How to pack Cajun Field against Texas State?

[cajun4life]

Are all these so called parking obstacles real or imagined? If so and costs more how on earth did aggie fans have RVs in the student parking lot most of the week prior? Did we ever recoup funds for that?

Single game parking pass at LSU, kinda close to the stadium, $300 a game. Yet we have people complain about free parking.

[RaginScotsman]

You guys are missing the reason why we don’t have fans. UL has not cultivated a fan base from its students.

WE WILL NEVER CONVERT LSU FANS!

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.

I agree that we don't do a good job cultivating our own fan base. To influence people, you need to know who they are and some in the administration seem to have no clue as to who they are trying to influence.

"Some where between 60-75k students have graduated in the last 30 years. Most of those were LSU fans." Not sure how you confirm any truth to the fandom statement. It's simply not true. That's some TSAB message board conjecture right there.

[cajun4life]

I agree that we don't do a good job cultivating our own fan base. To influence people, you need to know who they are and some in the administration seem to have no clue as to who they are trying to influence.

"Some where between 60-75k students have graduated in the last 30 years. Most of those were LSU fans." Not sure how you confirm any truth to the fandom statement. It's simply not true. That's some TSAB message board conjecture right there.

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.

[Esqueleto]

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.

This is absolutely true. They do a great job of indoctrinating kids from a very early age.

[CajunEXPRESS]

This is absolutely true. They do a great job of indoctrinating kids from a very early age.

I grew up a LSU fan as my brother went to LSU. I came to USL and listened to LSU football while watching movies in Lafayette. One thanksgiving week I decided to go watch the basketball team. A young sophomore had taken over the team from Winkler. From that moment on I was 100% converted to being a Cajun fan. Y’all can thank Coach Shipley and Lamar.

You have to get them young and you can’t get anyone without hard work.

[cajun4life]

This is absolutely true. They do a great job of indoctrinating kids from a very early age.

Inclusive vs exclusive

[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