How to pack Cajun Field against Texas State?

[Grantvb]

Multiple stages. Cajun Field Festival - Week 5.

one stage with Cajun/Zydeco, one with Country (preferably older) and one with 80’s Top 40 rock

[Ragin9221]

I say get every food truck in the Lafayette area, get every booth and food truck that is at Moncla Park. Say hey look you wanna make some money set up shop at 8 in the morning and go all the way up till game time. Give them spot where a stage is at.

Set up benches and tables chairs etc. ? Do It

[Grantvb]

I say get every food truck in the Lafayette area, get every booth and food truck that is at Moncla Park. Say hey look you wanna make some money set up shop at 8 in the morning and go all the way up till game time. Give them spot where a stage is at.

Set up benches and tables chairs etc. ? Do It

mais bruh, where I get my tickets at?

[babysitter]

Build an 18,000 capacity stadium.

[ManAboutTown]

Boutique Row - Hear me out..

Get all of the boutique clothiers in town to get a booth (sell booth space) to line up in the westside parking lot. Sell tickets to that ONE part of the field (something cheap like $5, give half to charity. Gets the charities involved). Have them compete on who can produce the nicest outfit with best accessories (or have a category for each) and have people vote on that. If the women are at the games, the men and kids are at the games. NFL figured this out a long time ago.

Raffle off prizes for free boutique items. Get the charities to benefit. Get the media to cover it. Have a make-shift bar inside a tent for relaxing. Would be an absolute hit.

[RedTails]

MAT, I love 99.9% of your ideas...but c'mon baw, the bougie Lafayette crew aren't coming walk around in a dusty parking lot around the cretins.

Superior Grill should come set up a giant tent and sell their margs though. That'd be a win/win.

[jaxmc1023]

1. Family Four Pack - $50

2. Uber Event transportation - $5 credit for any uber that has Cajun Field as the destination

3. Would love to see a push from Adopted Dog, Legends, Corner Bar, etc. But instead of "come watch the Cajuns here!", try for "come pre-game here with XYZ drink special and $3 food something". If for nothing else than to hammer home that UL's tailgating sucks

[ManAboutTown]

MAT, I love 99.9% of your ideas...but c'mon baw, the bougie Lafayette crew aren't coming walk around in a dusty parking lot around the cretins.

Superior Grill should come set up a giant tent and sell their margs though. That'd be a win/win.

Margs and boutiques? Shiiiiddd LaFonda Gang all in that...

[CajunNation]

Margs and boutiques? Shiiiiddd LaFonda Gang all in that...

LaFonda's Margs...Last time I was there had 2 and was lit. Awesome.

[CajunJack55]

Bear wraslin at halftime

[Balanced_view]

The issues that have driven fans away still exist. Until UL decides to visibley fix these issues, 22k or 50% full stadium will be about the max...it's a boring, loud, expensive experience...

it's a boring, loud, expensive experience? this is the same if not more so across the country, the boring part is a personal emotion and varies from person to person. so how do marshall, USM, App st. JMU, Troy, from just the Sun Belt along with other peers do it? are they cheaper ? quieter? its always a list of excuses given, it even changes every few weeks or year to year, but the result is the same.....hear me out, maybe everyone is looking at it all wrong. just a thought excessive to see what new ideas spring up, cause the old ones havent worked.

[Balanced_view]

Easy-ish?
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1. Social media blitz
2. Traditional media blitz (Local TV news appearances/terrestrial radio appearances)
3. $10 GA tickets (push Cajundome Box Office early and often to avoid fees)
4. On-campus promotions (signs, SGA engagement, social media like Volleyball asking trivia questions)
5. Word of mouth advertising among admin/fans (bring one extra person with you)
6. Promote YRCC (surprised how many of my family-aged friends aren't aware)
7. Utilize partners in the community with large online presence (Downtown Lafayette, Developing Lafayette, etc) to get the word out


Moderately difficult (requires additional people/planning)
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1. $20 first-come-first-serve general admission parking inside CF
2. First-come-first-serve $45 tailgate spots at Blackham with free parking (fee goes towards porta potties) /w Cajundome BLVD shuttle
3. Pick a loss leader on concessions menu and promote it ($1 hotdogs instead of $6?)
4. Offer free tickets/swag to people running for local public office (mayoral candidates, city/parish councils, school board, tax assessors, etc.) TSAB is away, so most will be in town hungry to shake-hands and make their presence known via social media


Requires long-term planning (possibly already in the works with renovated stadium?)
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1. RFID POS system (Festival International does it)
2. Overhaul tailgate rules (how can we fill it back up? Costs, locations, reduction in perks? tiered options? (trash pick-up, porta-potty wrist bands, etc.))

Now we talking Im liking these, they need to do several if not most of these together at the same time.