PreGame 2011 New Orleans Bowl - Walking To New Orleans

[ecajuns]

Great breakfast spot with new orleans flare is "Ruby Slipper" on the corner of Common & Magazine!!! Great place off of canal is Mandina's. Best dinner spot is Irene's on Charters.

[NewsCopy]

Now, 40 years later and under a new name, the school is finally returning to post-season competition, and Caldwell plans to wear that same hat while watching the UL Ragin' Cajuns face the San Diego State University Aztecs in Saturday's R+L ...

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[wcd35]

“@valleyshook: Only 7 non-AQ teams reported attendance capacity >90% in 2011: FIU, ULL, Boise St., Navy, TCU, ECU, BYU”

Unless FIU's stadium capacity is not 23,500 this year, then that is incorrect. They only averaged around 78% capacity or just over 18K attendance

[Hammer58]

With all 18,000+ of its allocated tickets sold, UL is making quite a splash into the Bowl picture. According to Scott Farmer, this should put UL into the top 10 (out of 70 schools) in bowl ticets sold. The New Orleans Bowl is a great thing for UL, and even though the game hasen't yet been played, I'm sure the NO Bowl Committee is already looking forward to extending our next invitation!

The next BIG test for UL fans will be when UL is selected by another Bowl and our fans will have to travel a more significant distance. I suggest we start saving a few pennies so that when that time comes (and it will come) we can make another part of the country shake their heads in amazement!

I think they key is regional match ups. I think we travel well and sell tickets to bowls in Houston, Dallas and Shreveport (Paying attention to those ticket sales, Indy Bowl?) in addition to New Orleans. Mobile would be good if the date was moved up significantly.

[SlappyCajun]

Makes the Independence Bowl look like geniuses for taking NIU.

[GeauxCajuns]

CajunT does he still work for Aflac or no?

[moorecajun]

Makes the Independence Bowl look like geniuses for taking NIU.

Pure genious! lol

[Boomer]

Slappy that is the post of the day----This was probably the ONLY way to get revenge on those _______s for not choosing UL and if you think about it----really hurting our program which obviously needed a boost---Can I call upon you and some more on this board to send appropriate letters to the editor of the Shreveport paper????? Think I will even try if I can figure out how to do an E-Mail!!!

[CajunMarineBBK]

I got an email Ritas Tequila house on Bourbon is owned by a UL alum so if you get a chance go by and give the guy some business.

[Just1More]

It may not be, but it's going to be hard not to look at 42k+ in attendance. I expect this bowl to fare better in the media next year. I also expect CUSA to be looking elsewhere for their 5th tie-in after snubbing the bowl twice. The Hawaii experience won't be as good as they would've gotten with a packed Superdome for S.Miss-Louisiana, either.

I don't think CUSA wants to lose the NO Bowl tie and I assure you the NO Bowl doesn't want to lose CUSA. It just worked out the way it did this year. After going to Hawaii, USM is going to be glad to return to the NO Bowl in the future. Just what UL will do to help improve the image of the NO Bowl this year is going to put a few more CUSA ADs liking the invite to future NO Bowl games.