Eastern Mich attendance prediction

[Duggie35]

UL's attendance problem may not be as bad as we all think it is. I just read an article that said UCLA sold 20,000 tickets to their home opener against Bowling Green in sunny Southern California, but only had approximately 5,000 people actually show up and put their butts in seats! And this is in the 100,000+ seat ROSE BOWL!! So maybe having 16,000+ on a rainy day show up in 41,000 seat Cajun Field is not the end of the world. With that said, we still need to work on getting 25,000-30,000 into Cajun Field.

[MountainDew]

47,276...speak it into existence

[CajunEXPRESS]

Let’s look at it differently:

Opelousas …….15,786
Crowley……..11,710
New Iberia….28,755
Jennings……9,837
Abbeville…….11,186

I’m okay if we’d get the entire population of New Iberia, or Opelousas and Crowley combined.

[cajun_lannister]

22k

[no1cajunfan]

Let’s look at it differently:

Opelousas …….15,786
Crowley……..11,710
New Iberia….28,755
Jennings……9,837
Abbeville…….11,186

I’m okay if we’d get the entire population of New Iberia, or Opelousas and Crowley combined.

Add those parishes plus Lafayette parish and were over 542K....no reason not to have 25-30K on regular basis.... but game day experience and facilities have to improve dramatically for this to happen.

[cajun4life]

LSU fans are thinking they will only be at 75-80k for their home opener. It’s a national problem, not just our problem.

[ZoomZoom]

LSU fans are thinking they will only be at 75-80k for their home opener. It’s a national problem, not just our problem.

You'd think it would be packed being Southern is just a very short trip down 110.

[Jeaux]

UL's attendance problem may not be as bad as we all think it is. I just read an article that said UCLA sold 20,000 tickets to their home opener against Bowling Green in sunny Southern California, but only had approximately 5,000 people actually show up and put their butts in seats! And this is in the 100,000+ seat ROSE BOWL!! So maybe having 16,000+ on a rainy day show up in 41,000 seat Cajun Field is not the end of the world. With that said, we still need to work on getting 25,000-30,000 into Cajun Field.

Other P5 that had actual home games below 30k attendance

Oregon State (27,732)

UCLA (27,143)

Stanford (26,826)

Wake Forest (26,013)

Washington State (25,233)

Duke (20,722)

Vanderbilt (20,120)

[fanof71]

Good info, but are any of those teams riding 13 game streaks

[cajun4life]

Good info, but are any of those teams riding 13 game streaks

Did any of them have 18 inches of rain in the 25 days prior to the game? Or 1.1 inches of rain on the actual game day?

Look I’m not fricken happy with our attendance. Not one bit, but we’ve been spared from hurricanes, but have had a so many days of torrential rain it’s ridiculous.

Let Thursday, Friday and Saturday be rain free in Acadiana. We will have 25k for game day.