Especially this part:

The New Orleans Sports Authority have already contacted Louisiana about an annual home game in the Dome for the Cajuns. Mainly against AQ schools, but USM is on that list as well.

http://csnbbs.com/thread-668797.html

Personally, I think it'd be a wonderful idea to have a single Cajun 'home' game played each year in the Super Dome, especially if it could be against an AQ team.

Sounds to me as if that would be an awesome opportunity for the Cajuns . . playing in the Dome should attract some quality AQ teams to New Orleans.

Geaux Cajuns and Go SBC !!

(12-24-2013 10:47 AM)ManzanoWolf Wrote:  Sounds to me as if that would be an awesome opportunity for the Cajuns . . playing in the Dome should attract some quality AQ teams to New Orleans.

Geaux Cajuns and Go SBC !!

Would definitely be a good move. Good for recruiting as well.

With the support you guys have brought to the NO Bowl, it's not surprising that they want to bring you in for something extra, a little lagniappe. You guys earned it.

A game against USM wouldn't be bad, any of the Mississippi teams would be good. Hope you guys get this nailed down.

ESPN will want it on a Tuesday. That'll be perfect.

(12-24-2013 10:36 AM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  Especially this part:

The New Orleans Sports Authority have already contacted Louisiana about an annual home game in the Dome for the Cajuns. Mainly against AQ schools, but USM is on that list as well.

http://csnbbs.com/thread-668797.html

Personally, I think it'd be a wonderful idea to have a single Cajun 'home' game played each year in the Super Dome, especially if it could be against an AQ team.

There has been talk some time now because Tulane will not be playing in the Super Dome. Initial contact has been made with a PAC 12 program and several Big 12 schools. Should be interesting to see how this develops.

(12-24-2013 11:29 AM)WKUApollo Wrote:  ESPN will want it on a Tuesday. That'll be perfect.

Would definitely be a weekend game and could be a featured game on ESPN's main channel, depending on the opponent. Hope you get it Cajuns.

(12-24-2013 12:38 PM)GEAGLESJAG Wrote:  

(12-24-2013 11:29 AM)WKUApollo Wrote:  ESPN will want it on a Tuesday. That'll be perfect.

Would definitely be a weekend game and could be a featured game on ESPN's main channel, depending on the opponent. Hope you get it Cajuns.

Sounds like a Thursday or Friday game. That's usually what happens when one of us picks up a marquee home nonconference matchup. ESPN gives us the major network, but makes it a Thursday or Friday game.

This is what I don't understand...you can get 40,000 ULL fans to travel 2 hours for a game but you can't get 30k to fill your stadium at every home game. I understand you lead the SBC in attendance but you still have 20,000 to 23,000 actual butts in the seats at most home games. Figure out how to get them as excited 6 times a year as the fans are to travel to New Orleans and you add a few million to the budget.

Any game played outside of your home field will be considered a neutral field game as far as attendance go.

(12-24-2013 01:16 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  This is what I don't understand...you can get 40,000 ULL fans to travel 2 hours for a game but you can't get 30k to fill your stadium at every home game. I understand you lead the SBC in attendance but you still have 20,000 to 23,000 actual butts in the seats at most home games. Figure out how to get them as excited 6 times a year as the fans are to travel to New Orleans and you add a few million to the budget.

Any game played outside of your home field will be considered a neutral field game as far as attendance go.

Usually ULL and ASU put up similar numbers in terms of average attendance. But you are right, for some reason the Cajuns can get 40K for the New Orleans Bowl, but no more than 22K for a regular home game.

I wonder how many of the people they sell tickets too are LSU fans who happen to be ULL grads. That might explain some of the difference.

It's similar to how the godaddy bowl almost always has a big crowd but USA draws 15k~.

people love "events"

(12-24-2013 01:16 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  This is what I don't understand...you can get 40,000 ULL fans to travel 2 hours for a game but you can't get 30k to fill your stadium at every home game. I understand you lead the SBC in attendance but you still have 20,000 to 23,000 actual butts in the seats at most home games. Figure out how to get them as excited 6 times a year as the fans are to travel to New Orleans and you add a few million to the budget.

Any game played outside of your home field will be considered a neutral field game as far as attendance go.

