A Friday Game: UL vs Oklahoma State on ESPN2

[RedTails]

I can't wait. Already texted all my buddies out of excitement.

[Turbine]

Why not have a High School Jamboeee type day at The Swamp on the Saturday?

Games at 11am, 3pm, 7pm


igeaux.mobi

[zephyr]

_ UL diehards will not make this a success. It will be a combination of great marketing and good weather.

igeaux.mobi _

The sad thing is that you shouldn't have to "market" this more than any other game to make it a success. Whether its on Monday, Friday or Saturday, we should pack that stadium in. People can miss HS football for one week. It's one Friday out of the entire season, if people choose to go to a H.S. game over the Cajun game against a BCS opponent, then they have absolutely no right to complain about anything from that point forward.

[cajun4life]

_ Why not have a High School Jamboeee type day at The Swamp on the Saturday?

Games at 11am, 3pm, 7pm


igeaux.mobi _

That is what I think as well. Rent out Cajuns Field free of charge and let them get in free for the OSU game.

[Tiredof theBS]

If we can't draw a huge crowd for a BCS school from the Big 12 at our house on nationally televized ESPN 2, then that is really sad and pathetic.

I'm talking more about the rest of lafayette in general.

Why do the people of Lafayette owe it to UL to show up to this game? If I lived in Baton Rouge I would not go to a game between LSU and FIU. If I lived in Austin I might not go to a game between Texas and Troy. If I lived in Starkville I would not go to a game between MSU and any other team.

Why was there not 5000 people at the softball game between UL and Arizona when they came here a few years ago? We had the #1 team in the country here and it could be said that it is sad and pathetic that every "UL fan" was not at all three games. The answer is because they are not all UL fans or softball fans.

I'm at as many UL sporting events as possible with the exception of UL Basketball (because of my stance on Robert Lee). I even occasionaly attend ladies basketball, and have even seen a volleyball match. I'm a UL fan, but I don't hold it against others who are not UL fans. If I was curious, and the game is on TV, I may even choose to stay home and watch it on TV.

If UL wants US to go to the game they better start doing a better job of taking care of the fans that go to the games. It will be us that bring in other people. We will be the ones talking it up as an EVENT TO ATTEND. UL does a poor job in game manegement. UL does a poor job in promotion. UL allows connsession people to gouge our eyeballs out. UL could boost attendance for a big game like this by having "Scout night" or "little league football night", or "middle school football night", or "junior cheerleader night", or "senior citizens night". Will they do anything like this? Probably not, and then they will tell us that we lest them down.

We were there for several big crowds this year. Why? Because we were there for "the EVENT". UL better market this one right, but let's not tell people that if they don't go to the game that they are sad and pathetic. Let's make sure that if the crowd is not there that Dr. Savoie understands that UL marketing is sad and pathetic -- and then we can clean house and get off to a fresh start!

[zephyr]

_ Why do the people of Lafayette owe it to UL to show up to this game? If I lived in Baton Rouge I would not go to a game between LSU and FIU. If I lived in Austin I might not go to a game between Texas and Troy. If I lived in Starkville I would not go to a game between MSU and any other team.

Why was there not 5000 people at the softball game between UL and Arizona when they came here a few years ago? We had the #1 team in the country here and it could be said that it is sad and pathetic that every "UL fan" was not at all three games. The answer is because they are not all UL fans or softball fans.

I'm at as many UL sporting events as possible with the exception of UL Basketball (because of my stance on Robert Lee). I even occasionaly attend ladies basketball, and have even seen a volleyball match. I'm a UL fan, but I don't hold it against others who are not UL fans. If I was curious, and the game is on TV, I may even choose to stay home and watch it on TV.

