2022 Enrollment

[SMD7636]

I hope Martin Hall realizes that athletics is the marketing for the university. The recent football success is the biggest reason for the largest freshman class in 5 years.

[JMV JustMyView]

I hope Martin Hall realizes that athletics is the marketing for the university. The recent football success is the biggest reason for the largest freshman class in 5 years.

Then why don't they turn out for sporting events?

[Turbine]

Then why don't they turn out for sporting events?

Because that's not how advertising works. Once you get them enrolled, you start from scratch again because for Louisiana, enrolling was a frontal lobe decision.

Overall buzz from winning football creates a magnet to the school when they are looking for a school to attend.

They are looking for a school to attend for four+ years, they are not enrolling to attend a football game, EVEN THOUGH it was winning football buzz that put the school front and center in their frontal lobe.

The goal for the U should be to get Louisiana awareness locked into the new student body hippocampus, and that takes a whole new effort.

[BananaHammock]

Because that's not how advertising works. Once you get them enrolled, you start from scratch again because for Louisiana, enrolling was a frontal lobe decision.

Overall buzz from winning football creates a magnet to the school when they are looking for a school to attend.

They are looking for a school to attend for four+ years, they are not enrolling to attend a football game, EVEN THOUGH it was winning football buzz that put the school front and center in their frontal lobe.

The goal for the U should be to get Louisiana awareness locked into the new student body hippocampus, and that takes a whole new effort.

So football results gets them to attend a school but doesn’t get them to attend the football games. Makes sense…

[Turbine]

So football results gets them to attend a school but doesn’t get them to attend the football games. Makes sense…

That's not how it works.



Winning football creates background noise and vibes about the school at large that leaves a positive impression on non football fans. Even when they are unaware of the source.

[fanof71]

That's not how it works.


Winning football creates background noise and vibes about the school at large that leaves a positive impression on non football fans. Even when they are unaware of the source.

Freshman Guide Book from a few years ago at App...From the Rock...Going to games is not an afterthought...App Daughter 2nd row with cap on mid pic...her first game as a student

[Esqueleto]

Freshman Guide Book from a few years ago at App...From the Rock...Going to games is not an afterthought...App Daughter 2nd row with cap on mid pic...her first game as a student

That's cool. Going to games at App State is a great experience. Hope one day we can say the same about games at UL.

[ZoomZoom]

I'm just telling you from a parent who's kid is in his freshman year at UL and with all the kids he associated with, UL is typically down the list of their top options. Most of the kids locally are obsessed with LSU and that's where they're looking to go. And if you were correct, we'd have a bustling student section at football games in a year where we saw a bump in attendance. Generally speaking, we often have fairly poor student attendance at most athletic events.

For a long time the coordinator of the GT program at LHS would tell her students they needed to go to LSU. They needed to “aim higher than ULL.” And this was SOP until she retired. Once I learned the deep connection to LSU, it all made sense.

[Big Poppa]

Maybe it’s a parent issue . . . maybe get a couple of pointers from KK

I didn’t see a post from a KK on this thread. What was his pointers.

[CajunVic]

I didn’t see a post from a KK on this thread. What was his pointers.

He is constantly posting here about his college age kid attending Louisiana and apparently getting what it should be like to be a college student . . . Attending games, getting rowdy to the opponents and just have a good old fashion time.