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(12-13-2012 08:13 PM)Observer Wrote:  
(12-12-2012 10:48 PM)Raleighwood Pirate Wrote:  
(12-12-2012 08:50 PM)Observer Wrote:  All that says is CUSA does not travel well. But again, we're on that same merry-go-round repeating our positions. I'm off.

Observer, I think you are splitting hairs. There is a difference to me in traveling well and traveling like Alabama or Ohio State. If that is your standard of measure than that is insane. That would be like saying you aren't a good football team unless you beat Alabama or Ohio State. That is not rational.

ECU travels well, but we do not travel like Alabama.

Nor do they travel like Middle Tennessee, or ULL, or etc.

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(12-13-2012 08:13 PM)Observer Wrote:  
(12-12-2012 10:48 PM)Raleighwood Pirate Wrote:  
(12-12-2012 08:50 PM)Observer Wrote:  All that says is CUSA does not travel well. But again, we're on that same merry-go-round repeating our positions. I'm off.

Observer, I think you are splitting hairs. There is a difference to me in traveling well and traveling like Alabama or Ohio State. If that is your standard of measure than that is insane. That would be like saying you aren't a good football team unless you beat Alabama or Ohio State. That is not rational.

ECU travels well, but we do not travel like Alabama.

Nor do they travel like Middle Tennessee, or ULL, or etc.

Are you serious? Wow! You really are not a rational person. I can tell because you don't battle with facts. You have no facts to back up anything you said. I can say that I am not going to die if I jump out of a plane from 10,000 feet without a parachute, but the laws of gravity say I will be a dead man.

You are jumping out of a plane without a parachute my friend and your argument just splattered all over the pavement
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Observer is trolling the **** out of you all in this thread.

Who is he a fan of again? Tulane? LOL, App State even dwarfs that fan base by a country mile.
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(12-13-2012 09:58 PM)ECU_Drummer Wrote:  Observer is trolling the **** out of you all in this thread.

Who is he a fan of again? Tulane? LOL, App State even dwarfs that fan base by a country mile.

Yeah, we all know that......but if it makes him feel better, then we're just lending a helping hand.
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(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.
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(12-14-2012 03:38 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  
(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.

He don't speak for all. I've been promoting this game to Pirates across the board and on other websites we frequent, trying to get more to want to go. ULL is a good team and it's a lame excuse to say we don't get excited for Sunbelt teams.

I really don't think it has all that much to do with ULL versus the timing and location of the game. I give props that ULL will be bringing 20,000+, but you must admit (like some of us have been trying to get across to Observer) that it isn't that far from Lafayette to NOLA and that affects the crowd attendance.

I'm traveling to the game, but when you consider my itinerary, I have to leave on 20 Dec, drive halfway, get a hotel. Travel the rest of the way and get into NOLA on 21 Dec around 6pm and get a hotel. Then go to the game on 21 Dec and because of when the game will end, drive maybe halfway back to NC, get another hotel and then travel the rest of the way on the 23rd and then hit all the Christmas parties or see family on Christmas Eve. So 3 or 4 days of traveling time, 3 hotel stays and 1000 miles traveled each way with gas over $3.00 a gallon. It gets mighty expensive. Many of the ULL fans have the luxury of being 2 hours away. No hotels needed. Short drive. Leave and return home on the same day. I'll be truly amazed if we get over 5000 there, but if our crowd is small, it has very little to do with the fact that we're playing ULL instead of some other team.
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(12-14-2012 03:38 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  
(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.

We have won 1 of our last 5 or 6 bowl games if you go back to Logan. The last team we beat was #21 Boise St.

If we had a good defense then I am sure that we would beat you guys pretty good. However, we don't, so I look at you guys as the favorites.

It is the way it goes, teams in conferences above us could care less about playing us, while teams beneath our conference look forward to it. We look forward to playing the teams in the conferences above us.

The SBC was better than us this year hands down. Many of the good coaches have left and were replaced with unproven one's except for Petrino. The SBC is a stepping stone conference just like CUSA as good coaches will bail out as soon as their stock rises and a big school notices them.
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(12-14-2012 03:38 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  
(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.

