2011 Vermilion & White Spring Game

[Zeebart21]

_ Z - Great visiting with you yesterday.

Turns out I love tailgating in April, and I sunburn just as easily!


igeaux.mobi _

I am one big crawfish this morning!!

Z

[cmonman]

_ Z,

You know what was amazing about the Spring Game... the Brick and I couldn't find you guys in the crowd yesterday. That would never have been possible in past Spring Games!

J1M _

JUST WIN BABY nothin else matters

[RaginWaldo]

_ JUST WIN BABY nothin else matters _

Ban Hammer Please...

[CajunDreDog]

JUST WIN BABY nothin else matters

You have to be Brad Boyd....

[moorecajun]

_ Hell, if you use a Jerry Baldwin season for comparison the spring game tailgate and attendance exceeded anything the Rev had in-season. _

LOL - but you are right!

[CAJUN_LXA685]

I remember watching the games last year, and especially the drilling we took at UGA and looking at our coaches on the sidelines and wondering where is the fire, where is the a.s.s chewing that someone should be getting right now?

Well, I can see more excitment, passion, and fire in this coaching staff, just from the few pictures of the SPRING GAME (Practice? Practice?...we're talking about practice?) than I can ever remember seeing from the previous coaching staff at any time during a regular season game.

[HoustonCajun]

_ Lafayette has one major obstacle to becoming like Baton Rouge...it's a fun city. Festivals galore, a great night life, enough great restaurants to choke a horse, and a cultural heritage that brings people back year after year. Those small towns and Baton Rouge all have in common the fact that there is nothing else to do in those towns than watch football. _

Austin, TX is a fun city with much more to do than Lafayette. But they still get 100,000 for a football game, 16,000 for basketball and 10,000 for baseball. There is no excuse for Lafayette and Acadiana to not support UL more than it does, except for the fact the UL did not even support itself under our former President. That is all changing under Dr. S and Coach Hud. Having too much other stuff to do in Lafayette is a bogus excuse for not showing up on Saturday nights. When we start winning and play a better level of competition than the Sun Belt to excite the average fan, there is no reason within 5 years that we shouldn't have a 50,000 seat stadium and fill it up every game. And, that should not be an extraordinary expectation for UL and Lafayette. It is time to start thinking more big time expectations and stop living in the past.

[zephyr]

_ Ok. it's time for somebody/bodies to pony up. I'm sure someone knows what the average home attendance was last year. I'll wager with anyone who wants to that Hud averages at least 5k per home game more than Bustle did. Hell, make that 6k more. $100 to RCAF & $100 to Ragin Pagin by the loser. _

That's not a fair comparison. Bustle was in the middle of a 3 win season. You make a coaching change and the complexion and enthusiasm of a program will always be more upbeat with better attendance, at least at the beginning. Bustle's teams also led the conference in attendance for several years and I think we did again last year despite our reduction in numbers. Point being, If Hud were to fall a bit at the beginning of the season and we were 2-4 or something to that effect, you will not notice any immediate upward trends in attendance due only to Hud being the coach. I do think that if we give a good showing at OSU for the first game, you will notice a very nice crowd for the Nicholls game which will boost numbers. I hope and wish for a sellout every game but I don't think having Hud as the coach with all other factors being equal will change the numbers drastically until we win.

[scotto_25]

What I STILL don't get is why were people still tailgaiting while the game was going on??? What's the point of coming to the Spring Game and not coming in. There were no other football games on television (i.e. LSU)! This is just confusing to me.

I'm glad that we are changing the tailgating rules this year with having to have a minimum donation to RCAF to reserve a spot. This will smoke a lot of people out, but there is a big waiting list for spots as it is. There's only 14% (roughly 40-45) of the tailgate spots out of 295 or so that contribute to RCAF...wow! Time to pony up or bbq at your house next year. What really boggles my mind is all of those huge RV spots...I'm not calling you out, maybe I am, I know those things aren't cheap, but come on man it's time to donate a little money to the program. With a minimum donation of $150 to RCAF we can generate another $40,000.

[cajunhawk]

_ Austin, TX is a fun city with much more to do than Lafayette. But they still get 100,000 for a football game, 16,000 for basketball and 10,000 for baseball. There is no excuse for Lafayette and Acadiana to not support UL more than it does, except for the fact the UL did not even support itself under our former President. That is all changing under Dr. S and Coach Hud. Having too much other stuff to do in Lafayette is a bogus excuse for not showing up on Saturday nights. When we start winning and play a better level of competition than the Sun Belt to excite the average fan, there is no reason within 5 years that we shouldn't have a 50,000 seat stadium and fill it up every game. And, that should not be an extraordinary expectation for UL and Lafayette. It is time to start thinking more big time expectations and stop living in the past. _

100% correct. I was way off with that. Golf clap to your sir.