How to create excitement for UL Athletics?

[Ragin9221]

Well already said it when that stadium is built we need to be experimenting with ideas and when OLOL stadium is finished better be on point for the first game and be able to handle 30k a game !!

[JAB]

If I trolled like you did on here I would stay home and watch on my patio to, as you have admittedly do several times on here. Tell me do you and JAB ever watch together.

How did I get roped into this?

I contributed to the thread, and I still have not received any comment about my proposed fried chicken canon.

[Ragin9221]

How did I get roped into this?

I contributed to the thread, and I still have not received any comment about my proposed fried chicken canon.

I am down I don’t see how we haven’t done that before. I mean that canon reach into the upper deck!!

Wonder why they never did it for basketball games ?

[cajun55]

How did I get roped into this?

I contributed to the thread, and I still have not received any comment about my proposed fried chicken canon.

The ice gators do not exist, I don't think we want to go down that path! Would be pretty funny to have another Cajun Chicken night and do that though!

[MrCaelan04]

What is the way we can create excitement about UL athletics?


If we continue this trend we will end up like ULM with no fan support and no one showing up to the games.

We will start having trouble funding athletics and if goes down far enough. We will end up with no money with no fan support. Bad thing is the Administration has created this.

If Marlin stays for another 4 yrs without making it to a tournament with no excitement in scheduling we will be in trouble

If Des goes into his 4th year without a winning season or without creating excitement we will have a new stadium with no one attending.

We have create this black hole and if we don’t do anything in the next 3 yrs without anything changing we will be a college with no fan support and no money!

Idk, ULM showed out in Lafayette somehow. Had this annoying ass fan in the student section with us who kept saying we sucked. My brother in Christ you’re 2-9, and down 52-21

[ULvictory]

What is the way we can create excitement about UL athletics?


If we continue this trend we will end up like ULM with no fan support and no one showing up to the games.

We will start having trouble funding athletics and if goes down far enough. We will end up with no money with no fan support. Bad thing is the Administration has created this.

If Marlin stays for another 4 yrs without making it to a tournament with no excitement in scheduling we will be in trouble

If Des goes into his 4th year without a winning season or without creating excitement we will have a new stadium with no one attending.

We have create this black hole and if we don’t do anything in the next 3 yrs without anything changing we will be a college with no fan support and no money!

The two new positions with the new ticket management deal will cater mainly to community outreach with season ticket drives and game promotions. We were one of the only FBS programs in the area that did not have its own ticket outreach program. It’ll be interesting to see the efforts being made when the Paciolan deal does into effect in February.

[MrCaelan04]

If Ragin Review did not exist, the only people talking about Cajun Athletics would be the official UL social media accounts and Kevin Foote. Local radio coverage is nonexistent. The newspaper that formerly was the record of the city gives TSAB WBB equal coverage to UL football. It's ridiculous you go after three fans that spend hours pumping out free content after performing their full-time jobs.

Before I got fired, I would’ve covered UL and nothing but UL over at the Verm. Maybe they’ll rehire me next football season but we’ll see what happens.

[Ragin9221]

The two new positions with the new ticket management deal will cater mainly to community outreach with season ticket drives and game promotions. We were one of the only FBS programs in the area that did not have its own ticket outreach program. It’ll be interesting to see the efforts being made when the Paciolan deal does into effect in February.

Community outreach and ticket drives was never our forte.

Problem is UL to me is looked at like a Lafayette thing and not an Acadiana thing. We have to do better when it comes to ticket promotions and community outreach!

Going with not just being critical. We have to spend a certain percentage on marketing. A company will spend 5% even 10% on marketing.

If our athletic budget is 20 million dollars a million needs to go to marketing our athletics.

[ULvictory]

Community outreach and ticket drives was never our forte.

Problem is UL to me is looked at like a Lafayette thing and not an Acadiana thing. We have to do better when it comes to ticket promotions and community outreach!

Well, we have to have a starting point.

[Ragin9221]

We need to start putting billboards and hitting all the high school games in the area.

It would take some organizations but we need find a group of people that are sports fans. Start by hitting all high school sporting events in the high schools to try to get people to come out and support UL athletics .

[jaxmc1023]

Look at the comments on pretty much any stadium reno/demo post on social media. The current buzz around the stadium project, I would say is pretty negative..

"Expansion!? They can't even fill the current stadium!"

"Waste of taxpayer and students' money!"

"Can't pay for good teachers but we can spend millions on a vanity project"

"Students shouldn't be forced to pay higher tuition to support athletics they don't care about"

If people aren't complaining about it being too expensive, then they are spouting off completely false information like the above.. and people see these comments and take them as fact. Why? Because nobody ever corrects them. The university sticks its head up and makes an announcement, then disappears into the ether, leaving a void to be filled with whatever nonsense the internet comes up with.

To further the restaurant analogy from earlier, I would say that UL football is comparable to something like Pete's. They still have enough loyal customers to keep the lights on, but that group is getting smaller every year. The food is not great, the prices are high, the atmosphere is bland compared to what it used to be. Then they keep renovating that restaurant, and reopening the same declining product in a new and improved building, when what the people really want is the old Pete's -- the dirty, dingy, poorly lit, "yeah it's a bar but there's arcade games for kids" Pete's that was a part of Lafayette culture.

The admin is trying to turn UL football gameday into Social/Chimes/Ruffinos, when what the public really wants is old Petes/Old Tyme/Judice Inn.

[ZoomZoom]

Lafayette would still be mailing out redlight camera tickets…

Don’t laugh, heard from a reliable source it’s coming back in some form.

They need the revenue.