Really? Lost three bowl games? Has ULL ever been to 3 bowl game? Nevermind...this is ridiculous to talk smack with you.
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(12-01-2012 09:01 PM)WalkThePlank Wrote:  Apparently it's like a 50 minute ride to the stadium for Lafayette.....I'd hope you would bring a shitload of fans

no its more like an hour and a half to 2 hours. Laffy is an hour west of baton rouge. It really depends on how drunk they are. With ********* the one that is to drunk to sing has to drive.
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(12-14-2012 05:07 PM)ECUPirated Wrote:  
(12-14-2012 03:38 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  
(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.

He don't speak for all. I've been promoting this game to Pirates across the board and on other websites we frequent, trying to get more to want to go. ULL is a good team and it's a lame excuse to say we don't get excited for Sunbelt teams.

I really don't think it has all that much to do with ULL versus the timing and location of the game. I give props that ULL will be bringing 20,000+, but you must admit (like some of us have been trying to get across to Observer) that it isn't that far from Lafayette to NOLA and that affects the crowd attendance.

I'm traveling to the game, but when you consider my itinerary, I have to leave on 20 Dec, drive halfway, get a hotel. Travel the rest of the way and get into NOLA on 21 Dec around 6pm and get a hotel. Then go to the game on 21 Dec and because of when the game will end, drive maybe halfway back to NC, get another hotel and then travel the rest of the way on the 23rd and then hit all the Christmas parties or see family on Christmas Eve. So 3 or 4 days of traveling time, 3 hotel stays and 1000 miles traveled each way with gas over $3.00 a gallon. It gets mighty expensive. Many of the ULL fans have the luxury of being 2 hours away. No hotels needed. Short drive. Leave and return home on the same day. I'll be truly amazed if we get over 5000 there, but if our crowd is small, it has very little to do with the fact that we're playing ULL instead of some other team.

You're right, it is only about a 2.5 hour drive. But, our fans will stay in the city and take over the hotels, at least we did last year. I'm sure if this game were 2 hours from ECU, the reverse would hold regarding attendance. I don't get the bashing by a few of your fans. Most have been civil, particularly those posting on our board. BTW, we don't go by ULL or UL Lafayette athletically. It is LOUISIANA. Don't want to start a name thread. ECU athletics refers to us as LOUISIANA and UL. Call us what you want. Just a request for how we are branding ourselves.
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I'll probably go to this. It's on a Saturday this year, which is nice for us locals.

I have mixed feelings about the veal. I don't like cheering against either team.
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(12-14-2012 05:07 PM)ECUPirated Wrote:  
(12-14-2012 03:38 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  
(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.

He don't speak for all. I've been promoting this game to Pirates across the board and on other websites we frequent, trying to get more to want to go. ULL is a good team and it's a lame excuse to say we don't get excited for Sunbelt teams.

I really don't think it has all that much to do with ULL versus the timing and location of the game. I give props that ULL will be bringing 20,000+, but you must admit (like some of us have been trying to get across to Observer) that it isn't that far from Lafayette to NOLA and that affects the crowd attendance.

I'm traveling to the game, but when you consider my itinerary, I have to leave on 20 Dec, drive halfway, get a hotel. Travel the rest of the way and get into NOLA on 21 Dec around 6pm and get a hotel. Then go to the game on 21 Dec and because of when the game will end, drive maybe halfway back to NC, get another hotel and then travel the rest of the way on the 23rd and then hit all the Christmas parties or see family on Christmas Eve. So 3 or 4 days of traveling time, 3 hotel stays and 1000 miles traveled each way with gas over $3.00 a gallon. It gets mighty expensive. Many of the ULL fans have the luxury of being 2 hours away. No hotels needed. Short drive. Leave and return home on the same day. I'll be truly amazed if we get over 5000 there, but if our crowd is small, it has very little to do with the fact that we're playing ULL instead of some other team.

I agree with you I'm excited about the game, but I just can't afford to make the trip. I think it's going to be a very exciting game to watch and I really wish I could go.
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(12-15-2012 07:17 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  
(12-14-2012 05:07 PM)ECUPirated Wrote:  
(12-14-2012 03:38 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  
(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.

He don't speak for all. I've been promoting this game to Pirates across the board and on other websites we frequent, trying to get more to want to go. ULL is a good team and it's a lame excuse to say we don't get excited for Sunbelt teams.

I really don't think it has all that much to do with ULL versus the timing and location of the game. I give props that ULL will be bringing 20,000+, but you must admit (like some of us have been trying to get across to Observer) that it isn't that far from Lafayette to NOLA and that affects the crowd attendance.

