2025 Vermilion and White Spring Game

[Million$Mullet]

I was surprised Coach Des didn’t get on the microphone and thank the fans for coming to the spring game, encourage them to buy season tickets and donate to the quarterback club. Fan engagement is necessary for a successful program!

You’re surprised he didn’t do it? I’d be surprised if he did. I like Des but that’s just not who he is. Even at QB club meetings, he goes in, does his preview for the next week and answers a few questions then he leaves. He is a football coach. He is not a promoter. I do wish that he’d take some of that pregame locker room energy we see in the videos and use it to engage and excite the fans directly. I think he’s learned a lot in his 3 years about actual coaching and game management. He could learn a little more about fan engagement. Once again I like him and not knocking him for it but that’s just not who he is.

[KajunKrazy]

It was on every social media outlet, every local news channel, local radio, digital billboard, local digital print for weeks. The first post was march 7th…2 months out. Foote had articles almost everyday. Spring practice always concludes with a spring game, not sure what people expect them to do. You can follow social media but the algorithm will show you what you interact with, if you don’t interact and their post is not on your feed, there isn’t anything they can do about you not seeing their post. Same as if you never watch the news, read the paper or listen to the radio.

I follow the Ragin cajuns official football FB page. I never saw it on my feed once. I don't think every one that follows a page gets all the post.

[KajunKrazy]

Great! We're all set then! Can't wait to be sitting with the other 35k fans for our games this year! Sweet!

Here you go. GEAUX mark your calendar now.

https://ragincajuns.com/sports/football/schedule

[CrazyCajun]

I follow the Ragin cajuns official football FB page. I never saw it on my feed once. I don't think every one that follows a page gets all the post.

That’s what I’m saying but they can’t help that, it’s an algorithm on facebooks end. They can only the control content not who consumes it.

[Cajunsmike]

Getting back to the game itself, it is encouraging to hear about several strong performances by some guys on offense. However, it makes me wonder about how strong our defense will be. I guess a 21 to 16 score is better than a 35 to 30 score in that regard.

[RedBug58]

Again. You're right. The admin does plenty for marketing athletics. How could anyone argue?

You want me to regurgitate years of discussions on this forum on ways to better market athletics. Its been posted here ad nauseum for YEARS! You're on this forum. Been here for years, right? Yet.... you haven't seen them? And you want me to regurgitate it for you? I mean, if you haven't seen what I'm talking about and you've been here the whole time, even commented on them, then what else do you want?

See how silly that sounds?

Does anyone know a Jeweler? If we want to get those "Mom's" a little more "engaged" give away a nice piece of jewelry with a Cajuns theme (only for the women). We'll need a Jeweler that supports the Cajuns though. Anybody know one??

[Turbine]

Does anyone know a Jeweler? If we want to get those "Mom's" a little more "engaged" give away a nice piece of jewelry with a Cajuns theme (only for the women). We'll need a Jeweler that supports the Cajuns though. Anybody know one??

Those are as rare as the gems they embed.

[CajunJackFish]

I went to the Spring Game - my first - and was impressed with the talent and atmosphere. Concessions were open, music was playing, Band and Spirit were in attendance. Only thing missing was a cold beer and a fall crowd. Got me really excited for fall with football as the main event plus supplementary activities.

After reading the comments about folks not being aware of the Spring Game, I gotta call BS. Around Easter, a true fan would say, "Hmmm, when is the Spring Game? Seems like it's around this time." Then the fan would do an internet search, provided that he knows how to operate a computer or smart phone. The search engine would probably direct him to the Ragin Cajun Football webpage or social media posts with the information. It's a true head scratcher to find that there are people who call themselves fans, but didn't know about this game. Y'all need to look in the mirror before dragging Athletics through the mud because y'all couldn't figure this out yourselves.... Take some personal accountability.

For the folks who mentioned the need for a viral moment, you might get your wish. Walker Howard's sister is TikTok famous. She made a post after the Spring Game that has over 777k views. Look her up as @macloversss.

[Turbine]

...After reading the comments about folks not being aware of the Spring Game, I gotta call BS. Around Easter, a true fan would say, "Hmmm, when is the Spring Game? Seems like it's around this time." Then the fan would do an internet search, provided that he knows how to operate a computer or smart phone....

I agree but all you have to do is look at the first post of this thread to realize not everyone knew.

ps Seems Gridiron was following your advice, in advance.

[RedTails]

After reading the comments about folks not being aware of the Spring Game, I gotta call BS. Around Easter, a true fan would say, "Hmmm, when is the Spring Game? Seems like it's around this time."

I think that's the problem. This admin has been relying on "true" fans for far too long. There are about 14k of us. We need new fans, and we can't rely on new fans to have some kind of tingling intuition to know UL athletics has something going on.