FB Season Ticket Sales?

[fanof71]

"he was the magician"

That's what she said...

[Ragin9221]

This is mostly accurate.

For a team like UL to gain fans we have to create amenities

Pros of going to a LSU game

1. Big time atmosphere
2. Watching top BCS schools that are nearby
3. Competing for a NC.
4. Nationally known with big following

Pros of LSU is the Cons of Louisiana.

So okay I am not knocking Louisiana I am just being realistic

We have to increase the reasons why people would want to show up. We have to create amenities

We have to do things that LSU can’t offer

1. Good Parking
2. Reasonable ticket prices
3. Close competition that average fan has heard of. With the new additions to the Sunbelt it will be awesome.
4. Increase the environment around the stadium and have a easier and better tailgate experience. Do what KrazyKajun said ( This is something the University can do tommorrow ).
5 Create Community where people feel like they are a part of something.

We are the Ragin Cajuns. Time to be like Notre Dame and use it to our advantage

We can’t do these things just a little bit. We have to do them ALOT! We have to go all out.

Let’s make our strengths even stronger .

[John Cocktolstoy]

This is mostly accurate.

For a team like UL to gain fans we have to create amenities

Pros of going to a LSU game

1. Big time atmosphere
2. Watching top BCS schools that are nearby
3. Competing for a NC.
4. Nationally known with big following

Pros of LSU is the Cons of Louisiana.

So okay I am not knocking Louisiana I am just being realistic

We have to increase the reasons why people would want to show up. We have to create amenities

We have to do things that LSU can’t offer

1. Good Parking
2. Reasonable ticket prices
3. Close competition that average fan has heard of. With the new additions to the Sunbelt it will be awesome.
4. Increase the environment around the stadium and have a easier and better tailgate experience. Do what KrazyKajun said ( This is something the University can do tommorrow ).
5 Create Community where people feel like they are a part of something.

We are the Ragin Cajuns. Time to be like Notre Dame and use it to our advantage

We can’t do these things just a little bit. We have to do them ALOT! We have to go all out.

Let’s make our strengths even stronger .

I agree the university has done nothing other than open up the gates of Russo to enhance tailgating in over 25 years. You want to grow the atmosphere you need to expand the game day experience across the entire athletic campus from Blackham to the corner of congress and Bertrand. Got to expand to grow won’t do it with the same old TG spots inside the gates of cajun field those are old and stagnant.

[CajunJeaux]

Quite frankly, I believe majority of our fan base (and other G5s) is &/or will be turned off due to the players now being paid as professionals. I think it's safe to say that the majority of UL fan base is middle class, blue collar folks. While there's nothing wrong with a fan base like ours, you better have top tiered results if your fans are going to dish out their hard earned money. And being honest with our selves, we aren't close to that.

[KajunKrazy]

Quite frankly, I believe majority of our fan base (and other G5s) is &/or will be turned off due to the players now being paid as professionals. I think it's safe to say that the majority of UL fan base is middle class, blue collar folks. While there's nothing wrong with a fan base like ours, you better have top tiered results if your fans are going to dish out their hard earned money. And being honest with our selves, we aren't close to that.

If top 25 in the nation finishes aren't enough for the fan base here considering where we have come from in the past then we will never have a fan base here.

[CajunNation]

We are chasing our tail here.

For those of you who don't know, Lafayette and the Acadiana area have exponentially more lsu fans than Louisiana fans. Over several decades, A LOT of potential Cajun fans have gravitated to the other side of the Basin because we have failed to compete for their attention and dollars.

Whether you like it or not, SBC championships and dominating a G5 schedule DOES NOT move the needle with the average college football fan in our area. So, what do we do?

We can't offer them a P5 home schedule, yet, but we can grab their attention and respect by scheduling more P5 schools and kicking their rear ends.

1 P5 road win catapulted our program onto the national scene and set us on a path of 2 years of National Rankings. We HAVE TO keep trying to do that as much as we can.

[JamesTheJeweler]

HUD, the man, brought us to 14,000. He showed an interest in everyone he met and particularly knew how to snooze the big donors without in anyway dismiss the small ones. And by figuring a way to win 9 games he was the magician.

He knew how to "snooze" them? Poor choice of words. However, he did take quite a few of them to bed, so......maybe it's not that wrong.

[CajunVic]

He knew how to "snooze" them? Poor choice of words. However, he did take quite a few of them to bed, so......maybe it's not that wrong.

Sorry for the typo Smooze them. We know that you will probably have 5 posts on the subject. For a Broussard, you sure do try to POO POO on most things by a greater Broussard.

[CajunJeaux]

If top 25 in the nation finishes aren't enough for the fan base here considering where we have come from in the past then we will never have a fan base here.

Reality is no one outside of the SBC respects that.

If we want true support, we need to hang with & beat the heavyweights. Year in and year out.

Unfortunately, no one can say we've done that.

[CajunVic]

. . .

For those of you who don't know, Lafayette and the Acadiana area have exponentially more lsu fans than Louisiana fans. Over several decades, A LOT of potential Cajun fans have gravitated to the other side of the Basin because we have failed to compete for their attention and dollars.

. . .

because we have failed to compete for their attention and dollars.

HUD did this.

[CajunJeaux]

We are chasing our tail here.

For those of you who don't know, Lafayette and the Acadiana area have exponentially more lsu fans than Louisiana fans. Over several decades, A LOT of potential Cajun fans have gravitated to the other side of the Basin because we have failed to compete for their attention and dollars.

Whether you like it or not, SBC championships and dominating a G5 schedule DOES NOT move the needle with the average college football fan in our area. So, what do we do?

We can't offer them a P5 home schedule, yet, but we can grab their attention and respect by scheduling more P5 schools and kicking their rear ends.

1 P5 road win catapulted our program onto the national scene and set us on a path of 2 years of National Rankings. We HAVE TO keep trying to do that as much as we can.

100% agree with you.

Everyone on this site loves UL b/c of some form of connection to the university. If we want to grow our fanbase outside of personal connections, it has to be thru top level production on the field. Period.

[CajunNation]

Ticket sales under Hud were a result of people starving in the desert being given the Manna of Bowl Games and 9 win seasons, a VERY good Oil and Gas economy, and the perfect Salesman at the Helm to sell it all. It was a perfect storm.

When the wins left and the economy slipped, so did the attendance.

Enter Napier. Wins came back, but Bowl games are yesterday's news, the local economy is worse and a 2 year pandemic further screwed it up.