Actual butts were more then 25K, when you have people at the gates using manual counters while they carry on coversations with friends. Two games were clearly under counted. Bottomline, win or lose some band wagon fans will only come when the Cajuns play decent teams or homecoming.

As far a considering a neutral field game, the larger picture is the revenue, possible prime time slot and recruiting opportunities. Its not about inflating attendance numbers.

I'll be watching how ULL handles such a game very closely. ASU was just offered around 1.3 million dollars to move our 2015 home game with Missouri to Busch Stadium in St Louis. We turned them down because our AD wanted the game to be at home, where we can control how many opposing fans buy tickets.

While 40k+ will travel to NOLA, they will go to the game because that is where the party is.

For a regular SBC home game, while only 25k may enter the stadium, there are several thousand more people on site. It's just that several thousand people choose to remain outside tailgating.

The bigger the "name", or the bigger the "event" feel of the game, the better chance those other tailgaters enter the stadium.

(12-24-2013 01:35 PM)CAJUNNATION Wrote:  While 40k+ will travel to NOLA, they will go to the game because that is where the party is.

For a regular SBC home game, while only 25k may enter the stadium, there are several thousand more people on site. It's just that several thousand people choose to remain outside tailgating.

The bigger the "name", or the bigger the "event" feel of the game, the better chance those other tailgaters enter the stadium.

so true and the last two years we've had a hurricane game and a mid week game. This coming year we bring in Southern and LaTech so our attendance numbers will be higher than this year.

(12-24-2013 01:16 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  This is what I don't understand...you can get 40,000 ULL fans to travel 2 hours for a game but you can't get 30k to fill your stadium at every home game. I understand you lead the SBC in attendance but you still have 20,000 to 23,000 actual butts in the seats at most home games. Figure out how to get them as excited 6 times a year as the fans are to travel to New Orleans and you add a few million to the budget.

Any game played outside of your home field will be considered a neutral field game as far as attendance go.

For the life of me I don't understand why so many fans of other programs can't understand how we get such big crowds in the Super Dome when we average 25K at Cajun Field.

Aside from the fact that Cajun fans love an excuse to travel to New Orleans to party for a day or two before a game, many of those fans do not travel from Lafayette.

When I attended USL a hundred years ago, I was amazed at the number of students who were from the New Orleans area....west bank, Metairie, the river towns leading into the city, the north shore, Buras, Thibodeaux, etc. I'm betting that's still the case.

While some of those fans might make the drive to Lafayette for a Cajun home game, most don't. But when presented with an opportunity to party in New Orleans AND see a "big" Cajun game, they make the trip.

As I've said numerous times here, with everything good that's happening with the Cajun program, it's only going to get better. Time is on our side. The Cajun athletic program in just a few years will be a force to be recokened with.

Congrats Cajuns!

(12-24-2013 01:35 PM)CAJUNNATION Wrote:  The bigger the "name", or the bigger the "event" feel of the game, the better chance those other tailgaters enter the stadium.

This.

I have a large set of friends that are diehard Cajun fans. We are in SEC country, where casual football fans with loose allegiances are used to hearing and watching the big names in college football. I have friends who fall in that category, and some have even attended UL. They will come tailgate all day, and either stay out of the stadium or go somewhere else for the night to watch the other games.

When Oklahoma State rolls into town, those casuals (which grow in number each successful season) will definitely pour into Cajun Field. Some of the SBC match-ups don't interest them, because they see everything through the lens of big name college football. We just need to get them to see through a new lens and realize that there is good football being played out there that isn't making ESPN's top headlines.

A question to Georgia Southern fans....do you really want a coach thats not smart enough to turn down a job where he is going to lose and stay where he can win games. Tradition...oh yeah but that don't put beans and taters on the table.

Wow wonder why I put this here....sorry.

Question to the Cajun fans: Since you guys are pretty much a lock to the NOLA bowl should you be bowl eligible (and rightfully so after the showing you guys had this year and last as well), would a home game at the dome every year diminish the "feel" of the NOLA bowl for y'all?

Just wondering if it might end up hurting bowl attendance with a sort of "been there, done that" thing, especially if it happened in the same season.