Laugh all day long but they still are not going to sporting events. Calling it what it’s not surely will not help. But go ahead and beat that drum and get the same results. There is some saying about that . . . Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. But laugh and have at it.
They drive home and stay home. There you go. I now have them where they are, now how do you get them back here for sporting event attendance.
The failure to recognize where they are when you want their attention is the initial part of the problem. It may be the major “glitch” in arriving at a solution. One can’t solve a problem they fail to recognize. One thing that is certain is that the problem has not been solved.
UL is not a commuter school.
The problem is not the distance, the bottom line is the college student that lives at home with mom doesn't get engaged and involved in campus life. Which trickles into athletic support as well. That is not just here that is everywhere. The question is how do you change that mentality and get them to go to "college" instead of just going to school.
It's not a commuter school when compared to SLU, Nichols, UNO, but it's hard to avoid the commuters when you're a state university in such a densely populated area such as Lafayette parish and Acadiana. Why would you live on campus if you're from Rayne, Church Point or Breaux Bridge?
Louisiana is a commuter school.
Get used to it and address it or continue to lose student support at athletic functions.
You still beating that dead horse. When every body and their brother knows it is. It is not a computer school just like the McDaniel kid was a “fore gone conclusion a long time ago” and the athletes didn’t protest in the name of BLM at the police station. And you do a pod cast do you get anything accurate on it?
As somebody who lives close to campus (The presidents house is across the street from my home) I can attest that the University is a ghost town on weekends. You can shoot a cannon down the boulevard and not hit anybody. Friday afternoon is an exodus Sunday afternoon and evening is the return. They go home. I see the few students that stay on campus make the trek to Dominoes for a pizza, KOK for wings or the Bulldog for a beer. The only real attraction on week ends are families that go to Cypress Lake to feed the fish and see the gators.
It's pretty dead on the weekends.
The other issue is outmigration. There are no jobs in this state.
THIS! We are not getting fans from outside Lafayette. All these students from Acadiana don't see UL in an athletic sense and it is strictly academic for them. How can we change this is the question we should be asking. Top 20 football team 2 years running, highest ranked team in the state two years running and most have zero awareness of this. Where's the billboard off I-10, 49 or 90? What have we done to get someone living in New Iberia, Carencro, Breaux Bridge etcto want to attend a football game?
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