You live in Troy and know this? Actually Alabama would NOT win out...
I will give my experience of last night. I first went to BWW and the first question I was asked when greeted was if I was going to stay for the LSU game. My reply was I was here for the UL game and asked if they were showing it and he looked confused and just said yes. At 6:00 there was no UL game turned on so I got my waiter to go turn the game on the big screen and he came back and said they were not showing the game and knew nothing about it. I then asked him to go ask the manager to come see me and minutes later he said he spoke to the manager and they were looking for the game and just at kickoff they found it. Well things were good until 7:00 and then you know what happened next the big screen and volume switched over to LSU. Well at half time I closed out and went to Legends and they had the big screen and volume on UL.
Here is the reality in all this...ul fans in Lafayette are out numbered by lsu fans. Some do support both, but when they have a descision to put on purple shirt or the red shirt.... They wearing purple. It's sad that it is this way but that's the way I see it. So while we can put our wallets up and leave, we are just the minority crowd. It sucks...bad. From a business perspective, owners should accommodate both customers equally. The walk-on customer base is 60-70 percent people with purple stuff in there closet. We are fighting an uphill battle I believe.
A lot of little factors involved in this weekends games.
There was a lot of national hype for the Oregon game, they were in the National title game last year, plus the regular pull. Marketing works.
Both games were away, and both were on TV, MetryCajun mentioned it earlier, these establishments are not used to having UL as an option. It's a bad business model but they tend to work on auto pilot.
I'm with BK I give them a pass.
Perhaps until Chops main point about UL fans "still have a long way to go locally to get this town pro UL" fans should schedule ahead and own a location through planning. Jeaux had suggested an Official watch party? and while I think it is a great solution to the current situation, I regret not being in postion to organize one.
Geaux Cajuns
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