It's The Culture, Stupid....

[Boomer]

You may be on to something here. Ask this question, when was the last time Dr. Savioe has done an interview and address all of these issues? answer - NEVER!

…..Years agoI thought about having a school bus from every school in Acadiana…..cost $1-5 to get in the game and have all the groups sit in an empty area……hell have a High school night for the entire state!

[Turbine]

…..Years agoI thought about having a school bus from every school in Acadiana…..cost $1-5 to get in the game and have all the groups sit in an empty area……hell have a High school night for the entire state!

Ragin Roadies Night.

[CajunVic]

. . . but you got to get the parents there . . .

[Grantvb]

That’s one big recruiting trip

[BabbForHeisman]

It's the culture, stupid...It's our culture to enjoy good food, good music, dancing, honoring hard work with an equally honored good time, interacting with friends and family, recognizing a culture in South Louisiana built on the backs of generations of "Cajuns" ( full disclosure, I'm not a native Cajun, but I fully embrace the this life and lifestyle) This culture is generations deep, it's why we all live in a one of a kind culture...

Allow me to ask WHY doesUL, season after season, sport after sport, continue to totally ignore the inclusion of this unique culture into athletic (mainly football) game day experience?

The football game day /stadium experience (after repeating the same format) multiple seasons, has really not changed despite Maggard hiring people to take charge of the situation. Are they that incompetent?

UL has ____ed away opportunity after opportunity to engage the local fan and alumni. And there are a ton of examples mentioned on these pages every season...Why this operation doesn't embrace the local culture, leverage it (along with other CF assets that sit in plain site), promote it, and showcase it on game days is just mind numbing...

Tuesday night, App plays a 2-2 COVID Carolina team in Boone. That culture will be on full display on ESPN2 along with 30,000+ fans...App leverages it's mountain culture all game long. Youseph, Eric Church, Luke Combs music, Alabama's "Play me some mountain music" it's all on display....

The whole UL athletic department should attend next week's Festival Acadiens, and figure out a way to transfer that energy, culture, and fun into CF.

It's not so much the football being played at CF, plenty of home success over the last 5 years...it's the ____zz show, high school like, in game experience that is keeping fans away...there is nothing Ragin or Cajun about CF on game days...it's the culture, stupid..or lack there of...

Might be an unpopular opinion, but as someone who hasn’t lived in Lafayette in a couple decades, I think I can ask this question…what is the local culture?

Outside of a couple of festivals, where does the culture become visible? Answer: not many places, to be honest. Driving around town, it’s a lot of McDonalds and Chilis and Costco, just like any other town.

So it shouldn’t surprise us that when we bring in an outsider, they don’t get the culture.

[Grantvb]

I remember in Youth Football (1990ish), we had been offered to get into the Cajuns’ game for free if we wore our league jerseys. I couldn’t go. But that was before the athletic dept was about bringing in revenue

[Grantvb]

One of the coolest video advertisements I ever saw for Louisiana, was a group of college kids playing Cajuns music in a four piece band, with Dr. Savoie on the triangle.

[CajunMarineBBK]

I am not sure how many flag football teams play in Youngsville but it is a bunch offer them tickets to the kids for free. Parents will come with them. And they have the tackle teams in every town in Vermilion parish do the same.

[CajunVic]

Might be an unpopular opinion, but as someone who hasn’t lived in Lafayette in a couple decades, I think I can ask this question…what is the local culture?

Outside of a couple of festivals, where does the culture become visible? Answer: not many places, to be honest. Driving around town, it’s a lot of McDonalds and Chilis and Costco, just like any other town.

So it shouldn’t surprise us that when we bring in an outsider, they don’t get the culture.

. . . you can take the town out of Cajun but you can't take the Cajun out of the town . . . commercialized America cares not what the brand of the customer is, just that they will go . . . those icons you described are in every single town our size and some even smaller . . . they do not drive the culture, they use the culture . . .

[Turbine]

One of the coolest video advertisements I ever saw for Louisiana, was a group of college kids playing Cajuns music in a four piece band, with Dr. Savoie on the triangle.

Was that the redemption tour for the Pine Leaf Boys that Authement's crew kicked off campus?