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  1. I don't understand!

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    [quote name="UNLV" post="1009798" timestamp="1305297855"]
    I have several reason for wanting to move up. One of them is old rivalries. I was going to Lamar football games in the late 70's to the end in 1989. And as much as Terror tries to push the Lamar/Sam Houston old buddies crap, SHSU, SFA, Nicholls st were not the schools I saw. So I don't get excited to see SHSU. The only SLC that excite me is Mcneese, an old rival. Idaho or SJSU don't excite me either, but they do at the very least get Lamar name exposed out west, especially if we win.

    FBS also brings exposure, exposure brings money and growth. Is it worth it? I think so.


    [/quote]

    The question I think, is whether getting crushed by Idaho because you moved up before you were ready is the kind of exposure that brings you any money or growth?

  2. Lamar Football Season Tickets

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    That's correct. I called the ticket office and they told me they were basically sold out from last year. That really sucks. So basically if you didn't get one the first year, you might never get the opportunity to buy one until they open up more lots for sale. That's quite a buzzkill for an alumni who didn't get the chance to tailgate last year. I was really looking forward to it.



    I think with all the money they'd make from selling more lots as tailgating sections, it'd be worth the added cost of providing security. So add this into the already horrible problem of the parking shortage on campus. 

  4. From ESPN's Vitale: Coaching Carousel

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    [quote name="coachacola" post="994564" timestamp="1302273542"]
    [quote author=BLUEDOVE3 link=topic=82846.msg994551#msg994551 date=1302272149]
    [quote author=LCM2LU link=topic=82846.msg994542#msg994542 date=1302271154]
    Pat Knight: HE'S AWESOME BABY!
    [/quote] ::)
    [/quote]

    Come on bluedove, it's time to drink the kool-aid!   :D
    [/quote]

    It's way more fun that way :D

  8. PAT KNIGHT to accept Lamar job!!

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    [quote name="wompaskat" post="993006" timestamp="1302011748"]
    If true, this is good.  This will give us visibility on a national level because of his old man that we haven't had in a while.  Good, bad or indifferent, publicity is publicity.   
    [/quote]

    Exactly what I was thinking. Not a bad thing for the football program either. It's better for a recruit to say "Oh that school where Bob Knight's son went" than to say "where the heck is that????"

    I'm far from a die hard basketball fan so excuse me for being selfish I guess lol. Good luck coach!

  12. Silsbee's Johnson tranfers to Lamar

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    [quote name="bigred360" post="936998" timestamp="1292951981"]
    I really can't believe some of the post made on this forum and to read this stuff from people in SE Texas makes me sick!

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    I can. At the first home game, I listened to the drunk gentleman behind me scream about firing the coach after every stalled drive. THE FIRST GAME!

    There are pockets of this area where tact and reason are foreign concepts.

  16. Lamar "traditions" ...

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    [quote name="LCM2LU" post="790110" timestamp="1271260470"]
    I've been thinking about this.

    Did you know Lamar had a fight song and an alma mater?

    I've never heard either one of these before. Honestly I didn't know they existed. Point being, with the reemergence of football, Lamar needs some traditions. Our own "rock chalk jayhawk" if you will. Our own "dotting the i" or "yell practice" or "bonfire". Those types of traditions are what bonds a student body, a community, an alumni base, etc. They create passion for a program. They give it identity. It becomes something honorable to defend against rivals, and to share with friends. We have nothing like that. 

    If you meet someone else from Lamar, what common practice or experience can you relate to them with? The gyros at Kampus Korner?

    Many will say that winning breeds tradition, and I can't argue that. I would just say that tradition and passion have a lot to do with winning too.

    So how about a little collective brain storming? Start with something simple. What is something that Lamar can do say before the McNeese or SHSU game every year, that will get the student body, the team, the faculty, the alumni, and the community excited and involved?


    Maybe students and alumni march together from campus to the stadium before the game and everyone touches the big head for good luck? Maybe everyone gathers and they smash a Dan Rather pinata before kickoff or something? Ideas
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    Sounds familiar:

    9/7/2010 Lamar University football coach Ray Woodard is issuing a fresh challenge to the Big Red Faithful.

    Woodard is encouraging Lamar fans to come early for Saturday's home opener against Webber International and for all of the Cardinals' home games this season to enable them to participate in the new "Be At The Bridge" ceremonies.

    At 4 p.m. Saturday and for all of the Cardinal home games this season, the football players - all wearing their game jerseys - will depart the Dining Hall on Virginia Street and walk to the Pedestrian Bridge that crosses Martin Luther King Boulevard between the Plummer Administration Building and the Montagne Center.

    Lamar students, fans, cheerleaders and tailgaters are encouraged to show their support for team by greeting the players along their route, which will eventually take them to their locker room in the athletic complex on the south end of newly renovated Provoust Umphrey Stadium.

    "We're looking forward to a lot of high-fiving going on between the players, the students and the fans as they make their way to the locker room," said Woodard, whose team opened its first season since 1989 last week in an exciting 30-27 loss at longtime rival McNeese State. "These types of things help elevate school and team spirit. I'm all for it."

    Lamar officials are hoping to have hundreds - if not thousands - on hand along the team's path Saturday to start this new tradition for sending the Cardinals out for battle.

    "Starting this Be At The Bridge tradition is an excellent way to bring a lot of loyal Lamar University students and fans together with the players," said Larry Tidwell, Lamar’s interim athletics director. "It's a method of allowing the tailgaters and everyone else to unite with the Cardinal Nation."
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