daylight is a waste of money.

Someone should be in charge of the game day experience. If it’s not you dr. Maggard then it’s someone under you. My advice as one of the diehard fans is, make some drastic changes and heads roll or turn in your badge.

See you Thursday night with 15,000 fans and no lines. CAN’T WAIT.

Signed
A Lifelong Cajun fan dying inside

[fanof71]

An email sent late Saturday night to Cajun Nation

“Please know we are aware of the unacceptable inefficiencies within our concession services yesterday evening that included infrastructure issues which negatively impacted the speed of transactions, resulting in long lines and congestion causing fans to miss portions of the game. Additionally, some patrons experienced menu item shortages that prevented them from purchasing products of choice.

For this, we sincerely apologize, as that is not the level of experience our fans deserve, nor is it the experience we wish to provide. Rest assured we will be working diligently to resolve both the infrastructure and supply chain issues, as your continued support and positive experience is of utmost importance to us.”

Sincerely,

Bryan Maggard
VP for Intercollegiate Athletics

[GeauxLA]

An email sent late Saturday night to Cajun Nation

“Please know we are aware of the unacceptable inefficiencies within our concession services yesterday evening that included infrastructure issues which negatively impacted the speed of transactions, resulting in long lines and congestion causing fans to miss portions of the game. Additionally, some patrons experienced menu item shortages that prevented them from purchasing products of choice.

For this, we sincerely apologize, as that is not the level of experience our fans deserve, nor is it the experience we wish to provide. Rest assured we will be working diligently to resolve both the infrastructure and supply chain issues, as your continued support and positive experience is of utmost importance to us.”

Sincerely,

Bryan Maggard
VP for Intercollegiate Athletics

I think we got the same email from him a couple seasons ago. Nothing changed