2016 New Orleans Bowl Thread

[Hark Mudspeth]

8pm game, there will be more casual football fans at the game than the last one at 10am. Saints on the road so rooms aren't outrageous.

[Esqueleto]

Another factor that we need to realize is we have much shorter notice than in the past. It used to be as soon as we hit 6 wins, the NOLA bowl would come and invite us and we would have a month to buy tickets. Here, its just 2 weeks. And most were doubtful of even getting to bowl eligibility until after the win over stAte.

Judging by the crowd at the last home game, we will be lucky sell 10,000 tickets. USM will definitely bring more people.

[RaginDave]

If there are not 40K in the dome I would be dissappointed. The reason:

* Both UL and USM have huge fan bases in New Orleans
* The before mentioned casual fan will be there because of the 8PM start time.
* USM will travel well due to their fans being excited about being in a bowl game for the first time since 2011
* The fact that it is New Orleans
* Both teams are within 2 hours of the city

This is the best matchup the NOB could have hoped for and realistically the one they wanted when this bowl was started. If this would have been the matchup in 2011, there would have been 60K in attendance.

[zephyr]

Judging by the crowd at the last home game, we will be lucky sell 10,000 tickets. USM will definitely bring more people.

Our home attendance was starting to dwindle a bit back in 2014 as well and I didn't see any way we brought as many people to NOLA as we did in 2011 but we ended up bringing a record number of people. No way am I saying that will happen this year but I see a healthy contingent going. I think there will be a total of 40,000-45,000 people for this game.

[cajunhawk]

Staying home. Been to 3 of 4 Nola Bowls already. Only so many times you can go back to the well. Economy being like it is...I'd rather keep stashing that money away.

[billbeck451]

I'm impressed on how quickly the ticket site was up this year and for the ability to just do it online. Also called this morning with a couple of questions got someone on the phone who even though he didn't have all of the answers was very helpful

[Ragin9221]

Well according to CUSA website they have been overwhelmed today on the USM side. Hopefully UL can do the same.

http://csnbbs.com/thread-801212-page-4.html

[RaginDave]

Well according to CUSA website they have been overwhelmed today on the USM side. Hopefully UL can do the same.

http://csnbbs.com/thread-801212-page-4.html

I just saw a tweet from Coach Hud that says:

Boom!! Way 2go Cajun Fans! Just got word from Tix Office that tix going like crazy!Cajun fans gonna rock NO again!

[Rougarou]

I ordered tickets, but not sure if I will be able to make it. I am sure going to try though.

[IberiaCajun]

NOLA Bowl History

I think it will be the fourth highest attendance in New Orleans Bowl history.
Breaking 34014, giving us the top 5 attendance records in NOLA Bowl history.
Fans can make a weekend of it and go tour the National WW2 Museum, one of the top
museums in the country.