The Book: 2007 Football

[Cajunbander]

We do have an Alma Mater. I'm not in the band this year, I'm not really in contact with Brian Taylor. (I got suspended for bad grades)

Actually, for the basketball games, the last song we play is the Alma Mater.

Alma mater, beloved old Southwestern,
Pride of our Southland so fair!
Oaks and pines and sweet magnolia's beauty,
Show forth thy charms so rare,
Alma mater, for honor, truth and wisdom
Thy halls for aye shall stand
Loyal sons and daughters sing
Proclaiming here's my heart and hand.

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[Cajunbander]

Next year, when I get back in school I'm going to try to get on the band council, where I'll have some say in things. I'll try and bring that up. Become a link between fans and the PoA. I can't really say much, I know how things posted online get out, and I really like being in the band. (I never thought I'd actually miss band camp.)

[srevere51]

_ We do have an Alma Mater. I'm not in the band this year, I'm not really in contact with Brian Taylor. (I got suspended for bad grades)

Actually, for the basketball games, the last song we play is the Alma Mater.

Alma mater, beloved old Southwestern,
Pride of our Southland so fair!
Oaks and pines and sweet magnolia's beauty,
Show forth thy charms so rare,
Alma mater, for honor, truth and wisdom
Thy halls for aye shall stand
Loyal sons and daughters sing
Proclaiming here's my heart and hand.

https://www.nmnathletics.com/ViewArt...&ATCLID=926634 _

How about we make that a tradition here after every sport that the band attends.....

[Cajunbander]

How about we make that a tradition here after every sport that the band attends.....

I'm all for it. We would have to teach the red zone the lyrics though. Everyone knows the fight song lyrics, learning one more song wouldn't be hard.

[srevere51]

_ I'm all for it. We would have to teach the red zone the lyrics though. Everyone knows the fight song lyrics, learning one more song wouldn't be hard. _

Maybe a Pep-rally, explaining what is going on..... also why not create some sort of riff that the crowd can get involved in..... Something where we spell cajuns or where you play a bar and we end with geaux cajuns.... something to get the people in the stands going. That should become the overall goal of the band.

Setting the TONE

[Cajunbander]

Maybe a Pep-rally, explaining what is going on..... also why not create some sort of riff that the crowd can get involved in..... Something where we spell cajuns or where you play a bar and we end with geaux cajuns.... something to get the people in the stands going. That should become the overall goal of the band.

Setting the TONE

We can do it at the few pep rallies we have during the season, like Yell Like Hell etc.

We do have some cheers. The shorts few bars of music we play. The red zone seems to get into it, of course there 3 feet away.

We have the Hey Song! (Like the old Ice Gators song) Where the cheerleaders and red zone yell Geaux!... U!... L!... RAGIN CAJUNS! GEAUX! UL!

Geaux Cajuns
DA da da da da da da GEAUX CAJUNS!, repeated 4 times.

Go big red
Music music music GEAUX BIG RED!, repeated a few times.

And of course we have Do What Ya Wanna!
Which really isnt a sing along deal, but a dance and do what ya wanna thing.

[srevere51]

_

And of course we have Do What Ya Wanna!
Which really isnt a sing along deal, but a dance and do what ya wanna thing. _

Really, do what you wanna..... I wanted to choke someone during the game.... I will have to listen for that one.

[Cajunbander]

Really, do what you wanna..... I wanted to choke someone during the game.... I will have to listen for that one.

haha.

I think its Do What Ya Wanna! (Within the limits of the law)

It's a little less catchy, but more specific.

[HelmutVII]

ULL is obviously not prepared for it. The tailgating parking is terrible. Nothing like bringing your two kids to a game and having to walk a mile to get there.

Then the gate? sheesh... it took us 20 minutes to get inside.

The concession stand? gimmie a break. The lines were long and slow.

I think its pretty terrible that they couldn't have been more prepared for this game. I'm not a UL backer thats claiming the ship is sunk... I can see an improved football team.. .but we need to get our act together with the stadium.

I couldn't have imagined what the bathroom line looked like.

I entered the stadium through gate D (the one by the flag pole) when they were playing the National Anthem there was NO line and I walked right through. It took me about five minutes to walk from the Moore Field gate to Gate D. I was in my seat (first row upper deck 50 yard line) before the kickoff. I can't understand why people would stand in line at the press box side gates when they could just walk right in the other two gates.

There was one rest room on the upper deck that had NO water in the lavatories. This is indeed pathetic and really makes me wonder who is in charge and what they are thinking. Imagine somebody with a young child that needed to be cleaned up or just an old fart like me that needed to wash up after cooking for three hours. The other mens rest room had water avilable at the lavatories. The sad thing about it all is that there appeared to be NOBODY THAT I COULD SEE from the University IN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY to make a complaint to about the situation. All of the University people are wearing street clothes like us and its hard to tell who is in charge. While I would have liked to point out the problem to somebody I just didn't know who. Does anybody know where there is an event management office/official etc. at the games?

I heard on the radio this afternoon that they quit selling tickets because it was a sell out. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? Sell an SRO ticket and put them in the end zone grass. That brings me to another point. ON GAME WEEKS WHY DOESN'T THE TICKET OFFICE OPEN LATE (LIKE 7:00 OR 8:00) TO MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE THAT WORK TO BUY TICKETS. They could make more money if they sell more tickets and the way you do that is to make it easy to buy them.

There were many complaints about parking, my answer to the complainers is GET THERE EARLY AND YOU WON'T HAVE A PROBLEM. My other answer is BUY A SEASON TICKET AND YOU GET A PARKING PASS. If you can't do either one of those then the only thing you can do is park and walk. It's not like you can expect to just pull right up and find a parking spot an hour before the game. Go to any sporting event with lots of people and you can expect to do plenty of walking and waiting.

I don't think we will have any of the problems experienced last Saturday for the rest of the season.

A quick calculation for the remaining games is that we need to have about 9,000 or better to average 15,000 per game.

[shasta]

im gonna confess something, I went to the LSU game instead of UL this weekend. Dont get mad at me fellas, i had free tickets, and i had never been out there for a game, plus i figured i could scout the middle tennessee team. And I assumed we would blow out mcneese. But after saying all that from what i saw id have to think louisvilles defense is not necessarily bad, juts not as fast. MT did have some plays early that against a slower defense would have been great plays, just against that defense didnt produce much. So best of luck to you guys, i hope yall meet those bums from USC in the final game.

I think i was the only person in that whole stadium wearing a UL hat. and it was the most uncomfortable 4 quarters of seating ive ever spent. Not for me , ill take the comfort of laying in the grass or on the bleachers over that any day.