Oaks Along Cajun Field

[Turbine]

Tailgating was great at that point because of Coach Hud's promotion of UL football. Once he left, it fell apart. Even winning under Napier and a Top 25 ranking couldn't bring it back. We no longer have a promoter to excite our fans and get them back out there.

Tailgating was HUGE with Bustle.

Hud put fresh coals on the grill.

[Big Buds]

Tailgating was HUGE with Bustle.

Hud put fresh coals on the grill.

Honestly tailgating was always huge up until around ESPN+ and pricing to party went giraffe _____ high.

[Turbine]

Honestly tailgating was always huge up until around ESPN+ started streaming every game and pricing went giraffe _____ high.

Tailgating was not much to speak of when Bustle got here in 2002.

Unless I can find something in a yearbook, I don't have documentation on the 1990s

[Million$Mullet]

Tailgating was not much to speak of when Bustle got here in 2002.

Unless I can find something in a yearbook, I don't have documentation on the 1990s

There were a handful of campers during bustles first year. It got bigger around 05/06 and then it blew up in huds first year. I’d say double to triple the amount that tailgated during bustles time.

[Big Buds]

There were a handful of campers during bustles first year. It got bigger around 05/06 and then it blew up in huds first year. I’d say double to triple the amount that tailgated during bustles time.

I feel like I remember some big tailgates in the ‘90s. Probably the Bama and aTm games.

[Million$Mullet]

I feel like I remember some big tailgates in the ‘90s. Probably the Bama and aTm games.

Well yeah but those are anomalies. The week after we played A&M we got drilled by usm. Then we played houston at home and we had maybe 15k. I think it rained that game but still there was nobody tailgating like THAT. Bustle hyped the fan base enough to get to the tailgates at least. HUD just blew that batch out the water.

[facelessjonmoon]

Well yeah but those are anomalies. The week after we played A&M we got drilled by usm. Then we played houston at home and we had maybe 15k. I think it rained that game but still there was nobody tailgating like THAT. Bustle hyped the fan base enough to get to the tailgates at least. HUD just blew that batch out the water.

Yep. Hud was 4-5 years of solid tailgating every week . I wish we could get that energy back in the fan base




(I know the reasons why it fell off but just saying)

[ZoomZoom]

I feel like I remember some big tailgates in the ‘90s. Probably the Bama and aTm games.

Had our camper at CF for the Bama weekend. Was funny, one of their guys rolls in with a custom Bluebird motor home. RVs weren’t what they are today, that one drew an
Immediate crowd when it parked.

[HoustonCajun]

Yep. Hud was 4-5 years of solid tailgating every week . I wish we could get that energy back in the fan base




(I know the reasons why it fell off but just saying)

That begs the question, who should promote UL football and tailgating? Hud took that all on by himself and was highly successful. Since then, no one really has. Neither Napier nor Dez have the personality that Hud has and winning alone has not excited the fan base. How did we lose that? I was at our first bowl game in N.O. with approximately 50,000 fans and we won. Tailgating was awesome. Yet, everything kind of cratered. Did the athletic department cause that with rule changes and higher fees? I still think the inside the stadium game day production continues to lose fans and never gets addressed.

UL needs someone to head this up and engage all of Acadiana and our students, make attending UL football games fun again and an experience fans want replicated every week and get our stadium filled for every game. This has got to be addressed now. A partial new stadium (we still have the east side to complete) will only be a novelty for so long if this is not fixed.

Trey Frazier is the head of RCAF with a nice resume "While at Missouri, he developed a strategic plan to optimize support for Mizzou Athletics that included operational improvements, increased donor participation and annual giving." I had to look him up because I never heard of him and I am a member of RCAF. Just what is being done to turn this around? Has he developed a plan like he did at Missouri? Or will it be business as usual averaging 15,000 a game with poor tailgating? Time for Maggard and Frazier to turn this thing around and make Cajun Field the place to be on Saturdays for students and fans and become one of the best environments in college football.

[fanof71]

Nothing here that the majority of us here haven't been saying the last 8 years...Get used to it, Maggard and RCAF are all about one thing..$$$. They'd never want to INVEST in the efforts to solve the noted shortcomings in the above post....

[Big Buds]

Open up Cajun Field and make it a party again.

[Louisiana84]

Open up Cajun Field and make it a party again.

I keep hearing that we must "increase donor participation and annual giving" to Make Cajun Field Great Again, but it turned out that all we really needed was a coach who took it upon himself to get the kind of crowds we need.