[Fan of 71]

Good interview with transparent answers. Are the Back in Blackham, $15 FB tickets, and creating the Ragin Row, new student section behind visitors bench his ideas? If so, the man has done more in 6 weeks than Maggard did in his last six months ...

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UL's interim athletic director details his first month on the job and priorities moving forward

One can only imagine how interesting the month of August has been for UL's interim athletic director Trey Frazier.

Bryan Maggard announced on July 21 he was leaving the university to accept a job at Missouri.

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[CajunRed]

I would like to see a model where RCAF gets you into TAILGATING, and separately tailgating gets you in to RCAF.

Teirs, levels, locations, as well as prices determined by demand.

The most important thing you said… “…prices determined by demand.”

[Turbine]

I would like to see a model where RCAF gets you into TAILGATING, and separately tailgating gets you in to RCAF.

Teirs, levels, locations, as well as prices determined by demand.

[CajunRed]

Our “all in or not at all” approach to fans has failed.

[JMV Just My View]

So basically it’s not a bad deal if you are already all in on Cajun athletics, and for the record I’m all in on football and baseball already but people wonder why our stadiums are half empty because everything is setup to be all in. We are alienating thousands and thousands of people who support the Cajuns and would like to be involved but don’t live and breathe Cajun athletic events. We have to capture the people who just want something to do if we are ever going to grow. The all or nothing isn’t working.

I approve of this quote.

[CajunRed]

So basically it’s not a bad deal if you are already all in on Cajun athletics, and for the record I’m all in on football and baseball already but people wonder why our stadiums are half empty because everything is setup to be all in. We are alienating thousands and thousands of people who support the Cajuns and would like to be involved but don’t live and breathe Cajun athletic events. We have to capture the people who just want something to do if we are ever going to grow. The all or nothing isn’t working.

YOU NAILED IT!

[Cajunfever]

Thanks, Cajun Fever, for contributing. I am in the middle of the RCAF pack. My total contributions last year were $3000, not counting what we spend at events. You have to get people who cannot afford the contribution into the tailgate area. And you have to pull them out of the eating establishments into Cajun Field. What do you propose to do? As cajun4life stated, "the RCAF fees are steep. Especially for the product on the field." How do you suggest we deal with that?

The min RCAF level is $250 to get an assigned spot--you can spread that out over 1 year--that is $21 a month. How many people spend more than $20 at 7 Brew or Starbucks every month.....$20 a month is not steep for most people.

If you don't want to do that, there is an option to purchase tailgate spots on a per game basis. They have allowed that the past couple of years. I believe the cost is around $100 per game.

[facelessjonmoon]

sounds nice but in reality it is not feasible. We have roughly 1000 RCAF members, we don't have 1000 tailgate spots within the fences of Cajun Field.

$200 is nothing to pay for tailgating. Drive around Lafayette on a Friday or Saturday night and see every eating establishment is full. People have no problem dropping $100 on dinner for 2.

Given the local median incomes, etc and what it currently costs to eat out - it does always blow my mind seeing all the restaurants constantly packed.

It comes down to financial priorities I guess

[Louisiana84]

Thanks, Cajun Fever, for contributing. I am in the middle of the RCAF pack. My total contributions last year were $3000, not counting what we spend at events. You have to get people who cannot afford the contribution into the tailgate area. And you have to pull them out of the eating establishments into Cajun Field. What do you propose to do? As cajun4life stated, "the RCAF fees are steep. Especially for the product on the field." How do you suggest we deal with that?

[crazycajun]

So basically it’s not a bad deal if you are already all in on Cajun athletics, and for the record I’m all in on football and baseball already but people wonder why our stadiums are half empty because everything is setup to be all in. We are alienating thousands and thousands of people who support the Cajuns and would like to be involved but don’t live and breathe Cajun athletic events. We have to capture the people who just want something to do if we are ever going to grow. The all or nothing isn’t working.

[CajunRed]

A great example of pricing something beyond the demand is RV spots. We went from having a waiting list of 35 plus... then started raising the price to where now we have around 55 unsold spots. $2,200 for RV sites is obviously more than the demand. I kept mine... but waaay too many folks decided it wasn't worth it.

[Turbine]

sounds nice but in reality it is not feasible. We have roughly 1000 RCAF members, we don't have 1000 tailgate spots within the fences of Cajun Field.

$200 is nothing to pay for tailgating. Drive around Lafayette on a Friday or Saturday night and see every eating establishment is full. People have no problem dropping $100 on dinner for 2.

First claim dibs.

Flood the Basin, Fill the Basin.

[Cajunfever]

Just include it as a perk of RCAF level membership.

Why the tack on compilation complication?

sounds nice but in reality it is not feasible. We have roughly 1000 RCAF members, we don't have 1000 tailgate spots within the fences of Cajun Field.

$200 is nothing to pay for tailgating. Drive around Lafayette on a Friday or Saturday night and see every eating establishment is full. People have no problem dropping $100 on dinner for 2.

[Turbine]

Just include it as a perk of RCAF level membership.

Why the tack on compilation complication?