Hello ULL cheerleader what have you done with Scooba?Quote:
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Hello ULL cheerleader what have you done with Scooba?Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
I would never participate in something like this. They don't make the icon a trash bucket for nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
The joke is fans like you who think we should give more tickets than the NCAA requires. We have to give outs 600 tickets which puts our fan base with less than what we averaged this year.
How many Cajun fans are going to be watching the opening game of MSU vs SDSU? It sure as shit isn't going to be 3400 of y'all. See where this is stupid bro? We can't get tickets and y'all's stadium is going to be halfway empty for the first game. Thanks Ragin Cajuns. It won't be forgotten.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ole Colony
I'm assuming you haven't voiced your displeasure to Strick about things in the past. He does read them and respond if you are civil in your concerns and complaints. Our admin and the SEV could have influenced this, but as we know the SEC always go to bat for us. Why wouldn't a phone call from Strick to selection committee help us if he reminds them we will bring 4-8k fans to a regional, based on the location. I could easily see us bringing 6k fans if the regional was played at zephyr park. Why would the NCAA want to limit the amount of fans that could watch their teams play in post season, along with make a ton more money? 3700 booklets at $55 is $204k. 10000 booklets is $550k.Quote:
Originally Posted by drunkernhelldawg
This all has to do with dollars and cents. I would assume that a lot of you are in management roles in your respective careers. The NCAA requires that we set aside 200 per school which has been done. After that, through season ticket holders and RCAF members, UL can guarantee that every ticket is sold for the entire weekend before the weekend even starts. Ticket sales is now an afterthought and we can concentrate on handling the gameday experience and the team winning a regional. A) 600 tickets will not be sold because JSU and SDSU will not buy them all. B) Weather does not look pretty for the weekend so walk-up sales could falter. There is no guarantee who will play so selling tournament passes to customers is the best business decision. And we host, we get the perks. Deal with it.
Of course they're not going to do anything now. It's too late. If you actually did, "read it", then why would you totally discredit your response by connecting it to a lie? You made a point of claiming it wasn't worth the effort for "100 seats". Now that is a truly "stupid idea", and belies a weak argument. Misquoting another in an effort to bolster your flawed argument is pathetic. And yet you attempt it again by now tying your argument to, "they'd have to have no bullpen at all".Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
I am no engineer, so can't offer an informed opinion of how many seats could be added with temp bleachers in the space suggested, but I do not need to be to wonder and suggest if it might have been possible. Our argument isn't so much whether it could or should be done, but rather your tactic of misquoting me in order to support your POV. That's just weak.
I have no idea and don't care because I have tickets. Why don't you do some homework and get back to us. UCLA hosts multiple regionals with 1,800 seats.Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
WTF are you talking about??Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajuns29
The easy way is rarely the right way. Y'all just went easy and sold all the tickets to yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajunrage
Is it not the right way because you don't agree with it? We have revenue for every ticket that can be sold in our stadium this weekend. I would say it's the smart way. We don't know when SDSU and JSU will be playing but we've made sure we made money on those games. Didn't know it was our admin's responsibility to keep non-UL fans happy...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
am sure the local restaurants and hotels are happy to hear this.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenheadDawg
I hope we take that many to the regional. Seems high to me though. And I'm not against voicing displeasure to whoever; I'm just skeptical of the weight of these organized complaint campaigns, and I never join them.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
It's pretty obvious MSU needs more than 200 per game. Keep ignoring that and I'll keep remembering it. Remember that y'all are the HOSTS here.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajunrage
[I don't want in insult anyone, but some of you complaining the most simply don't know how this works.
1. The Cajuns got the regional on merit. Bids, seating capacity and the such may have meant something 20 years ago. Go look at the last ten years or so. If you earn it, you get it.
2. You may not know this but it is NOT the first time we've hosted an NCAA regional..
3. Our ballpark has a couple of issues. Seating capacity isn't one of them. We need to have a more media friendly facility and our lights need upgrading (we're bringing in some portable lighting for this weekend.
