Stadium Expansion??

If I was AD

1.Create a organized tailgate area, like a champions square.

2. Create a press box area with restaurants and drinking establishments with tables, chairs and TV’s so they can enjoy other football games. Also if it is raining they can hang out before the game in the press box area.

3. Create a party plaza in the NEZ so kids and parents can just hang out during the game with fun jumps and the like.

4. Put an over hang around the entire stadium so people don’t have to get wet People should be able to walk out of the press box area to the visitor side seats without getting wet. Also over the seating area as well.

We gotta cater to the fair weather fans

this is what i know

the State is kicking in 10 million plus
the standing areas for fans to visit and enjoy beer are being reduced or eliminated all together to save money which is a huge mistake
club suites will replace UD
Prices are for tickets and psl (rcaf obligation) are going to double
work will start in december of this year

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Originally Posted by Jacob81

Overhang would be nice. How do you insure that in a hurricane though?

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State Farm, they write insurance . . .

All I can say is that my season tickets at Russo are in the Grand Stand right on the border of the cover and that cover is great. It would be an excellent idea in all respects to cover as much of the seating at Cajun Field as they can.

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Originally Posted by Ragin9221

If I was AD

1.Create a organized tailgate area, like a champions square.

2. Create a press box area with restaurants and drinking establishments with tables, chairs and TV’s so they can enjoy other football games. Also if it is raining they can hang out before the game in the press box area.

3. Create a party plaza in the NEZ so kids and parents can just hang out during the game with fun jumps and the like.

4. Put an over hang around the entire stadium so people don’t have to get wet People should be able to walk out of the press box area to the visitor side seats without getting wet. Also over the seating area as well.

We gotta cater to the fair weather fans

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Where the current cox building is would be the perfect place for a champions square.

I tell you another thing I would do. Acadiana has a woman’s football team. The Acadiana Spice.

I would try to move all the games to Cajun Field. Also I would try to get a minor league soccer team. Just to have a venue that is used more then 5 times a year.

If you look across the SBC were probably in the bottom half of what's charged for season tickets....JMU has $800 each season tickets with a donation of 4 figure to equal $3300...on the club level seating.Apps VIP is $400 before the Yusef fund for kicks in. Marsall top to get is $315, Ark state is $450..i looked at just the raw cost of the ticket before psi is added...i may be a buck or 2 off, but you get the idea

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Originally Posted by Ragin9221

I tell you another thing I would do. Acadiana has a woman’s football team. The Acadiana Spice.

I would try to move all the games to Cajun Field. Also I would try to get a minor league soccer team. Just to have a venue that is used more then 5 times a year.

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They have a lower level soccer club in Lafayette. FC Krewe.

It’s supply and demand. When demand goes up and supply stays the same, you raise your price. Right now we have way more supply, i.e. empty seats, than demand. Why in the hell would you raise prices?

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Originally Posted by TammanyCajun

It’s supply and demand. When demand goes up and supply stays the same, you raise your price. Right now we have way more supply, i.e. empty seats, than demand. Why in the hell would you raise prices?

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Someone has to pay for the stadium renovation, or it will not happen. Everyone around here seems to want something for nothing. Either we pay and get the renovation, or we continue to live with the stadium as is. That seems like a pretty clear choice to me, and I have 5 season tickets to pay for every year.