PreGame 2011 New Orleans Bowl - Walking To New Orleans

[billbeck451]

I guess the question is if UL was offered a larger bowl game would they take it?

[Zeebart21]

I guess the question is if UL was offered a larger bowl game would they take it?

highly doubt it.

Z

[HoustonCajun]

While I want to go to the New Orleans Bowl as badly as everyone else and I would much rather spend a weekend in New Orleans than anywhere else for a bowl game, I find it interesting that while looking at multiple bowl projections there are differeing opinions as to which bowl we will be attending on the bowl projection sites. A couple even have us at bowls other than New Orleans or Go Daddy. I'm not really sure what these sites use to predict the bowl standings but it is interesting to see the different opinions that are out there.

GoDaddy.com
(MAC vs. Sun Belt) Toledo vs. Louisiana-Lafayette Toledo vs. Louisiana-Lafayette


BBVA Compass Jan. 7 Birmingham, Ala. 1 p.m. SEC No. 8/9 vs. Big East No. 5/C-USA La.-Lafayette* vs. Cincinnati

GoDaddy.com Bowl
January 8, 2012 Mobile, AL 9:00 pm ESPN
Payout: $1.5 million
MAC No. 2 vs. Sun Belt
Projection: Temple vs. UL Lafayette


Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, December 30, 2011 San Francisco, CA - 3:40 pm ESPN
Payout: $1.675 million - Pac-12 No. 6 vs. Army (WAC if Army not available)
Projection: Louisiana-Lafayette vs. Eastern Michigan

this paints a fairly murky future on the bowl game. The only thing that all the sites did have was UL projected to a bowl and that alone is a good feeling

Some of these bowls have bigger payouts than the NO Bowl. BUT, the expenses are far greater as our team can bus to N.O. AND, our fans will be in New Orleans by the thousands. Not sure how many would fly to some of these other bowl locations. Our first bowl game needs to be in N. O. so we can make a statement as a team and as a fan base.

[Rebel02]

I guess the question is if UL was offered a larger bowl game would they take it?

No

[RaisingCajun08]

I guess the question is if UL was offered a larger bowl game would they take it?

Farmer stated that we need to establish a Bowl fan base (history). That means we need to bring as many as we can to the 1st bowl. Then next year when we are bowl eligible, a bowl committee would choose us over another team that does not travel well.

Its very important that we travel well to any bowl game we go to. New Orleans gives the fans the best chance to travel. We know that and New Orleans Bowl committee knows that as well.

[RaginFan2]

I guess the question is if UL was offered a larger bowl game would they take it?

Only if it was for a BCS bowl game. (And that ain't happenin' anytime soon.) Anything less would not make a lot of sense.

[ATXCajun]

You do realize that the people who make these projections don't have a clue how sun belt bowl tie-ins work and they are just randomly guessing?

Not random, just wrong. They all think that the Sunbelt champ must go to the NO Bowl. The clue is always in the adjacent column that typically reads "Sunbelt No. 1 vs CUSA." Since ASU currently leads the conference, most are projecting ASU to the NO Bowl without a second thought. After all, they get to change their projections every week.

[Bandwagon King]

I bought 20. It's great having Christmas shopping done so early.

[Turbine]

I guess the question is if UL was offered a larger bowl game would they take it?

UL's 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th bowl appearances need to be in New Orleans.

By then, fans of the Ragin' Cajuns will have made attending a bowl a part of their annual budget, and will be ready to go where the road takes them.

[RayneCajun]

You do realize that the people who make these projections don't have a clue how sun belt bowl tie-ins work and they are just randomly guessing?

Was one of them Wright Waters?


GEAUX CAJUNS!!!!

[Cajunsmike]

Some of these bowls have bigger payouts than the NO Bowl. BUT, the expenses are far greater as our team can bus to N.O. AND, our fans will be in New Orleans by the thousands. Not sure how many would fly to some of these other bowl locations. Our first bowl game needs to be in N. O. so we can make a statement as a team and as a fan base.

Guaranteed payouts are a misnomer. Payouts in almost every bowl (especially the minor ones) are
determined by the no. of tickets you sell. a 750 grand bowl allows you the opportunity to sell tickets up to that value. There is no other bowl available in which we make as much money as New Orleans. After we
collect the half million, we get half of the additional revenue beyond that point. Scott Farmer discussed
this briefly on Jay Walker's show yesterday.

[billbeck451]

so if that reasoning is correct and the payout is $750,000 and UL keeps the full ticket price that is 12,500 tickets at $60/ticket and half the cover price of an additional 17,500 tickets would be an additional $525,000 or a total of $1,275,000 for the school. Thats a pretty good payout for UL and thats only at 30,000 tickets which should be conservative for a bowl game in New Orleans in a dome that holds over 70,000, and if you use 70,000 seats in the dome and 12500 tickets sold by the visiting team and 12500 tickets used as gimmes and promotional from the venue that still leaves an additional $300,000 based on $40 per ticket and approximatly 15000 tickets still up for grabs.

Also, with 12500 tickets for the opposing team and 12500 tickets for gimmes and the dome hloding 70000 UL would only need to move 45000 tickets to make this basically a sellout New Orleans Bowl