Cajun Field Construction

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Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView

Still to big. Not enough support. We need the stadium to look full.

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Until the "child care facility" in the north end zone is either closed off or redeveloped the stadium size is irrelevant and will always seem to look empty.

. . . in truth and fact if we get more lard asses in the seats, it could be called more capacity . . .

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Originally Posted by Ragin_Cajun_82

Until the "child care facility" in the north end zone is either closed off or redeveloped the stadium size is irrelevant and will always seem to look empty.

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So you think building the SW EndZone seating made the stadium look fuller?

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Originally Posted by Ragin_Cajun_82

Until the "child care facility" in the north end zone is either closed off or redeveloped the stadium size is irrelevant and will always seem to look empty.

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You have a point.

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Originally Posted by HoustonCajun

Yes, but bowl the stadium with a smaller upper deck.

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A horseshoe looks better.

Plus there isn’t a single seat in the lower bowl that is half as good as any seat in UD1,2 or 3.

If they stopped people from occupying the grass above the NEZ, the same people who whining about it making it look bad on TV now, would be whining because "poor junior loved sliding down that hill." Some would even declare that they would never attend another sporting event at UL. How do I know? It is based on past history of reading RP.

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Originally Posted by Crawfish

If they stopped people from occupying the grass above the NEZ, the same people who whining about it making it look bad on TV now, would be whining because "poor junior loved sliding down that hill." Some would even declare that they would never attend another sporting event at UL. How do I know? It is based on past history of reading RP.

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This is true.

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Originally Posted by GeauxLA

Upper deck currently has about 5,300 seats of the nearly 41,000 in Cajun field. We know those are going away so that’s down to 35,500-35,800. If we are going down to 28,000, where are we losing another 7,000-8,000 seats?

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We will lose quite a few seats on the west side. The “bowl effect” will be lowered significantly to accommodate ADA requirements.

I may be wrong on how I think of it I thinking each section lower, upper, visitor lower all holds 10k.

Take down the upper deck it goes down to 20k. Endzone seating 5k. Top Deck rebuilt half the size 5k . 2k In suites

32k capacity?!

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Originally Posted by BeauCajun

We will lose quite a few seats on the west side. The “bowl effect” will be lowered significantly to accommodate ADA requirements.

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Lowered how?

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Originally Posted by BeauCajun

We will lose quite a few seats on the west side. The “bowl effect” will be lowered significantly to accommodate ADA requirements.

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Their is only 2 people on this board this really knows what is going on with this project. BeauCajun is one of those guys. Listen to what he says.

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Originally Posted by cajun4life

Lowered how?

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Let’s just say the current concourse is 20’ above parking lot grade. The new concourse level may be at about 10’ above grade. Not saying those are the exact numbers but just an example.

By a combination of lowering the concourse as well as new ADA seating/row requirements will lower the number of seat rows in the lower bowl. The same thing will happen on the student side once that renovation is done.

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Originally Posted by BeauCajun

Let’s just say the current concourse is 20’ above parking lot grade. The new concourse level may be at about 10’ above grade. Not saying those are the exact numbers but just an example.

By a combination of lowering the concourse as well as new ADA seating/row requirements will lower the number of seat rows in the lower bowl. The same thing will happen on the student side once that renovation is done.

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Oofff well I sure hope the upper deck chair backs are part of the plan. The lower bowl sucks as it is now

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Originally Posted by BeauCajun

Let’s just say the current concourse is 20’ above parking lot grade. The new concourse level may be at about 10’ above grade. Not saying those are the exact numbers but just an example.

By a combination of lowering the concourse as well as new ADA seating/row requirements will lower the number of seat rows in the lower bowl. The same thing will happen on the student side once that renovation is done.

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So the incline of the ramps at the 4 main gates is too steep?

Wouldn't that effect the new(er) south end zone too then? Its concourse is at the same basic grade

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Originally Posted by facelessjonmoon

So the incline of the ramps at the 4 main gates is too steep?

Wouldn't that effect the new(er) south end zone too then? Its concourse is at the same basic grade

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Question #1: correct
#2: I don’t think it will affect the SEZ concourse once the ramps are made compliant. I don’t know what they’ll do about the 2 different concourse levels.

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Originally Posted by Turbine

So you think building the SW EndZone seating made the stadium look fuller?

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Definitely not. But the south end zone was added in preparation of the reduced capacity after tearing down the upper deck to allow them to still meet the d1 stadium size requirements.

Are there plans to add more chairbacks?

I know it is likely much more expensive and won't happen, but I would like to see chairbacks on the visitor side. Stadiums with chairbacks look better when the crowd is light in my opinion. Empty metal bleachers stick out like a sore thumb.

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Originally Posted by BeauCajun

We will lose quite a few seats on the west side. The “bowl effect” will be lowered significantly to accommodate ADA requirements.

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Been out the game a few years, is the ADA ramp grade still 1 on 12 or did it change to 1 on 14?

1:12 with a max rise of 30” between landings.

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Originally Posted by Ragin9221

I say keep it u shape. with a terrace in the NEZ. With a small upper deck! This is more of what I like to see

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I am OK with building a terrace, just get rid of the grassy day-care center. Put in LOUISIANA like Colorado does below the terrace. Make the NEZ something special, just not a high school looking kids play area.

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Originally Posted by CajunRebel

1:12 with a max rise of 30” between landings.

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Thanks.

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Originally Posted by HoustonCajun

I am OK with building a terrace, just get rid of the grassy day-care center. Put in LOUISIANA like Colorado does below the terrace. Make the NEZ something special, just not a high school looking kids play area.

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I’m shocked MH hasn’t killed the day care center with the same zeal as caging the Greeks. Liabilities supposedly matter to them.

I hope whatever they do that it will be futuristic, modern, and high quality. We all know this won’t happen again for like another 50 years

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Originally Posted by ZoomZoom

Thanks.



I’m shocked MH hasn’t killed the day care center with the same zeal as caging the Greeks. Liabilities supposedly matter to them.

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Wait, at the sign of the first impalement or broken bone, they'll shut it down toute lejour

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Originally Posted by ZoomZoom

Liabilities supposedly matter to them.

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Pretty good indication of how unpopular they think it will be that they're willing to let children slide down into a chain link fence

I'm torn on the NEZ daycare thing. I agree it looks amateur-ish on TV, but I have a 7 and 4 year old and they actually ask every week if there's a game so they can go.

Ultimately wouldn't be a big deal for me if they got rid of it, but I'd probably be attending games without kids for a while.