FB Season Ticket Sales?

[Duggie35]

Not making any excuses, but those schools in small communities probably get more local support because there is not much of anything else to do in some of those areas. However, even with everything we have here, there is still no excuse for the locals in the Lafayette and surrounding area not to have 30,000 - 35,000 butts in Cajun Field at every game.

[CajunEXPRESS]

But but but I thought the die hard fans were okay with having 12,000 dedicated RCAF members at the game? Low attendance/lost interest started when the RFAC pitted members against the average Joe. Now with streaming services, the average Joe stays home.

The day they started prioritizing parking and seating by donations was the day things turned South.

I don’t have a solution, but when an individual or business can tie up many of the better tickets and tail gating spots we lost many of the fans who came for the love of the game and university. Same for bowl seating.

[cajun55]

Doesn't work like that...

I never said it does. Being a smartass tends to not come across in text. Just wondering what the excuse for the poor marketing is coming off our best run of football in school history.

[CajunJeaux]

The day they started prioritizing parking and seating by donations was the day things turned South.

I don’t have a solution, but when an individual or business can tie up many of the better tickets and tail gating spots we lost many of the fans who came for the love of the game and university. Same for bowl seating.

Not trying to be a smart _____, but did things really turn South? Our numbers have never been great.

[BabbForHeisman]

The day they started prioritizing parking and seating by donations was the day things turned South.

I don’t have a solution, but when an individual or business can tie up many of the better tickets and tail gating spots we lost many of the fans who came for the love of the game and university. Same for bowl seating.

The real question is…how did the revue change? I don’t know the answer to that. But if we make equal/more money with premium charges for tailgating, etc, than we did before, then that’s what we are going to do. This is a business.

[moorecajun]

The day they started prioritizing parking and seating by donations was the day things turned South.

I don’t have a solution, but when an individual or business can tie up many of the better tickets and tail gating spots we lost many of the fans who came for the love of the game and university. Same for bowl seating.

I agree with you. Why did they do that, prioritized parking and seating by donations?

To raise money to compete, to grow.

Maybe this goes back to the "good old days" when you could park your car right outside the stadium 5 minutes before kickoff, and still get to your seat before the game started.

When that went away so did a lot of "fans". Will they come back?

I'm not sure I care. They have their reasons. I go because I am a diehard and always will be, as long as it is still about amature athletes. There may not be anything that can be done to lure these people back to the game and I'm not sure the cost would justify it. Why, because there are too many that will always find an excuse. If you give me a ticket I will go doesn't really work for me.

I would love to see Cajun Field packed but I'm not going to beg someone to go, or keep buying tickets so they can get in free.

It's time to nut up.

[John Cocktolstoy]

Team just had the best two year stretch in program history and the reward was two meaningless bowls..

I'll go to some games for the same reason I go to Festival Acadiens ... to drink some beer in public and listen to some meh music at deafening volume

We went to the bowl game that the champion of the sunbelt goes to. The bowl game wasn’t the problem the sunbelt needs to do a better job of getting their champion a better opponent.

[SMD7636]

Louisiana Tech Athletics had a fall fan fest on Sunday, but nothing from UL. I sent an email to Nico requesting the date in July because it’s been a tradition for my family. I received a polite note saying we don’t do that anymore. It’s minimal fan engagement these days. How are we going to meet the coaches, student athletes, and sell season tickets?

[ULvictory]

Louisiana Tech Athletics had a fall fan fest on Sunday, but nothing from UL. I sent an email to Nico requesting the date in July because it’s been a tradition for my family. I received a polite note saying we don’t do that anymore. It’s minimal fan engagement these days. How are we going to meet the coaches, student athletes, and sell season tickets?

We have a Fan Day this Sunday at the Cajundome Convention Center from noon - 2 PM. It was on Twitter yesterday.

[SMD7636]

Fan Day usually posted months ahead of time with the football schedule on ragincajuns.com I don’t have Twitter and haven’t heard anything about it. Did they advertise elsewhere before yesterday?

[JamesTheJeweler]

There are many good suggestions here on how to better our situation. And honestly I don't know which ones will be best suited for us as a program. But whatever the solutions are, I just wanna see this administration doing SOMETHING! Can we at least see them TRYING to do something? TRYING! Can they at least TRY doing something? It's the total apathyand lack of action that is so baffling, and quite honestly, infuriating! Is the possibility of us, as a group, getting together to try and initiate some things on our own? I'd be willing to try, and I assume many of you would too. I don't know, maybe I'm being naive in thinking so.

[Boomer]

I forget the game, but the first time I met Boomer he was roasting a pig at Cajun Basin.

….Fun times my friend….don’t think they allow it anymore so we just do pork steaks!……you are always welcome at the PBA TENT !