Sometimes inspiration hits you at the most unexpected time and from unexpected sources.
Ask Greg LaFleur. The Southern athletic director was at a poorly-attended Jaguars basketball game last winter when a fan came up to him with a suggestion to improve basketball attendance. “She comes up to me and she said, ‘Why don’t you invite alumni from area schools to games for a reunion?,’ ” LaFleur recalled.
The idea immediately struck a cord with LaFleur. “We were already inviting high school students (to basketball games), but I had never thought about inviting alumni before,” he said. From that moment, the idea took off with one tweak — “Never mind doing it at basketball games,” LaFleur said. “I decided we were going to do it at football games.”
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