Win The Event?

[fanof71]

Love the idea of brining in a former player to do the Ragin Cajun cheer from mid field idea. Goes along with the conference championship banner and the banners from all the bowl games and West Division Championships that need to fly somewhere at CF. Use the GD Bell, no more excuses....bring in some of the local musical talent play/sing the SPB with some accompaning from the POS...er POA. Live video the team as it comes out of the locker room to the tunnel through the tunnel over the big screen as part of the intrance. More video replays...

[cjr3888]

Comic Con comes in random dates to Lafayette. As far as the others, find a way to correlate the events with our football games. We did it with Festivals Acadiens et Créoles
a few years back, and it worked out just fine. There's ways around it, but the problem is that we don't TRY.

I didn't even know about ComicCon because this one wasn't advertised as much as previous events. That was a missed opportunity. However, these other music festivals (not Acadiens) are not going to even mention the football game. Why would they advertise for people to leave their event when their prime & most expensive entertainment is scheduled?

[ManAboutTown]

I didn't even know about ComicCon because this one wasn't advertised as much as previous events. That was a missed opportunity. However, these other music festivals (not Acadiens) are not going to even mention the football game. Why would they advertise for people to leave their event when their prime & most expensive entertainment is scheduled?

Why are you talking about "leaving their event?" There are many ways to have this idea become reality. You can have an annexed version of the festival at CF, which would ENCOURAGE people to go to their full event after the game. Or the next day.

Or, instead of having the overhead and permits and all the red tape of having these festivals on public land, offer them an alternative and have the whole dang thing in the CF parking lot. It's a matter of negotiating and determining how to make it happen. It beneficial for both parties involved.

[ManAboutTown]

Love the idea of brining in a former player to do the Ragin Cajun cheer from mid field idea. Goes along with the conference championship banner and the banners from all the bowl games and West Division Championships that need to fly somewhere at CF. Use the GD Bell, no more excuses....bring in some of the local musical talent play/sing the SPB with some accompaning from the POS...er POA. Live video the team as it comes out of the locker room to the tunnel through the tunnel over the big screen as part of the intrance. More video replays...

Another great point. Why have the replays gone down so much? Almost never see replays on the video board. And can we please get back to updating CF crowd on SBC games around the country???

[ManAboutTown]

Good for you. Think you could help out with the field goal kicking somewhere else? Ouch!

The girls couldn't do much worse... (sorry Kenny)

[Bandwagon King]

Why are you talking about "leaving their event?" There are many ways to have this idea become reality. You can have an annexed version of the festival at CF, which would ENCOURAGE people to go to their full event after the game. Or the next day.

Or, instead of having the overhead and permits and all the red tape of having these festivals on public land, offer them an alternative and have the whole dang thing in the CF parking lot. It's a matter of negotiating and determining how to make it happen. It beneficial for both parties involved.

You are clearly way to radical. Do you belong to the communist party? Worse yet, are you a "democrat"?

[CajunVic]

. .. Why would they advertise for people to leave their event when their prime & most expensive entertainment is scheduled?

I was thinking the same thing. Fact is they are either ponying off our event to get extra stragglers during the day or they are staying away from LSU home games.

They certainly don’t want to get others to leave for our event.

[cjr3888]

Who goes to these things? Can't be a lot of people. I am familiar with the first one but not the other 3.

Gumbo Cookoff brings over 30,000 people and 100 cooking teams to New Iberia each year.
Tailgating Cookoff brings 2,000 to 4,000 people to Loreauville each year for a 1 day event.
Christmas in the Village brings an average of 2,000 people to Loreauville for a 4 hour event. I literally serve over 100 pounds of popcorn and can't keep up with demand.
New Iberia Christmas has food trucks, famers market, plus other things, & ends with a parade. Not sure of the attendance because I'm not involved with that one.

[CajunVic]

Why are you talking about "leaving their event?" There are many ways to have this idea become reality. You can have an annexed version of the festival at CF, which would ENCOURAGE people to go to their full event after the game. Or the next day.

Or, instead of having the overhead and permits and all the red tape of having these festivals on public land, offer them an alternative and have the whole dang thing in the CF parking lot. It's a matter of negotiating and determining how to make it happen. It beneficial for both parties involved.

This would align our interests.

[cjr3888]

Why are you talking about "leaving their event?" There are many ways to have this idea become reality. You can have an annexed version of the festival at CF, which would ENCOURAGE people to go to their full event after the game. Or the next day.

Or, instead of having the overhead and permits and all the red tape of having these festivals on public land, offer them an alternative and have the whole dang thing in the CF parking lot. It's a matter of negotiating and determining how to make it happen. It beneficial for both parties involved.

No festival is having an "annexed version" of their event at a separate location. You're thinking of it as a benefit to UL. They could care less about football. They only care about making money for themselves. Their events also usually end around 10 or 11. What time does a UL game end? At the same time.

I'm speaking from the festivals point of view. I work with groups that put on multiple events and that's their way of thinking. Just like you're thinking abut it from the UL point of view.

[ULvictory]

I didn't even know about ComicCon because this one wasn't advertised as much as previous events. That was a missed opportunity. However, these other music festivals (not Acadiens) are not going to even mention the football game. Why would they advertise for people to leave their event when their prime & most expensive entertainment is scheduled?

So you mentioned the Gumbo Cookoff and Tailgate Cookoff are New Iberia and Loreauville events that average 30k and 4k each. Take the parishes of Lafayette, St. Martin, Iberia, Vermilion, Acadia, and St. Landry combined. That's almost 600k in population. There's a lot of potential fans to go around with these events, but I'm talking about events within Lafayette Parish alone. Comic Con, Festival Acadiens, Latin Festival....the low hanging fruit here is the communication between these festivals and the local community within the parish. And look, it may not work. I don't know. But we will never know if we don't attempt to, again, TRY.

[Bandwagon King]

I'll tell you what disappointed me most about the homecoming game, well besides the fact that the throne spirit stick, shoulder pads & bling were taken away from the team by the coaching staff. It was the sorry turn out of the students. I can't believe there weren't more students at the game showing their school pride & spirit. Oh snap! Say what? You mean the school's been kicking them out of games for being too mean to the other team? Way to go ULMH. That's the way to prove you are the man & no one else should get to go to home coming.