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  1. 10-02-2002, 02:58 PM #1
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    TOMPKINS: ULL slips in attempt to step up
    Bob Tompkins / Staff Reporter/Columnist
    Posted on October 2, 2002
    The University of Louisiana-Lafayette calls itself the University of Louisiana, even though there is another UL in Monroe.

    ULL, which used to be USL and hates to be called ULL, craves a status higher than its sister school in Monroe and closer to that of LSU.

    ULL folks have been saying for decades that LSU should agree to play its Ragin' Cajuns in football. LSU finally relented and will play them at Tiger Stadium Saturday.

    LSU allotted 7,000 game tickets to ULL, but ULL returned 2,400. The school by Cypress Swamp -- the school that boasts that, through spending, it sustains more than 12,800 jobs in the Lafayette area -- couldn't sell 7,000 tickets to a game it has been clamoring for since - well, probably since the two schools last played in 1938.

    The school that started pointing toward this game with bravado last spring, after a near brawl between ULL and LSU baseball players at the NCAA regionals, and harsh words between fans of the two schools at the softball regionals, couldn't live up to its big-time fantasy. It couldn't sell 7,000 tickets.

    It's as if the little girl in her mother's clothes tripped trying to walk in high heels.

    Even more baffling is ULL's reason behind returning the tickets: it didn't want LSU fans around Lafayette to gobble up all their fans' tickets, according to ULL president Ray Authement.

    Come again?

    Is this a decision worthy of the only university in Louisiana to offer a doctoral degree in cognitive science - the study of thinking and learning?

    It wasn't surprising that Louisiana's second largest university, saddled with a 9-46 football record over the last five seasons, in an effort to boost its season ticket sales, hired a well-regarded new head coach in Ricky Bustle.

    It wasn't surprising ULL sold tickets to the LSU game only to football season ticket buyers, alumni, faculty and students. Such strategy to encourage season ticket sales is not unusual.

    Granted, it may have been one reason ULL sold twice as many season tickets as last year by the beginning of August. Sure, ULL wanted to sell its fans on sticking with the team through the long haul.

    There's nothing wrong with giving season ticket holders the first opportunity to buy such tickets.

    But once the deadline passed for selling season tickets, why would ULL care who bought single-game tickets?

    No matter which school sells the tickets, LSU guarantees a payout of $400,000 to ULL, with game ticket revenue included in ULL's total.

    ULL claimed to be looking out for its fans (season ticket holders), but in reality it punished its fans who didn't buy season tickets. These fans possibly didn't want to commit themselves for an entire season. Possibly, they couldn't afford to do so.

    Maybe the school, for those people, should be known simply as UL, as in U Lose.
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  2. 10-02-2002, 03:14 PM #2
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    That is pretty harsh! Next time, sell'em all!
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    >>>>>LSU guarantees a payout of $400,000 to ULL, with game ticket revenue included in ULL's total.<<<<<

    Thanks for posting that article, Dawg04. Finally, we know how much we should get for our trip to Baton Rouge next year- $400K. We desperately need this money.

    People can say what they want, but I am extremely grateful to LSU for stepping up & agreeing to play us. I hope they continue to want to play us after the UL twins are gone in 2004.

    Louisiana Tech vs. LSU is a win-win-win deal. Good money for us, a sold out stadium for them, and a matchup which Louisiana sports fans should have been enjoying for the past 30 years!
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  4. 10-02-2002, 03:23 PM #4
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    The Town Talk has always been an LSU rag. In the Cajun fans' defense, there were some poor decisions made by the administration that caused this to look bad. We have set ourselves up for the same sort of fiasco if we don't handle it better. I think the initial block of tickets will be available to Tech fans who purchased season tickets in 2002 and 2003 and contributed to CHAMPS. A deadline date needs to be set in stone, and after that date we need to allow other Tech fans plenty of time to then purchase the remaining tickets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tech77
    The Town Talk has always been an LSU rag. In the Cajun fans' defense, there were some poor decisions made by the administration that caused this to look bad. We have set ourselves up for the same sort of fiasco if we don't handle it better. I think the initial block of tickets will be available to Tech fans who purchased season tickets in 2002 and 2003 and contributed to CHAMPS. A deadline date needs to be set in stone, and after that date we need to allow other Tech fans plenty of time to then purchase the remaining tickets.
    In addition to having a reasonable amount of success on the football field since 1996 - the LSU game is not until Nov 3 and our first HOME gmae is Labor Day weekend vs Miami - when all season ticket sales stop -

    So we basically have from Sept 1 to Oct 15 or so to sale any tickets that were not purchased by Champs Members and Season ticket holders...

    This should lead to us easily selling all of our alloted tickets -

    Now if the administration does something stupid (and after the Cajuns fiasco I doubt they will) it could be a different story where a $32 ticket is concerned...

    And I will be the first to say that I hope the students have a minimum of 500 tickets sat aside for them with a deadline of Oct 1 for the purchase date...
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    i grew up in tiger stadium (i was just a kid, give me a break!) until i became really smart and went to La Tech -- my complaint against LSU all of these years has been that all that money went to schools like Miami of Ohio, The Citadel, Western Carolina, etc. instead of going to in state schools -- yes, a payout like that will really help Tech -- just too bad it took so long
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    Our payout should be MORE than USLs. Why? Because we have to bus to BR and spend the night. USL will bus over on game day.

    $400,000 plus $50,000 for expenses...that's leveling the pocketbooks!
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    Dan, you're right, but the deal is done. Maybe next time.
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    Wonder how our payout from A&M compared to Oooooo La La's this year?
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