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Week 5 Attendance
This weekend:

FAU @ UL-Lfayette 19309
Duke @ FIU 22682
Memphis @ Middle Tennesee 20098
UAB @ Troy 18044
ASU @ wku 10813

Averages

Arkansas State (2) 28895
UL-Lafayette (2) 27540
UL-Monroe (1) 26532
Middle Tennessee (2) 25300
North Texas (2) 24628
FIU (4) 19309
Troy (2) 19115
wku (2) 15338
10-03-2011 10:30 AM
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RE: Week 5 Attendance
(10-03-2011 10:30 AM)MT FAN Wrote:  This weekend:

FAU @ UL-Lfayette 19309
Duke @ FIU 22682
Memphis @ Middle Tennesee 20098
UAB @ Troy 18044
ASU @ wku 10813

Averages

Arkansas State (2) 28895
UL-Lafayette (2) 27540
UL-Monroe (1) 26532
Middle Tennessee (2) 25300
North Texas (2) 24628
FIU (4) 19309
Troy (2) 19115
wku (2) 15338

Louisiana was not 19,309...but the season average looks correct.
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So far, this year has been a huge step forward for the conference.
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Don't look now, but for a change and all the grief we have taken, along with FAU with our attendance, who led the league this weekend with a legitimate close to a sellout crowd. Of course, that includes the ones UCF fans who had purchased several thousand season tickets, of which a good portion were presumably not used. Who would've thunk it just last year?

It's a refreshing change in attitude around FIU Football....The tailgating and game day atmosphere were off the charts, leaving the UCF game one behind. Too bad we lost again.....
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RE: Week 5 Attendance
(10-03-2011 10:30 AM)MT FAN Wrote:  This weekend:

FAU @ UL-Lfayette 19309
Duke @ FIU 22682
Memphis @ Middle Tennesee 20098
UAB @ Troy 18044
ASU @ wku 10813

Averages

Arkansas State (2) 28895
UL-Lafayette (2) 27540
UL-Monroe (1) 26532
Middle Tennessee (2) 25300
North Texas (2) 24628
FIU (4) 19309
Troy (2) 19115
wku (2) 15338

UL had a little over 26k in their seats for this past weekends game versus FAU. In the 4th quarter, it looked like we only had 19k in the stadium.
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(10-03-2011 10:59 AM)BlueRaiderFan. Wrote:  So far, this year has been a huge step forward for the conference.

Not for TROY. What is the secret to getting 20k+ consistently? If you know please tell our AD....... 03-hissyfit
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(10-03-2011 11:18 AM)troy4ever21 Wrote:  Not for TROY. What is the secret to getting 20k+ consistently? If you know please tell our AD....... 03-hissyfit

Have your college move to a town thats population is greater then 2 trailerparks and a goat farm? 03-cloud905-stirthepot04-cheers
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(10-03-2011 10:59 AM)FIUFanatic Wrote:  Don't look now, but for a change and all the grief we have taken, along with FAU with our attendance, who led the league this weekend with a legitimate close to a sellout crowd. Of course, that includes the ones UCF fans who had purchased several thousand season tickets, of which a good portion were presumably not used. Who would've thunk it just last year?

It's a refreshing change in attitude around FIU Football....The tailgating and game day atmosphere were off the charts, leaving the UCF game one behind. Too bad we lost again.....

Yall did have a good showing this week, but the guy did have a typo. The Cajuns actually had 26,339 which topped the league this week. Thats what was reported by the paper, the school, and ESPN, so I'd assume its correct.

With that said, The clown beat writer for FAU actually had in his blog this week...

Quote:Hudspeth then challenged the Cajun Nation: "I need all the Cajuns fans to bring 10 people with them. I want this week sold out, can’t find a seat…We are fixing to come home 3-1, we need that place absolutely electric and loud."

Let’s see, 117 times 10 is 1,170…

I must not be able to read...is 26,000>1,170?
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(10-03-2011 12:13 PM)Tuffguy21 Wrote:  
(10-03-2011 10:59 AM)FIUFanatic Wrote:  Don't look now, but for a change and all the grief we have taken, along with FAU with our attendance, who led the league this weekend with a legitimate close to a sellout crowd. Of course, that includes the ones UCF fans who had purchased several thousand season tickets, of which a good portion were presumably not used. Who would've thunk it just last year?

It's a refreshing change in attitude around FIU Football....The tailgating and game day atmosphere were off the charts, leaving the UCF game one behind. Too bad we lost again.....

Yall did have a good showing this week, but the guy did have a typo. The Cajuns actually had 26,339 which topped the league this week. Thats what was reported by the paper, the school, and ESPN, so I'd assume its correct.

With that said, The clown beat writer for FAU actually had in his blog this week...

Quote:Hudspeth then challenged the Cajun Nation: "I need all the Cajuns fans to bring 10 people with them. I want this week sold out, can’t find a seat…We are fixing to come home 3-1, we need that place absolutely electric and loud."

Let’s see, 117 times 10 is 1,170…

I must not be able to read...is 26,000>1,170?

