What Happened

[chauncey]

Most of the young ladies are from the Acadiana area. I do not support the purple and yellow team but they have something that attracts students from every other university in the state on a Saturday. Additionally, my son's group have access to a suite that is owned by one of Lafayette's largest employers.

Our fraternity tailgated at a spot near the blacktop road when I was in college and many years after until our alumni dropped the location. The greek system and student support isn't close to what it was in the early to mid 90s with an above average team. I can remember the student side was always somewhat full. That was when we would harass the opposing team from the front row. We still have around 75 season tickets from the late 80s when the university was offering 1/2 price packages.

I agree with many of the comments and feel the lack of importance of athletic success from Martin Hall. I don't have the answers, but they do not cater to the fans or the students at most athletic events. I have missed less games in 30 years than the casual fan attended during the CBN era.

Just curious, what happened to student escort tickets? Couldn't you purchase up to 5 tickets for $5 bucks back in the day?

[KajunKrazy]

Most of the young ladies are from the Acadiana area. I do not support the purple and yellow team but they have something that attracts students from every other university in the state on a Saturday. Additionally, my son's group have access to a suite that is owned by one of Lafayette's largest employers.

Our fraternity tailgated at a spot near the blacktop road when I was in college and many years after until our alumni dropped the location. The greek system and student support isn't close to what it was in the early to mid 90s with an above average team. I can remember the student side was always somewhat full. That was when we would harass the opposing team from the front row. We still have around 75 season tickets from the late 80s when the university was offering 1/2 price packages.

I agree with many of the comments and feel the lack of importance of athletic success from Martin Hall. I don't have the answers, but they do not cater to the fans or the students at most athletic events. I have missed less games in 30 years than the casual fan attended during the CBN era.

Just curious, what happened to student escort tickets? Couldn't you purchase up to 5 tickets for $5 bucks back in the day?

Yes on the student escort tickets. Are they no longer available? Agree with you on your statements. Guys like us need to encourage our kids to continue to support the Cajuns as hard as Martin Hall makes it for them sometimes, so that we don't loose that entire generation of fandom.

[chauncey]

Yes on the student escort tickets. Are they no longer available? Agree with you on your statements. Guys like us need to encourage our kids to continue to support the Cajuns as hard as Martin Hall makes it for them sometimes, so that we don't loose that entire generation of fandom.

I don't believe student escort tickets are still available. I agree completely, its not any easy task.

[CajunVic]

We may have already lost a generation as the ceiling has generally moved from around 30,000 to around 15,000 . . .

[ZoomZoom]

We have already lost a generation as the ceiling has generally moved from around 30,000 to around 15,000 . . .

FIFY

[KajunKrazy]

I don't believe student escort tickets are still available. I agree completely, its not any easy task.

Makes no sense on the escort tickets. Easy way to get more butts on that side of the stadium. My sons girl friend is a cheerleader so he never has a date until after the game any way.

[CajunVic]

He could always bring a dude escort . . . that’s butts on the seats . . .

[KajunKrazy]

He could always bring a dude escort . . . that’s butts on the seats . . .

All his podnas are students and got IDs.

[cajun4life]

We may have already lost a generation as the ceiling has generally moved from around 30,000 to around 15,000 . . .

We lost 3 generations under Dr A and T-Joe is starting to look and act a lot like him.

[JamesTheJeweler]

We lost 3 generations under Dr A and T-Joe is starting to look and act a lot like him.

Starting to??

[CajunVic]

30 years is basically one generation . . . so we probably didn’t lose 3 . . .

[CajunEXPRESS]

30 years is basically one generation . . . so we probably didn’t lose 3 . . .

I believe 20 years. My genealogy history research has about five generations per century on both my wife and my lines. Hers I was able to trace to 650 AD.

But for football purposes every time you lose a class you lose a generation

[cajun4life]

30 years is basically one generation . . . so we probably didn’t lose 3 . . .

Roughly 8 full four year graduating classes that were neglected.

[CajunVic]

I believe 20 years. My genealogy history research has about five generations per century on both my wife and my lines. Hers I was able to trace to 650 AD.

But for football purposes every time you lose a class you lose a generation

I was just guessing on the 30 years . . . please explain losing a generation every year . . . that is hard to believe . . .

[CajunEXPRESS]

I was just guessing on the 30 years . . . please explain losing a generation every year . . . that is hard to believe . . .

So I imagine that you build your alumni base one year at a time. Say we manage to get 1000 students from NOLA every year. For my purposes they all live and return to NOLA. We have a great community of people who should be inclined to support us. I’ve yet to meet a UL grad who isn’t supportive enough to wish us well in metro NOLA.

Again every class brings future generations. Again I’m speaking sports only.