Hopefully you are right. I also hope most people wouldn't fall in line like sheep so easily, which may be the case because much has been learned and exposed since.
Hopefully you are right. I also hope most people wouldn't fall in line like sheep so easily, which may be the case because much has been learned and exposed since.
Maybe folks had to spend more time in the library and studying and missed sports in order to gain tier R1?
Would love to see increased marketing efforts outside of Lafayette Parish.
I did get a call once when I didn’t renew my tickets. My answer was I was waiting a couple weeks and eventually renewed.
To Boomer’s question, you’re doing everything you need to be doing. I ask myself the same thing. You want some money? Here’s some. Want me to buy tickets? To donate? To wear the gear and ask friends to come? Okay, I do all that. That’s all we need to do.
At some point it’s out of our hands. People get paid good money to do the job of raising money, getting butts in the seats, managing all things athletics. Do your job. If you need some free advice, Ragin Pagin is a damn good resource. Bring your sifter, though![]()
I’m not sure what is happening. A poster commented on the privileged class now running amateur sports.
That condition in pro sports has caused me to basically ignore pro sports. I don’t even accept free tickets to Saints, Stros, or Pelicans. Zero interest. Wonder if some are feeling that here about amateur sports. I don’t follow sports outside of UL and by extension, the Belt.
Don’t know. It’s sad locally because we’ve had some fun runs in a number of sports. Wish I had an answer that made sense.
I still think it comes down to advertising and engagement.
You can sell anything in this town with buzz. The sad thing is we thought we had buzz with a good product due to 3 years of incredible football but it was almost like everyone was neutral until the championship game which had a good crowd. It’s because we didn’t sell the good product.
Hang stuff around town. Get the brand in your face to the point you can’t unsee it. I don’t want to see purple as much as I see red in this city. Put it everywhere. Schedules. Signs. Banners (don’t talk about a banner.)
Advertising college football seems easy. Look at what other schools do. You have a 300 plus school sample size counting FCS. What works? What doesn’t? You don’t even have to be innovative. Just be plugged in to your community.
It’s a sin what the administration did and didn’t do with the recent success. But, they can recover.
Hang a banner for the first home game. Advertise the hell out of it. That’s a start.
It's too late for that cfb ages in dogs years .2021 might as well be 2015 in most cfb fans minds.
They did nothing all offseason thinking hiring local and living off the back of 13 wins would be enough. Then all wondered why only 7k people showed up to the last weekend game.
JMO Hud came in with the rah rah rah and having experiance from an SEC program brought us to our first modern day bowl game and got a huge emotional win, Napier was hired from a big-time program and hired a heck of a staff he was also supported by Slick Saban, CMD brings none of this, local product can't even be found in public. No head coaching experience or ties to a big-name program. How do you get excited when the coach isn't excited about his program in public.
Totally right.
My wife and I have been laughing at this for the past few years and it kind of applies to UL football.
You’ve got a restaurant that gets built up and delivers in Lafayette for a couple years, but somehow folds.
Then you’ve got garbage restaurants that get built up all the time and thrive. It’s because they are in your face all the time, they make it a place to be and that makes people continue to show up.
It’s easy to fool people with a bad product. Why is it so hard with a good product?
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