Loyal Blue Weekends

[ExperienceRuston]

For those of you who couldn't make it out to the first Loyal Blue Weekend, it was a great success and we had a really good turnout considering the heat! A few hundred people came out to Downtown Ruston for Rock the Railroad. The kids loved the bounce house and the face painting, and all fans really seemed to enjoy the Tech spirit groups performances and the live music by The Bluesaholics. The LA Tech Band of Pride even went around and played in some shops and restaurants downtown which got a great response from the patrons. On Saturday the Tech Trolley shuttled 115 people and continued to run despite the weather and game delay.

We hope you'll join us this Friday and Saturday for another great Loyal Blue Weekend (*But wear RED to the game*) as LA Tech Football takes on UTEP! Code Blue & The Flatliners will be playing during Rock the Railroad (6:30-8:30pm) and we'll have all the same activities as before. The Movie in the Quad on Friday night will be Now You See Me 2 (8:30pm on LA Tech's campus). For updates and more info visit the Loyal Blue Weekend Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/213091802440052/. Go Dogs!

[sportdawg]

I'm bringing my boys and maybe a few cub scouts!

[PawDawg]

For those of you who couldn't make it out to the first Loyal Blue Weekend, it was a great success and we had a really good turnout considering the heat! A few hundred people came out to Downtown Ruston for Rock the Railroad. The kids loved the bounce house and the face painting, and all fans really seemed to enjoy the Tech spirit groups performances and the live music by The Bluesaholics. The LA Tech Band of Pride even went around and played in some shops and restaurants downtown which got a great response from the patrons. On Saturday the Tech Trolley shuttled 115 people and continued to run despite the weather and game delay.

We hope you'll join us this Friday and Saturday for another great Loyal Blue Weekend (*But wear RED to the game*) as LA Tech Football takes on UTEP! Code Blue & The Flatliners will be playing during Rock the Railroad (6:30-8:30pm) and we'll have all the same activities as before. The Movie in the Quad on Friday night will be Now You See Me 2 (8:30pm on LA Tech's campus). For updates and more info visit the Loyal Blue Weekend Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/213091802440052/. Go Dogs!

Thanks for what y'all are doing. I noticed there is a baseball scrimmage at 4:00 in the Love Shack. So the timing should be just right for being downtown after that.

[THEarmada]

Hopefully lots of folks get out and support this.

[PawDawg]

Hopefully lots of folks get out and support this.

It will take time to grow it, but the neat thing is that the folks putting it together realize that will be patient and tweak it as they go. This is the way you grow a community event.

[ExperienceRuston]

We hope you'll join us this Friday and Saturday for another great Loyal Blue Weekend as LA Tech Football takes on Rice!
The Josh Madden Band will be playing during Rock the Railroad (6:30-8:30pm) in RailRoad Park in downtown Ruston and we'll have all the same activities as before with some Halloween themes included.
The Movie in the Quad on Friday night will be Ghostbusters (original I think) (8:30pm on LA Tech's campus). For updates and more info visit the Loyal Blue Weekend Facebook event.

The Tech Trolley will run again on Saturday, so we hope everyone will enjoy downtown Ruston before and after the game with a few of the restaurants providing live music both Friday and Saturday!
Go Dogs!

[ExperienceRuston]

Hey there Tech fans,

With the 2016 home football season behind us, we wanted to thank everyone for making Loyal Blue Weekends such a success this fall! We were extremely happy with how all the events went and the participation we saw from the fans. After such a positive reception, we're looking forward to hosting Loyal Blue Weekends again during the 2017 football season!

As we start making plans for future Loyal Blue Weekend events, we'd love to hear some suggestions from y'all on what could be added to enhance the home game weekend experience. These events are for the fans, so we want to know exactly what things would get y'all to participate in Loyal Blue Weekend on a regular basis. Thank you in advance for your ideas and suggestions!

[Dwayne From Minden]

Free Icees

[ExperienceRuston]

We will see if we can make this happen!

Free Icees

Any other ideas and suggestions to improve these events for Home football weekends?

[boxerdog]

I think a restaurant crawl might be kinda fun for pregame on game days. Maybe have the participating restaurants offer specials on drinks and appetizers, entree, and desserts.

[PawDawg]

Any other ideas and suggestions to improve these events for Home football weekends?

Find some well spoken fans, like Boxer, who have used the shuttle service. Let them give testimonies about how well it works. It think that is an overlooked and maybe not well known draw on gameday.

[BhadDawg]

I think a restaurant crawl might be kinda fun for pregame on game days. Maybe have the participating restaurants offer specials on drinks and appetizers, entree, and desserts.

Sounds like a good idea, not every fan tailgates for one reason or another and it could be another way to get some fan/merchant interaction. This of course could increase the importance of the shuttle, that along with the blue colored coke and Dr. pepper icee's should be a good start!

[Dawg06]

I tried it once. I drove to Railroad Park looking for the trolley, but I didn't see a line or anything that indicated where the exact pickup location was. It was close to game time so I wasn't going to wait. I left and drove back to campus to walk to the stadium. I would suggest more signage directing fans to the exact loading site.

[Dawgpix]

The trolley is an excellent addition. There are those, however, who refuse to start getting to the game far enough ahead of kickoff. . . if that is their goal.

[LATechBanjo]

I used it for the WKU game. Great experience and a welcome addition. Dawg06 is right. A BIG sign pointing out the pickup would be good.