I'm traveling to the game, but when you consider my itinerary, I have to leave on 20 Dec, drive halfway, get a hotel. Travel the rest of the way and get into NOLA on 21 Dec around 6pm and get a hotel. Then go to the game on 21 Dec and because of when the game will end, drive maybe halfway back to NC, get another hotel and then travel the rest of the way on the 23rd and then hit all the Christmas parties or see family on Christmas Eve. So 3 or 4 days of traveling time, 3 hotel stays and 1000 miles traveled each way with gas over $3.00 a gallon. It gets mighty expensive. Many of the ULL fans have the luxury of being 2 hours away. No hotels needed. Short drive. Leave and return home on the same day. I'll be truly amazed if we get over 5000 there, but if our crowd is small, it has very little to do with the fact that we're playing ULL instead of some other team.

I agree with you I'm excited about the game, but I just can't afford to make the trip. I think it's going to be a very exciting game to watch and I really wish I could go.

Sorry you can't make it. I'm really excited about the game. We are expecting around 50,000. It should be an electric atmosphere. I hope all of the ECU fans that make it have a safe and good time but leave disappointed.
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(12-15-2012 08:32 PM)Louisianafanrcajun90 Wrote:  
(12-15-2012 07:17 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  
(12-14-2012 05:07 PM)ECUPirated Wrote:  
(12-14-2012 03:38 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  
(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.

He don't speak for all. I've been promoting this game to Pirates across the board and on other websites we frequent, trying to get more to want to go. ULL is a good team and it's a lame excuse to say we don't get excited for Sunbelt teams.

I really don't think it has all that much to do with ULL versus the timing and location of the game. I give props that ULL will be bringing 20,000+, but you must admit (like some of us have been trying to get across to Observer) that it isn't that far from Lafayette to NOLA and that affects the crowd attendance.

I'm traveling to the game, but when you consider my itinerary, I have to leave on 20 Dec, drive halfway, get a hotel. Travel the rest of the way and get into NOLA on 21 Dec around 6pm and get a hotel. Then go to the game on 21 Dec and because of when the game will end, drive maybe halfway back to NC, get another hotel and then travel the rest of the way on the 23rd and then hit all the Christmas parties or see family on Christmas Eve. So 3 or 4 days of traveling time, 3 hotel stays and 1000 miles traveled each way with gas over $3.00 a gallon. It gets mighty expensive. Many of the ULL fans have the luxury of being 2 hours away. No hotels needed. Short drive. Leave and return home on the same day. I'll be truly amazed if we get over 5000 there, but if our crowd is small, it has very little to do with the fact that we're playing ULL instead of some other team.

I agree with you I'm excited about the game, but I just can't afford to make the trip. I think it's going to be a very exciting game to watch and I really wish I could go.

Sorry you can't make it. I'm really excited about the game. We are expecting around 50,000. It should be an electric atmosphere. I hope all of the ECU fans that make it have a safe and good time but leave disappointed.


Awesome.. better than any of our conference foes (considering probably only 5-7.5 k of the 45-50k will be Pirates), but we see plenty of electric ~50k crowds at home. Should be stiff test for the Pirates but I think our offense is going to be rolling on all cylinders. Looking forward to this one.. wish we could associate ourselves with such passionate fans on a weekly basis. 04-cheers
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(12-15-2012 07:17 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  
(12-14-2012 05:07 PM)ECUPirated Wrote:  
(12-14-2012 03:38 PM)CajunJuice Wrote:  
(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)baruna falls Wrote:  I really think ECU fans are the least excited about this bowl than any bowl game in our history. Funny how Sun Belt teams get excited for these trivial bowl games. I could care less how many fans the team we are playing bring to the game. Hooray, good for them. Still not impressed.

Really? So it's "funny" that we support our team?

What a d0uche. You know what's "funny", it's "funny" that some ECU fans (such as yourself) think you are high and mighty over top tier teams in the Sun Belt, when in reality the top tier teams in the Sun Belt are equal or greater than the middle of the road teams in CUSA.

You get invited to the Big Least and all of a sudden you're world beaters.

Please, give me a break... haven't y'all lost like 3 bowl games in a row? Maybe that's why your fanbase isn't excited, because they know once they leave the friendly confines of CUSA competition they get beat against better teams across the nation.

He don't speak for all. I've been promoting this game to Pirates across the board and on other websites we frequent, trying to get more to want to go. ULL is a good team and it's a lame excuse to say we don't get excited for Sunbelt teams.

