If only they could be as outgoing and as proactive as our AD.Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
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If only they could be as outgoing and as proactive as our AD.
I couldn’t care less about ULM, just like 99% of their fan base and own alumni. I’m fine with a semi regular series with ULL in football and playing them regularly in most other sports, because while their fans are delusional and bat shit crazy, they BSC for their team and I can respect that.
A football game with ulm in Ruston or Monroe would sell out.
It never has before.
No game has ever come closer. Still record attendance(s) in Ruston and historically THE most attended game in Ruston.
BTW, I don't think there is such a thing as a "sellout" in Ruston.
Mississippi State couldn't sell out Aillet, and that happened twice. Texas A&M probably would, or come really, really close.
I do think it would be quite well attended.No game has ever come closer. Still record attendance(s) in Ruston and historically THE most attended game in Ruston.
BTW, I don't think there is such a thing as a "sellout" in Ruston.
Our football ticket sales total for the 2018 season in which we paid that $350 grand was only $1,194,196. If we are paying NW $400,000 and the season total is no better than 2018 then we are giving up almost half of our total ticket revenue for just one guarantee game. We always report good attendance figures but that doesn't match up with the box office totals.
- Miss St would have likely been a sell out for the first game if our AD had not jacked the ticket price up and refused to sell any discounted seating. $35/seat was too much.
- Texas A&M in Shreveport had all the perfect settings. Ranked opponents and Johnny Football. There were hundreds (maybe thousands) in attendance who have never been back to another Tech game.
^^^^ this
The first game in the series would be a well attended game, but after that it declines. Also there are less and less people who care about that rivalry every year on our side and they simply don’t have that many people that care about them at all any more.No game has ever come closer. Still record attendance(s) in Ruston and historically THE most attended game in Ruston.
BTW, I don't think there is such a thing as a "sellout" in Ruston.
Well attended, is great, but I don’t care about them anymore and haven’t since the 80’s. I was at all the games when we restarted the series in ‘97. It had nothing to do with them other than they were the next team on the schedule. If we ever play them again, I hope you have fun and I hope it’s well attended, but I’ll skip it and spend my money on a road game, or add more to the scholarship fund etc.
ULM fans might show up-TECH fans would not.
NLU isn’t relevant in D1 football and nobody would care.
Neither is NSU.
But a G5 opponent will look better on the resume than an FCS.
They did in last series. ULM fans only showed up for the first game.
They are still FBS and not going anywhere. Our fans have ALWAYS shown up for this game. My argument is that our fans don't seem to care now and they certainly have not shown up for the last 3 FCS games in Ruston. You are not being honest if you don't think our fans would show up for a game in Ruston (or Monroe) against ulm.
We owe them. They have gone overboard to accommodate us after the tornado.
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