What is behind UL football's attendance woes? Numerous obstacles keep fans from Cajun Field

[Million$Mullet]

People won’t even walk across the street from the lite center. They ain’t walking all the way from blackham because they put some food trucks out there. Start inside the gates and make it a party. Once that fills up you expand. It’s not hard

[John Cocktolstoy]

People won’t even walk across the street from the lite center. They ain’t walking all the way from blackham because they put some food trucks out there. Start inside the gates and make it a party. Once that fills up you expand. It’s not hard

Sure they will. If they park close to where they are partying they will walk at kickoff to the game. The south east entrance is about the same distance as if you were along Bertrand. Now if you ask them to park at Blackham for a TG on the west side then they’ll complain. I am with the nothing should be free inside of the gates.

Once the Cox building comes down and you can walk through that area on game day it will make everything closer.

[John Cocktolstoy]

You don't have enough people willing to pay to fill up inside the gates. Until inside the gates fill up, you'll never expand outside with any kind of atmosphere. And you'll also have people willing to pay once they have to show up an hour before the gates open to get their spot. Create a demand.

You do know it wasn’t very long ago that there were 0 spots available inside the gates at CF and there was a waiting list and not one spot was free. Price change maybe. Price elimination is not necessary.

[Turbine]

Having options, distractions, people along the way from Blackham to The Swamp will make that walk seem like nothing.

Frankly it already is.

[CajunRage]

You do know it wasn’t very long ago that there were 0 spots available inside the gates at CF and there was a waiting list and not one spot was free. Price change maybe. Price elimination is not necessary.

what changed?

[Big Poppa]

Having options, distractions, people along the way from Blackham to The Swamp will make that walk seem like nothing.

Frankly it already is.

I have been to multiple games at Troy and parking as close as blackham is to the SE gate would have been awesome. Over there you drive in a neighborhood looking for something on the street or people that are charging for yard parking.

[John Cocktolstoy]

what changed?

Couple of things IMO. Used to be when you join the RCAF for as little as 100 annually you’d get the parking pass for free now it’s 60 bucks with membership. And lots of people dropped their TG spot when the price increased to 500 bucks and at the time 2 out of 6 home games were weeknights. IMO a 20x20 spot for 83 bucks a game is not a bad deal at all.

[Esqueleto]

You do know it wasn’t very long ago that there were 0 spots available inside the gates at CF and there was a waiting list and not one spot was free. Price change maybe. Price elimination is not necessary.

Well, they ain't there anymore. Times have changed and people have shown they aren't going to pay money for the privilege of cooking in a parking lot. If you want the atmosphere back, you have to open it up now.

[CajunRage]

Well, they ain't there anymore. Times have changed and people have shown they aren't going to pay money for the privilege of cooking in a parking lot. If you want the atmosphere back, you have to open it up now.

and no one is saying it should be free forever... when supply runs out, make adjustments, but to think that people are just going to decide one day to start paying and jumping through all the hoops is insane.

[Louisiana84]

MAKE CAJUN FIELD GREAT AGAIN!

This place was a helluva lot more fun when the great unwashed rolled up with a keg in the back of their pick-up trucks and started throwing down.