It's The Culture, Stupid....

[facelessjonmoon]

It is played at VC home games. Surely it could be play at UL.

Yesterday would have been appropriate with Texas State's ironic use of Boosie's set it off.

_____ y'all aren't from Louisiana

[JMV JustMyView]

It's a trashy song for trashy people. No thanks

I never said I liked it.

[Fais do-do]

How about a good ole fashion Gumbo cook off when it cools and let the admin (sponsor) be the tasters. Could be a tailgating competition. Give out free food to everyone!

[fanof71]

If you’re not living your culture, you’re killing it."

Jordon Thibadeaux

[cajun4life]

Once again, y’all miss the reason why we don’t have fans. Forget about converting LSU fans, even the casual ones, it won’t happen.

This is a decades long journey. It starts with the President, Dean of Students, Student Affairs, SGA, Greeks and finally the Alumni Association.

Acadiana hasn’t gotten behind the university because we’ve never given them a reason to. I’m not talking about winning either, the university has to create a bond with the community. Instead we’ve operated in the shadows forever. Wanted to be the best kept secret, so secretive that there are people within 5 miles of campus that’s never even seen the quad, cypress lake or any other part of campus.

TSAB has cultivated a statewide following by having a complicit media, political support, early childhood indoctrination. Many on here talk about not being LSU, well I ask why not?

Why don’t we start building our fanbase prior to getting them on campus. UL students get in free, extend that to every student in the 5 parish area. Get in free with a student ID. They will drag a parent or two, if they attend a game. Run that fan recruiting for the rest of the season. We have to build that base now. It’s starts with the impressionable kids and making them fans.

[Lafitte the Pirate]

Once again, y’all miss the reason why we don’t have fans. Forget about converting LSU fans, even the casual ones, it won’t happen.

This is a decades long journey. It starts with the President, Dean of Students, Student Affairs, SGA, Greeks and finally the Alumni Association.

Acadiana hasn’t gotten behind the university because we’ve never given them a reason to. I’m not talking about winning either, the university has to create a bond with the community. Instead we’ve operated in the shadows forever. Wanted to be the best kept secret, so secretive that there are people within 5 miles of campus that’s never even seen the quad, cypress lake or any other part of campus.

TSAB has cultivated a statewide following by having a complicit media, political support, early childhood indoctrination. Many on here talk about not being LSU, well I ask why not?

Why don’t we start building our fanbase prior to getting them on campus. UL students get in free, extend that to every student in the 5 parish area. Get in free with a student ID. They will drag a parent or two, if they attend a game. Run that fan recruiting for the rest of the season. We have to build that base now. It’s starts with the impressionable kids and making them fans.

You may be on to something here. Ask this question, when was the last time Dr. Savioe has done an interview and address all of these issues? answer - NEVER!

[Boomer]

You may be on to something here. Ask this question, when was the last time Dr. Savioe has done an interview and address all of these issues? answer - NEVER!

…..Years agoI thought about having a school bus from every school in Acadiana…..cost $1-5 to get in the game and have all the groups sit in an empty area……hell have a High school night for the entire state!

[Turbine]

…..Years agoI thought about having a school bus from every school in Acadiana…..cost $1-5 to get in the game and have all the groups sit in an empty area……hell have a High school night for the entire state!

Ragin Roadies Night.

[CajunVic]

. . . but you got to get the parents there . . .

[Grantvb]

That’s one big recruiting trip

[BabbForHeisman]

It's the culture, stupid...It's our culture to enjoy good food, good music, dancing, honoring hard work with an equally honored good time, interacting with friends and family, recognizing a culture in South Louisiana built on the backs of generations of "Cajuns" ( full disclosure, I'm not a native Cajun, but I fully embrace the this life and lifestyle) This culture is generations deep, it's why we all live in a one of a kind culture...

Allow me to ask WHY doesUL, season after season, sport after sport, continue to totally ignore the inclusion of this unique culture into athletic (mainly football) game day experience?

The football game day /stadium experience (after repeating the same format) multiple seasons, has really not changed despite Maggard hiring people to take charge of the situation. Are they that incompetent?

UL has ____ed away opportunity after opportunity to engage the local fan and alumni. And there are a ton of examples mentioned on these pages every season...Why this operation doesn't embrace the local culture, leverage it (along with other CF assets that sit in plain site), promote it, and showcase it on game days is just mind numbing...

Tuesday night, App plays a 2-2 COVID Carolina team in Boone. That culture will be on full display on ESPN2 along with 30,000+ fans...App leverages it's mountain culture all game long. Youseph, Eric Church, Luke Combs music, Alabama's "Play me some mountain music" it's all on display....

The whole UL athletic department should attend next week's Festival Acadiens, and figure out a way to transfer that energy, culture, and fun into CF.

It's not so much the football being played at CF, plenty of home success over the last 5 years...it's the ____zz show, high school like, in game experience that is keeping fans away...there is nothing Ragin or Cajun about CF on game days...it's the culture, stupid..or lack there of...

Might be an unpopular opinion, but as someone who hasn’t lived in Lafayette in a couple decades, I think I can ask this question…what is the local culture?

Outside of a couple of festivals, where does the culture become visible? Answer: not many places, to be honest. Driving around town, it’s a lot of McDonalds and Chilis and Costco, just like any other town.

So it shouldn’t surprise us that when we bring in an outsider, they don’t get the culture.

[Grantvb]

I remember in Youth Football (1990ish), we had been offered to get into the Cajuns’ game for free if we wore our league jerseys. I couldn’t go. But that was before the athletic dept was about bringing in revenue