If UL wants US to go to the game they better start doing a better job of taking care of the fans that go to the games. It will be us that bring in other people. We will be the ones talking it up as an EVENT TO ATTEND. UL does a poor job in game manegement. UL does a poor job in promotion. UL allows connsession people to gouge our eyeballs out. UL could boost attendance for a big game like this by having "Scout night" or "little league football night", or "middle school football night", or "junior cheerleader night", or "senior citizens night". Will they do anything like this? Probably not, and then they will tell us that we lest them down.

We were there for several big crowds this year. Why? Because we were there for "the EVENT". UL better market this one right, but let's not tell people that if they don't go to the game that they are sad and pathetic. Let's make sure that if the crowd is not there that Dr. Savoie understands that UL marketing is sad and pathetic -- and then we can clean house and get off to a fresh start! _

Again, the stage for which they will compete and the caliber of the opponent is what makes the "stage" and defines it as an "event". That is certainly how ESPN is looking at it as they are not in the habit of putting the cajuns in primetime television. Why should UL HAVE to use "Scout Night" for a primetime event? You should not be able to have such a promotion because you are expecting too many people to allow it. There were no special promotions that were required to have Southern here besides having their band and the first home game of the season against an instate school. I think the previous posts were directed towards the fanbase that might find it more convenient to go to a high school game or stay home rather than support the program for which they seem highly critical of.

[CajunSaint]

i just don't get it. why is there any debate over this at all? big 12. at cajun field. the deuce. and we have people on a ragin cajuns" message board biotching about high school football? it's a slam dunk. case closed. debate over. i don't care what sorry arsed excuse you can come up with, i.e., "just because i live in starkville..." what kind of shat is that! and any other __________. anybody else said or says! good grief. sometimes things just get pretty pathetic around this place. geaux cajuns! beat the cowboys! spread the word. pack the house.

[dperrin]

_ UL diehards will not make this a success. It will be a combination of great marketing and good weather.

igeaux.mobi _

I think you may have misunderstood what I wrote. I know that its not the UL diehards that will make this game a success, because we are there regardless, its the rest of Lafayette that I was inferring to. I think the UL admin should heavilly market this game, and all home games for that matter, so we don't end up with a crowd like the one for K-state. Also, I think that weather and conflicting high school games for that night are weak excuses. This is all I meant by my previous posts.

[Tiredof theBS]

Why should UL HAVE to use "Scout Night" for a primetime event? You should not be able to have such a promotion because you are expecting too many people to allow it. There were no special promotions that were required to have Southern here besides having their band and the first home game of the season against an instate school.

Special promotion = First game of the season against an in state school.

Next year the game in question is on a Friday night after 4-5 games. The Kansas State game was the second game of the season and we had 16000+ at the game. Being that the game next season is on a Friday night several weeks into the season, and those that do not want to give a lot of effort can stay home and watch it on TV, we will need a special promotion to get 16,000 into the stadium.

I hate to be negative, but UL currently has no idea how to market this game.

[Tiredof theBS]

_ I think you may have misunderstood what I wrote. I know that its not the UL diehards that will make this game a success, because we are there regardless, its the rest of Lafayette that I was inferring to. I think the UL admin should heavilly market this game, and all home games for that matter, so we don't end up with a crowd like the one for K-state. Also, I think that weather and conflicting high school games for that night are weak excuses. This is all I meant by my previous posts. _

dperrin,

I'm sorry if I was harsh after your post. It just really hit me in a strange way. I go to the games for several sports. I go just because I love UL. I have been a huge Cajun fan since the 70's. I'm just tired of being told that "People should...".

I "go" because I love my school. I "give" because I want our school and the teams that represent it to be better than they currently are. I'm just tired of what is going on with several of our teams right now. WE deserve better. THEY owe it to us. If THEY don't start to produce a better product those of us who have been frustrated die hards for 30+ years will all start to sound as frustrated as I did in my earlier post.

Again, I apologize to you if my post sounded disrespectful. I just think that if enough of us cry loud enough often enough eventually the administration will hear us and make a bigger effort to give us a better product.