In regards to Lafayette regional tickets...

[Dawg61]

Go send your angry emails to Scott and the NCAA members...
It's SIMPLE.


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Hello ULL cheerleader what have you done with Scooba?

[drunkernhelldawg]

We should be bombarding the inboxes of our admin and the ****ing brain dead NCAA. They cld have easily placed us in a regional to accommodate some of the best traveling baseball fans in the Western Hemisphere, yet they stick us at a large high school stadium. They could have easily put a lesser traveling fan base team in ULL or given is a 3 see somewhere. Really no difference in a 2-3 seed in these regionals. No real advantage to either, except potential to host next weekend, based on other regional, but how many times does that happen? Last one I remember is us hosting Clemson in Supers.

Let's not fault ULL for their facilities. We should focus the attention to those who allowed it to happen.

I would never participate in something like this. They don't make the icon a trash bucket for nothing.

[Ole Colony]

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.

[Dawg61]

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.

[RougeDawg]

I would never participate in something like this. They don't make the icon a trash bucket for nothing.

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.

[cajunrage]

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.

[blacklistedbully]

Oh I read it. You aren't going to get several hundred in that area unless you tell them oh you can't have a bullpen at all and fill it in completely with bleachers.
Furthermore I'm not sure why I'm responding again. That is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever read and no way anyone would ever do it. It isolates the pitchers from the stadium and changes their work area. No way in hell anyone would ever do that.

They won't be adding any more seating likely. They sent the 200 per visiting team per NCAA rules and thats gonna be it.
We should of won more. Simple.

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".

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.

[Cajuns29]

You are making a large assumption, and that is that those smaller parks weren't clearly more deserving of a host spot. Since the decisions are made by a committee, and the votes can be influenced by any number of prejudices or personal factors, it is entirely possible that, in a close call, a smaller stadium could lose out to a larger stadium if capacity becomes the only real difference between the teams in question.

And there are more hosting sites that have more capacity than you. See how that works?

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.

[blacklistedbully]

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.

WTF are you talking about??

[Dawg61]

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.

The easy way is rarely the right way. Y'all just went easy and sold all the tickets to yourself.

[cajunrage]

The easy way is rarely the right way. Y'all just went easy and sold all the tickets to yourself.

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...

[Jack Lambert]

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

am sure the local restaurants and hotels are happy to hear this.

[drunkernhelldawg]

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.

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.

[Dawg61]

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...

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.

[BirdofParadise]

[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.

[Jack Lambert]

At least we have 1 person on here that has a brain.............quit bitching

do you guys have a message board?

[cajunrage]

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.

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.

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.

[I seen it dawg]

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.

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.

[Dawg61]

Nm

[I seen it dawg]

The easy way is rarely the right way. Y'all just went easy and sold all the tickets to yourself.

It's an NCAA rule. They complied with it. Just like we do when we host.