roll call for our last hail mary

[snote]

RP is doing our annual fund raiser in Feb.

[Boomer]

---------A Giant stab Douglas but what about the home town TV stations of some of our opponents when we played away????

[Ex-UL SID]

The NCAA has copies of all NCAA Championship events.

You should be able to call this number and get pointed in the right direction.

NCAA Media Contact Line: 317-917-6117

[douglas]

well i got another warm lead

[MelRock]

Crap it is just a picture, I kept clicking on it to have the video play. Good job!

[douglas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgwQwA1MZbg
http://youtu.be/kgwQwA1MZbg?t=23m30s
sorry skip to 23:33 its just a highlight but that means that the game existed somewhere at some point hopefully it still does

[DaddyCajun]

right on Z, a reward of some sort is the last option, 1st i will test the waters then see if that needs to be done, but we shall keep in touch

Have you tried channel 10(KLFY) or 3(KATC)? They may have some old new clips, both have been around!

[DaddyCajun]

ive called every school the cajuns played from 1957-73 in search of footage for the doc, when i was done i called again, and then again. Getting past the gate keeper is hard, getting someone to actually look for relics from ages ago when it has no benefit to them is nearly impossible, we have gotten lucky twice but now i am contemplating adding a reward of x amount of dollars, i haven't nailed a figure down yet.

may main focus is on the 2 sweet 16 games against k state and louisville. the bonus ones would be anything from the 66 season opening road trip against the likes of duke, houston, vandy, tennessee and auburn. I find it hard to believe the fan bases don't have anything in a private collection.

my next tactic is to reach out to each and every alumni chapter thinking that anyone who is willing to organize a watch party 1,00 miles away from campus will have something or at least know a guy and so on.

my question is who is willing to donate to the pot to make a finders fee a reality? Im going to approach the university about this but im sure if they assist in any way they will simply ask the fan base so im skipping the middle man so to speak.

yes we still have operating funds on hand but they are locked into services we will need to wrap. any and all expenses have been coming out of my pocket directly which i dont have a problem with, but this will require a bit more funds i think. Obviously this has a lot of moving parts to it so if anyone is willing we will discuss further. In the mean time i'll keep grinding away, peace out cajun nation

A few years ago, there were some old film reels in some lockers in Blackham on the West side of the building. They probably are not there anymore, hopefully the Athletic Department has them!

[CajunRebel]

Have you tried channel 10(KLFY) or 3(KATC)? They may have some old new clips, both have been around!

I wish. I spent time contacting the local stations of every single team we played during the Shipley era. What I quickly realized is that every station in the country has digitized their archives by now. This means every reel was trashed many years ago, and only the most important reels were ever digitized. If we needed footage from 2000 we'd have a gold mine saved on a computer, but from the 50's to the mid 90's there's just nothing left. Even the big stations have nothing.

I guess it makes sense, the news is all about documenting today, not yesterday. But I was still surprised at just how little they kept.

[CajunHaven]

A few years ago, there were some old film reels in some lockers in Blackham on the West side of the building. They probably are not there anymore, hopefully the Athletic Department has them!

I saw about 50(plus or minus) large reel to reel labeled game tapes in enclosed metal circular containers sitting in a film cart. The opponent and date were written on the outside of the containers. There were several years games(organized from 1970-1973). The cart and the films were the only things in that room. I called Robert Lee to let him know about the films and I felt they needed to be brought to the basketball office in the Cajundome. It probably was never done. A few years later Alonza Allen told me a friend of his called him to let him know that some films from his time had been thrown in a dumpster at Blackham. Alonza drove over to Blackham and retrieved some(few) of the films out of the dumpster. I don't know where Alonza's era films were stored in Blackham. I'm afraid almost all of those old films have probably been thrown away.