Cajun Field Construction

[ManAboutTown]

Whose job is it to get our budget higher? Is that not Maggard’s responsibility? He oversees the RCAF. He oversees every aspect of the athletic program. We keep complaining about the same things for the last several years with no improvement…..if he truly has no power to run the department, fire him and save $400k per year.

You think it's the Athletic Director's job to get our budget higher? Riddle me this: How can the AD "get our budget higher" when the people he gets money from won't allocate salary to hire dedicated fundraisers, creative staff, sales force, promotion and market teams with any amount of man/woman power? We don't even have a dedicated ticket sales team. Never have (officially). We don't even collect data on where our best ROI is coming from. We can't even tell you where we're most successful selling tickets. No one has ever taken the time to compile the data. We don't have a targeted marketing campaign to any specific demographic. We have absolutely no freaking plan when it comes to geo-fencing or digital outreach. They just post ____ on social media and expect you to interact. Hell, during Napier's final season, Ragin Review was doing more Twitter traffic than the official school accounts. (We were told and shown this by someone in the department) A dinky little fan podcast with no video presence at the time. We just bothered to show up every week and "spread the brand across the land."

The business of Louisiana Athletics is run like the Brazilian Government. Throw ____ against the wall, see what sticks, show the people just enough "commitment" to keep them close, only to pull the rug out from under them when you're on the brink of real buy in. OR, when times are good, clutch your pearls, curl up in the fetal position and hoard the money. God forbid we actually make waves.

And btw, our budget has increased over $10 mil since Maggard took over AND we've raised record number of capital dollars. Multiple different school records broken with regard to corporate donations. Where's the money...

[JamesTheJeweler]

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

[ManAboutTown]

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

That's why I screen shot as much as possible on threads like this.

[CajunT]

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

That's unfortunate and is a problem with this site on occasions. I don't have to agree with everything posted on this site, but unless someone crosses the threshold of slander or attacking a family member, I don't believe post should be deleted.

[CharlieK]

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

Makes it an unreadable site at times.

[CajunVic]

Where are my posts . . .

[CajunEXPRESS]

People donated $100 to the baseball stadium renovation, and their names are on a plaque inside the stadium. Yet for some reason with this evidence in our face 30+ times a year walking into the Tigue our top paid officials either haven't thought of it or are too scared to ask. Next excuse on why this won't work...

We can also sign a five year commitment for a thousand a year. How many season ticket holders I don’t know, but at 5K named holders that’s 25 million dollars. Should have done that five years ago.

[BananaHammock]

Dr Maggard is not the problem. Quite frankly I’m a bit surprised he is still here and hasn’t left for a better job yet.

[Million$Mullet]

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

Here are two thumbs up ���� ����

[CajunVic]

It's really weird what comments get deleted here.

One knows its an issue when Vic agrees with Jeweler . . . I agree with Jeweler . . . I had a great post and its gone . . .

[BabbForHeisman]

This press release is really easy to fix. The problem? No context for anything.

Something like "the design/build process has had these challenges (re-design, budget cuts, inflation, etc, fill in the blank), but the team is working hard to overcome these issues."...this is to explain why we are here.

But then the big one...there is NO CALL TO ACTION. There has never been.

All you have to do is throw a sentence at the bottom that says something like "Success and timing of this project is dependent in a large part on donors like you. Help us achieve our goals by donating to the RCAF."

It's a freakin sentence and we don't even type it.

That would be step 1 in about 100 things that could be done.

[RedTails]

Tinfoil hat time: what if athletics doesn’t even want to push for RCAF donations if the university can just grab from the pot.