Final: Louisiana 75, USM 61

[BeauCajun]

the tv angles made it look like a decent crowd for a mid week game and the crowd was loud and involved, that is a good look for the school, if the tv showed vacant low seats and you didn't hear the fans involved it would be a different story. the tv camera's even managed to find some kids in usm gear. good job by whoever does the basketball tv feeds.

Those USM kids sat in front of us in 122. Parents stuffed them with cotton candy at the game. They were wired up.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Why? They not giving out trophies for attendance. Why would the NCAA care about how schools choose to count their attendance.

They should care. They’re responsible for everything. Awards aren’t necessarily important. They decided to blunt JMU from a bowl for no apparent reason other than a parent’s‘because I said so’!

[CajunVic]

Why? They not giving out trophies for attendance. Why would the NCAA care about how schools choose to count their attendance.

Most intangible benefits are based upon attendance . . .

[Big Poppa]

Most intangible benefits are based upon attendance . . .

Name one?

[CajunVic]

Invites to bowls . . .

Scheduling . . .

Recruiting . . .

Ticket sales . . .

Hiring . . .

Capital campaigns . . .

Game time atmosphere . . .

[Turbine]

Vic be bringing it, ticket sales are more important for every one of those things except recruiting visits.

[zephyr]

Vic be bringing it, ticket sales are more important for every one of those things except recruiting visits.

Not really. Padding post numbers. Not offering ____

[Big Poppa]

Invites to bowls . . .

Strictly record and bowl slots available are what gets bowl invites. If the independence bowl put any stock into actual crowds they wouldn’t have invited us this year. When they came to Cajun field we had less than 8k. The rest of that is all BS. For instance a recruit don’t look at the reported attendance in the paper. They are standing on the side line and see and feel the atmosphere. Now that atmosphere does make a difference to the recruit not the number Maggard reports in the paper. Ole Vic is wrong again.

[Big Poppa]

Ticket sales . . .

Right. Ticket sales are what they are reporting.

[KajunKrazy]

Strictly record and bowl slots available are what gets bowl invites. If the independence bowl put any stock into actual crowds they wouldn’t have invited us this year. When they came to Cajun field we had less than 8k. The rest of that is all BS. For instance a recruit don’t look at the reported attendance in the paper. They are standing on the side line and see and feel the atmosphere. Now that atmosphere does make a difference to the recruit not the number Maggard reports in the paper. Ole Vic is wrong again.

If bowls do look at attendance numbers then ticket sold are better to report than butts in the seat. More than likely that bowl will only send representatives to one game and has no clue what the crowd looked like at the other 5 home games. So ticket sales will make you look more appealing to them.

[Turbine]

Strictly record and bowl slots available are what gets bowl invites. If the independence bowl put any stock into actual crowds they wouldn’t have invited us this year. When they came to Cajun field we had less than 8k. The rest of that is all BS. For instance a recruit don’t look at the reported attendance in the paper. They are standing on the side line and see and feel the atmosphere. Now that atmosphere does make a difference to the recruit not the number Maggard reports in the paper. Ole Vic is wrong again.

Vic got you on this, KajunKrazy is right.

[Big Poppa]

Vic got you on this.

You would have to explain to me how selling 20k tickets and when only 15k show up you report your attendance the next day as 20k makes a difference in any of what Vic stated? I don’t see it. Every school in America records attendance that way.