4. Selling ticket booklets is done....let's see....EVERYWHERE in the country. Because of the left field lounge, Mississippi State has almost an unlimited capacity. And, therefore, individual tickets are usually available. But you know what? We played in a regional at LSU last year. You know how many tickets we got? 200. And, they were all sold out via tournament booklets, just as we will be. And, they seat 11,000.
5. As has been said many times, the only way you will have an issue with tickets is if you're playing Louisiana. Even then, you'll find folks with some extras who will be willing to sell them...or maybe even give them away.
6. Don't think for a second this is a money making situation. After the NCAA lets' you take some money off the top for SOME (not all) expenses, they then take 80%. This will basically be a break even weekend, even with a sellout. We might make a few coins, but not much.
All those things having been said, you'll be treated well if you come down. Our fans are great, just as they are at Mississippi State (my wifes family is from Sturgis. Her dad had a PhD from MSU. He was a huge baseball fan and longtime season ticket holder at Dudy Noble. He also became a Cajuns fan and made many trips to Lafayette. I wish he were still here for this weekend. He'd be so tickled.)
And, one other thing. Regardless of what you think about our team or our league...I'm here to tell you...we're pretty darned good.
do you guys have a message board?Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun2bag
And we are hosting our fanbase first. Get that through your damn head. We aren't asking you over for dinner. We've supported our team all year and they rewarded us with a #1 ranking and #6 national seed. Just like some of your fans would do anything to get tickets, buying tournament packets guarantees that our fanbase gets our tickets. That's what we are doing. Ask your coach why you aren't hosting and are in this situation to begin with. Quit complaining about things that happen everywhere in the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
And I'll clarify my dollars and cents angle because BoP is right. We aren't taking money to the bank. We are making sure we don't lose money on this weekend. We most probably need every ticket sold in order to break even after the NCAA takes its cut.
This explanation should be pinned in some of your brains. Best succinct explanation. Get over the ticket issue. Want to see us play live? Hope like hell we play like we can and we will roll this regional and end up in Oxford...who will absolutely do the same thing as ULL and allot us the very minimum the NCAA requires...just like we do when we host. As host screw the other schools, it's not about making damn friends with the other universities it's about advancing and using every advantage earned to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajunrage
Nm
It's an NCAA rule. They complied with it. Just like we do when we host.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
If we limit opposing teams to 200 tickets when we host, then we have no legit reason to gripe.
Dear God.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
SHUT the hell up.
There season ticket fans earned the rights to those seats by paying for them for this year and thus the right to buy them first.
You are sounding like an entitled little B*tch who didn't get their way. So you want them to give us 300 tickets more than the NCAA rules state that they can sell to SEASON TICKET holders who buy tickets for the whole season and likely other prior seasons just so we can come watch a couple games? You want them to let more of our fans in to root for State, instead of more of their own passionate fans ?
Do you really not understand HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE in a Regional?
I think there will be many at the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
Nobody has reason to gripe if they aren't hosting. If we host our fans should be livid if we give 1 ticket more than the NCAA minimum..ever, for any reason. It's stupid to earn a host site then just give extra tickets away when you don't have to. Why is it so hard for some to understand?
I will be there. More than half the fan base will be taking off work and tail gating. Like the bird man said you will be able to get tickets for the first game. I have at least 7 to give away or sell. After the two and done you can buy those tickets from the losing fans.
I can't see where they did anything that any other school would not do. The situation is, MSU travels well and ULL is close enough that a solid amount of people is going to want to go. I would think for the games ULL is not playing in, tickets would be fairly easy to come buy around the stadium. If we get to play well and face off with ULL, then obviously there's a slim chance of getting in. That's not their fault, it just is what it is. We have been lucky to have games at State and schools like us with large amounts of seating in the past.
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Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
I changed your quote from hundreds to hundred because you CAN'T GET THAT MANY SEATS IN THERE ANYWAYS. Not taken out of context. Doesn't matter.
Not happening. Never would of. Stupid idea.