I've never liked FAU's beat writer, he's got an agenda against sunbelt teams that have success. Constantly taking pot shots at Troy about everything under the sun without actually doing research.
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(10-03-2011 12:32 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  I've never liked FAU's beat writer, he's got an agenda against sunbelt teams that have success. Constantly taking pot shots at Troy about everything under the sun without actually doing research.

He does do that, but I'll take the good with the bad.

At least SOMEONE is covering FAU and the 'Belt in the main Broward/Palm Beach paper. If it wasnt for Ted's blog and articles I doubt anyone down here would even know that FAU played in the 'Belt.

My advice is to take his blog with LIBERAL amounts of salt, enjoy the fact that your team is getting mentioned, and realize that the blog is just his opinion piece. In his actual articles he is much more factual and profesional (as it should be).
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Troy appears to do little or nothing to promote its games to people who live outside an hour of campus. Those people are desperately needed in order for attendance to grow and for games to sell out. The marketing people at Troy either do not realize that, do not have the manpower and/or money to market to other areas and alumni, do not have the imagination to do so, or are satisfied with what is now clearly a downward trend in attendance.

The other problem - which will take years and newly-grown fans to solve, and I believe will eventually solve itself as the culture of Alabama changes - is the two major programs in Alabama, and even some in Florida and Georgia, that win SEC and ACC titles and regular national championships. In particular, 'Bama's and 'Burn's titles in recent years have caused so many bandwagon fans to tilt toward them as to seriously affect Troy gameday ticket sales.

I am saddened to write that many, many Troy alumni and former students are rabid fans of these other major schools and, at best, casual fans or no fans of Troy. I have a number of former classmates, fraternity brothers and acquaintences I place in this category, some of whom I am forced to de-friend on Facebook (due to their "Roll Tide", etc. posts while their true school's team is playing), and a few with whom I have stopped communicating. It sickens me to lose friends, but it sickens me more to experience their lack of pride and support for, and ignorance of Troy and what it should mean to them.

Some of them are major boosters of other colleges such as Florida, where at least one fraternity brother buys a prime tailgate spot in Gainesville every year and outfits it for a king. I believe he is also a Bull Gator or whatever they call their major supporters. I once asked him (after the Troy-UF game, while he was dressed in orange and blue) why he supports a school to which he never attended, nor wanted him, and he explained that he always wanted to play football there. (This guy was not even big enough to play at Troy when Troy was in DII.) Another Florida friend is a big 'Bama fan because he always was, although I'm not sure he ever set foot in Tuscaloosa for any reason. His excuse is that he went to Troy State, not Troy University. I know, I laughed, too.

Some of these people come back to homecoming most or at least in some years, but do not attend any athletic events, optioning instead to watch their real teams on TV at the fraternity house. (I am sickened to write this.)

Others live and die by what 'Bama, 'Burn or Florida State do, and attend Troy games only when those other teams are not available in person or on TV. Some have rarely if ever been back to Troy since the DII and I-AA days and think of Troy as that little school they can like when their real team is down or when they feel like it, or that Troy is not part of real college sports. If they would at least come back and see how much Troy has grown, they might actually embrace their actual university.

Some of these people rationalize their allegiance for the other schools because these people were raised to be fans of those schools, or because Troy was not in the same division when they attended Troy; or because Troy doesn't play the two largest Alabama programs in football; or because they will only root for a nationally ranked, constant winner.

I have some ideas to attack some of these problems and have posted them in the past. But nobody seemed interested. I have been noticing and posting about a downward trend in Troy attendance for years, to no avail.
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BTW, much if not most of what Ted Hutton writes is opinion geared toward titillating readers and driving people to the site. He does not write so liberally in the printed product. (He also covers the Panthers NHL team, and sometimes the Marlins.)

What he publishes online should be compared to an opinion column on the op-ed page, as opposed to a news/sports story by the same writer in another, non-opinion section of the paper.
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(10-03-2011 12:41 PM)BMarkey Wrote:  Troy appears to do little or nothing to promote its games to people who live outside an hour of campus. Those people are desperately needed in order for attendance to grow and for games to sell out. The marketing people at Troy either do not realize that, do not have the manpower and/or money to market to other areas and alumni, do not have the imagination to do so, or are satisfied with what is now clearly a downward trend in attendance.

I think the marketing team is just behind the times. There's little to no use of social media marketing such as facebook, youtube, and twitter. I used to have a detailed plan of attack on all of these and have expressed my plans on GGT.com, but I needed others to help and no one seemed to buy into it. The only useful thing I've seen marketing-wise is billboards. I've seen Troy Football billboards in Atlanta, Auburn, Montgomery, and maybe even New Orleans (non-bowl related) if memory serves me right.

