Strategic Plan: Louisiana Athletics

[cajun_lannister]

Not after everyone got burned by Zeon.. might as well light your money on fire

It goes beyond just that. This is a blue collar area where people work very hard for their ever shrinking dollar. To give someone who is already getting a free education to play a game, more money. It's just doesn't mesh well

[Duggie35]

I will never contribute to NIL. If that means the end of college athletics here at UL, so be it. I will continue support of RCAF and purchasing of season tickets, but no NIL. If the product continues to spiral downward, I’ll just start buying Saints tickets again, where at least every team has the same salary cap!

[Scott Malkinson]

I doubt this fanbase will ever embrace NIL. The admin doesn't even , so you can take that goal out.

The school doesn't even care about it. The parade had zero marketing. Maggard didn't even ask about it until 10 hours before they rode.

[CajunT]

Laudable, but less than ambitious with regard to RCAF growth, and completely ignores student and general fan engagement. No mention of making our venues exciting and fun places to be on game days. Talks a bit about "stakeholders" but does not define them. The number of "stakeholders" is trending downward as non-gameday events become more and more exclusively reserved for the top tier of investors.

All that said, it is better than no plan at all.

It's an outline but gives very little mechanics on how those goals will be achieved. Much like a business plan, these goals will be adjusted during the time period given. They should do a few RCAF meetings for all giving levels and explain some of the mechanics on how they will grow RCAF to the stated goal and other areas of concern.

[60swerethebest]

Strategic plans don’t usually go into how. Just broad goals. And yes they can be adjusted. But if that is done often over a 5 year period, bad plan.

[RedTails]

Hopefully there are internal operational plans associated with each strategic priority, which should be updated yearly due to the extremely volatile environment of college athletics.

But kudos for releasing this.

[Duckster]

Just an observation, the photos used in the brochure leans feminine. This should be a full throated emphasis on football, men's basketball, softball, and baseball. Sports with stronger passionate followings. The remainder of the sports don't draw large numbers of fans or just chances are will not due to the nature of the sport. Women's basketball certainly could be more of a spectator sport here but right now its not. So much of this brochure's emphasis on women sports photos with small followings, instead of football, which drives the bus and is in the midst of new stadium build, doesn't make a lick of sense to recruit more RCAF donors. FOOTBALL!!!

[Cajunsmike]

Strategic plans don’t usually go into how. Just broad goals. And yes they can be adjusted. But if that is done often over a 5 year period, bad plan.

In my professional career, we annually generated a 5 year strategic plan and a 1 year tactical plan. The tactical plan had more specifics on how to reach short term goals of the strategic plan. Look backs at how things were progressing were performed regularly as well.

[Cajunsmike]

Though it may fall under fan engagement, the word students never appears.

Fulfillment of the Alden plan would have been nice to see.

I’d love to see all this happen and not end up on the shelf next to the aforementioned Alden plan.

Specifically addressing student support is also something I would recommend if feedback on the plan is requested.

[Ragin9221]

Do i need to bring out the 10 page Fan Engagement paper i wrote. My plan is very simple to implement!!