I Guess The Students Won the Fight

[CajunNation]

Would easily paint a picture of what generation began the decline in fandom and what our program looked like at that time.

If there are more 50-70 year olds than 20-40, that would explain kids in the 90’s, early 2000’s didn’t catch the UL bug.

I've said it a million times.

The voluntary abandonment of the football program from '97 to '03 destroyed the fan base.

The only thing that would have made that deal worth it would be a Medical or Law school.

The fact that we are nowhere near that proves we destroyed the program for nothing.

[CajunT]

Would easily paint a picture of what generation began the decline in fandom and what our program looked like at that time.

If there are more 50-70 year olds than 20-40, that would explain kids in the 90’s, early 2000’s didn’t catch the UL bug.

Yep, the program lost an entire generation. I've seen some of those numbers, and none of it is surprising.

[CajunRage]

Things around the program were hopping up until around 2015. In the 2013-14 academic year, if I'm looking at the seasons correctly, we were going to our 3rd of 4 straight Nola Bowls, went dancing, baseball had its historic season and softball went to the WCWS. A cajuns ticket was the hottest thing in town. Don't know if it has anything to do with it, but RCAF's first executive director was hired in 2015 according to the site. Going straight off of memory here, that's when they started trying to monetize everything and the downturn started. I'm 38 and A LOT of people that I grew up with were at lots of games for lots of different sports up until then.

For me personally, my first of 4 was born in 2014 and kids are expensive. Choices were made and that's why I watch a lot of games on ESPN+ now. Timing, overpriced product and convenience were big factors for me and I'd assume the same applies to a lot of people my age.

[ManAboutTown]

Things around the program were hopping up until around 2015. In the 2013-14 academic year, if I'm looking at the seasons correctly, we were going to our 3rd of 4 straight Nola Bowls, went dancing, baseball had its historic season and softball went to the WCWS. A cajuns ticket was the hottest thing in town. Don't know if it has anything to do with it, but RCAF's first executive director was hired in 2015 according to the site. Going straight off of memory here, that's when they started trying to monetize everything and the downturn started. I'm 38 and A LOT of people that I grew up with were at lots of games for lots of different sports up until then.

For me personally, my first of 4 was born in 2014 and kids are expensive. Choices were made and that's why I watch a lot of games on ESPN+ now. Timing, overpriced product and convenience were big factors for me and I'd assume the same applies to a lot of people my age.

But I bet if the Napier-type success continued into the Des era, you'd find a way to pinch pennies, tweak scheudles and be more involved. That's what success does.

[CajunRage]

But I bet if the Napier-type success continued into the Des era, you'd find a way to pinch pennies, tweak scheudles and be more involved. That's what success does.

If I'm being completely honest, feeling like the money I was sinking into the program was being ____ed away turned me off. The success only made it more frustrating that it doesn't seem like the admin gives a ____ and where we could be if they were good stewards of our money.

[zeppelincajun]

But I bet if the Napier-type success continued into the Des era, you'd find a way to pinch pennies, tweak scheudles and be more involved. That's what success does.

It would take the on field success coupled with maintaining all the operations that make gamedays worth experiencing in person. We did half the work for the Napier years and got half the results attendance wise and acted shocked that we didn’t get it all. At this point, we seem to have come to the conclusion that half assing it was too much. Now we’re half cheeking it.