Shuttle Info for A&M Game?

[Dawg06]

Is it necessary to buy a parking pass at the mall? Assuming the news of the shuttle is true.

No. When you get to the mall, you just pay $5/person to hop on the shuttle. You don't pay anything to ride from the stadium back to the mall.

[dawgs1]

Is it necessary to buy a parking pass at the mall? Assuming the news of the shuttle is true.

No! You park for free @ the mall & usually pay about $5.00 for a shuttle pass. Even if it ends up being $10.00, it is still cheaper than paying for parking @ Indy Stadium & your car will be safer. The shuttles also get the right-of-way through the blocked-off streets to avoid having to sit in traffic.

[Blue Dawg]

Excellent, thanks y'all. I'll keep my eye on this.

[dawgs1]

dawg80 I can't agree with you more. For years I've given S'port /Bossier area a chance to be active in sports. There idea and my idea are very far apart. When they finally wake up it'll be too late. Ruston has a great future if they take growth in a way to better it's citizens and to keep it's young wanting to stay and build. Any city depends on it's youth for it's future. Unfortunatly S'port has sunk all it's marbles in gambling and look where that's going. Are we better off now that they been here for over 10 years ?

You can only hit your head against the wall before it starts to hurt and then you stop. I would think after the Grambling fiasco we'd have learned, but like you said here we are again. I live here, I hope and pray some day the leadership will come to the top before it's too late.

Please put the crack pipe down. Most citizens in "anytown" in the State of Louisiana are corndog fans. All other teams are left to gather scraps. This list includes many LA Tech grads that are now corndog season tix holders & pay a giant TAF fee for the priviledge of renewing their season tix. While Shreve3porter's may not be die-hard sport fans, there is nobody in this town that will get excited about playing down a level. I don't want Tech to ever schedule a game against an FCS opponent. But if we must...don't play that game in Shreveport. As I stated earlier it is comprised of a large number of corndog fans.


I love playing games in Ruston as much as anybody. The real fact is that Ruston is also a corndog town. Just go to the Ruston Walmart. 50% corndog gear, 30% Grambling & 20% Tech. In our hometown. Dispicable! Not to mention the corporate support for the corndog nation. Not that it is Ruston's fault. It's years of a lack of marketing by the university & athletic department. We are behind the power curve & attempting to catch up.

As for casino's & 24 hour alcohol, name 5 fine dining establishments in Ruston. I bet you cannot. Ruston is too slow speed to bring in major business & industry (as is the entire State of Louisiana). You can educate your kids here but they will not stay here. The opportunities are too great in too many other places such as Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, New York, California, Arizona and even...yes... Shreveport.

[Blue Dawg]

Please put the crack pipe down. Most citizens in "anytown" in the State of Louisiana are corndog fans. All other teams are left to gather scraps. This list includes many LA Tech grads that are now corndog season tix holders & pay a giant TAF fee for the priviledge of renewing their season tix. While Shreve3porter's may not be die-hard sport fans, there is nobody in this town that will get excited about playing down a level. I don't want Tech to ever schedule a game against an FCS opponent. But if we must...don't play that game in Shreveport. As I stated earlier it is comprised of a large number of corndog fans.


I love playing games in Ruston as much as anybody. The real fact is that Ruston is also a corndog town. Just go to the Ruston Walmart. 50% corndog gear, 30% Grambling & 20% Tech. In our hometown. Dispicable! Not to mention the corporate support for the corndog nation. Not that it is Ruston's fault. It's years of a lack of marketing by the university & athletic department. We are behind the power curve & attempting to catch up.

As for casino's & 24 hour alcohol, name 5 fine dining establishments in Ruston. I bet you cannot. Ruston is too slow speed to bring in major business & industry (as is the entire State of Louisiana). You can educate your kids here but they will not stay here. The opportunities are too great in too many other places such as Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, New York, California, Arizona and even...yes... Shreveport.

Sad but true...one of my dreams is to help bring these businesses to North LA, but before that happens...gotta move somewhere else. Grin and bear it, and change it.

[dawgs1]

Sad but true...one of my dreams is to help bring these businesses to North LA, but before that happens...gotta move somewhere else. Grin and bear it, and change it.

Exactly!

[dawgs1]

Sad but true...one of my dreams is to help bring these businesses to North LA, but before that happens...gotta move somewhere else. Grin and bear it, and change it.

You would have to totally change the mindset of the city & being in Louisiana also hurts your chances of economic development. It will take alot of time & money. I would love to retire in Ruston...just can't afford to move their during the working years.

[Blue Dawg]

You would have to totally change the mindset of the city & being in Louisiana also hurts your chances of economic development. It will take alot of time & money. I would love to retire in Ruston...just can't afford to move their during the working years.

Only the arrogant part of me thinks I can do it alone or even see it in my lifetime. The smart part of me knows it won't, but then the arrogant part tells it to shut up.

[dawgs1]

Yes.

Last year was the first one I've missed in the past decade because of the downpour. The I-Bowl only runs the I-Bowl. The group running the show is now the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission, and they have done absolutely nothing for this game. They haven't even had a meeting since April! Yes, April! These are the same screw-ups who lost the Top 28 last year.

