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    Re: WAC Attendance Figures

    Quote Originally Posted by brtransplant View Post
    Winning is all that it will take.
    Of course winning will help. It will make the casual fan keep coming.

    We have always had 10-12,000 diehard fans that make close to 100% of all the games if not all. And then we have another 30,000 fans in the 3-4 hour radius of Ruston that might make 1 or 2 games a year or 1 game every other year. This is how we get to the 20,000 average attendance. These people should be our target. Because if you get most of these people to become "regulars" then guess what you have? Sell-outs or near sell-outs at every game. But you have to put the product on the field and have a program that has a "kick ass and take names" mentality that fans want to be a part of. One they can be proud of and not feel ashamed of when bragging about. Look at little ole Boise State. Their fans actually believe that they are just as good as Alabama and Oklahoma. Imagine if our fans believed we were as tough as Arkansas and LSU. We would have to turn away people at the gates every gameday.
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    Re: WAC Attendance Figures

    Quote Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS View Post
    Like I said, I'll take that all day long!
    And you know what DWAYNE??? TECH INCREASED ATTENDANCE BY 10.89% which killed every other university in the WAC. And that's during a "recession" in population poor N.Louisiana. EVERY OTHER WAC team actually LOST ATTENDANCE except BSU which gained by 1.5%.
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    LOUISIANA TECH WINS AGAIN!! We have a long way to go but we are growing in numbers and folks that care and want to be in Ruston on a Thur., Friday or Saturday and make it the "place to be" and that's what matters, even in the accounting field.
    If we can increase our attendance by 10% a year then we will have over 30,000 in 6 years. After year 7 we will need to add seating at that rate. 10% growth rate is high but we do have a lot of alum that could be going to TECH games. We will need to win a lot and have some good press to sustain 10% growth. Hope SD can get both the press and the wins.
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    Re: WAC Attendance Figures

    Quote Originally Posted by WWDog View Post
    If we can increase our attendance by 10% a year then we will have over 30,000 in 6 years. After year 7 we will need to add seating at that rate. 10% growth rate is high but we do have a lot of alum that could be going to TECH games. We will need to win a lot and have some good press to sustain 10% growth. Hope SD can get both the press and the wins.
    I didn't realize there was a thread with a lot of this talk in it already.
    http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showt...t=74945&page=2
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    Re: WAC Attendance Figures

    The hardest part for LaTech to overcome with attendance is simple. Most of us get a great education there but it also causes us to move to big cities to get the great jobs that education affords us. There is probably about another 10 thousand of us out there that would be at all Tech football games but simply live too far away to get there. Not only do we leave the state but most of us leave the area all together. Tech is going to have to convince all of the North Louisiana people who haven't stepped foot on a college campus to adopt Tech as their local team to take pride in and attend games. 75 percent of LSU fans have never stepped foot in a class room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beaux66 View Post
    The hardest part for LaTech to overcome with attendance is simple. Most of us get a great education there but it also causes us to move to big cities to get the great jobs that education affords us. There is probably about another 10 thousand of us out there that would be at all Tech football games but simply live too far away to get there. Not only do we leave the state but most of us leave the area all together. Tech is going to have to convince all of the North Louisiana people who haven't stepped foot on a college campus to adopt Tech as their local team to take pride in and attend games. 75 percent of LSU fans have never stepped foot in a class room.
    So very true!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by beaux66 View Post
    The hardest part for LaTech to overcome with attendance is simple. Most of us get a great education there but it also causes us to move to big cities to get the great jobs that education affords us. There is probably about another 10 thousand of us out there that would be at all Tech football games but simply live too far away to get there. Not only do we leave the state but most of us leave the area all together. Tech is going to have to convince all of the North Louisiana people who haven't stepped foot on a college campus to adopt Tech as their local team to take pride in and attend games. 75 percent of LSU fans have never stepped foot in a class room.
    Probably includes the alums.
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    Re: WAC Attendance Figures

    Quote Originally Posted by beaux66 View Post
    The hardest part for LaTech to overcome with attendance is simple. Most of us get a great education there but it also causes us to move to big cities to get the great jobs that education affords us. There is probably about another 10 thousand of us out there that would be at all Tech football games but simply live too far away to get there. Not only do we leave the state but most of us leave the area all together. Tech is going to have to convince all of the North Louisiana people who haven't stepped foot on a college campus to adopt Tech as their local team to take pride in and attend games. 75 percent of LSU fans have never stepped foot in a class room.
    Good point Beaux. We have a slight population disadvantage up here though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beaux66 View Post
    The hardest part for LaTech to overcome with attendance is simple. Most of us get a great education there but it also causes us to move to big cities to get the great jobs that education affords us. There is probably about another 10 thousand of us out there that would be at all Tech football games but simply live too far away to get there. Not only do we leave the state but most of us leave the area all together. Tech is going to have to convince all of the North Louisiana people who haven't stepped foot on a college campus to adopt Tech as their local team to take pride in and attend games. 75 percent of LSU fans have never stepped foot in a class room.

    Kinda like ND fans that have only seen them on TV. Stupid. Most of them don't know the traditions, have never been on campus, and have never seen them play live anywhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EE_Dawg View Post
    Good point Beaux. We have a slight population disadvantage up here though.
    The thing is we also have a slight poplulation ADvantage. We are far enough away from Baton Rouge that we can convince Shreveporters and even Monroers to get their butts in those seats and make Tech THE school of North Louisiana. There is alot to work with in N. Louisiana, we just have to seperate ourselves from the other small time Junior Colleges in the area. The way to do that is to continue the Dooley mold; big time facility improvements and winning more bowl games. Believe it or not Tech is getting its brand out there. I am starting to see Tech tire covers and license plates in Atlanta.

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    With the new Enterprise campus opening and the new budget cuts in Louisiana, we have to clearly establish ourselves as the number 2 school in the state even if it means developing partnerships with our enemy, LSU. Seperating ourselves from ULL will be a big first step. They are the second biggest school but we are definitely set up to overtake them very soon. We are already overtaking them as being more well known. We need that LSUS campus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beaux66 View Post
    We need that LSUS campus.
    Yes we do.

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