It's no longer a moral obligation nor is it a charity. It's entertainment which means the sporting events now compete with the Topgolf's, Dave and Buster's, Moncus Park's, and festivals of the area. It's now a competition. What are we doing to attract those people to our events over those other places?
The issue is that there's people in the admin that saw the Napier era and believed that the crowds didn't pan out as they hoped for like the early Hudspeth era. What they're missing is that an 8-win season was unheard of in our history when Hud started that run where we had already seen that by the time Napier came around. Add in COVID, increased tailgate costs, and the midweek home games; and we ended up averaging just over 20k during a top 25 run in 2021.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Sometimes when you roll out a new plan, one can't expect people to just flock to the idea at the start. It takes time to simmer within the community. Rhythms on the River never started out as this "to-do" in Lafayette. It took time and caught on before eventually becoming a cool attraction for the locals. We need to try this same approach here. It can't hurt at this point.
***I notice that jax and I have the same way of thinking on this as I read his post above lol