Regarding ticket sales, the difference between this game and the I-Bowl is that the I-Bowl has corporate sponsors buying thousands of tickets each year. We don't have corporate sponsors buying thousands of tickets for this game or any other game. As far as selling our "allotment" of tickets, Tech and A&M would have done very well for the I-Bowl, maybe within 3K of selling out, but this isn't the I-Bowl. A&M has yet to sell their allotment of 10K tickets. The Aggies still have chairbacks available on the east side. To those saying A&M will bring 20-25K, they haven't even sold half of that amount yet. I'm expecting a turnout in the low 30K range unless we starting giving away tickets in bulk.

Essentially no tickets (2K) have been sold to locals not affiliated with Tech or A&M. Casual sports fans in Shreveport will not support Tech in any significant numbers as long as LSU is a national team. That's just reality. We just have to focus on winning our lost alumni back. If we can't get our alumni to support Tech, how can we expect the average Shreveporter to support us? Playing one game in Shreveport instead of Ruston will not win us any of their casual fans, but yet we keep trying.

BS! You just look @ LA Tech attendance figures in Shreveport games. Then look @ our attendance figures in Ruston. Don't forget to also scope out are W-L record at the time. I am not a corndog fan nor do I like living in Louisiana & having them shoved down my throat. But facts are facts. Everytime that we have played in Shreveport several thousands of them have supported us. Take away our 3-5k students that come to games & home attendance is pathetic. Our games in Shreveport, over the years, average around 35k.

Now if we could schedule Moo St., aTm & the like in Ruston & sell out this would be a very different conversation. But we cannot. So suck it up, put on your happy face & come & support the Dawgs on the 30th!

[BoutThemDawgs]

our 3-5k students that come to games

A quite ridiculously loud 3-5k students! It is so much fun sitting down in the student section.

On topic THANK GOD THERE WILL BE SHUTTLES! I really really didn't want to have to park at the stadium.

[Allgood]

A quite ridiculously loud 3-5k students! It is so much fun sitting down in the student section.

On topic THANK GOD THERE WILL BE SHUTTLES! I really really didn't want to have to park at the stadium.

We don't sit down.

[Dawg06]

BS! You just look @ LA Tech attendance figures in Shreveport games. Then look @ our attendance figures in Ruston. Don't forget to also scope out are W-L record at the time. I am not a corndog fan nor do I like living in Louisiana & having them shoved down my throat. But facts are facts. Everytime that we have played in Shreveport several thousands of them have supported us. Take away our 3-5k students that come to games & home attendance is pathetic. Our games in Shreveport, over the years, average around 35k.

Now if we could schedule Moo St., aTm & the like in Ruston & sell out this would be a very different conversation. But we cannot. So suck it up, put on your happy face & come & support the Dawgs on the 30th!

2001
SMU at Louisiana Tech in Shreveport: 22,505 attendance (season opener, 1st ever WAC game)
Louisiana Tech in Ruston: 19,742 average attendance
Iowa State vs. Alabama Independence Bowl: 45,627 attendance

2002
Oklahoma State at Louisiana Tech in Shreveport: 31,391 attendance (season opener)
Louisiana Tech in Ruston: 15,248 average attendance
UTEP at Louisiana Tech in Shreveport: 9,267 attendance
Ole Miss vs. Nebraska Independence Bowl: 46,096 attendance

2003
#2 Miami at Louisiana Tech in Shreveport: 43,279 attendance (season opener, Shreveporters came out to see local legend Brock Berlin)
Louisiana Tech in Ruston: 15,153 average attendance
Missouri vs. Arkansas Independence Bowl: 49,625 attendance

2004
Louisiana Tech in Ruston: 20,007 average attendance
Tulsa at Louisiana Tech in Shreveport: 7,713 attendance
Miami (OH) vs. Iowa State Independence Bowl: 43,076 attendance

2008
Northern Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech Independence Bowl: 41,567 attendance

2010
Louisiana Tech at Grambling State in Shreveport: 34,762 attendance (season opener, 60% GSU fans)
Louisiana Tech in Ruston: 19,485 average attendance
Air Force vs. Georgia Tech Independence Bowl: 39,362 attendance

Facts are facts.

Where are these corndogs who supposedly support Tech when we play in Shreveport?

Our average attendance in Shreveport is nowhere close to 35K.

It's pretty clear that Independence Bowls draw much larger crowds than when Tech plays at Independence Stadium.

[BoutThemDawgs]

We don't sit down.

I know, I am one of the ones who doesn't! This past year I sat right behind the WR/QB bench and it was most definitely an amazing spot.

[BRDawg81]

We don't sit down.

Then I hope you're not "sitting" in front of me because the last time I had to stand for a game in the Indy Bowl, I had to have medical procedures on both knees. Those that seem to believe that they can only yell if they are standing up have never sat next to me during a game so don't try to feed that line to me. If you want to stand then get in the back.

[johnnylightnin]

There is no way there were 39 K for the AFA GT game. Not even close. There MAY have been 25K...maybe.