Gates to the Swamp ( SwampGate Project )

Could someone get me contact information for Gerald Hebert or let me know what needs to take place to make it the Rockets v. New Orleans in Lafayette. I have a very close contact in the Rockets organization, and I might be able to nudge it closer to the Rockets visiting Lafayette. Thanks in advance.

I am a Hornets guy, myself. But I am all for some Yao in the CajunDome!

Textitan,

Email me your phone number and I will get it to Gerald Hebert so he can get in touch with you!!!

Thanks,
Troy Sonnier..O..

Hey daddycajun, just want to make sure you got my emails.

DaddyCajun, do you want to show a listing of the donors?

That would be up to the donors, if they are willing then I think it would be a great thing to do!!

I will get with Gerald, he read to me the list a couple of weeks ago! I will get the list just in case!!

Thanks again,
DaddyCajun!!

Ladies and Gents, I spoke with Gerald and he said WE really need to step it up on the SWAMPGATE PROJECT as we have approx 1/3 of the $6500 raised that is needed to get the Bricks and Iron fences constructed!

WE MUST DIG DEEP AS OTHER PROGAMS FANS DO IF WE WANT A CHANCE AT BEING ASKED INTO A BIGGER, MORE GEOGRAPHICALLY FRIENDLY CONFRENCE!!

IF THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE DONATE COULD LET ME KNOW THROUGH POST OR EMAIL daddycajun@cox-internet.com that it would or would not be ok with posting your names on this thread so others could see just WHO is stepping up and digging DEEP!!!!

Thanks,
DaddyCajun!!!

Turbine, I will work on what we talked about $110/mth. I think we may have a fish on the line getting ready to be netted!!!

Nice meeting you,
DaddyCajun!!!

WOW

Is it possible to type a reminder or prompt for each poster that would read one of my post, to click the swamp gate icon or daddycajun icon to get info on what it is about and how to get involved!!!

Thanks,
DaddyCajun!!!!

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Originally posted by DaddyCajun
Is it possible to type a reminder or prompt for each poster that would read one of my post, to click the swamp gate icon or daddycajun icon to get info on what it is about and how to get involved!!!

Thanks,
DaddyCajun!!!!

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I'll see what I can do:cool:

Spoke with Gerald today Turbine he asked that you give him a call because he would love to have an icon to be able to click on for info which he said most of which is already prepared like pictures of the new locker room!! I have a scanable color sheet of the new lockers!

Give me a little time and I think the ad we spoke about will be sold!!!!

Props to Turbine!
DaddyCajun!!!!

Swamp Gate project still having funds sent, as I(DaddyCajun) only NOW sent in MY $200 to the project fund! YOU to can/will send in your monies as it is NOT too late!!!! Please as a GROUP push yourselves to dig deep in YOUR pockets and YOUR friends(watch it)as this project will help assure FOOTBALL recruiting to have MORE money on an annual basis than ever before!!!
THIS PROJECT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL SPRUCE UP THE STADIUM(others will see as investment and progress), IMPROVE OUR RECRUITING(52ND RIVALS 2003), PUT A BETTER PRODUCT ON THE FIELD, AND HELP US BECOME MORE ATTRACTIVE TO FANS/TV/AND CONFERENCES!!!

GEAUX TO RAGIN PAGIN CLICK ON THE SWAMP GATE ICON AND ALL THE INFO YOU NEED IS THERE TO SEND YOUR CHECK OR PLACE ON YOUR CARD MC/VISA/DISC!!!!!

MAKE YOUR DONATION SOON AS WE(GERALD AND COMPANY) ARE WANTING TO BREAK GOUND SOON!!

BE THAT CAJUN FAN!!!
MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!!
GEAUX LOUISIANA!!!!!
GEAUX UL!!!!!!!!!!!!

DaddyCajun!!

Thanks in Advance!!!

email me if needed

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Click on the Swamp Gate icon for more info!!!!!!..O..

How much money we got?

..O.. Guys and Gals ALL UL supporters ON THIS BOARD, please step up if you have not already and support the Swamp Gate Project!!..O.. This Project will ANNUALLY raise some $50,000 for ALL UL Sports Recruiting!!!.~. ..O.. :h: It will also complete the Gateways into Cajun Field!..O.. At all levels we must continue the Great works that are being undertaken by MANY UL supporters!.~. This is a project I started on this board and would like to complete on THIS board...O.. We have plenty UL supporters on this board, WE now just need another pocket search to Complete the project. Gerald could find someone to just step up and donate the whole amount but I know this board of UL supporters is CAPABLE of raising the funds!! We have "talked it",:D "labored at times".~. and now "WE MUST DO THE DANCE..O.. GET CAJUN PROUD AND DIG DEEP AND FINISH THE JOB!":h:

SHOW YOUR CAJUN LOVE USE SOME OF YOUR SAVY TO COME UP WITH A DONATION THAT WILL GIVE FOR YEARS TO COME WITH THE COMPLETION OF THE SWAMP GATE PROJECT!..O..


