In regards to Lafayette regional tickets...

[Pioneer Dawg]

I think it says a lot that there are many here that are rightly pissed about the tickets and on the other board it's crickets.

[BulldogBear]

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

Of course not Shotgun. You're right. The gripe is you don't send Mississippi State to that regional... right down the road, knowing how we travel. Not much forsight, nor consideration.

[BulldogBear]

Alot of these other parks may have samall capacity as well, but they have more "standing room"

[cajuns25]

Hey Gentlemen.

-This is the way it's done at every regional. You do realize that our home games are all basically sell outs. Tickets are very hard to come by for every single game. We have a very loyal fan base and we travel well too. I understand that you're pissed off, but don't bash our stadium, conference (which does suck), etc. because of this. Come down to The Tigue, you will get tickets I promise!

Ticket sales went as follows:

(1)-Season Ticket holders were allowed 5 days to purchase "THEIR" season tickets only -- no additional
(2)-RCAF (Ragin Cajun Athletic Foundation) had the next couple of days to purchase tickets
(3)-General public followed

*Once the 200 allotment goes out to the other 3 teams in the Regional, along with the season ticket holders there weren't many more to go around.*

I have 4 tickets to all games. I am willing to sell them to anyone interested. The only games that I will not sell will be the ones in which the Cajuns are playing in. I will sell each ticket @ $10.00 each. All tickets are located on the 1st base line (Section A Top Two Rows - Great seats)

Let me know who's interested

[bluelightstar]

In the future, let's worry about the things we can control -- which is how many games we win.

[ghostofjackie]

How did we handle this situation last year when we hosted a regional? Our ticket packages for reserved seating sold out quickly. But we still left a good amount of tickets for the visiting schools to have access to. Surely the bulldog club has access to a few hundred. It just sucks for people like me who would go if I had access to a ticket.

[99jc]

In the future, let's worry about the things we can control -- which is how many games we win.

themselves to blame! Everyone needs to quit bitching and watch it on ESPN 3....like me.

[cajuns25]

Okay-I'm actually able to get my hands on 15-20 TICKETS all in the same area @ $10.00 each for "non-cajun" games. You'll just have to do your best bartering for tickets if y'all play us.

Let me know

[Dawg61]

Again the issue is not the games ULL is playing in it's the ones they aren't playing in. Why should season ticket holders get to buy up all the tickets for MSU vs SDSU for example that only a handful of them will actually attend. Those tickets should be first come first serve imo. A stadium that can't hold the demand should't sell full weekend passes to only their fans for all the games when there's 3 other teams playing. That's like a restaurant having a line out the door and down the street with nothing but empty tables that are reserved for people not at the restaurant. I understand it's cheaper to buy a full pass for all the games than buying individual games but that leaves a half full stadium in the games ULL doesn't play in when the stadium could be full. So how many people are actually attending JSU vs SDSU cause it sounds like even that game is sold out if it happens.

[cajuns25]

Again the issue is not the games ULL is playing in it's the ones they aren't playing in. Why should season ticket holders get to buy up all the tickets for MSU vs SDSU for example that only a handful of them will actually attend. Those tickets should be first come first serve imo. A stadium that can't hold the demand should't sell full weekend passes to only their fans for all the games when there's 3 other teams playing. That's like a restaurant having a line out the door and down the street with nothing but empty tables that are reserved for people not at the restaurant. I understand it's cheaper to buy a full pass for all the games than buying individual games but that leaves a half full stadium in the games ULL doesn't play in when the stadium could be full. So how many people are actually attending JSU vs SDSU cause it sounds like even that game is sold out if it happens.

You do realize that this is how EVERY regional works right? How would the host team be able to "pre-purchase" only the tickets that they needed. You are not in a designated game/time slot. It's a tournament and you time depends on whether you win or lose.

I went the the Tulane regional years ago to watch the cajuns play. Tickets were sold out for all games, but there was only about 200 people watching Southern play Alabama or whoever they were playing..............

I had to purchase the tickets I needed at an absolute premium...

Every school in America does this

[ScoobaDawg]

Guys... Chill
they earned the right to host. We didnt do enough and deserve to get sent wherever with no consideration of our fanbase following.
Their fans earned the right to buy all the seats first.
Head on down and take a chance on scoring a msu game ticket from a season ticket holder or party it up in downtown with any other msu fans who make the trip.

It sucks, but its noones fault except our own.

and if you think this sucks..let us win the Regional and move onto oxford. They cant put more than 12k or whatever and there is NO WAY they will accommodate and make special provisions to allow more of our fanbase in. their fans will be coming out of the woodworks and we will get screwed for tickets.

[CajunLegend]

Guys, I am a season ticket holder from UL that would be willing to sell individual game tickets for the games the Cajuns are NOT playing in. I have 2 seats in
Box 5, Row B. This is located ground level, first row behind home plate, GREAT seats. First come, first serve though.