I really don't think it has all that much to do with ULL versus the timing and location of the game. I give props that ULL will be bringing 20,000+, but you must admit (like some of us have been trying to get across to Observer) that it isn't that far from Lafayette to NOLA and that affects the crowd attendance.

I'm traveling to the game, but when you consider my itinerary, I have to leave on 20 Dec, drive halfway, get a hotel. Travel the rest of the way and get into NOLA on 21 Dec around 6pm and get a hotel. Then go to the game on 21 Dec and because of when the game will end, drive maybe halfway back to NC, get another hotel and then travel the rest of the way on the 23rd and then hit all the Christmas parties or see family on Christmas Eve. So 3 or 4 days of traveling time, 3 hotel stays and 1000 miles traveled each way with gas over $3.00 a gallon. It gets mighty expensive. Many of the ULL fans have the luxury of being 2 hours away. No hotels needed. Short drive. Leave and return home on the same day. I'll be truly amazed if we get over 5000 there, but if our crowd is small, it has very little to do with the fact that we're playing ULL instead of some other team.

I agree with you I'm excited about the game, but I just can't afford to make the trip. I think it's going to be a very exciting game to watch and I really wish I could go.

I agree I am nervously excited about this game...if the Pirates win it will be close but I could see us getting blown out too. I had plans to go the game but I just returned from LA due to family medical emergency and really just can take the time off from my retail business for another trip. The lack of excitement about this bowl has little to do with the bowl or ULL and probably more to do with the fact that our team has struggled a lot this year even with 8 wins and being left-out of the first conference realignment this year to some extend toke some steam out of our fan base for this season...and of course who knows what will happen now with the BE. It will not be our normal bowl game crowd but the ones that make it will be loud and rowdy.
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(12-01-2012 08:09 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  
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(12-01-2012 06:11 PM)PirateHeist Wrote:  
(12-01-2012 06:02 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  
(12-01-2012 05:56 PM)StillJonesing Wrote:  ULL 03-puke must be punishment for going to the Big East. At least the location is nice.

Punishment? Ask San Diego State about playing us. Get ready for 40,000 Cajun fans in the Dome. We'll show you punishment.

40,000... isn't that more than you have for your home games? Heh, we'll see. Also, since when is San Diego State a football power that we should ask them about you?

43,000 at last year's bowl game and SDSU had fewer than 2,000. Hey, SDSU is your new conference mate. BTW, check the all time record between Louisiana and ECU. UL is up 6-4, although meaningless since we haven't played in a few years. This will be a fun bowl game in the Big Easy and look forward to playing you.

As of last week, you were right behind us and Marshall in average attendance national rankings at 22,865, and you aren't close to selling out your stadium. You expect anyone to believe that you're traveling with almost double your average home attendance at 40K and 43K? Seriously?

I'm a firm believer in acknowledging your mistakes. I don't know if there's 40K ULL fans there or not, but there sure is a ton of red in the stands.

I should have kept my mouth shut.

Impressive showing by the Rajin' Cajun fan base.
12-22-2012 12:59 PM
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(12-22-2012 12:59 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  
(12-01-2012 08:09 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  
(12-01-2012 06:23 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  
(12-01-2012 06:11 PM)PirateHeist Wrote:  
(12-01-2012 06:02 PM)HoustonCajun Wrote:  Punishment? Ask San Diego State about playing us. Get ready for 40,000 Cajun fans in the Dome. We'll show you punishment.

40,000... isn't that more than you have for your home games? Heh, we'll see. Also, since when is San Diego State a football power that we should ask them about you?

43,000 at last year's bowl game and SDSU had fewer than 2,000. Hey, SDSU is your new conference mate. BTW, check the all time record between Louisiana and ECU. UL is up 6-4, although meaningless since we haven't played in a few years. This will be a fun bowl game in the Big Easy and look forward to playing you.

As of last week, you were right behind us and Marshall in average attendance national rankings at 22,865, and you aren't close to selling out your stadium. You expect anyone to believe that you're traveling with almost double your average home attendance at 40K and 43K? Seriously?

I'm a firm believer in acknowledging your mistakes. I don't know if there's 40K ULL fans there or not, but there sure is a ton of red in the stands.

I should have kept my mouth shut.

Impressive showing by the Rajin' Cajun fan base.

They always show up for the big games. 40k last year and looks to be that way this year.
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