MBB Final: Louisiana 81, Coastal 64

[CajunRebel]

I was very disappointed in the crowd last night. After the great start in conference play, on a Saturday night with NOTHING else going on all we can muster is 4k?
Maybe that's it. Maybe I'm just setting myself up for disappointment. There is no reason, in my mind, why a school with the basketball history that UL has should not outdraw it's baseball team.
I've also given up hope of having any kind of student support. There might have been 40 students there, and those there may as well have been someplace else. It's like they are too cool to be involved in the game. They don't even bother to cheer.

It is kind of astounding to see how few students show up to games these days. And even more astounding to see how quiet they are. I suspect this is a generational thing and a sign of the times. With social media you don’t have to go places to meet up with friends and meet new people. And I suspect this is partly to blame for the lower attendance among non-students. That, and when you broadcast your games in HD for free on the internet, you can’t be surprised when people decide to make the easy and cheaper choice to stay home and watch it.

[zeppelincajun]

I was very disappointed in the crowd last night. After the great start in conference play, on a Saturday night with NOTHING else going on all we can muster is 4k?
Maybe that's it. Maybe I'm just setting myself up for disappointment. There is no reason, in my mind, why a school with the basketball history that UL has should not outdraw it's baseball team.
I've also given up hope of having any kind of student support. There might have been 40 students there, and those there may as well have been someplace else. It's like they are too cool to be involved in the game. They don't even bother to cheer.

Semester starts the 10th.

[cajundiehard]

I'm predicting 5K this coming Saturday vs. ULM.... Students back in school. Basketball was competing with Rio Ball last night. Only thing out there that I'm aware of is last weekend of deer rifle season - at least in our area.

[Cajunfanatico]

Bo Lamar, Roy Ebron, Wilbert Loftin, Peyton Townsend, Fred Saunders, what a team. I was a student then and the section immediately behind the opposition bench was all students, every game. We were always rabid and doing everything possible to make those poor players miserable and trying to get inside their heads. Probably politically-incorrect to do such a thing today.

[Cajunfever]

I'm predicting 5K this coming Saturday vs. ULM.... Students back in school. Basketball was competing with Rio Ball last night. Only thing out there that I'm aware of is last weekend of deer rifle season - at least in our area.

With the students back and reunion weekend, I think we will get 6k

[Cajunsmike]

With the students back and reunion weekend, I think we will get 6k

I would be shocked if that occurred and happy with 5K. There is a week for the administration to support this game and emphasis should be on returning students. Basketball administration will be dealing with the reunion and preparing for the game. Therefore promotion responsibility needs to lie with athletic administration.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Hope you are right about fans coming if we show we are special. These days, one loss and you are not special however. I also don't know if it is possible to bring a name team in here in the current environment. A decade ago we would easily had over 6000 people for a home game if we had a 13 and 3 record regardless of the competition. Of course we have had too many average years and people gravitated to other things. We may need several years like this one has been so far before people come back in significant numbers. What I wonder is how people will react when a tough period arrives. We play UTA on ESPN3 on the road on January 18. They drilled us there ast year and a bad loss there will have plenty of people saying we always lay eggs in the spotlight. Let's stay with the guys through the bad stretches and they may come through in the end.

Mike, 16, and 29 point loses plus a 9 point loss doesn’t spell special. Special is what’s gonna move the 21st century. But, and this is a big but, if we can keep ravaging the SBC people will want to be part of that.

[cajundiehard]

At what point do they need to open the 200 level sections (formerly 300's)?

[CajunEXPRESS]

Bo Lamar, Roy Ebron, Wilbert Loftin, Peyton Townsend, Fred Saunders, what a team. I was a student then and the section immediately behind the opposition bench was all students, every game. We were always rabid and doing everything possible to make those poor players miserable and trying to get inside their heads. Probably politically-incorrect to do such a thing today.

I was there to man, and those crowds were similar in Lamar's sophomore year for fall semester. They started building in spring semester. Junior year you had to be there an hour early just for an opportunity to be squeezed into bleachers.

Also remember before Lamar we were building a legacy with Winkler, and Ivory who owned the NBA legend
Elvin Hays https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Hayes.

[Policarp]

[QUOTE=CajunEXPRESS;1041800]Mike, 16, and 29 point loses plus a 9 point loss doesn’t spell special. Special is what’s gonna move the 21st century. But, and this is a big but, if we can keep ravaging the SBC people will want to be part of that.[/QUOTE

You need a happy pill.......enjoy the show, get some cheese & whine later.