App State attendance

[HelmutVII]

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook. What a clown show we have.

'Dear Cajun Field management, please train your staff at the entrances that when a ULL student (my son)has a diabetic medical bag, and he has apple juice and glucose nose spray for sugar lows, DO NOT try to confiscate it. He’s not a terrorist. He’s just trying to save his own life.. I don’t know where to go with this, but whoever can help me, let me know. It ruined his fun time yesterday and made him feel discriminated against! Tessie and I are furious… Life as a diabetic is hard enough without bull____ like this happening. I digress…please make us aware of how we make sure this doesn’t happen to ANYONE again!'

[RaginScotsman]

You could tell it was going to be a light crowd at the Cajun walk.

What’s going on across the basin is only part of the problem. No relief from that with the exception of the Troy game so we’ll be competing. Homecoming is the Bama game, so that.

We know the issues. Little to no marketing. Even after a big ACC win and a rivalry win. No buzz created with any promotion.

Game day experience. Even with perfect weather, you obviously didn’t have return customers from the first 2 games.

Where are the students? It was great to see the student reserve tailgate sold out for game 1. Have not heard a peep about those spots since. Have not made it over there to check it out either. How’s that going?

Check that. South Al game is no conflict.

[Million$Mullet]

I’m going to very much disagree on this point, at least for last night. The in game music selection was actually pretty darn good, and the speakers didn’t have the annoying shrill like in the past. The band was pretty good too compared to past seasons. We sat next to them.

The in game experience last night put on by the university, with the exception of the big black box on the scoreboard preventing one from seeing replays, was actually pretty darn good. We all had a good time, and the win made it better.

Agree with this. Volume was at a reasonable level. Presentation was good. Crowd size was terrible. But the people that actually showed up brought the juice

[cajun4life]

Agree with this. Volume was at a reasonable level. Presentation was good. Crowd size was terrible. But the people that actually showed up brought the juice

The only thing missing was an electric crowd. Everything else was pretty darn good.

[Swamp]

I like this assessment as well (cajunrunner's). However, and this is coming from one who plays music at max volume no matter what, the PA is far too loud. Ear piercing loud. Also, why in the hell do the band start playing in the middle of Metallica on the speakers. Are you kidding me? AND, music was on deck, playing low in the background, pretty sure it was some "nothing but a good time, classic from Poison" but the PA talked for so long about some absolute BS and it never got the chance to be cranked up. And it was the perfect timing for it.

RV from 107.9 was running the in game (not sure what you call it) live action involving the crowd dude? and he stated on the Friday morning breakfast jam (played on nearly every radio in every shop in Acadiana on Friday mornings) that he was not cool with Beastie Boys and they started jamming some classic Beastie, I thought it was hilarious. Students that were there should definitely resonate with his style. Good work.

[BBcajun]

The RV crowd was decent and the weather was perfect. We had a good tailgate day. I thought the crowd was a bit light but the fans that showed up had good energy. Not sure if there was an issue at the gate but my son & his group walked right in and no one scanned their tickets so not sure if the attendance figures are totally accurate.

With all that said, the "music" playing from the stadium speakers during the hours before the game is quite loud for the RV tailgaters. Wouldn't be so bad but the music is not our type of music. Turn that stuff down.

Geaux Cajuns!!

[jric116]

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook. What a clown show we have.

'Dear Cajun Field management, please train your staff at the entrances that when a ULL student (my son)has a diabetic medical bag, and he has apple juice and glucose nose spray for sugar lows, DO NOT try to confiscate it. He’s not a terrorist. He’s just trying to save his own life.. I don’t know where to go with this, but whoever can help me, let me know. It ruined his fun time yesterday and made him feel discriminated against! Tessie and I are furious… Life as a diabetic is hard enough without bull____ like this happening. I digress…please make us aware of how we make sure this doesn’t happen to ANYONE again!'

Contact Marcus Marks at the UL athletic department. Don't rely on the number posted for him because it's wrong. You'll have to be very insistent. They are bad at returning phone calls. Went through it last game.

[facelessjonmoon]

The RV crowd was decent and the weather was perfect. We had a good tailgate day. I thought the crowd was a bit light but the fans that showed up had good energy. Not sure if there was an issue at the gate but my son & his group walked right in and no one scanned their tickets so not sure if the attendance figures are totally accurate.

With all that said, the "music" playing from the stadium speakers during the hours before the game is quite loud for the RV tailgaters. Wouldn't be so bad but the music is not our type of music. Turn that stuff down.

Geaux Cajuns!!

I couldn't get to game until halftime due to personal obligations. There were for sure scanner issues at the NE gate at least when I got to game. There was a line of about 30 people trying to get into game at this time and none of the tickets printed or digital would scan correctly for anyone.

They ended up taking pictures of the tickets and let people in. No clue what they were planning to do with pictures taken of tickets

[KACajun]

For what it’s worth…attendance didn’t look bad on tv. Looked better than 14K.

[Swamp]

TRU Cajuns

[Big Buds]

TRU Cajuns

It was probably closer to 18K.

[Swamp]

It was probably closer to 18K.

When I heard the count it seemed light to me also.

Ran into folks hadn't seen in years. It was a very good time. $2 dollar Nattys are simply spectacular. Had 8.

Geaux Cajuns.

[HelmutVII]

Contact Marcus Marks at the UL athletic department. Don't rely on the number posted for him because it's wrong. You'll have to be very insistent. They are bad at returning phone calls. Went through it last game.

Thanks I sent it forward to them.

[cajun4life]

It was probably closer to 18K.

14k was being generous. We were barely half full Saturday.

[zephyr]

You could tell it was going to be a light crowd at the Cajun walk.

What’s going on across the basin is only part of the problem. No relief from that with the exception of the Troy game so we’ll be competing. Homecoming is the Bama game, so that.

We know the issues. Little to no marketing. Even after a big ACC win and a rivalry win. No buzz created with any promotion.

Game day experience. Even with perfect weather, you obviously didn’t have return customers from the first 2 games.

Where are the students? It was great to see the student reserve tailgate sold out for game 1. Have not heard a peep about those spots since. Have not made it over there to check it out either. How’s that going?

Quit it with the marketing schtick. Even if that was better how many people would it pull? A marginal amount. We have a culture issue here. It runs deep starting with administration. That's what was great about Hud. He came in, saw the culture issues and set out to change the culture which he did for a good time period. That's what we need. So many people in this city send their kids and ultimately their money to LSU. I can see it on Sunday on FB. So many people at UL with me years ago posting all their pics at the LSU game decked out and having fun. Honestly, at this point, I'm not sure it will really ever change. Hell, even a number of our students go across the basin to go to football games on Saturday night.