Pirate festival, never heard of it. Marketing must suck
Empty seats aren’t paying for it and with the current methods, 15k will be our ceiling.
And still had more people show up.
Can you name said “festival”? Id like to do a little fact checking.
I certainly don’t want to be the Blockbuster model. College Football has progressed beyond just the scores of the games. It is entertainment. TSAB figured this out years ago and they’ve thrived because of it.
It was called Pirate festival. It was sometime in July.
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It may be hard to believe but you can have a target section and a walmart section inside the same stadium. There are different price points across all businesses. Some people(die hards) are willing to pay for target prices. Others(casuals) will pay walmart prices. I am failing to see why trying to attract EVERY demographic with a simple promotion is so hard fathom. 25% of something is more than 100% of nothing.
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If you ware going to lower your ticket by 50%, you will need to increase attendance. 15K at an average of $25 = $375,000 25K at $15 = $375K No difference in revenue.
It’s more than about tickets sold.
Is it really? Why did we lower the stadium capacity if it is only about selling tickets?
I really don’t think the difference between $25 and $10 is what is keeping our seats empty. Now the tailgate prices are a different story. Honestly, we could make tickets $5 , and we still wouldn’t sell out opening day. Our gameday experience as a whole has been a declining product for a decade now. The word is out in Lafayette about that. Golden opportunity to change perception this year. The all in focus on “premium” doesn’t have me too encouraged that the average Joe’s experience is gonna change all that much, but we’ll see.
I can admit I was exaggerating but throughout the day at something as silly as a private fest, a lot of people showed up. We had a 4-1 football team and didn’t get 15k vs App State. If we keep going thinking football will get people in the gates, we will continue to fail.
Because we know we will never sell 37k tickets.
Hell let the pirates battle it out at half time. Next game we can have Star Wars night.
This is the kind of thinking that has destroyed our fanbase since 2013.
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I’m good with that. Bark at the park, etc.
if I was not a diehard, I wouldn’t go to games. Our in game experience is boring. Things need to change if we want more people. If not we have to be satisfied with small crowds.
I love the premium but I also know I’ll never be part of the group that enjoys it.
I have a better idea, Lets have Cathedral and Fatima play at halftime to bring those extra 7k fans MAT has mentioned.
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Agree with you–ticket prices is not the deciding factor–it is the experience once you are at the game. People want to be entertained, people want to experience the WOW factor. This is what has been missing from Cajun Field.