You missed the point entirely so I will repeat it.DfromCT wrote:Dead on accurate. There's more than the "few thousand" fans that came to the Dome. Heck, we had a Homecoming against Army a while back that you could literally count the people in the stadium. I went up to the second level, where less than 100 people were. The lower level was maybe 5% full. They announced attendance at 7 or 8k, when in reality there was maybe 1000 people there.JDTulane wrote:Anyone arguing butts in seats isnt up from the dome nasnt been to a game in both (aka JJ). 100x more students even if half leave early. Remember the days where <20 came?! I do. JJ the more you bash the stadium having never been to it the more I skip your posts.
How can someone that hasn't been to a game in the stadium claim it hasn't made gameday experience better? There's other claims in his post that are unsubstantiated as well, particularly about being outdrawn by U-La-La fans. Most posts after the game said we had more fans, though many thought it might be approaching 50/50.
The "gameday experience" is not relevant to this discussion. The question is whether Yulman stadium is well suited for getting Tulane football from where we are now to where we need to be. It's not a "victory" if attendance went from 2K in the Dome to 4K at Yulman. We need 25K-30K regularly, and there are significant outstanding questions as to whether or not Yulman helps or hurts that effort.
BTW anywhere close to 50/50 on fanbase/attendance is an indicator that the gameday experience is not good enough to "draw" fans who live less than 2 hours away, which is where the ULL fans drove in from.