PreGame 2011 New Orleans Bowl - Walking To New Orleans

[CajunZ1]

Also, many local businesses are buying suites. Those are not sold through the university so those numbers are not included in the university's count. Scott Farmer inquired about that and was told that even though these were UL fans buying the suites UL would not be credited with those sales.

And the thing is, the suites (exclusive of drinks and food) are ridiculously cheap! It ended up being about $75-85/ticket in the suite. I was going to get one, but since no credit could be given to UL (and since we had a bigger group that 16) we ended up just buying the normal tickets.

[Hammer58]

The school gets 100% of the first 9000 or so tickets sold through the school, and 50% of all above that number sold through the school. There are roughly 2000 tickets at $60 sold through the school [$120,000]. 7000 more at $40 [$280,000] and [if we sell 20,000 tickets through the school] 11,000 tickets at $20 [220,000]. That would give us a total payout of $620,000. Not bad.

Apparently we have sold out our allotment in the first and second levels and are now selling seats in the third level. A guy I work with who is a season ticket holder but not an RCAF member got tickets in the first level in the curve near the goal line. He called to get additional tickets and he said all that were available from the universities allottment were in the third level.

[VObserver]

Seriously? Yes, Illinois beat ASU, but the Red Wolves played their worst game of the year. Purdue beat Middle by 3.

[billbeck451]

On wwl last night Hudspeth told Bobby Hebert that UL will bring 30000 fans. I really hope he's right

[VObserver]

What we net is dependent on how much we choose to spend. We can give nice stuff to the kids without violating NCAA rules. I don't know what the dollar limit is, but it's probably $500 or so per person. Plus, how much do we spend on food and lodging? Do we stay 2 nights or 3? Or only 1? Say we spend $500 per person on bowl gifts for the players/managers/trainers/coaches etc.. That's about $60,000. If food and lodging costs us another $300/person, that's $36,000. Throw in about $6,000 for transportation and we have a profit of about $300,000 on our base payout, and about $500,000 total. So our profit would be about the same as a typical mid level money game.

[BeauCajun]

What we net is dependent on how much we choose to spend. We can give nice stuff to the kids without violating NCAA rules. I don't know what the dollar limit is, but it's probably $500 or so per person. Plus, how much do we spend on food and lodging? Do we stay 2 nights or 3? Or only 1? Say we spend $500 per person on bowl gifts for the players/managers/trainers/coaches etc.. That's about $60,000. If food and lodging costs us another $300/person, that's $36,000. Throw in about $6,000 for transportation and we have a profit of about $300,000 on our base payout, and about $500,000 total. So our profit would be about the same as a typical mid level money game.

Just to add a few dollars, it was my understanding the team will bus down to NO on Tuesday. That'll be 5 nights of food and lodging.

[CAJUN_LXA685]

Our payout is based soley on the number of tickets we sell through the University? There is no other payout involved?

[Boomer]

Our payout is based soley on the number of tickets we sell through the University? There is no other payout involved?

--------------Well the merchandise sales might kick in (surely the stuff we sell)----I think a lot of the gifts to the kids will be from the NO Bowl itself---I think that many of the rooms will be comped or given at a very low rate to get the backers to stay there-----Hopefully they have (GERALD HEBERT) meal plans for the team like he had for the top 28 in Lafayette-----Why did I even bring this up---Fire that LHSAA guy NOW!!!!! BTW hope to bump into him if the VCers make it to the Dome!!!!

[CajunZ1]

On wwl last night Hudspeth told Bobby Hebert that UL will bring 30000 fans. I really hope he's right

I think he also told Brando that we'd have 40k at our last home game.

The art of promotion includes hyperbole I guess.

[Cajun90]

What we net is dependent on how much we choose to spend. We can give nice stuff to the kids without violating NCAA rules. I don't know what the dollar limit is, but it's probably $500 or so per person. Plus, how much do we spend on food and lodging? Do we stay 2 nights or 3? Or only 1? Say we spend $500 per person on bowl gifts for the players/managers/trainers/coaches etc.. That's about $60,000. If food and lodging costs us another $300/person, that's $36,000. Throw in about $6,000 for transportation and we have a profit of about $300,000 on our base payout, and about $500,000 total. So our profit would be about the same as a typical mid level money game.

I saw somewhere that the team was scheduled to go down on Tuesday the 13th. That kind of surprised me but then I realized is common for bowl games. Media interviews and pre-game activities etc. If that is the case then we have five nights to pay for rooms and food.