re: Game Thread: McNeese 74 vs ULL 72 Final

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That I have heard for some time now, this is Marlin's sunset job, everyone keeps hoping he will decide to retire. Have you heard any rumblings about who they might consider as a replacement? I haven't kept up. I know Byron Starks has done a good job at every place he has been up to now. I know he is 6-8 at BRCC right now but I think that is more because it's his first year there as head coach and is half the win total they had all of last season. My wife and I know Byron and his wife, so I sort of pull for that for them.

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I know Byron, they are great people. But if I were to go with a former player it would be David Patrick.

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People will come out support when there’s a solid product put out in front of them.

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Not in Lafayette. Attendance for football was declining even during Napiers best years.
They have peaked.
Their attendance is lead by aging baby boomers and the crop coming up couldn’t care less about the school. This is reflective in season ticket sales.
The student section they put out each week at home football games is pathetic. Less than 100 their last home game.
STM games draw more students. When both LSU and UL had home football games on the same day their entire baseball team chose to attend the LSU game. The vast majority of Lafayette chooses to attend LSU games over their local school.

Excluding Covid year this was the 2nd lowest attended New Orleans bowl game ever. The little support they have left is dying off.

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The student section they put out each week at home football games is pathetic. Less than 100 their last home game. STM games draw more students. When both LSU and UL had home football games on the same day their entire baseball team chose to attend the LSU game. The vast majority of Lafayette chooses to attend LSU games over their local school.

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The students had a planned boycott of the last home game. The administration is extremely adversarial towards its student body. That is why the fan base is 90% Boomers.

There isn’t a university administration in the state that creates more LSU fans than ours and it’s done unintentionally.

Maybe stop calling us Ryan Street High, for starters.

I really don’t care, but when you want to elevate your status and try to do it by putting others down, then that’s disrespectful to me.

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Since that time, UL has created a playpen for students to "tailgate" under watchful eye of the campus police.

The people running that school would be just fine with a new stadium that has a football field, and 200 "luxury" suites where old Salooms, Moncuses, etc can occasionally stop by to glad-hand politicians and academics

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You're not wrong. The admin has managed to kill off what used to be a very active tailgating scene by trying to monetize organized tailgating and parking . It's a shell of what it used to be and frankly it's sad

The student playpen area is a fricking joke . The dean of students that enforces those rules and deals with the Greek system got run off from Mississippi state for doing the same shite

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Maybe stop calling us Ryan Street High

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Harvard on the Bayou

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Arkansas Missouri Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Nebraska Maryland Pretty much all of New England Ohio and Tennessee too, although their urban schools have grown.

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Add Georgia

Nobody cares about Tech

Nice try, Simmons graduated from Florida State

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Nice try, Simmons graduated from Florida State

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But he did graduate from Brother Martin like a good gay.