I really think we need a push right now, and again if anyone wants to help out, i'll be more than willing to help with advertising in the digital age. Here's some of my work, unpolished, but an idea of where I'm going with some video ads:

Windows Movie Maker:

http://s1002.photobucket.com/albums/af14...ladium.mp4

Adobe After Effects CS5.5/Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5:

http://s1002.photobucket.com/albums/af14...aphic4.mp4
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RE: Week 5 Attendance
Official attendence at the Cajun game was 26339 (see link to stats page below). Please correct original post.

http://www.ragincajuns.com/fls/15400/sta...11/ul5.htm
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(10-03-2011 11:52 AM)OwlFamily Wrote:  Have your college move to a town thats population is greater then 2 trailerparks and a goat farm? 03-cloud905-stirthepot04-cheers

If only that were possible. 03-banghead
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(10-03-2011 12:41 PM)BMarkey Wrote:  Troy appears to do little or nothing to promote its games to people who live outside an hour of campus. Those people are desperately needed in order for attendance to grow and for games to sell out. The marketing people at Troy either do not realize that, do not have the manpower and/or money to market to other areas and alumni, do not have the imagination to do so, or are satisfied with what is now clearly a downward trend in attendance.

The other problem - which will take years and newly-grown fans to solve, and I believe will eventually solve itself as the culture of Alabama changes - is the two major programs in Alabama, and even some in Florida and Georgia, that win SEC and ACC titles and regular national championships. In particular, 'Bama's and 'Burn's titles in recent years have caused so many bandwagon fans to tilt toward them as to seriously affect Troy gameday ticket sales.

I am saddened to write that many, many Troy alumni and former students are rabid fans of these other major schools and, at best, casual fans or no fans of Troy. I have a number of former classmates, fraternity brothers and acquaintences I place in this category, some of whom I am forced to de-friend on Facebook (due to their "Roll Tide", etc. posts while their true school's team is playing), and a few with whom I have stopped communicating. It sickens me to lose friends, but it sickens me more to experience their lack of pride and support for, and ignorance of Troy and what it should mean to them.

Some of them are major boosters of other colleges such as Florida, where at least one fraternity brother buys a prime tailgate spot in Gainesville every year and outfits it for a king. I believe he is also a Bull Gator or whatever they call their major supporters. I once asked him (after the Troy-UF game, while he was dressed in orange and blue) why he supports a school to which he never attended, nor wanted him, and he explained that he always wanted to play football there. (This guy was not even big enough to play at Troy when Troy was in DII.) Another Florida friend is a big 'Bama fan because he always was, although I'm not sure he ever set foot in Tuscaloosa for any reason. His excuse is that he went to Troy State, not Troy University. I know, I laughed, too.

Some of these people come back to homecoming most or at least in some years, but do not attend any athletic events, optioning instead to watch their real teams on TV at the fraternity house. (I am sickened to write this.)

Others live and die by what 'Bama, 'Burn or Florida State do, and attend Troy games only when those other teams are not available in person or on TV. Some have rarely if ever been back to Troy since the DII and I-AA days and think of Troy as that little school they can like when their real team is down or when they feel like it, or that Troy is not part of real college sports. If they would at least come back and see how much Troy has grown, they might actually embrace their actual university.

Some of these people rationalize their allegiance for the other schools because these people were raised to be fans of those schools, or because Troy was not in the same division when they attended Troy; or because Troy doesn't play the two largest Alabama programs in football; or because they will only root for a nationally ranked, constant winner.

I have some ideas to attack some of these problems and have posted them in the past. But nobody seemed interested. I have been noticing and posting about a downward trend in Troy attendance for years, to no avail.

I completely agree. Great post Markey.
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(10-03-2011 12:13 PM)Tuffguy21 Wrote:  
(10-03-2011 10:59 AM)FIUFanatic Wrote:  Don't look now, but for a change and all the grief we have taken, along with FAU with our attendance, who led the league this weekend with a legitimate close to a sellout crowd. Of course, that includes the ones UCF fans who had purchased several thousand season tickets, of which a good portion were presumably not used. Who would've thunk it just last year?

It's a refreshing change in attitude around FIU Football....The tailgating and game day atmosphere were off the charts, leaving the UCF game one behind. Too bad we lost again.....

Yall did have a good showing this week, but the guy did have a typo. The Cajuns actually had 26,339 which topped the league this week. Thats what was reported by the paper, the school, and ESPN, so I'd assume its correct.

With that said, The clown beat writer for FAU actually had in his blog this week...

Quote:Hudspeth then challenged the Cajun Nation: "I need all the Cajuns fans to bring 10 people with them. I want this week sold out, can’t find a seat…We are fixing to come home 3-1, we need that place absolutely electric and loud."

Let’s see, 117 times 10 is 1,170…

I must not be able to read...is 26,000>1,170?

I wondered thinking the Cajuns should have had a larger turnout than that first figure posted......Great crowd indeed.

As for that beat writer.....he is a lunatic.
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(10-03-2011 02:23 PM)FIUFanatic Wrote:  As for that beat writer.....he is a lunatic.

Pretty smart one too, as he says controversial things to drive hits to his blog. Looks like everyone is checking it to see what he says.04-cheers

Like I said, truckload of salt for what Ted Hutton says on his blog. I know I do and I'm a FAU fan. LOL
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I don't agree with that assessment though. But that's why opinions are just that, opinions.
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Great crowd from ULL, but wasn't it supposed to sell out?
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