Cajun Field Construction

[Esqueleto]

This thread got very awesome very fast! I’m ready to roll some heads after reading all this!

Not enough people in Lafayette give a ____

[JMV JustMyView]

Hey maggard, you wanna get the stadium built? How bout you put a big fundraising sign on congress and Bertrand with a capital goal?

As far as cajunrebel goes, no shocker here but you’re still an idiot. Blame the fans when we haven’t even got asked to put one dollar towards the stadium. We got a stupid survey about how we thought the stadium should be in 2018. We got an email in UD last year about being relocated in 22. Nobody has ever gotten asked to donate to a stadium fund unless you’re a big time corporate donor. If I hear maggard say one more time on a radio interview, which he hasn’t done in months seemingly, they still have “asks” out there, I’m gonna lose my schitt.

Start a fkin fundraising campaign at the bottom and work your way up. It’s not that fkin hard.

My brother had his baby's baptism a few weeks ago. The church he attends has a capital fund raising campaign going on and at the front of the alter was a big campaign board showing the goal and where they currently are in achieving that goal. Every page of the church bulletin plastered the goal.

[JMV JustMyView]

Not enough people in Lafayette give a ____

Sir you are probably correct.

[Million$Mullet]

My brother had his baby's baptism a few weeks ago. The church he attends has a capital fund raising campaign going on and at the front of the alter was a big campaign board showing the goal and where they currently are in achieving that goal.

Fundraising 101

I remember when St. Pius was building the new church they had a big sign on the corner of kaliste saloom and E. bayou pkwy. I passed it daily and you could see how much they needed and how much was raised to the day. Guess what? They had a new church the next year. crazy how that works.

[fanof71]

Aside from UL Football, there is nothing Ragin or Cajun about game days in CF...and to make that turn to being Ragin and Cajun would cost so little and make a huge impression on the casual fan...pennys per fan in fact...

[fanof71]

Again, it's penny's to launch a asking campaign, penny's. Ideas cost nothing...like this one...
The Cajun Concrete Club...donate up to $100 towards building stadium, get a red "Hardhat" with a Cajun logo on it to wear in stadium while construction is go in on...cheap, creative, compelling, and $100 won't break many banks...its a call to action!

[JMV JustMyView]

Again, it's penny's to launch a asking campaign, penny's. Ideas cost nothing...like this one...
The Cajun Concrete Club...donate up to $100 towards building stadium, get a red "Hardhat" with a Cajun logo on it to wear in stadium while construction is go in on...cheap, creative, compelling, and $100 won't break many banks...its a call to action!

I'm down for 5 of them. They just have to ask. If you don't ask the answer is always no.

[HoustonCajun]

Lafayette is fickle. Literally none of that will get these people to a game. LAFAYETTE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT CAJUN ATHLETICS AND THAT WILL NOT CHANGE.

Have to ask WHY Lafayette does not care? Maybe its the administration that puts a stranglehold on athletics, thinks like a small time university, and puts no money into athletics. Everything MAT posted is right on target. We finally achieve the academic status we have been seeking only at the expense of athletics. Instead of having the complete package of a major university, we remain a small time, G5 program. Unable to realize and take the window to the world approach, we cut back as we always do and everything falls back to a state of mediocrity. We had everything going for us, a Top 20 program, national recognition as Louisiana and Tier 1 academic status to continue to build on. Instead, we took a giant step backwards, not in the coach we selected but in our failure to fund and market. We have one of our own, a UL football great as our coach, he is from Acadiana, he is a Cajun and we need to market the hell out of that, properly fund athletics and finish the stadium project as part of our campus building and beautification. Athletics will never become self-supporting unless the university first invests in it. We keep doing things ass backwards. Do that first and we will recoup our investment once we achieve success and our fans and alumni buy into it.

[SMD7636]

Cajun Field delay is on T-Joe and Martin Hall not committing to athletics while the athletic department reacts passive aggressively to it all.

