2023 Football Schedule with dates

[Million$Mullet]

I don't know the terms of the contract, but I thought that was about as close as we'd get to P5 home game since 2010.

A bunch of us went, rented a house in NOLA, went to the game and stayed for labor day weekend. It was a really great time.

Attendance was only 22k. That was certainly a disappointment. But aside from hosting Boise in a million-degree heat, that's the best "home" game that we've had in several years.

I don't disagree with Maggard's desire to always have 6 home games (1 x FCS, 1 x peer G5, 4 x conference?) It does stink to watch our peers scheduling and hosting P5 teams with what appears to be a bit or regularity. Beating them in several instances also.

If it takes scheduling these in NOLA, I'll take it. We tend to do well there.

Moo state had played in Ruston, mobile and Hattiesburg. If I recall they played in mobile the year they were number 1 for a bit. There was no reason to do a one for one with them and have our home game in Nola. We had to pay for the dome then split ticket revenue with them. It should have been a 4 game series with 2 in Starkville, one in Nola and one in Lafayette. That is why it was a horrible idea. To be fair to farmer, we were also pulling big crowds to the Nola bowls so it may have seemed like a good idea. But when you get the chance to host a P5 you do it especially when that specific team had no problem traveling to our peer schools.

[RaginScotsman]

Moo state had played in Ruston, mobile and Hattiesburg. If I recall they played in mobile the year they were number 1 for a bit. There was no reason to do a one for one with them and have our home game in Nola. We had to pay for the dome then split ticket revenue with them. It should have been a 4 game series with 2 in Starkville, one in Nola and one in Lafayette. That is why it was a horrible idea. To be fair to farmer, we were also pulling big crowds to the Nola bowls so it may have seemed like a good idea. But when you get the chance to host a P5 you do it especially when that specific team had no problem traveling to our peer schools.

Thanks for the details. Forgot about the stipulations for the game. Can't imagine we did too well on that.

I understand the appeal of scheduling it in New Orleans. Should have been a bigger draw. Still had a good weekend out there and given the choice between no P5 home and a P5 neutral in New Orleans, take NOLA all day. That's the closest we've sniffed to getting a P5 to coming to Lafayette in a decade. And it may be another decade or more before anyone visits, if at all.

[CajunT]

If I recall farmer scheduled that game and Maggard thought it was a horrible idea.

If you recall, it was former MidSouth Bank President/Ceo Rusty Cloutier that fronted the money and help negotiate the deal with the New Orleans Downtown Sports Association to get the deal done. It wasn't Scott Farmer's idea and he certainly didn't facilitate that agreement.

[CajunFun]

If I recall farmer scheduled that game and Maggard thought it was a horrible idea.

Farmer? In the Superdome?

When I approached the head of the NO Sports Foundation, he answered positively, and didn't mention that it had already been brought up. Hmmm...

[Big Poppa]

Farmer? In the Superdome?

When I approached the head of the NO Sports Foundation, he answered positively, and didn't mention that it had already been brought up. Hmmm...

Either way it’s a bad idea during the season. We draw well to Nola post season when 80 percent of the state isn’t paying attention to what the school in BR is doing. Whoever had the bright idea of the Nola game definitely screwed the pouch on that one.

[Turbine]

Either way it’s a bad idea during the season. We draw well to Nola post season when 80 percent of the state isn’t paying attention to what the school in BR is doing. Whoever had the bright idea of the Nola game definitely screwed the pouch on that one.

Wrong.

It was a great idea that wasn't promoted.

[Big Poppa]

Wrong.

It was a great idea that wasn't promoted.

I was there. It was promoted. It is just that you had no more interest in that game than those that would typically go to Cajun field and you lost some of them due to the 2 hr drive. You know what happens in NOLA on Labor Day weekend every year?

Make no mistake the majority of the huge NO Bowl Crowds never step foot in a Cajuns football game during the months of September through November. You were never going to get a crowd to that game like the bowl games.

[Turbine]

I was there. It was promoted. It is just that you had no more interest in that game than those that would typically go to Cajun field and you lost some of them due to the 2 hr drive. You know what happens in NOLA on Labor Day weekend every year?

Make no mistake the majority of the huge NO Bowl Crowds never step foot in a Cajuns football game during the months of September through November. You were never going to get a crowd to that game like the bowl games.

You can't wait till the week of the game to promote that game!

Games like that deserve a summer long promotion.

The game was not promoted. It's like marketing walked out of evolutionary biology class and expected promotions to take care of itself. ... by accident.