Attendance!?

[zeppelincajun]

I feel guilty to admit this, but I was not in attendance. Went to Gulf Brew and Boudin Festival downtown and had a blast. The tiebreaker for deciding to stay downtown instead of heading to Cajun Field was my entire friend group was staying downtown.

This is where it is for a lot of people. Most weeks I am the only one or one of a couple from our original friend group. It's a bummer but based on the experiences I have on gameday I can't blame those who stay home.

[ZoomZoom]

Also, we don't market to elementary schools anymore. Go to those schools, and market the Ragin' Cajun brand to kids. It's an easy target market that can have influence later on.

Need a mascot to do that. Even if it's a freaking pepper.

[RedTails]

Also, we don't market to elementary schools anymore. Go to those schools, and market the Ragin' Cajun brand to kids. It's an easy target market that can have influence later on.

I think this is one of the keys. My wife teaches and her principal is a diehard Cajun fan. It will definitely make a marked difference on every kid that attends that school.

[cajunfan96]

What has happened to the fraternities? They were a big part of the support at games when I was in school. Don’t see any presence at all now.

I think they used the wrong pronoun and were banned!

[CajunVic]

LSU, purple and gold, Tigers brand markets itself. Anyone who is lazy and wants immediate brand associated with what they are doing just grab on to the LSU brand, without thinking about it. This is a large part of what we are dealing with and other than to all do what we do to promote the Cajuns, I'm not sure what else it out there. It's not easy going against the mafia, even in your own town.

[Ragin9221]

I feel guilty to admit this, but I was not in attendance. Went to Gulf Brew and Boudin Festival downtown and had a blast. The tiebreaker for deciding to stay downtown instead of heading to Cajun Field was my entire friend group was staying downtown.

This! We should bring The Boudin Festival to Cajun Field.

If your friend group was at Cajun Field they probably would of went into the game!!

Maybe one day they will figure it out!

There has to be a way to put pressure on the administration!

[zeppelincajun]

Local media reporters really need to be spoon fed UL athletics now to get it on air. So why not just do the work for them and maybe they will read it on the air. Agree the regional tours with the head coach gains support. Go the Lake Charles and Alexandria, too! Make an effort! Maybe those tours can return annually after Spring practices.

As for attendance, I thought post pandemic, post championship season, we'd be averaging at least in mid 20's. So wrong. Its probably all the things we've previously written on this forum.... too many odd and mid-week kick off times, TV access, 'fan stadium experience', the schedule, inconsistent marketing, moving around the students, greeks, etc. And like it or not today's younger fan, even P5's, want to see the big games. We seldom have those 'must see' games in the SBC. IMO the upcoming Troy game is a must see conference game.

While the SBC has come a long way, the home schedule still does not inspire walk up fans to attend. There's a ceiling that comes with remaining in the SBC. Having said that, I'm grateful we're not in the crumbling CUSA.

I think we at least need to get ourselves up to the level of the rest of the SBC before we start discussing the ceiling the SBC is placing on our attendance.

[Cajunologist]

Has the Administration even considered our ideas on how to increase attendance ??

Have any changes been made?

I felt like attendance was pretty sparse?

I think any game day experience improvements are on hold until the new stadium is completed. They are banking on the new stadium bringing people in on its own. The admin has put a great deal of effort/money in the past to get people to games but has turned out not to be a good investment so whats the point anymore really?

Dont take any of this to be 100% facts, just my thoughts on it.

[Turbine]

I think we at least need to get ourselves up to the level of the rest of the SBC before we start discussing the ceiling the SBC is placing on our attendance.

You are not wrong, but going into this season with a 13-game winning streak they had definitely leveled up.

Part of the problem was absolutely no public ticket drive WHILE leveled up.

A lot more people would be attending 4pm games if they had made their discretionary decisions and their tickets since July.

[UL_Cajuns]

So our hard core is say 15K - we need another 10K-15K in the stands to get to 25K to 30K which is what the stadium capacity will be once the renovation is complete to have sell outs and drive up demand. Then that will be at the top of G5 football attendance again.
When you look at only getting another 10-15K it is a plausible thing to get done.
It can be done. There is hope.