In regards to Lafayette regional tickets...

[BulldogBear]

This is the biggest bush league move I've ever heard of. There's three other schools here that have friends and family that deserve an opportunity to watch their teams in the NCAA tournament. So when MSU and SDSU play is there going to be 3,750 Cajun fans there rooting for us? Hosting isn't going so well for ULL already.

Guess they want a home crowd. Probably wouldn't be otherwise

[blacklistedbully]

I called and have my name on the list. I gave all of my info and was told if I don't hear back from them by Thursday to call them back.

Can those Frenchies build us a platform around the OF wall to watch from? Thats our view anyway.

Nope. Their outfield fence is lined with pine trees. No seating whatsoever.

I hope we bring a bunch of fans anyway, surround the stadium, and embarrass the hell of out of ULL by cascading the stadium with, "Maroon!.........White!" cheers over & over. Let the broadcast pick up on that so they could potentially make a story of how ULL denied access to our fans.

[Political Hack]

The ninja would've already had tickets guaranteed for at least the players families. That's ridiculous. After the showing in Omaha last year this is how the fan base is rewarded? Completely unacceptable.

I hope we have 5,000 show up and buy every ticket from every other fan there. Take that bastard over and show them what real college baseball is all about. It's pretty damn apparent no one else is worried about helping our fans out. may as well do it ourselves.

[Dawg61]

Someone get Hudspeth on the phone

[RC3]

Can they really do that? I'm calling bs

[Jacksondevildog]

http://www.ragincajuns.com/sports/20...ooreField.aspx

[Quaoarsking]

http://www.ragincajuns.com/news/2014...526141449.aspx

I think the phone number is wrong on the official ULL website?? I'm getting an answering machine for somebody named Mathew Cashbaum or something...

ETA: Or is that right, but he's just not answering the phone? Either way, completely bush league...

ETA2: Don't know about that number, but I called the main athletic department line and they directed me to a different number, where a woman answered the phone. She took my information but said it was extremely unlikely that I would actually get tickets. Absolutely ridiculous.

[Maroons]

Y'all are bitching like you DESERVE tickets. Seriously, we're playing on the road - what did you really expect??? For them to open up 3/4 of the seats to a visiting team's fanbase so that fanbase could ruin their home advantage?

[Pioneer Dawg]

Y'all are bitching like you DESERVE tickets. Seriously, we're playing on the road - what did you really expect??? For them to open up 3/4 of the seats to a visiting team's fanbase so that fanbase could ruin their home advantage?

I agree with some of the thinking here but that stadium is TOO small. If opposing fans cannot even enter the gate for an NCAA event, there is something wrong.

[Quaoarsking]

Y'all are bitching like you DESERVE tickets. Seriously, we're playing on the road - what did you really expect??? For them to open up 3/4 of the seats to a visiting team's fanbase so that fanbase could ruin their home advantage?

We DESERVE the opportunity to buy tickets, if we're making hotel reservations, asking for time off from work, and driving all the way down there. They're going to tell me I probably don't have tickets, but I don't get to find out for sure until Thursday? What bullshit...

Has this ever been an issue for us before? I never heard any trouble about our fans being almost completely locked out of Omaha, Virginia, Florida State, Florida, Georgia Tech, Miami, etc... Bottom line is the Committee royally ****ed this one up.

[ShotgunDawg]

Here are the stadium capacities of the teams hosting regionals. As you can see, ULL's stadium is bigger than 4 of the other regional sites and within 200 seats of a few others. Should ULL have to play their regional at a minor league park when Oregon State, Vandy, Oklahoma State, and Indiana don't? Should ULL have to play their regional at a minor league stadium because the NCAA put them in a regional with a team that travels well? Would that be fair?

Please have well thought out arguments or you run the risk of making our fan base look dumb and devaluing all of our degrees.

Oregon State - 3,248

Oklahoma State - 3,821

Rice - 5,368

LSU - 7,760

Florida State - 6,700

Louisville - 4,000

Vanderbilt - 3,700

Indiana - 2,500

Florida - 5,500

Miami - 4,999

Cal Poly - 1,534

TCU - 4,500

ULL - 3,755

South Carolina - 8,242

Virginia - 4,980

[Quaoarsking]

It's not just the capacity, though. ULL has no room to bring in temporarily bleachers behind the outfield or just stand people there because of all the trees back there.

More realistically, the committee just shouldn't've sent us there. In the future, the committee has got to look at their brackets, project attendance, and not create a regional whose demand for tickets will far exceed its capacity.

[Pioneer Dawg]

Is anyone familiar with Downtown? It i looking like tickets may be hard to come by, so we should definitely have a few designated viewing party locations there where Maroon can take over if you cant get tix.

[GreenheadDawg]

I agree shotgun. I guess they earned the right for home field advantage and they are taking that to heart

[Ragin4U]

Oh well. Take care of your business and you could host. Maybe if you didnt lose to UCSB, Holy Cross, etc you could host in that nice big stadium you have. If you come to Lafayette, we will take care of you, just follow the smoke to some awesome tailgating. Dont be shy. Walk right up and someone will give you a plate and a beer. You can even talk a little shite but expect to get some back! Of course, we could always talk about our mutual LSU hate.
Safe travels.
edit-> I would agree that if you would normally travel well, the committee should take that into account.

#WeAreLouisiana #GeauxCajuns #Geauxmaha

[ShotgunDawg]

Oh well. Take care of your business and you could host. Maybe if you didnt lose to UCSB, Holy Cross, etc you could host in that nice big stadium you have. If you come to Lafayette, we will take care of you, just follow the smoke to some awesome tailgating. Dont be shy. Walk right up and someone will give you a plate and a beer. You can even talk a little shite but expect to get some back! Of course, we could always talk about our mutual LSU hate.
Safe travels.

#WeAreLouisiana #GeauxCajuns #Geauxmaha

Completely agree. You guys earned a regional and MSU didn't.

[Pioneer Dawg]

Oh well. Take care of your business and you could host. You can even talk a little shite but expect to get some back #Geauxmaha

What is the economic situation of your fanbase? Since MSU is fair game for this topic from the national media I will give it right back to you. Will your fans be able to pass up the money that could be made from their tickets?

[Quaoarsking]

"Earning a Regional" is NOT the same thing as locking out the other fanbases. Georgia Tech, Miami, Florida State, etc., didn't do this to us and we didn't do it to other teams last year either. This is very out of the ordinary.

[Dawg61]

Ok i can expect a cap put on the games that ULL is playing in. Fine have your deserved home field crowd when y'all play. But when SDSU and MSU play to not allow us to see our own fu*king teams in the damn NCAA tournament is beyond bush league. Just don't sell entire weekend packages and only sell individual games and y'all can have all the ULL game tickets but how many ULL fans are going to go watch MSU vs SDSU play? That's pure shit.

[Pioneer Dawg]

Fairly certain the non ULL games will be easy to access