2011 Vermilion & White Spring Game

[cajunfan32]

_ Or if their is a 20% chance of rain. _

LOL!!!! or a LSU road game on TV

[Bandwagon King]

_ Or if their is a 20% chance of rain. _

In all fairness, a 20% chance of rain has meant a foot of rain & Tstorms with lightning strikes at a lot of UL games in the past. The weather has not always been in favor of the cajuns historically. The Hud is here to change all that.

[Bandwagon King]

_ Look at the first half of our baskeball season. new, exciting coach who starts off going 3-14. Fans knew he is a good coach and knew he would improve the program, but they still didnt go to the games untill we started winning. There will be much more excitement around the program, but if we lose, people still wont come. I'm not saying people will give up on coach if he doesnt win his first year, but our crowds wont be 25k/game. A decent team will bring about 20k. A 8-5 team will bring 25k+ per game. _

Comprende', but, this is a football state & Lafayette is as much a football community as there is in the country. People see what's going on. They feel what's going on. In this case it won't just be about winning or losing to start, but about effort. There are a lot of people who are going to take pride in feeling part of ownership of the new regime & its coming success.

[Zeebart21]

Great crowd of course....

The best thing about yesterday, though?

I only heard .50c being played once and do no recall hearing Cupid at all.

This was awesome.

Thanks HUD for being a fan of 80's rock.

Z

[VObserver]

_ Comprende', but, this is a football state & Lafayette is as much a football community as there is in the country.

Not to dampen the enthusiasm that there really IS in Lafayette, but if you really believe Lafayette is 'as much a football community as there is in the country', you haven't travelled much.

Try buying a walkup ticket to a week 4 home game at Midland Lee or Hoover, AL. Or if you don't want to pick a big town, try the same at Celina, TX, or Goshen, AL.

Louisiana [and Lafayette] like football.. In Texas and Alabama, football isn't a matter of life and death, it's MUCH more important than that.

[Boomer]

_ Not to dampen the enthusiasm that there really IS in Lafayette, but if you really believe Lafayette is 'as much a football community as there is in the country', you haven't travelled much.

Try buying a walkup ticket to a week 4 home game at Midland Lee or Hoover, AL. Or if you don't want to pick a big town, try the same at Celina, TX, or Goshen, AL.

Louisiana [and Lafayette] like football.. In Texas and Alabama, football isn't a matter of life and death, it's MUCH more important than that. _

Well----if you consider trees--this statement is to be taken literally!!!

[Zeebart21]

_ Well----if you consider trees--this statement is to be taken literally!!! _

Boom, appreciate you and Luke making your way to the Eauque yesterday. Great seeing you guys.

Z

[Boomer]

_ Boom, appreciate you and Luke making your way to the Eauque yesterday. Great seeing you guys.

Z _

And great being with ya'll---Luke is cranked ---Now if he can learn to post on the board we will read some great stuff!!!!

[Zeebart21]

_ And great being with ya'll---Luke is cranked ---Now if he can learn to post on the board we will read some great stuff!!!! _

Have Patin teach him!!!! LOL!!

[Bandwagon King]

_ Not to dampen the enthusiasm that there really IS in Lafayette, but if you really believe Lafayette is 'as much a football community as there is in the country', you haven't travelled much.

Try buying a walkup ticket to a week 4 home game at Midland Lee or Hoover, AL. Or if you don't want to pick a big town, try the same at Celina, TX, or Goshen, AL.

Louisiana [and Lafayette] like football.. In Texas and Alabama, football isn't a matter of life and death, it's MUCH more important than that. _

Naming a town that you have to get lost to find & then saying they are a better football town than Lafayette, because the only entertainment they have for a hundred mile radius on Friday night is eating at the local catfish house or going to the local High school game, is a little bit slanted comparison. Couldn't you agree with that? How about comparing apples to apples, like any major or semi major metropolitan area in the country.

This is completely off point of the main post.

[cajunhawk]

_ Naming a town that you have to get lost to find & then saying they are a better football town than Lafayette, because the only entertainment they have for a hundred mile radius on Friday night is eating at the local catfish house or going to the local High school game, is a little bit slanted comparison. Couldn't you agree with that? How about comparing apples to apples, like any major or semi major metropolitan area in the country.

This is completely off point of the main post. _

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.

[CajunsHat]

Naming a town that you have to get lost to find & then saying they are a better football town than Lafayette, because the only entertainment they have for a hundred mile radius on Friday night is eating at the local catfish house or going to the local High school game, is a little bit slanted comparison. Couldn't you agree with that? How about comparing apples to apples, like any major or semi major metropolitan area in the country.

This is completely off point of the main post.

igeaux.mobi

I actually completely agree with you. With a town like lafayette, we have 5 public high schools, just because each stadium isn't full to capacity every Friday doesnt mean our town is less of a fan than some town who fills up the only high school game each and every week.
In comparison of what Lafayette has to offer with sports/entertainment, we hold our own on game days (and still having to compete with fans leaving to go attend games east for another sporting event)
Our goal is to get fans to not want to drive an hour away to cheer for a team that they have no connection too, but just go because "it's a Louisiana school". We want to establish a sense of pride in fans that haven't felt like they needed to show it. And Lafayette has that to offer.