[ManAboutTown]

Who is allowing all of this to continue to happen—-Maggard. He is ultimately accountable for this sh?t show.

It isn't Maggard. Maggard is another casualty of the cancer from within. And honestly, I don't blame him for quietly quitting. I'm ____ed about it, but I get it.

[lafman1]

Lafayette is fickle. Literally none of that will get these people to a game. LAFAYETTE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT CAJUN ATHLETICS AND THAT WILL NOT CHANGE.

Not true. Baseball and softball have great attendance.
Football is basically a glorified high school team. Basketball is about the same.

[Million$Mullet]

The old grey lady is no longer legion field

[ULvictory]

Not true. Baseball and softball have great attendance.
Football is basically a glorified high school team. Basketball is about the same.

It’s all about “selling the event.”

When you walk into Lamson and The Tigue, you feel like you’re at an event that goes beyond just the play on the field. Cajun Field and basketball games….not so much.

[ManAboutTown]

Not true. Baseball and softball have great attendance.
Football is basically a glorified high school team. Basketball is about the same.

Thank you for bringing this up.
Our "cheap, disloyal, sucky, disinterested" fans in the diamond sports sure didn't have a problem paying pretty high prices (comparatively speaking, of course) when the new stadiums were being discussed and into today. Our "suck ass" fans didn't have a problem opening their wallet to Lotief & Robe when it came to donations for even the most basic ____ that Martin Hall wouldn't pay for. Our "horrible" fans sure don't have a problem showing up in droves on the road when our (usually) nationally relevant diamond sports are playing elsewhere. Our "loser" fans don't struggle to sell out of season tickets, DESPITE 7 year hiatus from postseason play (in baseball's case).

There is a reason for that. Tony built baseball. The Lotief's & what's her name built softball, DESPITE Martin Hall or the athletic department. OUR SUCK ASS fanbase built those pearls, and that's why the fanbase is so strong, participatory, loyal, gracious, mostly trusting and supportive of the diamond sports.

[zeppelincajun]

Another idiotic post blaming fans. It's always the fans' fault with you people. It's never the people getting paid to promote athletics. It's never the people who failed to hire dedicated fundraiser for over a year and a half. It's never the people that have YET TO ANNOUNCE a public campaign for stadium sourcing. It's never the people redesigning the stadium plan 6 ____ing times because Martin Hall & Reinhardt communicate like Bobby & Whitney. It's never the people charged with engaging our alumni in other cities, data mining their information and making sure it's accurate as they graduate and move into their careers. (BTW, just to screw off, collect a check and then quit without even telling the people that hired her.) It's never the gameday crew that STILL can't figure out how to celebrate our (very few, but something) accomplishments. It's never the in-game experience people that can't figure out that ____ing LOONEY TUNES songs isn't your target audience. It's never the people that can't figure out how to deliver decent concessions to your fans at a reasonable cost. It's never the people that retain a coach after years of mediocrity, pay him at an elite level (for our league) and then bi+tCh and complain that we can't afford today's COA stipend to recruit football players. It's never the people that spread propaganda that has LONG AGO turned off a deeply routed fanbase in MBB. It's never the people that didn't lift a single mother ____ing finger from the time we HOSTED A SBC CG in Lafayette, LA from the time we kicked off the ball in 2023 to do any ounce of selling, promoting, engagement, business development or communication; but then yet again, blamed the fans for attendance. It's never the people killing off the greeks and chasing students from games. It's never the people that have spent more time KILLING OFF development opportunities around the sports complex than cultivating them. It's never the people that arbitrarily jacked up prices, rearranged tailgating spots, chased off legacy fans, destroyed the very small donor base that we do have and failed to adjust to an ever changing Acadiana. It's never those people.

You can shove it up your ass. You and everyone who keeps telling Cajun fans it's their fault. Look in the ____ing mirror, Rebel. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. Not everyone else. Your ridiculous way of gaslighting the fanbase is the exact same way that many in this admin think and always have. Your a great little lap dog for the old school mantra - "Do less with more."

FOH

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