How to pack Cajun Field against Texas State?

[CajunVic]

. . . the MADD type philosophy is not written all over their plan . . . it is our plan here . . .

[RaginScotsman]

Not conjecture at all. If you ram a poll of every citizen in the state on their fandom. The numbers would easily point that out.

The overwhelming majority of fans in this state are LSU fans. You can combine every other fanbase in the state and it is still way behind LSU fans. Those are facts.

Are you talking about graduates from our university? If so, we can just agree to disagree.

[CajunVic]

Are you talking about graduates from our university? If so, we can just agree to disagree.

. . . didn't see the word graduate anywhere in his comment . . .

[RaginScotsman]

. . . didn't see the word graduate anywhere in his comment . . .

"Some where between 60-75k students have graduated in the last 30 years. Most of those were LSU fans. The time to convert this fans are when they are on campus. As we have seen the university does a poor job of getting student participation and cultivating our future donors and base."

[CajunVic]

"Some where between 60-75k students have graduated in the last 30 years. Most of those were LSU fans. The time to convert this fans are when they are on campus. As we have seen the university does a poor job of getting student participation and cultivating our future donors and base."

. . . that was a separate observation . . . keep the observations in track and it will make more sense . . .

[RedTails]

This is pure conjecture on my part, but my guess is:

85% of freshmen entering UL are either Acadiana-commuter LSU fans or apathetic towards college sports. By the time they graduate, I think only 10% are converted to care about UL athletics.

Ways to increase % of grads caring about athletics:
1. Get students to live on-campus and engage in extracurriculars. (I think there's a push towards that).
2. Bolster, reinvigorate, and support Greeks (opposite of that is happening).
3. Exposure/exposure/exposure. Students on campus should see signage of athletics' home games and schedules around campus. Athletics emails should be sent out to all student louisiana.edu emails with an opt-out. (Unsure of this happening)
3a. Where do students hang out now? Where is the communal gathering place with no strip? Is it DT (Marley's)? Find where students are gathering and promote games there and deck it out in Cajun swag. Create a sense of community.
4. Make tailgating great again

[RaginScotsman]

. . . that was a separate observation . . . keep the observations in track and it will make more sense . . .

Come on, dude. That's why I asked a clarifying question.

[CajunNation]

...Where do students hang out now? Where is the communal gathering place with no strip? Is it DT (Marley's)? Find where students are gathering and promote games there and deck it out in Cajun swag. Create a sense of community...

Good observation.

I went to UL from 89-93. On any weekend, there were several thousand students at The Strip, and most of them weren't Greeks. It did build community as I made many friends there and would recognize and talk to many students on campus that I otherwise would not have.

[shof]

My personal observation. I was at USL in the mid-late 70’s. Probably half of my friends/acquaintances who went to USL are LSU fans first and foremost, some never mention UL. I suspect it’s worse now. Sadly our leadership over the past 30-40 years has done NOTHING to fix this!

[cajun4life]

Are you talking about graduates from our university? If so, we can just agree to disagree.

Yea I’m talking about graduates. The majority of those students, whether you admit it or not are Tiger first fans. They come here for school only and go to LSU on Saturdays. That’s the cold hard truth.

Take a trip on a Saturday to BR and see how many 20-40 years olds from Lafayette are there. Way more than stay here I can tell you that.