Can reach me at 225-719-2911 and ask for John.

[Redbug58]

ScoobaDawg is right, just chill for a minute. We had what we thought was the same situation at the LSU Regional last year. But we just "showed up" and there were tickets all over the place. People are very friendly in Lafayette, someone may even just give you tickets; especially for the games that UL is not playing in. I know I'll be giving some away. (the stadium can hold about 4200 by the way)
Don't sweat it, we're cool here. Just ask the Miss. St people that were here for the Softball Regional a couple weeks ago. That was sold out too and everyone still got in.
Have a good time in Lafayette. It's better than Baton Rouge.......I promise

[TheRef]

Welcome to EliteDawgs, guys. If you have any input or questions about our team, just chime on in. We're fairly friendly around here. I'll do a forecast for each game of the Regional that MSU is in whenever I find out the gametimes.

[Dawg61]

Just cut down your pine trees and build us a deck extending the entire OF wall and let us tie our grills and bring in our coolers full of "cokes" and let us ring our cowbells the entire weekend and we'll all agree to stop bitching. We'll cook y'all some deer sausage and give you free plates too

[Park duck]

Hey Gentlemen.

-This is the way it's done at every regional. You do realize that our home games are all basically sell outs. Tickets are very hard to come by for every single game. We have a very loyal fan base and we travel well too. I understand that you're pissed off, but don't bash our stadium, conference (which does suck), etc. because of this. Come down to The Tigue, you will get tickets I promise!

Ticket sales went as follows:

(1)-Season Ticket holders were allowed 5 days to purchase "THEIR" season tickets only -- no additional
(2)-RCAF (Ragin Cajun Athletic Foundation) had the next couple of days to purchase tickets
(3)-General public followed

*Once the 200 allotment goes out to the other 3 teams in the Regional, along with the season ticket holders there weren't many more to go around.*

I have 4 tickets to all games. I am willing to sell them to anyone interested. The only games that I will not sell will be the ones in which the Cajuns are playing in. I will sell each ticket @ $10.00 each. All tickets are located on the 1st base line (Section A Top Two Rows - Great seats)

Let me know who's interested

PM at ya! If I get tickets my two Young'uns are gonna be PUMPED!

[notsofarawaydawg]

After reading a lot of the game threads and baseball threads in general, I don't understand why most of you are bitching about tickets. Most sit on here during games and cut down the coaches and players all game long and now you are trying to raise hell over ticket allotment. If not during the game you can't wait to get on here the next day and tear the team down some more. What the hell are you fussing about? You don't go to the games to start with.

[Dawg61]

After reading a lot of the game threads and baseball threads in general, I don't understand why most of you are bitching about tickets. Most sit on here during games and cut down the coaches and players all game long and now you are trying to raise hell over ticket allotment. If not during the game you can't wait to get on here the next day and tear the team down some more. What the hell are you fussing about? You don't go to the games to start with.

Not sure what you have but my iPhone let's me post from anywhere in the country. It's nice. You should get one.

[Quaoarsking]

You do realize that this is how EVERY regional works right?

No it's not. I went to the Georgia Tech regional a few years ago and had no problem getting tickets. I didn't go to FSU 2 years ago, but I didn't hear about any problems like that.

Furthermore, in our Regional last year, we hit, what, about 10,000 fans in the most-attended game? That's 5000 below our record, so we could have squeezed in a few thousand more road fans if needed. ULL just doesn't have that capability.

I'm not saying that ULL should have its Regional taken away from them. I'm just saying they should have given ULL a 2 seed like Washington or Oregon that would bring 50 fans and sent us to a Regional that has space for all of our fans. It would have been very easy for the Committee to set this up right, but they just screwed up.

[ShotgunDawg]

No it's not. I went to the Georgia Tech regional a few years ago and had no problem getting tickets. I didn't go to FSU 2 years ago, but I didn't hear about any problems like that.

Furthermore, in our Regional last year, we hit, what, about 10,000 fans in the most-attended game? That's 5000 below our record, so we could have squeezed in a few thousand more road fans if needed. ULL just doesn't have that capability.

I'm not saying that ULL should have its Regional taken away from them. I'm just saying they should have given ULL a 2 seed like Washington or Oregon that would bring 50 fans and sent us to a Regional that has space for all of our fans. It would have been very easy for the Committee to set this up right, but they just screwed up.

You make fair points, but, personally, I'm don't believe attendence issues should affect the integrity of the process. Teams should be put in regionals where they deserve to go, not where how many fans they being permits them to go. If you begin using attendence factors to determine regionals, then you will create a slippery slope that could begin to effect the integrity of the CWS immediately.

It sucks, but sometimes this is just the way the cookie crumbles.