Summer of 2022: Unprecedented media silence

[cajun_lannister]

Have they interviewed any UL coaches or players? No they haven't so it's not just the RR guys that aren't being granted interviews.

Napier was on the Jordy culotta podcast couple times . Well after culotta was fired from radio.

[JMV JustMyView]

Napier was on the Jordy culotta podcast couple times . Well after culotta was fired from radio.

Pat McAfee and Jim Rome had Napier on while he was at UL.

[ManAboutTown]

Napier was on the Jordy culotta podcast couple times . Well after culotta was fired from radio.

The communications policy is outdated, inconsistent, and purposely vague. And it’s like that on purpose.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Daily training camp written stories have some value, but after the most diehard it becomes mostly drivel.

"The Cajuns had practice in shells on Friday and in the 15 periods they worked on blah blah blah."

"It was a great first day" coach Mike Desormeaux said. I liked the way we flew around and our enthusiasm.

Now that you've read that, there's not much else.

You can SEE that on FB, twitter and instagram.

Bash social media if you must, but that's where everything is headed.

Jay, I see multiple channels in NOLA carrying some LSUA&M news every day. That’s four locals mornings, afternoons, and late night. Them, the Saints and occasionally a Lamer report.

You’d expect a similar thing in Lafayette. Oh wait! They are exactly like NOLA, LSUA&M, Saints, and an occasional UL.

[Turbine]

So RaginCajuns.com has broken the fan boycott silence.

They went from July 28th to August 10th without a football story.

https://forumeus.com/showthread.php/...-Running-Backs

[mxpxfr690]

I used to do sports radio and it is very time consuming to get interviews plus being your own edit crew takes time.

[Turbine]

I hope the summer of 2023 sees a lot more football stories on Louisiana Athletics and from Louisiana Athletics.

The silence last summer really hurt football attendance.

And resurrecting the RSS feed would be Priority Two, it's the only way national media will ever cover Louisiana consistently.

[HoustonCajun]

The communications policy is outdated, inconsistent, and purposely vague. And it’s like that on purpose.

Des' personality appears more like Napier than Hud. Napier did well winning, but never excited the fan base as he was very low key with the public. That's OK at Florida but not here. Hud, on the other hand, had the whole community excited. Tailgating was at its best. Since HUD's departure and despite winning, everything dropped off in attendance and once great tailgating. I like Des as a coach and expect him to be very successful. But, I wish he would do more promotions to excite the fan base and help restore game day atmosphere. Winning alone didn't do it for Napier and will not likely do it for Des.

[CajunNation]

Des' personality appears more like Napier than Hud. Napier did well winning, but never excited the fan base as he was very low key with the public. That's OK at Florida but not here. Hud, on the other hand, had the whole community excited. Tailgating was at its best. Since HUD's departure and despite winning, everything dropped off in attendance and once great tailgating. I like Des as a coach and expect him to be very successful. But, I wish he would do more promotions to excite the fan base and help restore game day atmosphere. Winning alone didn't do it for Napier and will not likely do it for Des.

Agree 1000%

[RaginScotsman]

Des' personality appears more like Napier than Hud. Napier did well winning, but never excited the fan base as he was very low key with the public. That's OK at Florida but not here. Hud, on the other hand, had the whole community excited. Tailgating was at its best. Since HUD's departure and despite winning, everything dropped off in attendance and once great tailgating. I like Des as a coach and expect him to be very successful. But, I wish he would do more promotions to excite the fan base and help restore game day atmosphere. Winning alone didn't do it for Napier and will not likely do it for Des.

Right. We need engagement. Any way they can muster it. Even passive engagement.

Gordon has got the right idea with radio, TV and billboards. There is no were around town that you can escape it. I know because I see it and my small kids won't stop commenting on it when they see an add. They sing the song from the radio.

I'd love to see Ragin Cajuns all around the Acadiana area just in your face. Especially on campus getting the students excited about the Cajuns and telling them about the successes we've had recently and historically.

I saw 3 different USM billboards on the way home from Florida last week. A couple in Florida itself. I applauded them for that.

[SMD7636]

USM also has electronic billboards on I 10 in Baton Rouge.

[CajunJack55]

I don't disagree with the engagement I am just not sure Des is the guy for that. NIL has changed the game for head coaches, they have so much more to worry about now than x and o's and getting butts in the seats. They have to worry about transfers, portals, keeping rosters together, moral, boosters, raising money etc etc etc......in all honestly they have to worry way more about the players than fans at this point. Head college football coaches will be shifting more to NFL style coaches.

It will be up to the our admin unfortunately to get butts back in the seats....