Why are we still talking about this? I almost miss Crootin season! Almost!
ULL has done nothing wrong. At first I was upset, because I was (still am) planning to go and don't know if I'll be able to see every game. But they did a pre-sale as soon as it looked like they'd host a regional, and they apparently just about sold out.
The only thing they possibly could have done differently that makes any sense is making the GA/bleacher seats available on Ticketmaster, first come/first served. But the way they did it, they sold all their tickets and insured the best home field advantage possible. I don't have a problem with it.
The fact of the matter is this matchup would probably sell 8,000 books or more if the venue allowed. I imagine you'll have ULL fans tailgating outside the stadium for the simple fact that they can't get tickets either. So let's drop the whining, woe-is-us thing and quit acting like we're being victimized.
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Originally Posted by BirdofParadise
Great post. Everything he said is true. Some people just cant accept the facts and want to walk around with their Entitled hand in the air saying GIMME WHAT I WANT.
Look I'll bow out of this convo since I now have two mods eye hawking my posts looking to ban. I'll say this though. In my experience playing nice and keeping quiet never ever gets you what you want and standing up and bitching gets you what you want way more often. I simply want more MSU representation in the NCAA tournament we just qualified for. I'll concede that ULL gets 90% of the crowd if and when we play them. I just want to see Maroon & White vs SDSU and JSU. That's all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
Then we need to show up on the streets and buy their tickets before/after their first round game. Sure a bunch won't stay for our game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
If you want to blame anyone for that. Blame the NCAA for selling tickets as books instead of individual game tickets (where ULL could choose not to buy our games ticket).
ULL is doing nothing wrong and nothing different than we would.
Go State and Let's win this damn regional and take over the town.
I'll also note.. if you have a problem with MSU not being vocal enough, well I can agree with you there. But that comes down to our AD.
I also noticed we just turned that god awful hail state baseball jersey into a tshirt they are advertising. Speaking of things that need to be vocalized.
In your experience? How old are you? I hope 13. Honey catches more flies than vinegar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
You are simply wrong on the points you are trying to make. This isnt complicated or hard to understand.
I'm not looking to ban you just quit being a ****ing idiot and raging on the visitors when they are trying to be helpful in getting tickets. We have had ULL people on here volunteering non ULL game tickets numerous times and you continue to rip them. Damn dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
Tickets are not a new issue at UL. Baseball has been a tough ticket since last fall. I went in to renew my tickets and there were only three seats in the grandstand stand left, out of 2,000+.
We averaged nearly a sellout on the weekends all year. Our fans were scrambling all year for seats. Now we have players needing extra tickets, room for media, scouts, etc.
The school knows they need to expand the park, but that was put on hold to blow out the football stadium on the back of Hud's success.
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Originally Posted by Dawg61
Then do your part and come. I just sold 17 tickets (all together) in Section A and 6 tickets (all together) in Box 20 seats. All gobbled up over the phone for $10.00 each. The guy was extremely thankful and was excited about coming. He said he'd take it one game at a time and I'll continue helping him get tickets this weekend. Quit griping and come to Lafayette. As I stated in previous posts...there will be plenty of tickets available. THIS IS HOW EVERY REGIONAL IS HANDLED.
Id highly recommend lafayette. Some of the best food and most beautiful women you will ever see.
Yep, the more I think about this with an open mind, the more I realize they (UL) owe us nothing more than the NCAA allows for. Even if they were able to expand the seating temporarily, those seats should go first to their fans.
Win the host spot, reap the benefits. It really is that simple.
Again, I promise you will have a great experience. You will be fed, offered drinks and welcomed. I can promise you it WILL NOT be a LSU- Tiger Bait experience. UL fans overall are good people and our baseball fans might be better than that. Lots to do in town as well.
Safe travels and good luck to yall.
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Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
UL Ragin' Cajuns @ULRaginCajuns ? 9m
Game officials will make the determination on how many GA tickets can be sold 10 minutes before the first pitch of each non-Louisiana game.