How to Increase Attendance?

[CrazyCajun]

Stop overthinking it, offer people the same experience per game that “season” fam get. We have empty tailgate spots and empty parking spots out the ass, sell them all per game until we sell them out. Going into a Saturday home game knowing you have 25 unsold TG spots and 1000 empty parking spots and doing nothing with them is ignorant

[Ragin9221]

Stop overthinking it, offer people the same experience per game that “season” fam get. We have empty tailgate spots and empty parking spots out the ass, sell them all per game until we sell them out. Going into a Saturday home game knowing you have 25 unsold TG spots and 1000 empty parking spots and doing nothing with them is ignorant

Perfect! Run an ad on 1420 AM with Jay and a number they can call to reserve a parking pass and a tailgate spot. .

[Jacob81]

Stop overthinking it, offer people the same experience per game that “season” fam get. We have empty tailgate spots and empty parking spots out the ass, sell them all per game until we sell them out. Going into a Saturday home game knowing you have 25 unsold TG spots and 1000 empty parking spots and doing nothing with them is ignorant

Not perfect. I know multiple tailgate spots paid for that don’t get used for every game. You will lose a lot of the season tailgate spot buyers that will just decide to buy game by game.

Just like season tickets.

If you offered game by game tg spots you would gain some game by game but lose some season tailgate spot sales. Which could workout. But what about bad weather? Or how soon In advance of a game would you have to purchase a tailgate spot?

[USL]

The only argument that holds water with me is concession times, that needs to be fixed ASAP!

You could pay someone $40/hr to sell beer and they'd make that back for you in 4 minutes.

[CajunVic]

Went to sleep and the most innovative solution disappeared.

Who let the DOGS out?

[cjr3888]

Yes. This attendance issue is frustrating. And honestly when I’m there I don’t care how many people are there with me. We actually looked a lot better after the crowd left Saturday. So stay empty and win is fine with me. Hahaha. My biggest concern about attendance is the issue will eventually trickle down to recruiting and play on the field. Next thing you know we will suck again.

I'm around recruits year round and trust me, fan attendance is not anywhere near the top of their priority list.

[RedBug58]

I saw this past game that there was a little cheerleading clinic and the girls were invited to perform on the field. This pulled in their parents & grandparents. Now on a bigger scale, think if we invited the Lafayette High Band for a game and called it Music Night. They are the “Music” high school in the area and their band is 300+. Let them perform at halftime and play a few songs during the game. With their parents & grand parents you may be adding a couple thousand people and exposing high school kids to UL games.

[moorecajun]

We can build something like this at TG1

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IFF we are ever able to afford it, there is the Champions Square development in the plans (at least a few years ago) to replace the Cox building. I think that is a great place for it for a year round entertainment area.

However, as can be seen by our lack of participatory effort (I may have made that word up!), we aren't close to being ready to do that financially.

I agree with what a lot of you are saying; it takes many years to grow a fan base. We may not be patient enough to see that but that doesn't mean its not true.

Also true, winning helps. So, I, like the rest of you, will be out there, cheering on the Cajuns to another win. Eventually, the rest of the area will wake up to it.

[Jacob81]

I'm around recruits year round and trust me, fan attendance is not anywhere near the top of their priority list.

If this is in fact true then I don’t care about attendance anymore. I just want to win.

[RedBug58]

I’m told that Drew Brees lives in The Lafayette area now. Invite him to a game and have him sign autographs inside the stadium. Promote it as Drew Brees night and give away some Saints tickets.