What will it take to draw fans to LU football games?

Folks around Lamar University are wondering just that. The money to bring back football has been granted and basically spent. Players have arrived on campus; 34 on scholarship, 30 as walk-ons.

Facilities are being constructed partly with money students voted to give in fees.

The university has built it, but will they come?

As a football fan out there what's it going to take to get you through the gates? Winning games helps, obviously. But the first season LU will play as an independent and is not eligible for Southland Conference wins until 2011.

Will it be the novelty of it all that brings in fans? That new-team smell? Will it take a Britney Spears halftime show? LSU-quality tailgating?

What do the fans want to see that will keep them coming back and prove that college football can survive -- dare I say thrive? -- in Beaumont? Feel free to sound off and maybe the administration will use your idea of half-price chili dogs as the first promotion.