How do you fix Lamar?

[Big girl]

I graduated from A@M and those fans are fanatical. I never bought into it so I was a two percenter. They have midnight yell practice and the students stand up the entire game which I thought was ridiculous.Their alumni base is strong as well. People drive from different cities so that they can attend games. A another factor is this: A&M has over 40000 students, Lamar does not.

[whatnamecanipick]

I graduated from A@M and those fans are fanatical. I never bought into it so I was a two percenter. They have midnight yell practice and the students stand up the entire game which I thought was ridiculous.Their alumni base is strong as well. People drive from different cities so that they can attend games. A another factor is this: A&M has over 40000 students, Lamar does not.

Texas A&M has an enrollment close to 59,000.

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=texas+a%26m+enrollment&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

[TxHoops]

Texas A&M has an enrollment close to 59,000.

https://www.google.com/search?q=texas+a%26m+enrollment&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

Dang. A&M's enrollment is wayyy up. It WAS around 40k back when I was in school. UT was just she of 50k. I know UT has around 52k on campus now. Does the A&M figure only include the CS campus (if anyone knows)?

[Big girl]

A@M 's enrollment(College Station) was 56,255 students in.2013.

[Pirate88]

Lamar picks up another cupcake win tonight 56-10 over Mississippi College.

[CraigS]

Apparently there's not much interest in LU football and that is why it will not be much of a success. It's not a secret I support Sam Houston State (My daughter is an athlete there). I started a thread for SHSU -v- LU included opponent information to get some talk going as the SLC gets kicked off.

 

Only 12 views and 1 comment - from a sports forum right here at home. If people here cant get excited about LU football then it just wont be much of a success. People on this board will talk (several pages) on just about any match-up in the country....yet LU gets nothing.

 

After reading and participating in this thread early on, I decided to take this discussion on the road....it was said to me that LU football WOULD SUCCEED...due to there being to much "big money" supporting it now....well that may be so as far as the program not being canceled again....but shear existence is not what I'd call success or "fixed" as this thread was asking.........

 

Eat'em Up Kats

[AggiesAreWe]

Apparently there's not much interest in LU football and that is why it will not be much of a success. It's not a secret I support Sam Houston State (My daughter is an athlete there). I started a thread for SHSU -v- LU included opponent information to get some talk going as the SLC gets kicked off.

 

Only 12 views and 1 comment - from a sports forum right here at home. If people here cant get excited about LU football then it just wont be much of a success. People on this board will talk (several pages) on just about any match-up in the country....yet LU gets nothing.

 

After reading and participating in this thread early on, I decided to take this discussion on the road....it was said to me that LU football WOULD SUCCEED...due to there being to much "big money" supporting it now....well that may be so as far as the program not being canceled again....but shear existence is not what I'd call success or "fixed" as this thread was asking.........

 

Eat'em Up Kats

 

I replied to your comment on the other thread.

 

Again, check this site out, I believe you will see there is still some interest.

 

http://bigredinsider.com/

[shovel]

I waited until this thread almost played out before I responded. I'll admit, I'm part of the problem... I am no longer a season ticket holder at Lamar. I let them go, as I was not getting much bang for my buck. Part of the problem is my work schedule whick leaves me little free time, especially on Saturdays. When I do have the chance, I have to decide  between seeing LU beat the snot out of no-name univerisy or watch Bama play on my own big screen at home. Id rather see a good, solid football game and not a lopsided affair. While winning has its allure, Lamar beating nobodies does nothing for me. A decent team coming to Lamar an beating them badly does nothing for me either. While the gameday atmosphere is MUCH better now than when I was a student 30+ years ago, it is still not enough.I don't buy into the commuter school issue, because I believe the commuter students would love to have some Cardinal pride themselves! So... what is the soultion? To me, a team that does well in its conference, continually improves, schedules worthy opponents and plays their hearts out every week would get me back on board. I dont have the time to tailgate or make any of the other social activities, but I do think these things bring people into the mix. Local recruitment plays into this, as well as the Head Coach being a good face and ambassador for Lamar. As several of you have said, a soild, winning program would take care of funding and recruitment. So to me, the solution has to point squarely at Woodard and the Athletic Director (Henderson?) You cant make chicken salad out of chicken droppings, so Lamar needs to find better chickens. They need to schedule better opponents and continue to recruit better athletes, win more games and build from there. Lamar is not much better today than when they restarted the program several years ago. I'm still rooting for them, but I'm not betting that things will improve until changes are made from the top down. Good discussion y'all!