USM @ USA

[Jeaux]

USM has a losing record with a passionate fan base. Cajuns have a winning record with a commuter fan base. Hooray

Ok dude that's been a poster for 3 months and 17 post with nothing to contribute except negativity. Commuter school my azz

[Winning]

Ok dude that's been a poster for 3 months and 17 post with nothing to contribute except negativity. Commuter school my azz

From the advocate article…

“Since his arrival in Lafayette in 2017, Maggard’s heard all the reasons for low football attendance.

They range from LSU football being 50 miles away to UL being a commuter school to a lack of football tradition.

“It’s not that I don’t buy any of those things,” Maggard said. “We just don’t spend a lot of time worrying about things we can’t control.”

Truth hurts. Sorry pal.

[Turbine]

You bring up a very good point. Why do they show up and we don't?

My answer: they are FANS of their team. They go to the game to watch THEIR team play and they cheer them on, they are involved in the game because they want their team to win.

There are many, many posts on here about what to do to fix this. IMO, the answer is inside of each person, the passion for the CAJUNS needs to be there. The other stuff is fluff. So, how do you instiil in a UL student, a UL alumni, an Acadiana native, the passion of being a CAJUN?

If we can answer that we fix a lot of woes.

I've been recommending the Utah MUSS model since I first became aware of it 10 years ago.

Utah "MUSS" went from a nothing burger fan base to one of the best in the country in less than 20 years.

MUSS starts with freshman orientation and membership.

https://ulink.utah.edu/s/1077/20/sig...gid=1&pgid=941

[Jeaux]

From the advocate article…

“Since his arrival in Lafayette in 2017, Maggard’s heard all the reasons for low football attendance.

They range from LSU football being 50 miles away to UL being a commuter school to a lack of football tradition.

“It’s not that I don’t buy any of those things,” Maggard said. “We just don’t spend a lot of time worrying about things we can’t control.”

Truth hurts. Sorry pal.

If UL is a commuter then what is your LaTech? 3-5 in the worst D1 confrence with no hope of getting better. 5000 actual attendance with conference games just starting. Oh right, not a commuter school cause it in the middle of BFE and no one in their right mind wants to go. A trailer park school I guess

Yeh we have our issues here and there but we have more upside than any "commuter" school. We hold most of the NO bowl attendance records. 31,000 for the conference championship game here. Even the vaunted hillbillies at App State had only 18k when they hosted us for the last time in Boone. And we do this while having a 500 pound gorilla 50 miles to the east. We still fight on. We still have fun and we are the ones still 'Winnin". So ___ off trying to tell us who we are

[CajunNation]

USM + Portal + Hud = wins.

Let's hope they don't figure out this equation.

[Million$Mullet]

Their average butts in seats is probably lower than ours.

[fanof71]

Their average butts in seats is probably lower than ours.

I don't know as there are some awefully big butts in Hattiesburg...large, home grown rear ends...

[Million$Mullet]

I don't know as there are some awefully big butts in Hattiesburg...large, home grown rear ends...

Jeaux don’t call it fattiesburg for nothin!!

[Jeaux]

Jeaux don’t call it fattiesburg for nothin!!

You still got that wide load sign outside the city?

[Million$Mullet]

You still got that wide load sign outside the city?