HERE IS SEEING WHAT YOU TRUELY HAVE, RAGIN PAGERS!!!


DADDDYCAJUN!!!


PS The New Iberia Golf Fundraiser Raised over $27,000 in its first year, all funds go to the RECRUITING BUDGET FOR ALL SPORTS, at least Five more such Fundraisers will be put on by Alumni across the USA for UL Recruiting!!!!!..O.. ..O.. .~. .~. ..O.. :h: :h: :h: .~. ..O.. .~. .~. ..O.. ..O.. ..O.. ..O.. ..O.. ..O.. .~. :h: :h: :h: .~. .~. .~. ..O.. ..O.. Click the Swamp Gate Icon to see how you too can Support the Swamp Gate Project!!!!

If you would as I am doing now please post if you were able to donate money to the SwampGate Project!!!


Thanks in Advance!!!

Click the SwampGate Project Icon to See about donating!

<blockquote><p align=justify><font size="1"><i>Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series on the UL campus construction boom.</i></font>

LOUISIANA La. — Students can look for more construction to begin, possibly within the next year on UL's campus.

The latest additions to the campus have been a $15 million apartment complex and a privately funded $6 million art museum.

Work continues on and off the main campus with projects scheduled in athletics, research and academics. UL is preparing itself for the future, said William Crist, UL physical plant director.

“We’ve got a lot happening on campus,” Crist said. “What’s unique is that, in the next 50 years, this campus will be in shape. It’s an incredible time for us.

While some projects, such as the new art museum, hotel and business administration building are privately funded, the majority of the campus projects have been funded by student-assessed fees and money generated by the university, Crist said.

“I don’t think anyone else in the state is doing academic buildings with self-generated funds,” he said.

Work continues on renovations to the Ragin’ Cajuns athletic complex with internal improvements to the office building and a new training room and laundry and locker rooms for athletes. The improvements should be complete by the start of the football season, Crist said.

Next week, an architect should be selected to begin designs for an indoor athletics practice facility. The project will be funded by student fees. Students also approved improvements to intramural sports facilities, including a 20,000-square feet expansion to an existing student weight room in Bourgeois Hall and an intramural field complex.

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The field has been completed, but won’t be ready to use for a couple of months, Crist said.

“We’re having trouble with the Bermuda coming in,” he said. The field also was vandalized about two weeks ago.

“They drove doughnuts on the field after they knocked the fence down,” Crist said.

No suspects have been found.

Work is moving forward on the replacement of the varsity track and soccer field, but the progress depends on the weather, Crist said.

“We haven’t had good cooperation lately,” he said. “We expect the track to be finished in August. We’re expecting the grass for the soccer field to be ready sometime in October. If we get a bad batch of grass that could be a problem.”

On the academic side, the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration should be complete by the end of the fall semester. Students will start classes in the completed building spring 2005.

But there won’t be any guests in the Hilton Gardens in the University Research park until next summer.

Rain has delayed progress on the construction of the hotel that will offer UL hospitality management students real-life experience. The six-story hotel’s opening has been pushed back by about five months because of the weather, said Tommy Vervaeke, president of ProImage Property. The project is a joint venture between ProImage and Jackie’s International, the company that will manage the facility.

“We have the pilings in the ground,” Vervaeke said. “The underground drainage is in and we’re still working on the utilities. You should see activity as far as structure going up in the next few weeks. Once that gets going, things should be moving pretty quickly.”

Other academic buildings include a new computer science building to be built on the site of the old McNaspy stadium.

“The computer science building should be going out to bid farely soon,” Crist said.

The computer science building will have a neighbor by January 2006. That’s when a student-funded parking garage should be complete.

“The master plan for that area calls for a quadrangle to be formed around the field,” Crist said.

Other greenspace on campus includes University Commons, with bike paths and wildflowers. The project involves a renovation of the university’s creamery, but no designer has been hired for that part of the project, Crist said.

Off the main campus, work will begin on exterior cages and indoor housing facilites for chimpanzees at the New Iberia Research Center.
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<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Ten-year plan includes enhanced opportunities, curriculum</b>

<i><font size="1">Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series about construction on the University of Louisiana campus.</i>
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LOUISIANA La. — Lewis Gale stood in the shell of a building last week that is shaping into the University of Louisiana B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration.

“We’ve got windows,” said Gale, dean of College of Business Administration. He watched a workman carry two panes up a stairwell to the third floor of the construction site.

The structure will pull the college, previously split into four different buildings, under the same roof.

“The building represents an exciting time for us,” he said. “The visible infrastructure has improved morale of the faculty, and the students are excited.”

The college has the largest number of undergraduates at the university, with more than 2,600 students, Gale said.

By spring 2005, students will begin attending classes in the new building. After the move-in, the F.G. Mouton building, where the classrooms are held, will undergo massive renovations. The two buildings will be connected by a covered walkway on ground level and an open-air skywalk on the second floor.

The building represents a “new beginning for the college,” said University of Louisiana President Ray Authement. Plans have been on hold for at least 10 years, he said.

