Louisiana vs. Grambling: Attendance 28,866

[Cajunrunner]

I was in a plant one day a long time ago and a technician looked at me and said, "You hear that?" (a train was sounding the horn as it backed up into the plant). "A real engineer is about to enter the plant." Pretty funny stuff.

LOL.

But to digress, the attendance of Saturday was a disappointment. This was bound to happen when we hit the reset button and blown up all the momentum Hud was building, and we’re now staring down the barrel of a 2-10 season instead of a 10-2 one.

[Just1More]

LOL.

But to digress, the attendance of Saturday was a disappointment. This was bound to happen when we hit the reset button and blown up all the momentum Hud was building, and we’re now staring down the barrel of a 2-10 season instead of a 10-2 one.

LOL

Maggard stole the reset button Hilary gave to Russia?! Grambling is going to claim UL colluded with Russia to win the game! I see another pointless high dollar waste of tax payer money Special Councel investigation! Maggard's yard man and the lady that cut his hair 15 years ago will end up with jail time!

[covcaj]

You don't give engineering students extra points for anything outside of engineering. If your Bs and Cs are explained by having a job, and some social focus, employers get a feel for if and what engineering you're suited for. I just wouldn't encourage an engineering student to slide on a B for a C. I'm an engineer... and I don't recall attending UL sports being a reason for my grades.

I don't even like the idea of giving any student, even someone in Kinesiology, "extra credit" for attending athletic events. I'm not a big fan of colleges being a social system in the classroom. Professors should be teaching from accredited textbooks (a broader subject for another day and time) and should know the subject matter and stick to it. What they think of anything else is irrelevant.

Knowing what I know of how pathetic our higher education system has drifted... has me taking your "extra credit" argument a little more serious than I'd otherwise.

Thank you. I am not an engineer. Used that example because I sense there are a lot of engineers on here. Thought I might be speaking Chinese cause I couldn't get him to understand. For a profession like engineering I eWorld think that critical thinking skills are important much more than social skills. Although not a straight correlation you are much more likely to find good critical thinking in the 3.5 student than the 2.3. Critical thinking cannot be found in any book.

[Frenchie35]

You are assuming they want to report accurate attendance numbers. It is a PR game and nothing else.

No, I am assuming that scanning tickets is useless if you don't use it for attendance. Just tear the stub of the ticket if they use tickets sold for attendance. which they do. Hell they just about know what the attendance is before the game starts. They don't have to use the number through the turnstiles for attendance reporting, but you can get a pretty good number how we stand as for as fans in the stands....

[Frenchie35]

Turnstiles are antiquated and will never be installed. L'auberge casino had them when it first opened and had enough complaints that they took them out.

Turnstiles at a casino. Been to L'auberge and never seen turnstiles. Been to Vegas, no turnstiles...but not saying you didn't see them......

[Jeaux]

I hear ya. But while we give students "extra credit" for attending sports functions... those knot head professors are going to double down on their dumb opinion laden lectures.

Oh... Napier just called and said, "We won't need the students that need extra credit to attend football games... all of the seats will be taken by good students that want to be there."

Students don't need extra credit to get them to the game. They got $2 beer in the beer garden. Half of them don't even know yet. 2 DOLLARS. For all you old timers that's like 50 cent beer back in the your days when you adjust for beerflation. We just gotta win and the students will show up.

[BananaHammock]

Turnstiles at a casino. Been to L'auberge and never seen turnstiles. Been to Vegas, no turnstiles...but not saying you didn't see them......

It was short lived, maybe even less than 6 months.

[BananaHammock]

No, I am assuming that scanning tickets is useless if you don't use it for attendance. Just tear the stub of the ticket if they use tickets sold for attendance. which they do. Hell they just about know what the attendance is before the game starts. They don't have to use the number through the turnstiles for attendance reporting, but you can get a pretty good number how we stand as for as fans in the stands....

I think it's irrelevant if we scan tickets, tear tickets or manually count people in the stadium. It's been pointed out that the system used by schools to announce attendance is terribly flawed and everyone seems to use their own method. Unless everyone is counting exactly the same, which will never happen, then the results are useless and what are we arguing about? Does it really matter if another school is touting a bigger attendance than ours but the method is questionable at best?

As far as I'm concerned everyone's attendance figure should have an asterisk next to it so the nation knows not to believe any of them.

[Just1More]

Falsifying attendance for the purposes of stats is weak sauce. Your actual attendance equates to ticket sales, concession sales, your fans socializing and bonding, and your team having the visual and sound proof of a real fan crowd.

[Tell The Truth]

You won't get 25,000 for a game the rest of the year....Grambling and Southern are a draw...especially at halftime...aftewr an a_ _ spanking by a real football team (Miss. State) from a real football conference (SEC)...the coastal crowd will be 20,000 at best...with about 15,000 butts in the seats...there were only about 22,000 butts visible last sat night...the rest were ghosts of seasons past