“We had the building in capital outlay plans for over 10 years, and all of a sudden, it’s funded,” Authement said. “It’s really energized the college and the faculty.”

In the meantime, Gale will continue to build an even better business school academically. The college has developed a 10-year strategic plan to enhance opportunities and curriculum for students. That vision also includes partnerships with the community, Gale said.

“We want to transform this college into a premiere school that develops professionals who are ethical and technically capable of contributing to this culture-rich region,” he said.

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The college has experienced a few changes in the past two years and more are expected.

Gale, on faculty in the college since 1994, was named dean of the college in 2003, a year after the college was christened B.I. Moody III. Moody, an Acadiana-boy-made-great, is chairman of The Moody Company and Louisiana State Newspapers Inc.

The college isn’t only backed by Moody’s name, but the man himself. While Moody is humble about having his name permanently attached to the college, he also recognizes the responsibility that comes with it.

“My hope for the students that come through the college is that they will have the best possible environment for learning, all the tools and equipment they need and great professors to challenge them to be the best they can be,” he said.

Local business leaders serve on the college’s executive advisory council. Those partnerships are vital to offering students the opportunities and resources to succeed, Gale said.

“Businesses hire our students,” Gale said. “These companies give us feedback about what they’re looking for. Given how important economic development is for our state, partnerships are mandated by the state. We develop the business professionals who will live here in the future.”

Some of the college’s plans include integrating curriculums with other colleges within UL Lafayette. Those include a partnership with the college of nursing to develop new graduate programs and with the college of engineering to develop a doctoral program in telecommunications.

This spring, the college partnered with 12 not-for-profits to give students real-life experiences in strategic and economic development planning.

A fund-raising campaign devoted solely to the college also is ongoing, although it hasn’t officially kicked off, Gale said. He’d like to see the money poured into enhancing student services, including a venture capital fund so students could compete for seed money to start their own businesses.

The dean peered out a window in a second floor office of the college’s new building and pointed to the old First National Bank building downtown. The last few stories of the building, including Moody’s offices, could be seen rising above the treetops.

If Moody wants to check on the construction, he just has to look out his window, Gale said.

And when Moody does look, he can’t help but think about the time between his days on the then-Southwestern Louisiana Institute campus and now.

“I think about the days I hitchhiked to and from Lafayette every day from Rayne and was never late for a class,” he said. “I think about the 25 cents I had for lunch every day, which was all I needed. I think about all my professors who shaped and molded my business philosophy and how much I learned from them. ... I think about where the school will be 20, 30 or 100 years from now and wonder how different things will be then. I hope what we do today will help those who come after us.”

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<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Lets get the visitor side of Cajun Field "SWAMPGATE PROJECT" finished so we might look better and raise some real recruiting monies for all UL sports!!!

<center><table border=6><td><img src="https://forumeus.com/images/misc/louisiana-disk.jpg"></td></table>


CLICK THE ICON BELOW AND DIG DEEP, TIME HAS GOTTEN SHORT!!!!!

SWAMP GATE MONIES NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE 2ND HALF OF CAJUN FIELD PRIOR TO THE 2004 FOOTBALL SEASON!!!!!

IF NOT US THEN WHO? IF NOT NOW WHEN?

IT IS ALMOST TOO LATE, DIG DEEP NOW, BEFORE WE START COMPLAINING HOW CAJUN FIELD HAS ONLY 2 OF THE 4 GATEWAYS COMPLETE!!!!!!!

REMEMBER THE MONIES GERALD WILL RAISE WITH THE GATEWAYS WILL GO TO "ALL" UL ATHLETIC RECRUITING BUDGETS!!!!!!!

My check is in the mail (seriously).

However, I thought that when we wish to contribute to a particular sport, the check should be made out to UL Football Foundation (for example)?

<blockquote><p align=justify>For those who have never had the opportunity to look at the gate discs up close, check out the detail. Each item is individually precision cut to fit with the whole.

<center><table border=6><td><img src="https://forumeus.com/images/misc/louisiana-disc-detail.jpg"></td></table>Discs produced by Begneaud Manufacturing

You can write checks to UL Baseball, etc. but for this project, write it to UL Foundation then in the memo section of your check attn: SwampGate Project!!

Thanks and hope many more have followed your lead as I have been in Fla. on vacation!!

Keep the checks coming!! IF YOU DONATE AND FEEL COMFORTABLE IN POSTING YOU HAVE MADE A DONATION PLEASE DO SO!!!!!


I WILL START BY STATING I DONATED $200 NEAR THE BEGINING OF THE EFFORT!!!

<center>There are 2 of these things left.
I just hope they are gone by the nationally televised game North Texas game on ESPN.

<center><table border=6 border=1 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 background="https://forumeus.com/images/irongate-croudbkgrnd.jpg"><td border="0"><center><p><a href="http://www.raginpagin.com/favor-page/gates.htm"><img BORDER=0 height=70 src="https://forumeus.com/images/irongate2.gif"></A></td></table>No comparison.<table border=6><td><img src="https://forumeus.com/images/seasons/2003-gates-to-the-swamp-c.jpg"></td></table><p>